Man, your videos are extraordinary! Can I ask one question? What is the software you use for all your amazing graphics?

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Stoobie. Good to hear you like the content. Ah you are asking about the tricks of the trade ;-) I use a lot different software. The trackwork is made with Anyrail, and everything is edited with davinci. A video like this takes a few days to make. So all your support via my patreon is welcome!

This was perhaps the best explanation on yard design, and likely the most helpful video I've seen in a long time. Thank you so much for sharing.

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the good words. 👍🏻👍🏻

Outstanding video and explanation of yard tracks! Well done!

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Shadow

WOW! Such an impressive video! So well done with complete but consice explanations and illustrations! Thank you for taking the time to produce this.

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words!

Phenomenal explanation. Thanks for making this video!

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Denis!

I am personally offended that I have not come across your videos until now… they are brilliant! Clear, informative and very well thought out, obviously a huge amount of knowledge and effort required to make these

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Tactical Teapot; what a great name! Happy to hear you found us eventually! Enjoy the content and feel free to reach out if you need help with your own layout.

Best progressive teaching tool I've seen. Thanks!

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Denny!

Can't wait to implement this on my modded Factorio Playthrough, Great explanation.

THANK YOU SO MUCH I was wanting to find a Yard Design Video just like yours. I’ve been away from the Hobby for over 30 years. I’m starting over way too late, but your yard diagrams will help so much! Modeling in N Scale in a rectangle area that is 12’ by 20’. Going to be using KATO Unitrack. Surprise as to my expenses using that track. From the late 1970s, I opened up the storage containers with all my Atlas N Scale Track. Some in the original unopened envelopes. $1.22 for 5 pieces of straight & curved track. $8.00 for electric turnouts. Gave me a laugh or two. 10 pieces of Flex Track. Almost 50 year old track and NOS Cork. Guess I will try to use Atlas track where possible.

@DubaiTrains

3 ай бұрын

Great to hear that it was usefull.

Thank you very much for your nice explination about freight yard services in general, it much better to follow your easy made descriptions than to read old and over 120 years old books about railway or railroad engineering and how to build prototype railway or railroad yards of any size. In the past the railroads did the same in freight and passenger services of what are doing street traffics today by using road trucks or busses. They are all folowing by mostly the same princibles. I thank you for your very well done basic informations you are explained very easy to understand.

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome. I read all those books for you 😅😅. The biggest impact on track design from pre 1960 and after is scale and consolidation.

Superb video. :)

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Thanks MR.

I classify this video as highly educational

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

Great pun!

Very helpful. Thank you!

@DubaiTrains

5 ай бұрын

You're welcome!

Very well done!

Superb.

@DubaiTrains

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Andrew.

Very nicely explained. Thanks!

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Frank!

Great explanation thanks.

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Alun.

Great video of yard layouts. I railfan the Union Pacific Roseville yard in NorCal A LOT. Watching freight trains arrive and depart along with power moves, and the hump yard over a couple of years,, I've deduced much of what you explained in your video. Roseville is 88 tracks wide at its widest, contains hundreds of individual track numbers, is served by two main lines and can simultaneously recieve and depart trains in both directions while also humping/classifiying trains at the same time. And still, they get completely jammed up and have to park trains on the main lines all the time because the 12 recieving tracks are often full

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a great spot to railfan! Great that you over the years have dissected the yard and found its core functions. As all yards to the T are different, the are all built out of the same components.

thank you for the detail video

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

My pleasure. It was fun to make and think about yards from a 'ground up' perspective.

Great vídeo, thanks a Lot! 🇧🇷

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Welcome! Check out my patreon to get the track plans. 👍🏻

Nice video. Some thoughts on the yard lead though... It can be shorter than your longest yard track, cause in railroad reality, you seldom pull the whole yard track out, very often you pull out like 8-12 cars and then repeat until everything is sorted. Thats especially true if you model times before everyone had walky-talkys.

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Ah good to know. Thanks Herp!

What application did you use to make the yards?

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

Anyrail6 !

Any nice recommendation track in HO for a layout that is 8 feet long and 31 inches wide? Thanks in advance, want to make a rail yard Only layout. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Hi SaxManIvan, many decades ago I had 1 sax lesson. After blowing a few times on the reed, the teacher said no 😅. So I became a drummer. 8ft can be a nice a switching layout. But we need to dive deeper into what it is you want. What enjoyment are you looking to get out of a 'yard only' layout? Is it classifying, or switching, or is it that you enjoy the sight of rows of boxcards? Sorry to answer your question with a barrage of questions.

@MARKLINMAN1

2 жыл бұрын

@@DubaiTrains I would like to just jockey some box cars around,, I guess switch would be the correct word, I don’t know much about train yards and your videos are simply OUTSTANDING in explaining everything, I plan on having only 1 switcher (SW 1200) a GP38 if those are used in a Yard and an SD 40. So just 3 diesel locomotives. I don’t know if that would be possible. I mess around with N gauge on a much smaller layout. Thanks again, Funny about your Sax teacher, it takes a little time, once you do it everyday it is much easier. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼.

@DubaiTrains

2 жыл бұрын

Whatever the trackplan will be, it will be linear. 31 inch in HO is not enough to make a 180 degrees turn. If you just wanna kick some cars around, there are many options. Personally, given the limited space, I would try to do 1 thing very well. So for example a mainline with spur that serves a complex industry. That would give the switching some purpose. I.e. cars come in on the spur, and need to be spotted at the industry. Hope this helps! 👍🏻

Wish you talked a bit slower ....

@DubaiTrains

3 жыл бұрын

HI Mark, I am looking to re-upload the video in the coming week. Something went wrong with the sound editing so it does not sound as good as it could. Maybe this will help. There is also a feature to speed-up, or slow down a video. While in the video select the 'gear wheel' icon bottom right, and there is the 'playback speed' feature. Hope this helps. If you have any specific questions please feel free to contact me. Also I provide all my designs and layout design consultancy on my patreon page. www.patreon.com/DubaiTrains

Way way too fast for a newbie!!!

@DubaiTrains

Жыл бұрын

Hi Scott, a lot of information in a short video! What in particular was fast? To put a yard in some context check out this older video where I explain the backstory and location of my layout and how it connects to several different type of yards. kzread.info/dash/bejne/pnaulduBpZuXl6Q.html If thats still a bit fats check out this beginners guild to switching. kzread.info/dash/bejne/d6Zsr9iGd6zWh6w.html

The audio is so distracting that I really couldn't enjoy the video