Railroad Industries You Can Model. 4 INDUSTRIES FOR YOUR LAYOUT

[@sparky107107]

that was great DJ, thing i found the best there. was the conditions of the switch sidings, over grown, a stop sign, trees close to the tracks. and DIRTY.

[@jeffreyhunt1727]

The drone footage is fantastic. Such a beautiful part of the country.

[@thomassalerno5203]

Fantastic High quality Videos, very informative. You provide the missing link between “real” railroading and model railroading. Well done! Yes I’m a “foamier” modeling HO. Your attention to detail modeling buildings is an art form and impressive. I too model the Pittsburgh steel industry scene. Got the inspiration to model it from a painting of Port Perry by Howard L Fogg of the (CSX predecessor) PLE. My focus is on operations so I do not anticipate switching into industrial buildings on my layout but using them as a backdrop. However, I’m interested in the industries and the cars & commodities they receive or ship out along Pittsburgh area rails. This way I can schedule (make switch lists) deliveries and pickups to the various yards that service those industries. Can yo do more series on steel & scrap? Looking forward to hooking up with you on your website. PS x Pittsburgher now living in The Villages FL near the CSX “S” Line In Wildwood FL

[@alexweis9706]

Great video djstrain keep making more of them

[@wolfpack4694]

These descriptions are really enlightening DJ. Thanks again!

[@shawnmutant]

I like the full sized, three head interlocking signal for coming off the SteelMet spur.

[@djstrains]

What’s tough is usually when we pick up or set off there, we make sure to be in the clear on the spur, but there isn’t much room without shoving cars back and the sun can make it hard to actually see the signal! When the sun hits even dark signals, it can make it confusing as to what is really lit up

[@shawnmutant]

Thanks for the reply DJ! I really like to follow along the google maps for the areas that you take your videos. You have inspired me to make some large mill related buildings but I have no where to place them on my HO layout as I model the middle of Indiana. I may change that to the Youngstown/Pittsburgh area in the future though. Large buildings that dwarf the railcars seem to be more realistic. I always liked that area and visited the area several times in the late 1990s. Thanks and keep up the great work@@djstrains !!

[@normanrowe2831]

I absolutely love these. So cool. Thanks.

[@wurlitzer1538]

Great video! Hope to see you around Kennywood. I work out there

[@colnagocowboy]

Localy i have Borman steel two manual swithes, a 30° crossing one track going to a big warehouse one to an overhead crane for transfer train to truck. Cool set up.

[@conecuhvalleyttrak]

Thank you for posting this, DJ. Very informative!

[@zonegamma8197]

Very cool industries presentation thanks a lot

[@sepphauser7173]

DJtrains thats really a great video. I love this kind of films. Helps me to understand better the run of US Railways. I like it. Hope we see further this kind.

[@djstrains]

I have 159 videos. Many like this. Please go watch them, because i think you'll really like them too.

[@jolliemark6294]

Great shoe DJ, lots to think about....thanks for sharing....Jack

[@JoeG-firehousewhiskey]

Very nice look around the small industries what we could model on our layouts

[@daericksimpson9244]

Cool modeling industry awesome

[@TomsTrainsandThings]

Those first two places looked familiar, we drove up that way the day before we came to see you!

[@jacjac5761]

Oh man you show some great switching ideas! Please keep showing those videos!

[@djstrains]

I made 25 videos since i got the drone. Plus I have some older videos with operations and track planning. Hope you like.

[@sparkslightingable]

I love these videos so helpful

[@giulius7176]

Great video....some nice ideas!!!

[@deandanielson8074]

Thanks, DJ for a very interesting and clear presentation of industrial plants and warehouses. Nice use of the drone. Thanks for the professional video. Also, enjoyed meeting you at Scranton. - Dean from Minnesota

[@djstrains]

Thanks. I want to show people that the real railroad in my area looks nothing like what we normally see on a layout. Nice meeting you as well. :)

[@coxsj]

Nice one DJ!

[@TheDaf95xf]

Hi djstrains 😀 Always good watching your drone videos on your railroads 👍🏻 It’s a real shame that every were they are pulling up the rails and putting more lorries on the roads clogging them up 🙈 And we go on about saving the planet 🤔 Back in the uk 🇬🇧 we don’t have very many industry units with sidings only intermodal single stack lol 😆 and only 750 meters long with one EDM class 66 American locomotives 🤪 I live near a place called Trafford Park Manchester that had a very extensive internal railway with over 90 steam locomotives in its day 😁 Buts it’s all gone now just old rails in the road letting you know there was a rail network once upon a time 😃 Keep the good videos coming thanks Stevie 😎🇬🇧

[@djstrains]

Thanks, Stevie!

[@CyclingDinosaur]

Thanks for the suggestions

[@ThomasKlimoski]

Hi DJ, Lots of excellent modeling ideas. The drone shots are awesome! Thanks for posting.-Tom

[@djstrains]

Glad you liked.

[@jgalexander510]

Hi DJ, Great video. For the last spot (transfer station), why wouldn’t they have a direct switch off the main? Seems backasswards to have to do seesaw moves with only a couple cars max. Any logic to that setup? Thanks, Josh

[@djstrains]

Its the last remaining track from a yard that once was there. I hope to find a pic or map and post on website soon.

[@jgalexander510]

@@djstrains Thanks DJ - that makes sense! :)

[@nathandelay]

Very cool and awesome DJ and have an awesome day

[@djstrains]

you too

[@sherrypilorski8975]

At conductor school, I'll be switching cars with you soon hopefully.

[@djstrains]

Lol, really? where?

