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There’s just one more job to run on Model Railroader magazine’s all-new HO scale Beer Line layout extension. In this final episode of our operations mini-series, MRVP’s David Popp and MR’s Eric White walk you through the duties that come with running The Afternoon Beer Train, which requires work along the layout’s fiddle yard.
Good work David and Eric now that the Beer Train has been switched Jenny can enter the yard and mark off duty.
Great job like the fiddle yard and storage off the layout concept.. Things look great.. Thanks
Think I would have pulled all cars from the team track, then put the hold car back. Don’t think weight is too much of a problem using the RSC2 on the team track itself.
Are those Pabst hippos or Schlitz hippos?
Hey Steven McGrath, I was wondering about the hippos myself…..
hi Dave
where did you get those great vehicles from
I am building a logging railroad from the 1940’s.
I am having a hard time getting vehicles from that era.
any help is welcome
Bill from Delaware
Boy there is lot of work, In setting up a little layout. I started to make my way bills, design a form on word, then I bring in each car in front of me so I can take the info off the car and type it into the form and save it in a file on the computer. Then print it on a hard card stock. Your videos are great and I save then so I can go back a watch again and again. There is so much to watch and learn. I hope by the end it will help me enjoy this hobby even more. In all the years I have been building layouts, just to watch the trains make a loop. This is the first time that I’m doing the operation of the layout.
Foot note I see that Cody and maybe Dave P
Popp are coming to Rockford Il. to the Regional convention in April 2017.
Steven Baker
I was watching the final series and noticed the trains and car hopping on the track where the 2 section are put together. One side is higher than the other and their is a space between them .Is that a good idea, or would it br better to repair those places on the layout?
enjoy the operating the beer line series. Hippoptamus in the street?
Very nice Video…. especially liked the add-on Graphics. They helped show what was happening.
Another home run. Nice job. I hope that ops sessions can be an active part of future productions. Thanks
I can’t tell you all how much the series has encouraged me. It has not only helped me better understand how to set up my railroad for operation, but watching you all work each job on the beautifully designed and weathered Beer Line layout has been real motivational fuel for me to keep making progress on my railroad.
Also, the info-graphic overlays were a great idea.
This series alone was worth the price of this years subscription. Keep ’em coming!
Great video series for operating the Beer Line. Can you show some samples of the switchlist form and train description you showed in the videos?
The best and most straight forward training I have seen on operations. Well done!
what a great series!!! It has really piqued my interest in operating my own Industrial Switching layout!!! As I sit an watch this video series for at least the fourth or fifth time I am filling out my waybills and car cards. I am now getting ready to create the signs for my car card boxes. Any suggestions on how to number or name the various Yard tracks? It appears that you just number them going away from the edge of the layout. Does it really matter if they are numbered going away or coming toward the edge?
As usual another outstanding job the MRVP Crew!!! Congratulations!!!!
These videos on operation were a delight! I think I have learned more in these episodes than I acquired in my years on model railroading (although I did and do spend more time building equipment than running them). I hope there will be updates, like possibly a Q&A session or addendum.
Best episodes yet David. Great work.
Easy to follow this video of the beer line.
Only suggestion would be to make the highlighted cars ‘flashing’ to better visually pick up which ones you’re identifying on the overhead schematic. I found I had to go back and watch some segments a few times to ensure I was correctly following your directions. Identifying arrows of each car and destination was particularly helpful.
Thanks for demonstrating the ops side of the layout giving it a purpose instead of randomly switching cars or just ‘chasing the caboose’ around the loop. I’m not quite there with my layout, but I’ll be referencing this series many times when I do. Well done!
Hi David,
I am enjoying the Beer Line videos very much. May I suggest something my son & I do on my layout (my son is an engineer). Instead of coupling to a cut of cars and just continuing on, I give time to my “brakeman/ conductor’ to connect the air hoses between the cars you just coupled to. Allow about 35 to 45 seconds for this action and it makes for a more realistic operation. Hoses are connected and the valves on each car are opened slowly to equalize pressure.
Tommy
David, I really enjoyed the Beer Line operating series. Congratulations to the MR and MRVP staff for providing a very informative video on operations
looks like fun !
Loved it, hate to see it end! Can I ask; doesn’t the stack of Car Cards tell where the cars are supposed to go and if so, what is the point of making a Switch List? It seems rather redundant and time consuming. Thanks for the videos!
Most informative and interesting, thank you. Are the hippopotami getting a dental check at the vets (8.03)?
I really enjoyed the whole series. It was/is great to see how the operations were set up and run although things seem a little more harmonious than operations I have attended on other model railroads! Hope it comes out as a video I can download.
Another great video, thanks guys I have found this series on operations to be very informative. I’ve said it on another video, Iam hoping at some point the train order cards and such might get published to assist some of us that are new to operations. Video plus has been a great asset to my enjoyment of the hobby.