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Registrace 2. 10. 2006
Manns Creek Railway Double Header
short video of an empty coal train being double headed up the steep 6% grade on my On3 model Railroad. All models are scratch built.
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Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Part 20
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quick and dirty update of the progress made in the first half of the summer of 2024
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Part 19
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last update for the winter 23/24 season. When we return for winter 24/25 some of the scenes will start to look more scenic, and we should have some operating sessions started.
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Part 18
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In this video of my On3 layout there will be updates information while we watch some trains run.
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Part 16
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Short update to show the finished Clifftop changes and more Squealer progress
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Appendix 15.1
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this video is some additional information that I want to add to my latest update. This video shows how the steel wire under the track helps with traction on the grades of my layout
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Part 15
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the layout is 2 years old with this update, some pretty big things have happened this last year and I will go through a few of the biggest, progress on my changes at Clifftop, and the addition of Squealers!
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, Part 14
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last update for 2023, next update will be the 2 year anniversary
Ron Lane, West Virginia Narrow Gauge Manns Creek Railway Interview
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On 5-5-2023 and 11-16-2023 I interviewed Ron Lane, co-author of the book "West Virginia Narrow Gauge, The Manns Creek Railway". Part one of this interview we talked about Ron and how he and Ted Schnepf came to write a book about the obscure, nine mile long, Manns Creek Railway. The second interview we talked specifically about some of the major contributors to the book. Some photos were provide...
Manns Creek 2.0, Building the dump trestle, Part 2
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here is the first trip from Clifftop to Sewell. This process started 17 years ago, and this is the first time I have been able to unload a train and run it to be unloaded all on its one and on one layout. I started messing around with live loads in HO scale back in the mid 1980s. In 2008 I build my first On3 Manns Creek hopper from a Sam Swanson article, and on a whim I tried to see if I could ...
Manns Creek 2.0, Building the dump trestle, Part 1
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I worked four 12 hour days installing the version 2 of the Manns Creek Railways dump trestle in Sewell WV. This is the final step in a 17 year project. In this first video I race to install a partially completed trestle model in the layout and connect it so I can get coal dumping in just a few days.
FRONT RANGE RAIL 2023, GENE FUSCO'S PENN CENTRAL NORTHFIELD SUB, 1:29 scale
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In part 3 of my Front Range Rail 2023 event I operated on Gene Fusco's outdoor 1:29th scale Penn Central layout.
FRONT RANGE RAIL 2023, David Stewart's Appalachian & Ohio, O scale
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The second day of Front Range Rail I operated on the David Stewart's O scale Appalachian and Ohio layout. The session was divided into two sections, in the first half I operated a coal shifter called the Scarlet Shifter. This job started as an empty that had to thread the mainline to a yard where it took a branch line to work a bunch of coal tipples, setting out the empty hoppers and picking up...
FRONT RANGE RAIL 2023, John Parker's BNSF Fall River Sub, HO scale
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FRONT RANGE RAIL 2023, John Parker's BNSF Fall River Sub, HO scale
Model Railroad DCC sound decoder Speaker Shoot-out
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Model Railroad DCC sound decoder Speaker Shoot-out
Manns Creek 2.0, Dump Trestle Rebuilding Progress Report
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Manns Creek 2.0, Dump Trestle Rebuilding Progress Report
Manns Creek Railway, Shay #8 first full run
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Manns Creek Railway, Shay #8 first full run
Quincy and Torch Lake Railroad in On30
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Quincy and Torch Lake Railroad in On30
Freemont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad in HOn3
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Freemont, Elkhorn & Missouri Valley Railroad in HOn3
Shay Locomotive operating with TCS Wow sound decoder and UWT-100
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Shay Locomotive operating with TCS Wow sound decoder and UWT-100
Manns Creek Railway, Shay #5 first full run
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Manns Creek Railway, Shay #5 first full run
Custom Model Railroad Decals on Alps printer
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Custom Model Railroad Decals on Alps printer
Manns Creek 2.0 Build, testing Shay at Night
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Manns Creek 2.0 Build, testing Shay at Night
What scale is this? Thanks...
@@TomFCZcams On3
What year was this again? Looks like you were in Parsons about the same time Pentrex was.
Does anyone besìdes me remember how those SooLine patch jobs on Milw units were deriseivly called the "Rotten Pumpkin" paint scheme?
i like how the cars have sound in them, pretty neat
Great progress, even if summer has not impressed the rest of the family. I can envisage plenty of train "lost" in the wilderness scenes as this progresses. Wonderful is an old fashioned word but surely appropriate to the era you are portraying.