[@sherrypilorski8975]

@@djstrains there are 6 of us doing our 6 week conductor training right here in Selkirk.

[@fiercetrains4052]

ok so about the steel mill, i was looking at the walthers steel mill co. when u said that on the upper track was used to dump cars or raw materials, where do they go? to the blast furnace or coke ovens?

[@djstrains]

The "High line" on a blast furnace allows ore and lime to be dumped and stored into large holding areas. However, coke is dumped from car into a sorting area for immediate use in the blast furnace.

[@fiercetrains4052]

@@djstrains ok so where do the hot metal cars go? to the rolling mill?

[@djstrains]

Video soon. I'm doing a whole series on it. Short answer is open hearth decades ago, and basic oxygen furnace in 80's to today.

[@fogdan]

Awesome Video Thank You for Posting..

[@sonnypruitt6639]

DJ, just a suggestion. Something I never see on modal RR's but see all the time in real life is, puddles or ponding of water inbetween tracks. Look at 4:50, see all that ponding?

[@djstrains]

great observation.

[@bobsandone3108]

How are the mains labeled #1 or #2? Is there a method to the madness, such as #1 always on the left facing east, etc?

[@djstrains]

1 main is on the right going west, 2 is on the left. We are an east west RR. I believe NS is north south.

[@southern207hobbies]

Boulder creek engineering has a scale kit that random generates wieghts within user set parameters

[@djstrains]

neat!

[@KutWrite]

"Random weights?" They must have made my bathroom scale!

[@kingtlivewilson2878]

Great Video have a good rest of your day and happy 4 of July

[@djstrains]

you too

[@KutWrite]

Is that counterweight place over by Glassport? I think I've set off a gon or two of scrap there. So cool to see these sights again. That was one of the pluses of railroading. Everyday something was changing, I mean besides the weather. Do you ever go by W. Newton? I looked forward to seeing the yellow house they used for "Silence of the Lambs" as the exterior of "Buffalo Bill's" house. I forget what signal is closest. I believe it's RR east of W. Newton. There was a cool industry near Connellsville. They refurbished tanks and armored personnel carriers that had been shot up in the Gulf war. British Aircraft bought them, but I think it was closed last I was there. It's near Pechin's. Are you into PA humor? These guys do a good job of satirizing Johnstown and Pittsburgh lingo and ways, right, yinz? This one's about "Dat Virus." kzbin.info/www/bejne/iHrGdZp9pL2YatE

[@djstrains]

yes

[@tripleheart2970]

Another great informative drone video, I love these. I was looking at that same spot in Braddock with satellite view in Google maps and wondering what it was and if they still had rail deliveries. Thanks for the info on that and on the other industries you showed.

[@djstrains]

my conductor just said we serviced Bell about a car a week, but tygart less than 1 a year lately.

[@thomassalerno5203]

Thanks for posting/covering customers along the Mon/Yough Valley area. By the way does CSX switch Atlas Paper down on the Southside?. If so; is it switched from Riverton or Neville Island? As always great Pittsburgh video’s. Anxiously await new vids as they come out. Much Appreciated!

[@djstrains]

atlas is out of business so we store MOW there. used to be switched from demmler.

[@TrainAssassin]

Hey DJ, for ELG (formerly Steelmet) why is there a EB signal guarding the entrance of the spur opposed to a derail like at Tygart Steel?

[@djstrains]

great question. That new signal is only a handful of years old. When they redid the interlocking, they put in these high signals because the switch is in between the 2 crossovers.

[@TrainAssassin]

@@djstrains Ah, that makes sense. Thank you

[@IMRROcom]

Nice Video

[@roberthoovan4130]

Childhood dream Mat you’re now a cartoon

[@thenorthernlines4766]

Interesting, lots of industries that you would think don’t get any action actually get cars in and out.

[@moregltfirephotography4857]

Hey DJ I live in Beaver County and railfan the Pittsburgh subdivision sometimes I'm going to model Anchor Hocking in Monaca (out side of blacks run yard)(dont know if you know where) on o scale

[@djstrains]

Yes, I switch it often. I am planning on doing a video of it this year.

[@moregltfirephotography4857]

@@djstrains oh cool I walked up the little trail outside the facility about four car lengths from the switch they came down with one car coupled to the other ones went back on the main left the last car on the main then put the rest back in then they went back to blacks run yard

[@williambryant5946]

What's up with the Kennedy statue in the industrial area? Got to be a connection but I don't know what it would be?

[@djstrains]

We couldn't either. Its in the park in front of the mill, next to the police station.

[@jonglass]

I find it interesting that all the industries you show in this video do their own car movements, and you just drop the cars off and pick them up. Also, was that Kennywood???

[@djstrains]

yes

[@jimtedesco]

good preview

[@djstrains]

i'll puke on that coaster

[@1tombensky]

Great video! Your drone shots are amazing! Just sent $ via PayPal.

[@djstrains]

I just saw that. Man, I am so appreciative and humbled by your generosity. Recently I bought a 4 TB external hard drive because these drones and 4k video cam are averaging about 9+ gigs of space every time I film. This should hold all my video for a while, and provide room for more. Also ordering another drone battery, so I can film longer (average life 19 minutes per battery). So the money is coming in at the right time. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart.

[@waltersobchek2465]

👍👍

[@BattleshipOrion]

So steelmills without ore-cars, and docks n stuff, I'll start thinking about retiring my ore cars then...... makes me sad they are my favorites.

[@djstrains]

NOOOOOOO!!!! Send your steel to these places for finished products, etc.

[@eoinpkav152]

interesting outro lol