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Chuck Davis’ HO scale Lehigh Valley RR, Coxton Yard design
I received my copy of “Great Model Railroads 2015” today. Wonderful explanation of yard design and operation with the article in front of me for reference. I learned a lot about card system. Thanks.
I also received The my copy of Great Model Railroads three days ago and want to express my pleasure at its usefulness. However I was puzzled to receive an e mail notice that it was time to renew my subscription. Nothing came in the mail to renew my subscription . If it is time please send me the forms so that I can do so. Thank you.
Thank you guys. My operators said the videos really helped them to better understand what we were trying to do. I’ve ended up making over a dozen of them, basically at least one for each operator position and still have two to do for the PRR and DL&W segments. The easiest way to find them may be to search on “my lehigh valley rr”.
Great video. I live and grew up in Wyoming, Pa. and remember seeing the yard and the old roundhouse and coaling tower. I would like to know more about your layout. If you see this post please contact me at joches@verizon.net.
Oh, gosh, that was wonderful. Very insightful coverage of main yard dispatching. Superb layout.
Nice job Chuck, I model the LV as well as it used to roll through my town, Lodi,NY. I use the car card system from Albion. Keep up the good work.
What an opportunity for more videos to illustrate each of the points you made about your railroad backed up with trains operating along with each segment. I for one tend to lose interest in 9 minute videos without trains running.
I agree with dean… lets see some real chugging going on !!! nice work otherwise !!!
I agree with Dean and Dennis, the video would have been much more interesting if there had been trains running to illustrate the yard use. Otherwise it’s an interesting video.
He is a great modeler! But I agree, we all would like to see trains running as he describes the yard. Usually 9 minute videos are too long for people to maintain interest. Thanks.
Very explanatory video. I’m wondering, why do you label the two mainlines going through Coxton, as yard tracks?
Sorry about the delay answering the comments, but we were away for a week visiting our kids for Thanksgiving.
With respect to your comment Dean on the mainline tracks, they are labeled with thicker tape on the control panel to show they are the mainline as well as ballasted to stick out visually. They are numbered as with the yard tracks as the prototype did, and the operators often end up counting tracks from the back to figure what yard track they want or that cars are on. In operating they are often used as an arrival/departure track. They will be made up generally using a combination of the road power and a switcher from each end. Any conflicts with passenger trains can be routed around them using the other mainline track.
Sorry about the length of the video and not including running trains, but that got cut out because the video was too long already. This yard is obviously the most complex operation on the layout and that is why I made other videos to cover related areas like describing the card cards and blocking. The uncoupling video and Wilkes-Barre local videos show trains running in the yard if you haven’t seen them. I’ll try to do another video in a couple of months showing a mainline train actually being blocked.