MODEL RAILROADING UNLIMITED

[Music] huh must have dozed off well no matter nothing ever happens around this old railroad Depot anymore anyhow now that folks go gallivanting around the country and their Automobiles and their campers and their buses and airplanes just doesn't seem like there's much to do for an old railroad man like myself but I think I got aect I keep busy you see I work on my model railroad no kidding this is my hobby of course um I'll admit there are other Hobbies like uh stamp collecting then there's uh butterfly hunting and uh stamp collecting and also some like bird [Music] watching and stamp collecting but uh I prefer model railroading and that's what our story is all about [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] from the beginning man has always been a thinker constantly dreaming up new ideas the idea grows man nurtures it struggles to develop it until it last he becomes totally frustrated [Music] throughout history many cultures experimented with model railroading with mixed results years of patient study by the world's best Minds finally produced the modern model trade its complexity and sophistication are a far cry from Man's first crude attempts [Music] the scales there are many different scales ranging from o in which 1 qu of an inch equals 1 foot s in which 316 of an inch equals 1 foot is much smaller and is equal to two and 1/2 o scales unless of course you go to Ho in which 17 n scales L end to nend wouldn't fit however Z scale being only 22 times smaller in the southern hemisphere can work in a radius of only 12 tangents across the of an ho Caboose and that doesn't affect on and at all you put them all together and they spell Austin snots however the three most common scales are ho o n and [Applause] O anyone can be a Model Railroader all it takes is a little imagination [Music] the modern home offers the model railroad a many fascinating places to locate his layout this is not one of them [Music] [Applause] the first rule of model railroading is if at first you don't succeed try the garage [Music] the model railroaders first layout isn't always his best the important thing is his enthusiasm he's built it himself and it's his [Music] putting models together is only a start the challenge is in making them look real [Music] [Applause] [Music] go [Music] d [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he [Music] any layout starts with a basic shape first we add Spurs and double-ended sidings with necessary Crossovers and perhaps an inner reverse loop as Branch lines reach out to other shipping points more terminal sidings and over Roots will be added while the throat of our yard expands at this time a second Road cab or control Point might be needed with perhaps a third to oversee yard operations as main lines grow and activity increases more Road cabs will be added their traffic is coordinated by a chief dispatcher or two with more dispatchers added for each dozen or so cabs to coordinate the yard Masters a train master and staff may be required and perhaps the optional online ubm 9000 computerized traffic control system it is quite possible to become completely carried away Roger cap 52 your 38b will intercept at alhur Crossing at 281 Delta yard master code green your s27 to Baker 773 Chief dispatcher to smoke River Tower negative your two inner zero through Beamer throat take the Cascade bypass code yellow to Anderson 22 hold there dispatch clear C request cleance for sou reer 779 Del confirm tower Tower 204 West smoke River cab 29 your westbound code green 88 to Harper this is Chief dispatch go ahead sir the cbx 219 unit shows Zion is down suggest rout through Grand Springs Chief dispatcher to Mitchell one we're rerouting you through Grand Springs [Applause] standby cab 33 to Chief dispatch go ahead 33 I have an SP special number 8721 holding at Gary 1 33 uh you're clear to Jackson 2 hold there for meet with the East May request routing take the Hudson main to Jackson 2 through Jackson [Applause] 2 throttle coming up dispatch clear cab 49 you're reassigned to the t102 eie now at Fargo to pick up outbound empties see your routing slip tra control clear Chief dispatch this is GS I'm a 26 we copy you GS Still Water Tower to Chief dispatch uh we found 106 he just got stuck in the tunnel up here Chief dispatch to GS limited we found the problem take the duban turnout and hold there should be a couple of minutes dispatch clear uh traffic control to Chief dispatcher we have a trouble light in sector 7 standby [Music] one confirmed definite trouble light it appears to be an electrical problem check your master phase circuits a master phase circuits are set function positive we still have a trouble light adjust your low pass stabilizer correcting to Flat no change could be in the McGuffin master power control unit I'm uh checking the McGuffin Matrix wait a minute [Applause] I shut down all power power supply switch negative function CL the manual override manual override no [Music] [Applause] effect we have no other way to stop speed controls are locked at Full Throttle all units are now running out of control routing circuits are still operating give station's code red clear this Channel and stand by for emergency operation [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] l [Applause] traffic to Chief dispatcher the cbx 219 unit projects a collision the southbound Mo base local and the North Main switch lead at Rogers flat in 18 seconds suggest evasive switching 67 put your main lead through the turnout on T 2027 C I got it New Collision projection we have a switcher meeting the smoke River Local in Jackson in 12 seconds cap 14 route the Pacific coast to Jackson 2 cap 49 keep yours on the [Music] main good Collision sector 12 we have a westbound GS4 conver with black widow units then heading on the North Bay straight in 8 seconds put the Black Widow through the Irvine turnout orian Express in the West Bay shuttle shuttle take the Z 10 [Music] [Applause] a triple collision at Fairfax mixed Freight 107 yard switcher 55 and Santa Fe dead head all at crossover f27 switch to take the [Music] [Applause] [Music] crossover responding stand by one my trouble light is out confirmed traffic to Chief dispatcher speed stabilizer online preparing to power down power down sectors 1 through three power down sectors 4 through six 789 10 11 12 13 master power shut down now all stop we're [Applause] clear all right really [Applause] fantastic traffic control to Chief dispatcher damages temporarily repaired all systems green standing by to resume normal operation all right everybody let's get this railroad back on the line [Music] oh [Music] the [Laughter] [Music]