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River Mountain Model Railroad - PennCentral99
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Welcome to My Channel!
This is my freelance HO scale model railroad where I customize locomotives, build rolling stock, scenery, layout details, product reviews and some railfanning.
Thanks for Stopping By!
This is my freelance HO scale model railroad where I customize locomotives, build rolling stock, scenery, layout details, product reviews and some railfanning.
Thanks for Stopping By!
2024 St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet
17th St. Louis Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet in Collinsville, Ill. The show speaks for itself.
Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
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River Mountain Model Railroad - Product Spotlight - ScaleTrains HO Scale 48' 2 Hood Coil Steel Car
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A quick overview of the ScaleTrains Rivet Counter HO Scale Thrall 48 Foot 2-Hood Coil Steel Car
River Mountain Model Railroad - Product Spotlight - Atlas HO Scale CNCF 5000 Cu Ft Box Car
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A quick overview of the Atlas HO Scale CNCF 5000 Cu Ft Box Car
River Mountain Model Railroad - Product Spotlight - ExactRail HO Scale FMC 5277 Combo Door Boxcar
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A quick overview of the ExactRail Evolution HO Scale FMC 5277 Cu Ft Combo Door Boxcar
River Mountain Model Railroad - Product Spotlight - Otter Valley Railroad 6400 cu ft Gondola
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Product spotlight for Otter Valley Railroad, HO Scale 64 foot, 6400 cubic feet Scrap and Trash Gondola. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - ScaleTrains
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A look at ScaleTrains on the HO Scale River Mountain Model Railroad. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - Postcards
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I created some postcards with images of models I've completed and railfanning activities. If you'd like one, just drop your address in the comment section and I'll send one. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - January 12, 2023
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A Southbound Union Pacific Mixed Freight with 3 different road names on the head rolls into downtown Las Vegas, NV. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - Support Your Local Hobby Shop, Westside Trains Las Vegas, NV
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Showing support for the hobby shop in Las Vegas, NV Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - September 23, 2022
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A Northbound Union Pacific "Racks-n-Stacks' with a quintuplet header rolls into Arden Yard on the south side of Las Vegas, NV. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
2022 St. Louis, MO Railroad Prototype Modelers
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Railroad Prototype Modelers Meet in St. Louis, MO. The show speaks for itself. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - Workshop Wednesday - Episode 4 - Acrylic Paint Storage Rack
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Welcome to Workshop Wednesday, where we handle projects on my HO Scale layout. In this episode, I'll add tubes to the storage rack for my acrylic paints. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - Workshop Wednesday - Episode 3 - HO Scale Transmission Tower
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Welcome to Workshop Wednesday, where we handle projects on my HO Scale layout. In this episode, I'll build an HO Scale Transmission Tower. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - Workshop Wednesday - Episode 2 - Installing Fascia
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Welcome to Workshop Wednesday, where we handle projects on my HO Scale layout. In this episode, I'll install fascia on the layout. Enjoy and Thanks for Watching!
