Stub End Staging - Easy Backstop Coupler Plates - Model Railroad | Boomer Diorama ~ # 266
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Backstop couplers can be especially convenient if you plan to incorporate barge operations on your model railroad, or stub end staging, where you want to secure a string of cars.
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Absolutely ingenious idea! Spectacular job!👍😃
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Brilliant idea... nice one. Great to get a little look at the ferry/barge build.
I am full on with the Ferry. It is the most involved build on River Road. ;-)
It just very cool, talk about problem solving 101. Who has a similar issue with a stub yard at the end on the lay out where cars have been launched into outer space by newbie operators. I will send him a link to the vlog. That is slick as socks on a rooster!!
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Boomer, what a brilliant idea, just so ingenious to stop those accidents that sometimes always happen when you don't want.
Thank you for sharing, and I look forward to the ferry build series. Cheers, Michael
Ok. Awesome! Cheers ~ Boomer.😉
Super. The car float can float away safely without losing the load, while a new car float can safely dock. Very nice. With 20 or 30 car floats, you could have a variety of rolling stock be in use. I remember a car stop in Denver that had a coupler without a knuckle welded to four pieces of rail at the end of a spur track. 💙 T.E.N.
The concept worked out better than I first thought. ;-)
Super. My railroad will never have a rail car ferry, think Denver & Rio Grande Western meets Colorado & Southern meets Great Western of Colorado, but I do utilize 10% grades to reach storage, staging, display, and fiddle yards located on unscenicked display shelving along the walls. From 10" off the floor to within 10" of the roof, along one wall, every four inches is a live double tracked shelf connected to my layout by steep switchbacks, limiting me to two locomotives pulling three cars, but it makes for some interesting operation, especially if you need to retrieve a piece of rolling stock, and allows me to have everything on the rails and operational, and having my displayed trains also operational is a big bonus. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.
Simple, short, and to the point. Love it!
Much appreciated!
Fantastic idea, especially with the removable sliding wall. And flawless work as usual.
Thank you very much!
Just want to let you know, Im having tons of fun building stuf from evergreen and other plastics. Wished I could show you. Your a great inspiration! Thanks!
I am doing the same right now and I am glad to hear you are having fun. The more confidence you gain through practice, the more you realize anything can be built if you put your mind to it. Cheers.
That's fricken brilliant!!! I'm totally stealing that sliding coupler idea!
Go for it!
Agree with everyone else, what a fantastic concept! Simple and effective!
I'm glad it worked out. Not everything does. 😉
This is perfect for anybody who moves cars on/off their layout with cassettes
Yes it is! 👍
Wow…ingenuity at its finest…only from Boomer.
Helps me sleep at night . . . lol.
@@boomerdiorama 😴😔😴😴
Very nice I like it. Good way to store cars in drawers too. I'm changing to the "wisker" couplers and this is a way to reuse the older ones.
The whisker couplers are definitely a game changer. I replaced all of my #5 couplers with #148 whisker couplers. They are 100 percent more reliable now.
I like the drawer idea. I have been thinking about that as well lately. Go for it. ;-)
Clever!
Cheers!
Fantastic work, you are the inspirer . Cheers
Glad to hear it! Cheers. 👍
Thanks. As usual always simple
innovative problem solver ! And contrarily to real brothers, you shouldn´t have shank and drawbar failures.
Enjoy Canada´s day just at the corner 😊
Cheers!
Boomer, this is flipping genius. I was already blown away, and then you LIFTED it up and they came right off…
It works like a dream. Ferry Marine Terminal operations are a dream and immersive without headaches'. ;-) Cheers.
That's a great idea! I need to think a little about how to use them with the European NEM couplings because they cannot be uncoupled by pulling one to the top. But I am sure, I'll find a way! Thanks again for sharing your ideas and way of doing things!
Sure thing. Thanks for sharing! Cheers ~ Boomer.
