@@joeraderblackrockcentralrr I’ve put up update #3 with some new things added and done, if I could find some thin Masonite fascia I’d have already added it to complete the benchwork cover and begin using the NCE system as well as began all the wiring and installing plug it systems in to at least prep for all the things on the layout that will light up, complete the paved loading platform with plaster, began adding the mock up build for the food distribution industry that’s at the end of the layout, etc. I will add studio lighting and LED strip lighting eventually but one step at a time I’ll get there and hope once I add higher details like static grass and more foliage the layout I hope will look much much higher quality. Thank you for watching any of my content your views and attention mean a lot to me!

@@joeraderblackrockcentralrr thank you honestly. 👍👍

@@mysticrailroad I’ll definitely give it a try! Just can’t decide will I model a culvert like ditch with some nasty stale water that you’d see built a century ago or would it be like a modern paved culvert with concrete down both sides of the ditch. I kinda have an idea of which I’ll choose but I’ll definitely look up how tos before I do it haha

@@sernajrlouis thank you much! Absolutely love filming this line. When i inevitably film its entire run, I’ll likely compile all my catches together of this line and make a higher detailed edit and narration to it, unless I’m able to catch its entire run in one day, it runs from McNeil-manor-Elgin-mcdade-Paige and ends in Giddings and then returns. It runs 10-15 mph the entire run so it’s usually 6-4:30ish so it would be an all day filming day, I’d add any other UP trains that intersect its lines if I caught them. Thank you for watching I greatly appreciate any views like comments or subs!

@@kennethreffitt2051 when this line has industries that just got straight up left behind, the line severed when it used to be literally connected to what is now the airport, I’m not cool with rails to trails coming in and taking away something that still has usage left in it. But it’s Austin, if it isn’t downtown or going towards round rock Georgetown any rails or potential metroraul service in that area is just empty hopes and dreams. The lumber industry in montopolis just a year or two before being left high and dry they had installed an additional spur siding on there property. The industrial park past them had access to like 9 different warehouses, they ripped that out a couple years back which just was super frustrating. I really like the bergstrom spur and its history is interesting, having at one point at Congress crossed over 290/71 and served a couple more industries and one being where that resell store is now.

I petitioned for it to be repurposed and extended back to the airport the city of Austin itself put out a survey and I sent in several hoping they’d not have rails to trails come in and buy it, but they bought it out for 6 million 2-4 years ago at this point and apart from the industrial park the lines still the ways it’s been for nearly 20 years.

@jwrailve3615 I've never been to the trails down there but the katy trail I've taken 5 times and it's a beautiful scenic long trail.. I'll look into Austin and see what's up with the area.

@@kennethreffitt2051 it’s literal homeless encampments everywhere even around lady bird it’s a nice area to walk along the lake but homeless are super thick, a lot of people that are pretty messed up and it’s best to always be around other people because there’s some areas where you have homeless who literally claim an area is there property, like on the bergstrom spur between Congress and industrial, I’ve tried to film through there but a homeless man known for attacking people has literally jumped out of nowhere and chased me away all tweaked out and he is considered dangerous. He think the abandoned tracks are his, I don’t really go anywhere in Austin anymore i try to drive around and not through. I lived there off and on a few years and I’m years removed from being there and don’t miss it. The south could really use rail transportation into downtown and the airport and the city doesn’t care if it’s not to where the officials live they decline all proposals, they were more concerned about building a station to a soccer stadium than actually rebuilding the line or building a new line to the airport. It’s all upper class sub divisions north where every person has multiple cars yet they get the commuter service. It’s a bit ridiculous

@@XBOXShawn12thman i appreciate it thank you 👍 I almost loaded up my next video last night but I’m going to hopefully sometime this evening add it to today’s video and possibly my layout update #2 👍

@@sernajrlouis I lived in Utah for a couple years as a kid, and lived across from like an army armory, I remember they had military diesel switchers and carloads of all sorts of military equipment loaded up on spurs that went all over this warehouse district area, I don’t catch military trains often so catching the one just before daylight a couple weeks back was really cool especially the fact it had so many tanks and them biggins were really cool to see. This modular layout was setup at a train show and I’ve seen it multiple times, I’ll definitely film a couple club layouts at the next show I go to and upload as I’ve gotten to know the N scalers group members well, and the layout they bring to shows is absolutely massive

@@sernajrlouis thank you for the support!

@@olentangyriver1191 that was sunrise!

@@tfs4499 thank you! This train is literally my favorite to film and I do intend on eventually doing an entire day’s chase of the job and having it on my channel and being my first truly HQ railfan production. Thank you for watching anyones support means a lot to me!

Do you have a scanner?

Not anymore, I've been meaning to get one. @@jwrailve3615

Dang you saw it back when it crossed over 290/71/Ben white. I’ve only ever seen a couple rail maps that showed that. I wanna say it was the 80’s or early 90’s when they cut it back. They messed up royally by cutting it off from the airport and now Austin’s stupidity is going to cost them that line entirely when they turn it into a homeless trail

Felt like this will be one of the coolest catches I’ll get in terms of setting. Don’t get this in Texas that’s for sure

@jwrailve3615 100% bro, would be a cool scene to model, was that a cruise ship in the background on the other side of the buildings?

