I am a seasoned modeler, 86 years old and some 50 years in N scale and find your videos entertaining, useful and most pleasant to watch. Each evening I am working my way up from your oldest ones. Bravo DJ and keep them coming.

@djstrains

8 ай бұрын

Stay awesome! You are an inspiration

I remember Hugs!! But I'm from Baltimore, so they were popular here too.

Here's an idea about door spacing and modelling history: About 20 years ago I saw a large warehouse in Phoenix AZ not unlike the one you showed here. It was served by two tracks down one side and had doors set for 40' boxcars. When I saw it, pairs of 50' boxcars were spotted as every other door with spaces between them.

Definitely some good spots and things we would never see for sure, water treatment would have to scaled down like a small town size but your right havnt seen any one model that yet.

Once again, excellent video! The old water pump house in Erie Pa, on the bayfront highway, still has a massive steam engine in it, can be seen through the west windows.

Great original content, DJ! I couldn't agree more about modeling different types of industries & customers. Thanks for sharing the inspiration.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

The absolutely massive warehouse building in Aspinwall (around 3:00) is GENCO logistics, now part of FedEx. GENCO was a Pittsburgh drayage company that started business moving freight from the rivers up to the hilltops with a cart and a blind draft horse, back in the 1890s. They do reverse logistics - processing returned items that customers surrender in stores or by post, and figuring out their new future destination. Restock on the grandest scale. The grandson of the founder held the firm all the way until their sale to FedEx in 2016.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

THANKS FOR THAT INFO!!!

Great video. I am modeling a water treatment plant here in town. It uses one tank car which is delivered quite often. A while back a Union Pacific Olympic sd70 i believe 2001 delivered just one tank car. Unfortunately i only snapped pics. I was so excited i didnt record and put on my KZread channel. It was cool seeing a huge engine delivering a single car. Keep the videos coming!!

The drone footage is excellent! Great job!!

Awesome video as always! 👌

COOL VIDEO DJ. Thanks for sharing all these ides

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

You bet

Very good DJ, as always you give us lots to think about 👍👍👍👍👍

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you think so!

Another great video DJ Keep them coming

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks, will do!

I Love these video's!!!! Thanks for posting!!

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

I picked up a load for Walmart at the hugs plant when I first started driving

Well done DJ! Definitely great possibilities.👍😎🛤🚂

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed it is!

Great video. Just wow, wish I had the room to do the water treatment plant. We shall see. Thanks for giving me something to think about.

Great video DJ! My brother lives in Aspinwall. But I have never seen those tracks going behind the water treatment plant.

As usual and expected.. footage no other way to be seen but, by drone. Awesome stuff. Google Earth will only allow viewing from an existing public road.. In person.. private property issues. Thank you for bringing this sort of viewing.

Nice DJ...the track through grass is an excellent modeling opportunity

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

It sure is

I really enjoy your videos DJ, they give a perspective that some of us (those of us new to model RR) just haven't realized with regards to the real RR industry and the industries they serve. Great job, keep it up.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Nice one, DJ!

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Appreciated!

I like that water treatment plant! That's something I haven't seen serviced by rail before. I've been considering a new N scale switching shelf layout project after my current HO build, maybe a water treatment plant like this is perfect! Thanks for sharing!

Very cool!

Another incredible video. I love the water plant, what a great thing to model. I also like seeing all of the public services vehicles (all White) in the parking lot, that is what one would expect at a utility plant. Your videos keep getting better, obviously your Skill Share courses are paying off very well. Thanks for always making the hobby more interesting.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

I am always learning and striving to make the best videos on KZread.

Hi DJ! Thanks for the views of Aspinwall. Brought back lots of memories, my father grew up there and mom was from Sharpsburg. I grew up in O'Hara Township. I know that area well. Great views of some potential industrial buildings to think about. Keep up the great videos.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Very thought provoking video. I am going to model the grass

Thank you so much for another video showing customer sidings, DJ! This and previous ones have been very helpful to me. I just finished a background flat industry on my small 1 x 6 foot HO layout that is a food processing company comprised of an older brick office building, a new plant with metal siding and two loading docks for boxcars, and vertical vegetable oil storage tanks with a pump house and tank car unloading area. It is freelanced and mostly scratch-built and your videos helped me get the confidence to design and decorate it. It can be viewed on my Facebook page.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome to hear!!