River Mountain Model Railroad - Workshop Wednesday - Episode 1 - Repainting Digitrax UP5
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River Mountain Model Railroad - Workshop Wednesday - Episode 1 - Repainting Digitrax UP5
River Mountain Model Railroad - March 2020
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River Mountain Model Railroad - March 2020
Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - December 10, 2019
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Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - December 10, 2019
Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - October 28, 2019
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Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - October 28, 2019
River Mountain Model Railroad - Weathering with Watercolor Pencils
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River Mountain Model Railroad - Weathering with Watercolor Pencils
River Mountain Model Railroad - October 2019
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River Mountain Model Railroad - October 2019
Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - October 7, 2019: Featuring Union Pacific #4014
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Railfanning - Las Vegas, NV - October 7, 2019: Featuring Union Pacific #4014
River Mountain Model Railroad - Regulator for Airbrushing
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River Mountain Model Railroad - Regulator for Airbrushing
River Mountain Model Railroad - Homemade Airbrush Cleaning Pot
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River Mountain Model Railroad - Homemade Airbrush Cleaning Pot
Behind the Scenes - Ken Patterson's "Whats Neat" Episode #83 - July 27, 2019
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Behind the Scenes - Ken Patterson's "Whats Neat" Episode #83 - July 27, 2019
2019 St. Louis, MO Railroad Prototype Modelers - Part 2
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2019 St. Louis, MO Railroad Prototype Modelers - Part 2
2019 St. Louis, MO Railroad Prototype Modelers - Part 1
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2019 St. Louis, MO Railroad Prototype Modelers - Part 1
Railfanning - East of St. Louis, MO - July 28, 2019
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Railfanning - East of St. Louis, MO - July 28, 2019
Railfanning - Southern Nevada - July 17, 2019
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Railfanning - Southern Nevada - July 17, 2019
River Mountain Model Railroad - July 2019
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River Mountain Model Railroad - July 2019
River Mountain Model Railroad - May 2019
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River Mountain Model Railroad - May 2019
I just use my HO scale ruler to determine height, width and depth. The scale has helped me make my HO scale lumber for my Atlas lumber company and I scratch built a lumber drying shed to go with it. I also have a MicroMart mini table saw so I can cut my scale lumber. I downloaded paper wrapper labels from the interweb. Cheers from eastern TN
Hello Rusty, yeah, scale rulers are a great tool. Sounds like you created a nice lumber scene. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
I saw you caught my backside at about the 20 minuite mark! It was a great experience for me as this was my first RPM. There were many fine models displayed. Thanks for capturing many of them.
Glad you had a good experience and hope you attend again. All of the modelers deserve the spotlight. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it! Terry
Good seeing you, Terry! Hopefully next year I'll have some "new" models on display!
Todd, good seeing you too! Maybe next year I'll actually bring some models, hahahaha!
LOTS TO LOOK AT , FOR SURE
@@sparky107107 it’s a shame to condense all that footage into a “short” video
Very clever with the nails and groove
Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it! I am working on a newer/updated version of a manual turnout control.
Hey Terry! Thanks for the shout out! I have the same gripe with the hoods and the weight of the car. Which both issues can be alleviated with a little work (if you're wanting to run the car empty with no hoods). But, overall a beautiful and much needed freight car.
hey Todd, you earned the shout out!!
Great video Terry!
Hello Sir, good to hear from you! Thanks for stopping by.
It has been a while, viewing your video
thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Another good review, Terry!
Nice review, Terry! The Waterloo RR (WLO reporting marks, an IC paper subsidiary) had several of these old CAGY boxcars. I need to pick up one.
Hey Todd, thanks for stopping by and laying down some verbiage! Nice to know WLO had some of these in their fleet and hope you find some for your inventory. Terry
How many trains per day run here?
Not many. This end of the branch line only sees a few trains a week.
Terry! Good to see you buddy. I always loved the freight cars that Exactrail offered. It was a shame they couldn't stay afloat, but I'm glad ScaleTrains was able to keep the line alive. Great video, I hope to see you again soon, take care, Dave B.
Hello Dave, thanks for watching and commenting! This is my first ExactRail item and I like it, there's a lot of good things with the model and the price is reasonable. Terry
But surely it would be better if it was powered otherwise you are just dragging around another wagon or box car equivalent... run the wires to the edge of the loco and attach a plug and then a small pair of wires to the front loco and a plug and then plug the both together then you have extra track pick ups and 2 motors pulling instead of just one...
Yes, you can look at it that way. But some people may not want to go that route and this gives someone another option. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I like Walthers Proto 2000 metal wheel sets better than Intermountain. I've tried both and prefer the Walthers. Kadee's are a must for my rolling stock and have to be body mounted. I also save all those plastic wheel sets and plastic knuckle couplers for future gondola and flatcar loads. I also always check coupler height with the Kadee gauge and make sure the rolling stock is up to NMRA weight standards. Cheers from eastern TN
hello rusty, thanks for the feedback. Sounds like you have figured out what's best for you, keep it up.
