Absolutely ingenious idea! Spectacular job!👍😃

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

👍✌

Clever!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Cheers!

It just very cool, talk about problem solving 101. Who has a similar issue with a stub yard at the end on the lay out where cars have been launched into outer space by newbie operators. I will send him a link to the vlog. That is slick as socks on a rooster!!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

😉

Boomer, what a brilliant idea, just so ingenious to stop those accidents that sometimes always happen when you don't want. Thank you for sharing, and I look forward to the ferry build series. Cheers, Michael

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

Ok. Awesome! Cheers ~ Boomer.😉

That's fricken brilliant!!! I'm totally stealing that sliding coupler idea!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Go for it!

Agree with everyone else, what a fantastic concept! Simple and effective!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

I'm glad it worked out. Not everything does. 😉

Simple, short, and to the point. Love it!

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

Much appreciated!

Boomer, this is flipping genius. I was already blown away, and then you LIFTED it up and they came right off…

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

It works like a dream. Ferry Marine Terminal operations are a dream and immersive without headaches'. ;-) Cheers.

Wow…ingenuity at its finest…only from Boomer.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Helps me sleep at night . . . lol.

@TWNTY-es8lu

26 күн бұрын

@@boomerdiorama 😴😔😴😴

Brilliant idea... nice one. Great to get a little look at the ferry/barge build.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

I am full on with the Ferry. It is the most involved build on River Road. ;-)

Super. The car float can float away safely without losing the load, while a new car float can safely dock. Very nice. With 20 or 30 car floats, you could have a variety of rolling stock be in use. I remember a car stop in Denver that had a coupler without a knuckle welded to four pieces of rail at the end of a spur track. 💙 T.E.N.

@boomerdiorama

23 күн бұрын

The concept worked out better than I first thought. ;-)

@tracynation2820

23 күн бұрын

Super. My railroad will never have a rail car ferry, think Denver & Rio Grande Western meets Colorado & Southern meets Great Western of Colorado, but I do utilize 10% grades to reach storage, staging, display, and fiddle yards located on unscenicked display shelving along the walls. From 10" off the floor to within 10" of the roof, along one wall, every four inches is a live double tracked shelf connected to my layout by steep switchbacks, limiting me to two locomotives pulling three cars, but it makes for some interesting operation, especially if you need to retrieve a piece of rolling stock, and allows me to have everything on the rails and operational, and having my displayed trains also operational is a big bonus. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. 💙 T.E.N.

This is perfect for anybody who moves cars on/off their layout with cassettes

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Yes it is! 👍

" ✌️👍 " ... 😘 One question Boomer: " Could you imagine to move those with radiocontrolled servos?!!"

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Easy to do and a great idea! Thanks for sharing! Cheers ~ Boomer. 👍

Great idea! Safety first!

@boomerdiorama

22 күн бұрын

Yes indeed!

Fantastic idea, especially with the removable sliding wall. And flawless work as usual.

@boomerdiorama

22 күн бұрын

Thank you very much!

Very good idea. Going to work really well.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

it does thankfully. ;-)

Thanks. As usual always simple innovative problem solver ! And contrarily to real brothers, you shouldn´t have shank and drawbar failures. Enjoy Canada´s day just at the corner 😊

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Cheers!

Excellent idea and execution! 👍Missed Dusty! ✌️

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Thanks! 👍

Very nice I like it. Good way to store cars in drawers too. I'm changing to the "wisker" couplers and this is a way to reuse the older ones.

@David-yo5re

26 күн бұрын

The whisker couplers are definitely a game changer. I replaced all of my #5 couplers with #148 whisker couplers. They are 100 percent more reliable now.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

I like the drawer idea. I have been thinking about that as well lately. Go for it. ;-)

Brilliant idea!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

It's a game changer for confidence when picking up the Ferry loaded with Athearn Genesis tank cars. ;-)

Just want to let you know, Im having tons of fun building stuf from evergreen and other plastics. Wished I could show you. Your a great inspiration! Thanks!

@boomerdiorama

23 күн бұрын

I am doing the same right now and I am glad to hear you are having fun. The more confidence you gain through practice, the more you realize anything can be built if you put your mind to it. Cheers.

Hey Boomer Just got around to watching the video today, been camping. What a great idea and well done. Happy Canada Day Cheers from Ontario Bob

@boomerdiorama

23 күн бұрын

I love camping. Hope you had fun. Happy Canada day to you too!

Great idea. I can see using a fixed coupler on trays to safely move "staged" trains from storage to layout. And lots of other locations, like loads from the iron mine. Thanks. Now off to play with electro-magnetic uncouplers.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Awesome!

