A Look Inside the Amazing Train Mountain Track Shop

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.

[@MurraydeLues]

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.

[@kevinducharme1263]

years from now, they'll look back on this and realize how lucky they were to be doing things like this.

[@rivergladesgardenrailroad8834]

I love the kids learning, SO much better than sitting on a couch staring at mindless TV, etc.

[@RevN3]

What a great video! Very informative! I'd love to see a sequel showing how the panels are installed.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Thanks! We’ll work on that!

[@kevinsavard5998]

Keeping skills alive that is special and the multigenerational workforce.

[@Ice_Karma]

That router carriage is genius.

[@Tuckaway]

Amazing track production workshop, vial to such a large scale railroad.

[@robertlafnear7034]

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

[@trainmountainrailroad]

We think so too. Thank you!

[@williamgibb5557]

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.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Exactly. Volunteers do the work all year.

[@idemanddonuts]

I'm still excited to come by train mountain this year

[@bahoonies]

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.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Thank you very much!

[@KANNA-CHAN]

i wasn't expecting some young adult, what a dream

[@trainmountainrailroad]

They made it a challenge to see how much track they could build. Very efficient and so much energy!

[@2quintly]

Great process, . . . .

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Thank you!

[@matthewfowler47]

Thanks for sharing! Looks amazing.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Thanks for watching!

[@thepubliceye]

Great to see all the young people helping out. Are they doing Community service?

[@trainmountainrailroad]

No, they were loving it and trying to set some kind of record for production speed!

[@TheCebulon]

That is a good insight and inspiration.

[@Joeyardmaster40155]

That is Amazing, Joe Morris , Dundalk MD. AKA >Joetrak

[@KWHCoaster]

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-RailfanRyan]

0:14 that is a very cool full-size 7 1/2 inch gauge hand car very cool wish I had one of those

[@Tuckaway]

I don't think you would want to go around the whole route on that unless you were training for the Olympics.

[@HYUKLDER1]

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.

[@gregdelong1539]

Great video, thanks.

[@jackreed3445]

First rate production of rail panels.

[@KimiWallrus]

Lots of sleepers!

[@Pendlemac]

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?

[@mattj5025]

Next thing to come up with…continuous welded rail sections.

[@KimiWallrus]

😅

[@alco4248]

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.

[@vhalmrast]

Do you make track for other garden railways, like yours?

[@trainmountainrailroad]

No, we don’t make that gauge. For g-scale, we use stainless steel, though, which works great.

[@in4merATP]

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.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

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.

[@sbrunner69]

What’s the reason for mixing steel and aluminum track? Maybe I missed that sorry.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

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.

[@ttm2609]

Corrosion resistance

[@sbrunner69]

@@ttm2609 Mixing the 2 tracks on the layout prevents corrosion?

[@trainmountainrailroad]

No, corrosion is not really a concern. Trains don’t mind some rust on the rails.

[@ttm2609]

When it gets wet the rust acts like grease, been driving locos and EMUs for 35 years now ​@sbrunner69

[@michaelperkins5858]

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%.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Noted!

[@russellmattingly8473]

Why don't they just make the bottom of the rail wider punch holes in it for attachment .Would speed up the process greatly.

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Interesting idea. But on thing we try to do is simulate the bigger railroads. They never did that.

[@davedixon2068]

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.

[@gilbertodipietro8494]

Sorry, your video is greate but the music you use is horrible

[@trainmountainrailroad]

Good thing it isn't a Music Video!😁