CamTrak II in the NJ Hirailers Subway

[@HyndmanHelper]

I always thought it would be neat to make a subway layout. This has got to be the best way to view one!

[@RailRide]

Nothing out of the ordinary that I can tell at that point.

[@MrLuvOldies]

Great Subway layout The girders at train level really make it look very real.

[@Lobta]

That is just unreal. Absolutely amazing!

[@prorobo]

This is incredible. Love the 3rd rail detail. Wicked amazing!

[@buntik1687]

The finished parts are very nice! Am working on my HO subway now. 10 stars!

[@RailRide]

From my experience: -Make sure your camcorder will fit anyplace your trains will fit. -Build the camcorder cradle first, so it is custom fitted. -Use a cardstock (stiff thick paper) template to lay out the arms that connect the cradle to the trucks. This will let you make mirror images of each side by tracing them onto sheet styrene. --Make the "floor" of the arms, drill for truck mounts while still open on top, attatch to cradle and finish enclosing the arms.

[@MartyLJ57]

Thans for the ride!

[@angeloarimborgo6352]

NJHR layout is second to none! When you see this in person your mind gets blown! Then you can go have a hot dog or a cheese burger in their little eating area LOL!

[@RailRide]

Indeed. And if I had a reliable ride there, I'd be a member.

[@jeremiahtaylor1817]

JPorretto had a good layout that would make for a nice collaboration

[@MysticVideo]

That was way cool!! I should try making one of those!

[@RailRide]

(1) so it seemed to run at a more realistic speed. Real NYC subways rarely run much faster than 45MPH (which in O Gauge is about 18" per second) (2) It was that camera car's first runs on their layout, inside a tunnel where you couldn't easily get to the train if the camera car derailed (like it did on the first such video I posted), so we took it easy in case something happened.

[@RailRide]

I don't see anything on the right at that point. There is a train on the left though. That is just a dead-end track leading to the passenger terminal that sits atop and just beyond the "34 Street" station you see as the camera enters the tunnel.

[@goldenspikeberkshire7597]

Really Love This Underground Subway Layout. And I Never Field So Alive in my Life. When I 5 Years Old I Watched a Underground Subway History on VHS with Jack Perkins. And the Video is Called Subway: The Empire Beneath New York's Streets. P.S I was Born in Manhatten New York City.

[@VipericVampire]

THEY FINALLY MADE THE STATIONS!

[@RailRide]

I had nothing to do with their construction. But there is an article on them in the current issue of O Gauge Railroading Magazine. (june/july issue) that sort-of describes how the subway section was built. You could also look for hints on the Subway/Traction/Transit section of the magazine's web forum (Google the magazine name, of PM me if you can't find their forum address)

[@MrLuvOldies]

I Love this NYC Subway Layout. At the Camtrak II level,at times it almost looks and sounds like being on the actual NYC Subway. I use to always ride in the first car looking out ahead,when I use to ride the NYC Subway Trains. The only thing missing is the signal and tunnel lights to make it more authentic and realistic looking. Can these NYC Subway Trains be purchased and obtained?

[@RailRide]

They are manufactured models sold without track or transformer. Most are by an outfit known as MTH Electric Trains. Follow a link in my other reply for a forum comprised of some very knowledgeable people.in O-Gauge..

[@RailRide]

@littleevan99 Yes, those are the Lionel ones pushing the camera car.

[@MCD4x4]

The third rail was made using one ince sloted screws and HO rail upside down and soldered

[@littleevan99]

Was it a Lionel R27 subway cars? It sounded like them?

[@MrBlaqBobbi]

Agree with Parrot, graffiti is not the best use of talents in our inner cities, but it is a part of life, and it adds to the "reality" of the model. I say paint a few more of and paint over them to show a repaint job! Graffiti can be "art" just as all paintings have the POTENTIAL to be "art".

[@RailRide]

It's a much newer system designed to run at those speeds, what with ATO and all that (except for the matter of that pesky fatal collision) New york supposedly toyed with 60MPH operation of its R46 trains, then somebody got rear-ended, and that's when they figured out the signals weren't far enough apart to stop a train running that fast from plowing into the back of a stopped one once it ran a red light.

[@litonliton62]

Wait.Was those tracks and trains were at your house or at some other building ,like a museum.If its a another building can u please tell me the address.But if its in your friends house don't tell me there address.

[@ty1279]

I love trains

[@RerailMe]

U assume that this is o scale?

[@robertmcgowan4312]

Where in New Jersey is this located I grew up in Paterson would love to see this in person

[@RailRide]

+Robert McGowan 185 6th Avenue, off River St. See www.njhirailers.com/show-dates for upcoming open houses this fall.

[@cutefeet63]

RailRide where's your signals?

[@RailRide]

+James B Not my layout/club . But I don't think the Hirailers have gotten around to planning a proper block signal system. They have interlocking signals, but none yet for the subway lines.

[@cutefeet63]

RailRide oh ok cool

[@cutefeet63]

@@RailRide nice layout. Are u going to add any signal light?

[@MrTrains]

love it

[@RailRide]

"I" didn't. (I'm not even a member of the club). But the folks who did make it, appear to have used HO scale flextrack rail.

[@RailRide]

See the club's URL in the description

[@baseball8610]

by 3rd rail you mean the track in the middle

[@nukinfuts1000]

@drfate234 They just tryed to make the layout more realistic it doesnt mean they like it, Its a fact most train cars are covered in graffeti in the US. So the only reason they did it was for more realism.

[@RailRide]

Heh, that little experiment *was* under the MTA :)

[@RailRide]

That's largely the work of one person who does custom "re-decorations". I prefer my trains clean as well, so I just ignore his :)

[@alexgets98]

1:08 to 1:54 my favourite part!!

[@kmttaseti]

You get an A+ from me. Skip the final exam. :)

[@Metrarailboy1]

SWEEET!!!

[@prorobo]

@drfate234 A layout is a MODEL of REAL LIFE. In a perfect world, there would be no weathering of equipment, rails, ballast, or anything like that and a layout would look like toys. Realism includes graffiti.

[@myleftnutts]

@parrot0051 I Don't like grafitti,however art is whatever people consider it to be,Not what's in museums,like they tell u it is,like Beauty,Art is in the eye of the beholder.

[@parrot0051]

Sorry...... art is in museums or at art shows never scrawled on walls or any thing else when are people going to wake up ? but what is done on model layouts well heh,heh, knock yourselves out. BTW the layout is awesome and the work is outstanding.

[@zhamsyassin1869]

Pause at 3:32

[@TEMPLE7D]

0:38 WAT HAPPENED

[@ethanrain7505]

At 2:21 there's some hobo looking thing on the side of the tracks.

[@MCD4x4]

thats no true

[@kemoblue4u]

i agree with him....graffiti is NOT art...it is ugly vandalism....it looks disgusting...and i live in NYC i see it all the time.

[@atomicgiraffe250]

wow ur tracks r dirty