Scale Model Trains & Colorado's Joint Line Trailer

[@dannyholt105]

Nice trailer Kevin! Always look forward to your videos. Stay safe! Cheers, Danny

[@Modeltrains]

Thanks Danny. You stay safe as well. Cheers, Kevin.

[@SarahsAtticOfTreasures]

I had to subscribe again. I was missing your videos. Danny Holt and I were talking about you. He said it had been way to long since he had visited you . I always enjoy this trailer. It's perfect.

[@QUIX4U]

I must admit though - that you have way more money than I could ever "spare" to buy what seems like not that expensive rolling stock, whereas over here in the 1970's when NZ didn't make their own and overseas sourced - meant very expensive and often not even imported. So - after building up a N-gauge (expensive) system for around twenty or more years, a shift in financial directions (and a need to sell-down a few things - re a divorce or two) - it left me with only the larger unsaleable hand built "(built out of rubbish) units - that my Son & I rode / played with on 15 LB rail; which eventually required scrapping too when the farm was sold. Thus now - i can only look at others, or "play" the scenes over in my mind - of the times when I had some very good operational model trains. I thus commend you on the one's that I can see that you have (and the fact that you are able to have & afford to keep - such a big layout & collection of rolling stock / scenery etc., Sadly - the operational side of a fully working full sized railway system - needs to be understood, to model it correctly in "yard play" scenes.

[@TaylorLuu00]

Does this mean we will be getting an ops session featuring steam!?

[@QUIX4U]

Having watched some of your so-called play-way yard videos - I believe that you could not have EVER been employed as a "shunter" or even a marshalling yard assistant (or as a railway civil engineer, nor as one of their Engineering WAY&WORKS surveyor/draughtsman or yard planner either). You certainly have zero idea of how to expedite a very quick & easy method of remarshalling a small mixed goods train - at the end of any mainline that ends in a multi-siding / run-around loco - for doing final set yardwork - that's for sure. I myself was not only "into" trains of all shapes sizes (and eventually models) - I was employed in many branches (excuse the pun - fully intended) of the New Zealand Railways - firstly in the Dunedin Civil District Engineers Office, (as a draughtsman / surveyor - both outside & inside involved with all aspects of re-working alignments and of re-drawing "working railway" trackwork plans) - but I later transferred out into the fresh air (and became responsible for several miles of trackage - as an Inspecting ganger) - thus I used a motor trolley and a shovel/spade too, as well as assisting some of the station staff - move wagons and make up rakes of wagons, for overnight trains to "collect" - thus shifting wagons around, with the minimalistic yard loops we had to work with, and a wheel bar or a farm tractor (as a rubber wheeled shunter) to shove some with? It became obvious very quickly - that correctly shunting in a very small distance using ONE turnout at a time - was a lot more efficient than shifting ONE wagon at a time - all the way around a yard. I also made my own full sized trains as well as modelling all the way down to Z gauge - so needed to have things "laid out' to the best advantage of shunting work - by having as few loco movements as possible. Oh sure, shifting one wagon at a time, whilst moving everything else in the way (just because it was in the way) - may be a small electric railway modelers dream - but it's a very inefficient way (on a full sized railway system) - to remarshal or SET wagons (in a yard) - using a diesel locomotive (and a paid crew) - when there are correct methods to do this efficiently or completely wrong time / slow & utterly time wasting one's.