Train Mountain, with over 30 MILES of miniature train track, makes their track one 10-foot section at a time. To make all that track, they have a special shop with custom equipment where volunteers assemble all that track.
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@MurraydeLues26 күн бұрын
Good to see child labor is still thriving. Seriously, it is great to see the shop is not full of old men. The torch is being passed.
@kevinducharme126324 күн бұрын
years from now, they'll look back on this and realize how lucky they were to be doing things like this.
@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834Ай бұрын
I love the kids learning, SO much better than sitting on a couch staring at mindless TV, etc.
@RevN3Ай бұрын
What a great video! Very informative! I'd love to see a sequel showing how the panels are installed.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Thanks! We’ll work on that!
@kevinsavard599824 күн бұрын
Keeping skills alive that is special and the multigenerational workforce.
@Ice_Karma27 күн бұрын
That router carriage is genius.
@TuckawayАй бұрын
Amazing track production workshop, vial to such a large scale railroad.
@robertlafnear7034Ай бұрын
Train Mountain has to be one of the fine wonders of the whole world........... Beyond COOL to visit and ride a train or two...... THANK YOU for the Video
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
We think so too. Thank you!
@williamgibb5557Ай бұрын
Beautiful and incredible amount of work ongoing. Making jigs is definitely the answer for accuracy and speed of making the tracks. That distance means some are alwsys going to need replacing.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Exactly. Volunteers do the work all year.
@idemanddonutsАй бұрын
I'm still excited to come by train mountain this year
@bahooniesАй бұрын
Wonderful video. There's someone very pleasing and appropriate to see nearly everything being done by hand. Nice to see youngsters involved too. I've subscribed.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Thank you very much!
@KANNA-CHANАй бұрын
i wasn't expecting some young adult, what a dream
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
They made it a challenge to see how much track they could build. Very efficient and so much energy!
@2quintlyАй бұрын
Great process, . . . .
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Thank you!
@matthewfowler47Ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing! Looks amazing.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@thepubliceyeАй бұрын
Great to see all the young people helping out. Are they doing Community service?
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
No, they were loving it and trying to set some kind of record for production speed!
@TheCebulon23 күн бұрын
That is a good insight and inspiration.
@Joeyardmaster4015521 күн бұрын
That is Amazing, Joe Morris , Dundalk MD. AKA >Joetrak
@KWHCoasterАй бұрын
Great stuff! Was a jig ever attempted for the securing rails to the ties? Always fascinated with the jigs made to assist manufacturing and assembly. For my scale modelling, I've made jigs to make things like 1/16 scale chain link fence and 1/16 piano hinges.
@TexasRailfan21-RailfanRyanАй бұрын
0:14 that is a very cool full-size 7 1/2 inch gauge hand car very cool wish I had one of those
@TuckawayАй бұрын
I don't think you would want to go around the whole route on that unless you were training for the Olympics.
@HYUKLDER1Ай бұрын
Impressive workshop. Can see that it probably needs reorganising to improve the developed production process, so materials start one side and progress to the flat car at the other side.
@gregdelong1539Ай бұрын
Great video, thanks.
@jackreed3445Ай бұрын
First rate production of rail panels.
@KimiWallrusАй бұрын
Lots of sleepers!
@Pendlemac20 күн бұрын
As a volunteer on a 7 1/4 inch miniature railway here in the UK it looks odd to have that density of sleepers and using them narrow side up. Obviously good reasons you do that, just wondering what they were?
@mattj5025Ай бұрын
Next thing to come up with…continuous welded rail sections.
@KimiWallrusАй бұрын
😅
@alco424828 күн бұрын
I would love to build my own setup here, but seeing we have termites in the area, wood ties are not the best choice. Where do you get the recycled plastic tie material from? That may be the answer for our area.
@vhalmrast25 күн бұрын
Do you make track for other garden railways, like yours?
@trainmountainrailroad25 күн бұрын
No, we don’t make that gauge. For g-scale, we use stainless steel, though, which works great.
@in4merATPАй бұрын
I'm very, very surprised the screw heads directly abutt the foot of the rail. There's a reason rail spikes have so much webbing around the head. Those fasteners will fail at much lower than expected loads when clamping asymmetrically. Plus the stress of having to rotate them to get them to that load.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
You’d think so, but this has been working for decades. The only issue is, like full size railroads, the ties eventually decay and won’t hold screws/spikes. We recently had to replace our entire mainline with the plastic ties after the original wood ties became unserviceable.
@sbrunner69Ай бұрын
What’s the reason for mixing steel and aluminum track? Maybe I missed that sorry.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Well, aluminum is cheaper and we have a bit of it to use up. But steel is preferred because it is less slippery and, when bent for a radius, retains its shape better over time.
@ttm2609Ай бұрын
Corrosion resistance
@sbrunner69Ай бұрын
@@ttm2609 Mixing the 2 tracks on the layout prevents corrosion?
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
No, corrosion is not really a concern. Trains don’t mind some rust on the rails.
@ttm2609Ай бұрын
When it gets wet the rust acts like grease, been driving locos and EMUs for 35 years now @sbrunner69
@michaelperkins5858Ай бұрын
Great video that's very informative. The music was a horrible choice and overpowered the narrator. Would be much better either without or reduced in volume by about 50%.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Noted!
@russellmattingly8473Ай бұрын
Why don't they just make the bottom of the rail wider punch holes in it for attachment .Would speed up the process greatly.
@trainmountainrailroadАй бұрын
Interesting idea. But on thing we try to do is simulate the bigger railroads. They never did that.
@davedixon2068Ай бұрын
The rails would be weaker and over time cracks would probably propagate from the holes as the track worked under load, its very much a dynamic system.
@gilbertodipietro849415 күн бұрын
Sorry, your video is greate but the music you use is horrible