Excellent video I enjoyed watching it and it is full of great modelling ideas.👍😁😁😁😁😁🇬🇧🚂

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

I’m currently trying to model Jones water treatment center in Milwaukee. They produce there own fertilizer as well. Informative video!

Thanks for another great prototype video. It's interesting how tight the curve radius are for some of these sidings.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Yes they are!

Great stuff!!! I need to model rails in grass.

I had wondered about never seeing a wastewater treatment plant modeled and thought about modeling one sometime back. I even did some research into commonly used chemicals for treating wastewater that could be received by rail. Besides Chlorine that you mentioned, these plants could also receive chemicals like Sodium Hydroxide, Aluminum Sulfate, and Polymers among several others. Some could come in tank cars, some in covered hoppers, and some received in drums via boxcars, for a variety of car use.

Awesome video DJ keep highballing Hogger 👍

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

Good idea on the water treatment plant! I think I'll do one of Flint Michigan's water treatment plant. Maybe some abandoned weed overgrown tracks coming into it.

@djstrains

2 жыл бұрын

I probably shouldn't have laughed, but I did.

nice video bro

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the visit

These overhead shots are very useful, thanks. I find myself on google maps a lot looking at stuff as well, it is a added bonus if there is street view near by. That was how I got most of my information for my recent diorama as I have never been to these areas. Also the tight area near that warehouse is interesting, I have been modeling some tight areas and they don't look prototypical but then you remember really, if it is out of the range of being hit by rolling stock or locomotives it doesn't matter as much as long as it is stable. That trench cut somewhere on the east coast comes to mind, that one where its basically cliffs on both sides feet away from the track.

@beeble2003

2 жыл бұрын

You can see that they had to level the original ground to build that warehouse. That's extremely expensive to do, so they wouldn't level any more than was needed.

Nice and I remember as a kid them loading pop up campers on auto racks

Thank you for these videos and all your work and effort! I am a US modeler in Europe so this kind of image and video material is very helpful!!! Thank you DJ! (I am also an engineer for the railroad ;) )

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

Excellent video as always DJ - some really cool stuff there to model. The small electricity substations outside are really interesting! The Japanese manufacturer GreenMax sells a small substation kit that could be adapted to suit this application. Greetings from Melbourne, Australia!

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

100% agree!!!

Great use of a drone. Now I could see having one for that use. Thank you. GOD BLESS

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad to help

Nice thing about your videos vs Google Maps, is you can catch some other items and see thing that you can’t from the program. Wish you were out here, there are a whole bunch of small type places here.

always can count on you to look out side the box.. what a great idea. water treatment.. wonder if they ever take waste out and ship to inland FARMS ? Would WASTE be something that would of been shipped?

@conecuhvalleyttrak

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it is.

@beeble2003

2 жыл бұрын

@@conecuhvalleyttrak Surely not? Sewage isn't used as fertilizer on farms because it's a huge health hazard. (As in, the reason we don't die of cholera three times a week is that we now treat sewage, rather than leaving it in the street for people to interact with.)

@conecuhvalleyttrak

2 жыл бұрын

@@beeble2003 I was really answering the last question about if waste would have been shipped. There was a train of sewage sludge from New York that was hauled to Alabama for disposal. Not sure what they finally did with it. I agree with you that that's something you wouldn't haul straight to a farm! 😱

@beeble2003

2 жыл бұрын

@@conecuhvalleyttrak Gotcha.

Awesome video. Yes, I used to drink huggies because my pap used to work at the warehouse In Blonax. I live about a minute away from the Huggy plant in Verona you were talking about. And yes, those tank cars carry corn syrup. The semi trucks get loaded at the Daily’s plant in Verona and gets trucked over to that massive warehouse you were talking about. And did you know that May 10th is National Train day?

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

That is awesome!

@steelcityrailfan4808

3 жыл бұрын

And, May 15th is my Birthday

nice drone shots !