Damn that's a good idea! I'm definitely going to be building one of these. Three points of contact reminds me of fire academy 😅
glad you like the idea! hope the reminders are pleasant ones, hahahaha
I've never used the SMD LED's. I use either 3mm or 5mm LED's depending on what I'm doing with them. For illuminating coaches I always use 12 volt LED strip lighting with keep alive circuits. The first strip of LED lights I ordered the bright white which were actually too bright for my liking and the period that I model. So, I painted each LED with some yellow acrylic paint and now they are perfect. The next strip of LED's I ordered were warm white. One learns from ones mistakes. I even use the LED bulb itself for a lens most of the time. Cheers from eastern TN
sounds like you have some experience with lighting and LED's. I don't have any passenger cars/coaches/combines, so my experience with that is almost none. LED's have come along way over the past few years. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Thank you for this lesson!
Although an old video, the DCS51 performs and most of the programming still applies. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Thank you for sharing these ideas. Just starting my first ever model train layout (N-scale, 5'x14') and will be making and using these in multiple places on my layout. Thank you! Liked/subscribed.
Hello, Welcome to model railroading and hope you enjoy it! Glad you find the video useful. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Terry great to see you my brother! Keep up the great work! Let me know if you can do a video one day with the MTH engine I sent you -Michael Thornton
hello Michael, thanks for checking in. I don't have that loco anymore, it didn't work out for me, so I passed it on to someone I thought could use it.
@@PennCentral99 that’s awesome brother that’s what this hobby is all about
good review, It does have two problems. 1. It is not N scale 2. It is note jade/turquoise/teal green Green with PC PennCentral markings on it.
OVR has some N scale 😁
This 'solution' misses the major weak point in the Atlas and many other turnout designs. That weak point is where the point rails are connected to the closure rails. The small tabs on the backs of the point rails that are folded inside of the contact holes on the closure rails are a problem waiting to happen. Many people have said that they have never had a problem with power flowing through the point rails, but I wonder how many of those people are talking about turnouts that have been in place for long time periods. What should be added to the Atlas and other turnouts are jumpers between the closure rails and the point rails. This is easier said than done, but it will guarantee that you will never have an electrical contact failure in the turnouts.
Yep ... installing a complicated yard right now and, unfortunately, I am dealing with three Atlas Code 55 turnouts where at least one of the closure rails was dead as a door nail. I can only assume the factory jumper was weak/broken before I installed it. Point rails get power (because connection to stock rails are good and tight). Oh, well. Live and learn. I'll be installing my own jumpers from stock to closure rails from now on - before installation.
post cards,, now that is a cool idea.
thanks, I appreciate it!
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@@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409 thanks for your reply. What is your city, state and zip code?
Wair did you by your diecast fire truck?
eBay
awesome video new sub thx for the post,😊😊👍👍
glad you liked it. thanks for the sub and watching/commenting, i appreciate it!
you are welcome 😊😊👍👍
I like the Video.I'm trying to do all in Nscale
Glad you like it, hope the loads work out for you. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Still a great video. Nice idea using Excel.
thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Thank you very much I was having issues wiring 12v lights and just needed to make an adjustment. Your video def helps!!!!
glad the video was able to help you, thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
nice
thanks!
First - Thank you so much for your time and instructions Very inspiring! Second - I learned that you have sunglasses under your sunglasses Dude - so hilarious are you!! Thanks again We’ll done
Ha! After all these years, you're the first to mention the sunglasses skit, which I tried to mimic John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd in the Blues Brothers. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Well here I am in 2023 finally getting around to doing this myself, I watched this years ago. Is this the dsm8 narrow speaker? Also wondering what lights I should get..I know there are lots of options today! My bachmann gp40 has a resistor on the negative side of the motor that I also have not decided if I should remove or not. wondering if it was on yours too. Very nice build! Glad I still have this as a reference.
Hello and welcome back, I'm honored you still refer to this video! Yes, it is the Railmaster Hobbies DSM8. As you have indicated, the industry has changed and there are many options. For speakers, I would go with Scale Sound Speakers, they have drop in speakers designed for specific models and the sound quality is awesome. As far as lights, I use SMD's from HDA Modelworx, they come with built in resistors for about $1 each. Yes, my Bachmann's have those resistors, I was told they are for the European market, don't think it matters whether or not you remove them, but I would leave them. Let me know if you need any more help. Thanks again for watching and commenting!