It does look like Cass! All those switchbacks.
What percent grades on your layout and are the locomotives Bachmann?
the grades are 5.25%, the locomotives are all my own design.
Once you add the rock and green these scenes up, they are going to look great. Thanks for sharing
Awesome video and great narration🎉
I live about a mile from the real Quincy mine and this very close to the original. Out buildings and all. The ore cars are spot on. Great work.
Very nice layout and equipment. Thanks for sharing with us.
Do you have a link for that light strip that you used?
Suggestion: where the creek, at landisburg, goes into the backdrop. You were going to put a house on stilts. Wouldn't it be cool to maybe do a copy of the Babcock gristmill?
This is so inspirational for me! I love the old logging equipment and the way you're designing the layout. I love watching how you're coming up with the plan and how it all comes together to be a fully functional operations focused layout.
Thanks, I appreciate that!
@@crownironman I can't wait to watch the next operations video you'll be doing!
Can I ask you for where you got the measurements on that gorious engine shed. I love it, a ton
Thanks, I got it out of the West Virginia narrow gauge book on the Manns Creek. Inside the book there is a drawing of it. It may have been published somewhere else, I’ll have to check
あざっす！！！
Absolutely fabulous, mikeD
Excellent,that looked like a great place to see the action,even the stool line ex milwaukee bandits went by
Absolutely calming New subscribers my husband and I just found your viedos love them ❤️ Thank you for sharing ......
Thank you and welcome aboard
wow! what fun ! thx for vid ! what kind of figure in no. 7 ?
I made the figure from several donor figures
Thank you very much!
This layout is going to be absolutely stunning once it gets scenery. Great job.
What a great adventure! I wish!
Very nice video! Great looking railroad.Thanks for posting this. I model in On30 also.
You are a great salesman for TCS Steam!
Great looking layout, I had modeled the Robbins/ Thunder Lake RR here in northern WI
funny you should say that, I was just reading that book yesterday. The family cabin is in northern Wisconsin so I find the areas history interesting.
@@crownironman Yeah I live in the North woods. Sadley there is very little left of it. There is #5 the 1925 2-8-0 Baldwin and the Business car. They dummied up a log car, and the 3 pieces, are displayed at Pioneer park in Rhinelander
Oil Base enamel ?
I am not sure the question, but the washes are enamel.
Too much explanation! Not enough demonstration!🙃
You have how many " squealers"? Love the noise!! Really enjoying your progress
Five so far, two more to be installed, planned total is 15
Looking good, foam really sets the stage
@ 54:23... "finding alcos was pretty easy, just look for the smoke"... yea don't rob a bank using that as your getaway vehicle
Still have mine! 55 years later👍
Hey thanks for uploading this, shame to see what has become of Green Bays rail infrastructure, the yard by Ashland Ave is long gone :(
Not the alps!😂 Jman
Brilliant solution to a universal problem. Thank you.
The Shay looks and sounds great and the Gondolas are very nice. Thank you for an awesome video.
I enjoy your updates. I added my second squeeler, I enjoy the animation. I would like to hear the "squeel" a bit more consistently but that is just my idea. I am looking forward to talking to you at the Modelers Retreat.
Very cool.
I hadn't realized how steep the grade really was until the long shot.
Yeah, is steep, 5.25%, but so was the real thing
👍🤠👍 now that was cool
I love that! Really squeals like the real thing!
Wow!
Awesome idea. thanks for sharing. Dave
Oh what a brilliant and simple idea damn wish I thought of that when I built my track. would Neod mags work inside a car just over the actual track as well? o
Thank you for the indepth answer. Never would have thought of that.
What a great idea.
congrats on your two year anniversary
Great progress. How steep are the grades where you have the wire/magnet assist?
Thanks, the big grade from the lower level to the upper level is 5.25, the others are less then 1.5%
Good to know. I am starting construction on the Dolly Varden mine where the controlling grade was 5%. Also in On3 but will have brass Shay and Climax motive power. But I suspect my plastic 0-4-0 will struggle to get anything up
Wow - I thought the two painted log cars were real wood - and I am looking at them again on a 27" 5K screen. There is one brief moment when the camera is struggling to focus that maybe I can't see grain BUT at that moment the car is at least twice full size on the screen. Incredible progress.
Thanks! I am really happy with the painting, when I get a couple more done I will do a video on how I paint them.
@@crownironman I would appreciate that. I have some resin kits I need to paint in the peculiarly British scale of 1:19. (16mm : 1foot!!! so O gauge equates to 2 foot gauge prototype)
I am done making changes he says....