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

I know i commented before but wanted to say thanx. Im starting my second phase on my layout ( 2x8 😬 ). Well i got the walthers n scale refineries (3) and storage tanks as well. I also got many 3d printed items. The problem was i never worked with styrene products before. After watching several of your scratch building videos i got the confidence to try it out. Wow. It is very simple to work with and it also brings more satisfaction in my building something i see everyday at work exactly how it looks and not a kit. Thanks again and can u put some more scratch building with styrene videos? Keep em coming!!!

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!

Those are some excellent examples. Have you done a video on rails through concrete? If so I'll look for it. Thank you for the awesome drone footage.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

I need to do a better one

My pap use the work at the Daily’s plant in Verona and the Daily’s warehouse in Aspinwall you were showing. But only half of the warehouse is Daily’s. The other half was a liquor warehouse

@steelcityrailfan4808

2 жыл бұрын

American Beverage Company is Daily’s btw

Thanks

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome

I always like playing where’s Waldo... I can never seem to find ya though. I’d love to buy a drone to get some nice pogo stick shots.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds good

Great video, really enjoy you scratch build ,could you tell me the number of square styrene strips to reinforce building ,know it’s every green but need size and number ,thanks keep up the great work

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

more videos coming with more specifics.

Quarter waters we call them in NYC

Water treatment plant looking back towards switches the 3 tracks on left have bumpers on rail before it crosses road.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

I just caught that, lol.

Interesting video! It looks to me like the water treatment works no longer receives rail deliveries. At 6:00, you see seven road vehicles parked close enough to the track to block it and at 6:30, there's nowhere to unload anything. No equipment to unload tank cars or hoppers, no ramps to get a forklift into a box car. The only possibility is that the second track from the left extends between the two buildings, so maybe stuff gets unloaded there? But, again, there are road vehicles parked on the track. I'd imagine that any company that received rail deliveries would have a "don't foul the tracks" policy.

Question, the warehouses you showed us--would the warehouses look something like that in the 70's or early 80's? Or, are these warehouses more modern? Thanks for any information you have. I really enjoy these videos. They get my creative mind flowing as I work on changes in my own layout. SAK

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

maybe not the same color

Thanks, Great stuff as always Dj❤! Just a question, as an european aficionado of American railways, is it everywhere the same in the U.S. ? West of the Mississippi, you find the same kind of industrial tracks and buildings?

@djstrains

Жыл бұрын

Great question. Where I live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there is way more rusty industrial buildings and steel mills and scrap yards as opposed to the midwest which is more lumber, grain and agriculture. For commercial buildings, the designs are usually pretty similar.

@johannleuckx1625

Жыл бұрын

@djstrains Thanks DJ for the info. I try to use Google maps with street view, but not evident as inspiration and scale measurement. 😉 🤯 slow progress, lol!

More of these

@djstrains

2 жыл бұрын

I have been seriously thinking on a cool concept you'll like!!

Are those bumpers on the tracks leading to the water treatment facility?

@steelcityrailfan4808

3 жыл бұрын

No. Separate tracks. Both along the Conamaugh Line thought

Refering to you saying its too tight for a conductor to ride on the cars. My question is. Do they have a remote control you can use to control your locomotive from the outside if you are working by yourself on deliving cars to this plant? Or is that too far fetched? Sounds like a good Idea in theory. Lol..

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

RCO (remotes) is mostly for yard jobs because they require a safety puck to be placed at a point that prevents engine from passing. They are controlled by conductors. Maybe on a short line its possible.

@Dark2-Light

3 жыл бұрын

@@djstrains tooo neat!!!

I really am interested in the auto distribution sites. However the cost of the auto cars are a bit pricy.

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

I agree. Maybe I'll try to get up to film lordstown, ohio one day this year.

@blueringedoctopus4778

3 жыл бұрын

@@djstrains I’m gonna break Kayfabe here for a bit. I work at an auto facility that is a short line RR. Thinking about modeling after that.

I love hug juice

How do you know I haven't seen these places? Are you tracking me?

@djstrains

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, and your zipper is down, lol.

Around TS 4:10. That's a 🅱🅸🅶 building 😲

@steelcityrailfan4808

3 жыл бұрын

Yep, that’s the Daily’s juice warehouse

@n.unclebach9064

3 жыл бұрын

It kept going and going and going😂 if I modeled this building to scale it might be twice a large as my layout.

@steelcityrailfan4808

3 жыл бұрын

Lol