@@TheSteelRoad sure was. I caught several more locals and Amtrak cascades while I was there but I couldn’t get a solid shot worth sharing as the amount of people coming on and off ships was a nightmare

@jwrailve3615 that's awesome man! if there were any railfans on that ship ya probably couldn't have picked a better spot to disembark 😎💯

@@TheSteelRoad actually I took one to Alaska and filmed about a third of the 62 mile run on the white Yukon pass, with hundreds of pictures as well I just haven’t yet figured how I’d piece it all together and share on here because I’d like to narrate and splice existing footage from the dvd they sell on the train and give them full credits for there footage that way I could tell the whole story as best as I could but I’ve never really done that before I’ve only ever tried to share with others what I get lucky enough to catch. The trains inbetween Taylor/Elgin Texas I pass 4-5 times each week and based off the normal schedule runs I almost am always missing them each day by less than 30 minutes whether before or after I drive through. I’ve also been having vehicle problems so chasing the austin western local has been far from front on the agenda I’m just glad I’ve had anything to share at all recently there’s been tons of mid train grade crossing catches thatve been wasted especially one where had I been there 5 minutes before it was a cpkc mixed freight slowly crawling through Bloomington tx. Yard and UP coming eastbound with a auto rack cruising through while it was raining pretty hard but my phone which I film with really does have a nice camera on it. Thanks for always watching love all your content as well!

That’s the new braunfels depot museum layout. Still haven’t uploaded a layout update because without the fascia board I’m being insecure about my progress haha.

@@jwrailve3615 i know i read the description

Thank you! Much appreciated.

@@jwrailve3615 your welcome I got all the train video on my channel

Thanks! I had drove down here the week before and wondered how frequent the plant was worked so getting caught on the way out was nice especially when a cascade green is on the Texas coast far from where they came from. I literally just need to screw in the west and east staging sections on the bottom level and the entire bottom decks trackwork is completed, the second deck has the door section and a five foot section that need to be completed and that deck will be completed, the third deck hasn’t been started but I’ll build the benchwork in a different way and have it all together and add it section by section, and that will be the most scenic branch lines of my layout, going through and over a barge canal, the gator infested bayous, over a river, and into the flatlands before ending at the bay shoreline with a short wharf out on it. I’ll definitely do an update when I put up the two staging sections that can be anyday now, thanks for the like sub and comment I subbed back I like your shorts good catches as well!

I love the bluebonnet fantasy dash 8-9’s

@@jwrailve3615 They are actually ES44ACs, not Dash 9s/8s. Unless I missed the bluebonnet Dash 9s/8s. I think this is kind of a "what if" diorama where ATSF still exists, and BNSF was never created.

@@gamingwithlukeJToH I just skimmed past I always get the es44’s and dash 8/9’s confused. All of my previous layouts were always “what if BN and SF….” So I thought this modular layout was right up my alley. They had a N scale modular layout there as well it’s the same one each show. Where this layout was at from time to time the narrow gauge guys setup and i went from a 60-90’s Bn cascade Sf warbonnett diesel nut to 1800-early 1900’s small steam junky within a year.

For real tho. Everytime I see massive unit trains like that when I count cars I count $$$$ passing by

Woah that uploaded fast haha. Plan to! This next week should have some variation in location and I’ll likely put two or three catches in videos. Thanks for watching highly appreciate it!

Tommorrow I’ll have up the local with three geeps. Next week will be some southern railfanning with Bloomington yard action, possibly Victoria, and some port lavaca abandoned line. and maybe a very long overdue layout update.

@@jwrailve3615 I love abandoned rail lines

@@jwrailve3615 Your bergstrom spur series is my favorite of all the abandoned railroad videos

@@houstonrails I appreciate that! I wish I’d done better at filming it it’s still mostly there surprisingly, all the turnouts to industries on montopolis are removed, other than that it’s still untouched last time I past. I need to refilm it and get photos.

Thanks. All the uploads are from a couple of days there. I tried to just do larger compilations but where I live internet is terrible. I plan to film port of Houston here soon and make a 30-45 minute edited video with some narration and captions. I’m sure people would love to see about 15 different railroads with a variation of schemes and often times rare models.

Inbetween Elgin and Taylor Texas.

Thank you for subscribing! Overtime I’ll actually edit and put things together mostly when my layout is complete enough to run sectional ops sessions

@@jwrailve3615 your more than welcome feel free to visit my channel 👍 CHEERS

Thank you much! Still a mess but next week when I finish the top and final deck it’s going to really start to shine, in terms of finances to fund such a large layout on my own it’ll take a few months to fully lay out all track, as well as the electrical work for it and needing to still buy a new Dcc wifi system. I cannot wait to show the KZbin community operating sessions with deep detail!

@@jwrailve3615 yeah im hearing ya on the expense part dude its defiantly not a cheap hobby!! My missus said I should take up collecting dead butterflies 😂😂😂, Im definitely looking foward to seeing the operating sessions!

@@TheSteelRoad I’ll have 10 operating sessions with each one being different areas of the layout before I actually have to repeat the first sessions.

@@jwrailve3615 thats awesome man, and it gives a good story to it as well!

@@TheSteelRoad especially with my layout only being connected by the rail barge/ferry system and the five ports. I’ve never seen anyone have that much dependency on rail barges on a layout before. And with the port o Connor branch being set at an earlier era 1912-1961 at the latest as its era restricted and the other two levels ranging from the 1910’s-1990’s depending on what I want to run. Smaller locomotives are also only allowed on the port o Connor branch line as in real life oyster shells were used as ballast instead of the usual blends,

I’ve not ever walked along the 183 section passed burleson but I’ve seen on google earth how there’s still tracks where your saying, they cleared absolutely everything off of that area last week actually but I don’t think any rails remained in years there, never even seen any signs of ballast still there it’s huge power wires now