Are those the couplings that you uncouple by lifting up on a peg from underneath? If so, I think you could use a fixed coupler and make a hole through the back panel under it so you can stick in a tiny screwdriver and easily lever it up to push up on the uncoupling peg.
@@BrooksMoses Hi, exactly. I was thinking about using a up-movement of the end tiles to also pull up an uncoupling peg. Thanks for your idea!
Brilliant idea!
It's a game changer for confidence when picking up the Ferry loaded with Athearn Genesis tank cars. ;-)
Interesting. That can work for cassettes for off layout action too. What an excellent idea.
Oh yes indeed. It's great for cassette style as well.
Great idea. I can see using a fixed coupler on trays to safely move "staged" trains from storage to layout. And lots of other locations, like loads from the iron mine. Thanks.
Now off to play with electro-magnetic uncouplers.
Awesome!
I a really looking forward to this Fairy build. This locking system could be used in any imagined cartridge to facilitate car removal from the layout to unknown destinations.
That's the idea! 😉
Very good idea. Going to work really well.
it does thankfully. ;-)
Excellent idea and execution! 👍Missed Dusty! ✌️
Thanks! 👍
There is no off position on the construction design genius switch! 😉
Can you imagine tilting the Ferry (on a bad day) and all your Athearn Genesis tank cars roll into the chuck . . . lol.
@@boomerdiorama I can! Wonderful design!
Great idea! Safety first!
Yes indeed!
" ✌️👍 " ... 😘 One question Boomer: " Could you imagine to move those with radiocontrolled servos?!!"
Easy to do and a great idea! Thanks for sharing! Cheers ~ Boomer. 👍
This would work for removable stageing cassett tracks. Great idea, I'll definitly consider it. I worry about to much handeling of cars and especially locos. I'm wanting to incorporate two removeable stageing track sections. So outbound cars, repersenting being at their interchange destination, which is really my stageing, can easily be lifted out with the cars and locos on it. Then have a second lift out section cassett ,with inbound traffic already staged for pick up to go in place. This is great for a holding coupler device for safe moving of your trains. Thanks for inspiring me a better idea for my layout stageing. God Bless my friend, your layouts looking beautiful as always, Cheers back to you.😊
Thanks for sharing! Cheers!
Hey Boomer
Just got around to watching the video today, been camping.
What a great idea and well done.
Happy Canada Day
Cheers from Ontario
Bob
I love camping. Hope you had fun. Happy Canada day to you too!
I'm going to steal that idea if you don't mind. I love it !!!
If it works try it!
Always great content - informative and inspirational!
Much appreciated!
This episode has me thinking about how to secure cars on a car ferry or car float, something I have never observed, or given thought to, for that matter. Using couplers seems like a clever solution, though what I get from my slipshod research on Wikipedia is that the usual methods are jacking the corners of cars to take the load off the wheels, fastening the cars in place with chains and turnbuckles, and clamping chocks to the rails. And constant attention from the crew, in case something comes loose!
There is always the prototype vs the model in model railroading. Prototype dogma can kill immersion and operational fun. If the model was static I would think in those terms you mentioned. But it's functional and practical. ;-) 😁
@@boomerdiorama Oh, definitely, you need a practical solution and yours in ingenious! It's just that seeing how you solved the problem on your layout made me curious about the prototype. I honestly never gave any thought before to how they secure cars, but obviously they have to, for about the same reason. If you don't secure them, your beautifully weathered cars come rolling out and get busted on the floor, and if they don't, their cars end up at the bottom of the Fraser River. ;-)
@@Bellerophonmodeler Oh yeah. I have friends who are retired railroad people and they witnessed boxcars going into the Burrard inlet back in the early B.C. Hydro days. They rolled right off the swing bridge into the chuck and then blamed it on the rookie . . . lol.
Super idea Boomer, Bravo!
Thanks!
God bless you sir 🙏🙏♥️♥️
Same to you!
Great idea. 👍
Thank you!
You are so creative!
