In this episode Model Railroader executive editor Andy Sperandeo discusses the prototypical arrangement of the signals in Bay Junction. He’ll also show you some of the trackside details that he added to some of the turnouts on our HO scale model train layout. Managing editor David Popp then gives an overview of a typical day of train operations in Williams Bay and Bay Junction. You’ll see Milwaukee, Racine & Troy (MR&T) and Wisconsin & Southern (WSOR) transfer runs, a coal train, and commuter trains. You’ll also see a switcher spot and pickup freight cars at the various industries.
Building Bay Junction part 21
By Angela Cotey | April 19, 2011
| Last updated on November 23, 2020
Learn about signals and train operations on this HO scale Model Railroader project layout
good to see the first operating session of Bay Junction. Winter Hill YOUR NEXT! we won't see Winter Hill again until the end of that Video Blog as after the Bay Junction blog ended they started the tare down of Winter Hill to make it into the mine and shingle plant it is today
Beautiful.
Wow! You Guys really Amazeing over at MR, Very much Thanks,,, my Dream is to Someday Have A Layout To call my own.. Well I Guess I Need to Dream more Ofthen HUH??? I Know, Thanks again Sir,,…….
Bay junction is great. It gives me a lot of inspiration on building my layout.
nice job guys
Very good presentation in both segments. Excellent camera work and very smooth editing of scenes with continued voice-over narrative description. The extensive detail and good excerpts of train movement in varied situations were well done. However: David's mike seemed too close so that many syllables and words/phrases were thick and almost muffled; that, coupled with the too-loud "nonbackground but almost foreground" music caused distraction. Please don't imitate feature films that stress crash-bang sound effects and heavy music, while dialogue cannot be heard. Less music during continuous voice-over always works better; too much volume on music overrides the commentary and can be not only disttracting but annoying. Gentle truly background music without such strong percussion and brisk melody lines serve the whole purpose better.
WOW – this was great – let's have more of this kind of action. It would have been nice to have seen the complete switching moves at Lake Beuhla and turn around for the run back…
In reading the others comments there is not much more that can be said. I must tell you I loved the 12 minute length. Sometimes the videos are way to short. Having been in the video production business before retiring I know the time and labor involved. We used to estimate it would take a hour for every minute of final video, and you folks have really mastered the process. Thanks bunches.
I am truly impressed with how smoothly the rolling stock operates, great work people.
What a great update on the project! Watching operations gives creedence to planning and emulating the prototype.
I marvel at your combined skills to propose, develop, build and display for the FUN of it. Please don't stop challenging yourselves.
Regards.
Excellent job. Thank you so much.
It looks like you guys were having a lot of fun operating this layout. As a professional I'd recommend taking it a little slower in those yard tracks though. You never know when a Trainmaster might be watching you behind the bushes or a Road Foreman might pull your tapes to check for a speeding violation…LOL! On the full size models most yard tracks are designated 10 MPH and depending on the turnout size mainline crossovers and siding switches have speed restrictions too. The smaller the frog size the more restrictive the speed through the diverging route. To avoid lading damage couplings should not exceed 4 MPH. If you really want to operate like the pros allow time for your brakeman or conductor to couple the air hoses and knock off hand brakes when pulling cars from industries. When spotting cars allow time for them to tie the handbrakes before cutting away from the cars. Also, before getting out on the mainline allow time for cars to be brake tested in accordance with FRA rules. These types of events could be just a pause in the sequence of your operations to simulate the effect. We try to make our scenes and rolling stock as realistic as possible and we can make things really fun by making our operations realistic too. Keep up the fantastic work! MR is truly the best magazine on the planet!
Look forward to your videos…great work. You guys actually get paid too! Also get a lot of ideas and motivates me to do better! Keep it up!
Idea for showing finished layouts: Instead of camera-on-flatcar pulled behind engine, which shows (only) engineers / passengers' view, ,,,,, why not push camera-on-flatcar AHEAD of first engine, thus allowing viewers (us!) to see track details, structures and scenery on BOTH sides of track centerline.
Ok guys, this was great but also are you going to show us how the area looks when its really finished? I mean the backdrop is a glaring omission there is it not? Are you planning on finishing the overpass treatment with the photo in the background and show us all how it turns out? Im very interested to see that. and are you planning on adding any more to the area such as figures and such to add a little life to it? I know im picking nits here but would love to see more of the area and even Lake Buleah when you rework it. The MR&T is looking super guys keep up the good work, and thanks for all the great productions you give us here.
really well done guys excellent
Thanks for showing the switching aspect of Bay Junction. I'm new to the hobbie and that was helpful to see examples of how you switch. More video examples would be really helpful around the suject of switching. Great video and well presented. thank you
Great video! Thank you for doing this for us, I,for one, greatly appreciate it .Good work guys, and once again(Thanks).
Well done video and the layout looks very good. I too, would rather have train sounds than back ground music. This sure makes us want to get started soon. Thanks
Awesome. I really enjoyed the blow-by-blow commentary and action. Thank you!
Wowwwwww!!!!!!!!!
Nice job showing an impressive layout and explaining its operations in great detail. Just one request: Is it possible to use rail-related sounds instead of foreign-sounding music when creating videos like this? As a musician, I find the use of such unrelated background music to be distracting rather than enhancing. Thanks guys.
Great video! How do you guys do the uncoupling? That was not shown, Im sure for time
I enjoy watching your videos,i get a lot of ideas for my layout,keep it up.
This has to be one of the best videos to date. Very well done but do wish that it was longer in duration!! Where was the switch list or is the sequence shown repeated for each operating session?