@@PennCentral99 Thanks so much! I did some research and found out the resistors are actually inductors to minimize electromagnetic interference, so I went ahead and left those. I did however remove the capacitors on mine. Should work well, those Scale sound speakers are awesome, I plan on getting one for my athearn sd70ace but I went ahead and got the dsm8 for my gp40 just to keep the cost down and I know it will work as shown in your video. Thanks again!
I ended up getting everything together and I can’t believe how good it sounds, I’ve just got to do the lights now. It was actually a pretty easy project, thanks again for the help!
glad to hear things are working out OK. you're gonna need to post a video so we can see and hear it
Noce run-by of weathered rolling stock Terry!
thanks tommo, got lucky with all the rustbucket candidates!
Very nice catch. I like the racks and stacks saying
it's a catchy phrase, thanks for watching and commenting, i appreciate it!
Terry, not many left but always good to have a shop nearby cheers Robert
Hello Robert! This is probably the only train hobby shop in town, hope he continues. Thanks for watching and commenting! Terry
I have an Athearn GP38-2 that I got from a train show way back in the 90s. It's a Conrail. Do you think it could be the same thing? Came in a good-ol' blue box. I was maybe 10 years old at that time. Maybe 13 at the oldest. It was daunting having to put it together.
Hello! It could be the same, they just change the shells to depict road names. I have installed decoders in some bachmann locos that are 20+ years old and they run OK. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Appreciate you sharing this video and information. You inspired me to make my own DIY Cleaning pot.
Hello, glad you liked the video and you ended up with a useful item you can take pride in! Thanks!!
Thanks for sharing this information. Enjoyed learning something useful and simple enough to make ! Nice storage system. I visited your channel for 1st time ! I’m now a subscriber, too.
Hello, glad you found the information useful. Thanks for checking out my videos and subscribing, I appreciate it! Terry
Great train catches Terry!
Thanks Wayne, I appreciate it! Terry
@@PennCentral99 You're welcome!
Nice railfanning video Terry!
Thanks Wayne, glad you enjoyed it! Terry
@@PennCentral99 You're welcome!
Awesome railfanning video! Thanks for sharing! Greetings 🙋♂️👍
Hello Wayne, glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching and commenting! Terry
@@PennCentral99 You're welcome!
I haven't watched your videos for awhile, but I'm getting back into the hobby and watching model RR stuff. Thanks for your great hobby advice and stellar RR content. -- Billy from PA now in VA
I'm trying to get back into producing and uploading more videos. Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Great coverage here! It was a great show this year. You got me at 43 minutes in. 🤣
Glad you enjoyed the video! Yes, it was a great show and quite a challenge to get everyone in the video. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Sugarfire in the opening scene!!
Damn Straight! Got him and his model, but not in the same shot. Didn't make it to his restaurant this year, but will definitely go next year.
Was this part of the NMRA convention? We were at the convention and national train show, but we missed this part! great video!
Hello! No, this event was separate and held on different weekends. However, it was sponsored by the same division of the NMRA (Gateway Division). It would have been nice if they ran them on back-to-back weekends. The RPM (7/29-7/30) and the National Train Show (8/12-8/14) were at the same convention center in Collinsville, ILL. Glad you enjoyed the video, Thanks for watching and commenting, I appreciate it!
Conrail is such a cool looking company, I picked the same one up at a place called northlandz was it? he told me it runs fine funny enough, brought it back home put it on my track and it wouldn't run lol..
Ha, but you got a cool looking model!
Thanks for showing my models! Great video.
Thanks for displaying them at the RPM, glad you like the video!
It's All Good! MoPac Jack "As Always...Keep It On The Rails"
Nice Video! MoPac Jack Kirkwood,Missouri
hey, nice to hear from you! hope you were able to make the show. thanks for watching and commenting!
@@PennCentral99 It's All Good! "As Always...Keep It On The Rails" MoPac Jack Rock'n'roll forever
Nice job the bottoms exposed makes it easy to grab the color you’re looking for
Glad you like it, thanks for watching and commenting!
Bummer I had to miss. Would have been fun to see ya again! Next year for sure!!
hey George, too bad you missed out, hope you enjoyed the video! See ya next year!
Great video. Now I see what all I missed!
HA! Glad you got a chance to watch the video. You keep working the crowds, I'll check out the show! hahahaha Hope the Frisco group like it