This hobby will do that to you. ;-)
Great design! 👍🏻👍🏻
Probably works for N Scale too!
Wonderful!
It feels like that. ;-) Cheers!
Pretty slick! I use those #158 scale coupler too. And I snip the trip pins too.
I hate those pins personally.
Well done. This idea could be used with a wood end of track bumper when a spur track has a slight grade.
Yes indeed!👍
Great work as always.
Thank You!
That is a very neat idea!
It works great! Operations are smooth and effortless as they should be in my case . . . ;-)
I love it. That is so cool!!
It works really well.😉
Excellent solution!
I can sleep now . . . lol. ;-)
@@boomerdiorama yeah the thought of equipment hitting the floor can give one nightmares.
@@donhanley1213 It should only happen once. 🤣
We all had something hit the floor💥🚂🇨🇦🙋
Hopefully only once.
Dude! That i the smartesr rhig I have seen a long time!h
Cheers!
Excellent!
Cheers! 😁
Cool innovation. 😎
Thank you! Cheers!
That's a great idea! Like!
Thank you!
Brilliant!
Cheers!
That's very clever! I came up with an axle hook type of thing for a similar purpose, but it's for hidden staging and permanent, which decreases its flexibility. I see a lot of potential in your design.
There is something about ease of operation and functionality, especially when you get a little older. No duck-unders or hidden staging for me anymore. I want to see everything without bending over or crawling under if you know what I mean. ;-) Cheers.
@@boomerdiorama I do know what you mean! I'm in the design phase of a modular shelf layout, but in N scale, so hidden staging is a mere 8 inches below the visible layout. Just enough clearance to reach in and grab a derailed car. lol
cool! a neat innovation!
Thanks!
Nice
Cheers!
Woah! I new there was a smart man hiding in you somewhere.
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Have you seen the 'working' derail he built?
@@thomasboese3793 Yea! I have been following Boomer for years. Amaizing modeler. Learning something every time. This design is so good and simple, how come nobody came with it before? Not me.
@@Christiane069 'Need', the mother of creativity.
@@thomasboese3793 OK
Clever.
Car saver . . . lol. ;-)
😂😂 what an absolutely brilliant idea!!
It works better than I first thought so I'll take it. 😉
Interesting idea.
Does it bother you that the "backstop" is not prototypical for the car float?
Oh, I guess I responded too quickly, I did not realize it was all removable.
There is nothing more worse than prototype dogma to ruin immersion and smooth trouble free operations. I don't care about "legalistic" Proto 87 standards when I model - it's a rabbit hole that leads to burnout and frustration.
The backstop is actually removable for camera shots and has nothing to do with the look of a prototype in my case. I only use the prototype for a jumping off point and could care less about it's doctrine when it comes to building a functional model. ;-)
Cheers ~ Boomer.
Ingenious Boomer
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Boomer could you please do a class on how you weathered that flat car
Maybe a different one. That one is done.
Are you going to make the barge double-ended?
No. It's actually a Ferry. What you see is just part of the deck.
Boomer great idea
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is that proto based? what or how would they in real life? just curious.
I am curious as well. So much research on this build it's exhausting.😁😊
From what I've seen on the lake rail car carriers of Ann Arbor, lots of clamping chocks and chain tie-downs.
@@thomasboese3793 Sound about right. 👍
@@thomasboese3793 perhaps like an automobile on a flat tow. makes sense
@@boomerdiorama
Found this on Wikipedia
Full page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_ferry
The Ann Arbor Railroad of Michigan developed a system of making cars secure that was adopted by many other lines. Screw jacks were placed on the corners of the railcar and the car was raised slightly to take its weight off its wheels. Chains and turnbuckles were placed around the car frame and hooked onto the rails and tightened. Clamps were placed behind the wheels on the rails. Deckhands engaged in continual inspection and tightening of the gear during the crossing. This system effectively held the cars in place when the ship encountered rough weather.
Now for the fun part, building working tie-down equipment, to scale.