Interesting. That can work for cassettes for off layout action too. What an excellent idea.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Oh yes indeed. It's great for cassette style as well.

That's a great idea! I need to think a little about how to use them with the European NEM couplings because they cannot be uncoupled by pulling one to the top. But I am sure, I'll find a way! Thanks again for sharing your ideas and way of doing things!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Sure thing. Thanks for sharing! Cheers ~ Boomer.

@BrooksMoses

26 күн бұрын

Are those the couplings that you uncouple by lifting up on a peg from underneath? If so, I think you could use a fixed coupler and make a hole through the back panel under it so you can stick in a tiny screwdriver and easily lever it up to push up on the uncoupling peg.

@danielluebke

17 күн бұрын

@@BrooksMoses Hi, exactly. I was thinking about using a up-movement of the end tiles to also pull up an uncoupling peg. Thanks for your idea!

Fantastic work, you are the inspirer . Cheers

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Glad to hear it! Cheers. 👍

Super idea Boomer, Bravo!

@boomerdiorama

22 күн бұрын

Thanks!

God bless you sir 🙏🙏♥️♥️

@boomerdiorama

23 күн бұрын

Same to you!

There is no off position on the construction design genius switch! 😉

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Can you imagine tilting the Ferry (on a bad day) and all your Athearn Genesis tank cars roll into the chuck . . . lol.

@OtterCreek

26 күн бұрын

@@boomerdiorama I can! Wonderful design!

Always great content - informative and inspirational!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Much appreciated!

I a really looking forward to this Fairy build. This locking system could be used in any imagined cartridge to facilitate car removal from the layout to unknown destinations.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

That's the idea! 😉

Great idea. 👍

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Wonderful!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

It feels like that. ;-) Cheers!

I'm going to steal that idea if you don't mind. I love it !!!

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

If it works try it!

I love it. That is so cool!!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

It works really well.😉

We all had something hit the floor💥🚂🇨🇦🙋

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Hopefully only once.

You are so creative!

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

This hobby will do that to you. ;-)

Great work as always.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Thank You!

That is a very neat idea!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

It works great! Operations are smooth and effortless as they should be in my case . . . ;-)

Great design! 👍🏻👍🏻

@boomerdiorama

22 күн бұрын

Probably works for N Scale too!

That's a great idea! Like!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Thank you!

Dude! That i the smartesr rhig I have seen a long time!h

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Cheers!

Excellent!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Cheers! 😁

Pretty slick! I use those #158 scale coupler too. And I snip the trip pins too.

@boomerdiorama

22 күн бұрын

I hate those pins personally.

Brilliant!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Cheers!

Cool innovation. 😎

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

This episode has me thinking about how to secure cars on a car ferry or car float, something I have never observed, or given thought to, for that matter. Using couplers seems like a clever solution, though what I get from my slipshod research on Wikipedia is that the usual methods are jacking the corners of cars to take the load off the wheels, fastening the cars in place with chains and turnbuckles, and clamping chocks to the rails. And constant attention from the crew, in case something comes loose!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

There is always the prototype vs the model in model railroading. Prototype dogma can kill immersion and operational fun. If the model was static I would think in those terms you mentioned. But it's functional and practical. ;-) 😁

@Bellerophonmodeler

25 күн бұрын

@@boomerdiorama Oh, definitely, you need a practical solution and yours in ingenious! It's just that seeing how you solved the problem on your layout made me curious about the prototype. I honestly never gave any thought before to how they secure cars, but obviously they have to, for about the same reason. If you don't secure them, your beautifully weathered cars come rolling out and get busted on the floor, and if they don't, their cars end up at the bottom of the Fraser River. ;-)

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

@@Bellerophonmodeler Oh yeah. I have friends who are retired railroad people and they witnessed boxcars going into the Burrard inlet back in the early B.C. Hydro days. They rolled right off the swing bridge into the chuck and then blamed it on the rookie . . . lol.

Well done. This idea could be used with a wood end of track bumper when a spur track has a slight grade.

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

Yes indeed!👍

Nice

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Cheers!

cool! a neat innovation!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Thanks!

This would work for removable stageing cassett tracks. Great idea, I'll definitly consider it. I worry about to much handeling of cars and especially locos. I'm wanting to incorporate two removeable stageing track sections. So outbound cars, repersenting being at their interchange destination, which is really my stageing, can easily be lifted out with the cars and locos on it. Then have a second lift out section cassett ,with inbound traffic already staged for pick up to go in place. This is great for a holding coupler device for safe moving of your trains. Thanks for inspiring me a better idea for my layout stageing. God Bless my friend, your layouts looking beautiful as always, Cheers back to you.😊

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Cheers!

Excellent solution!

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

I can sleep now . . . lol. ;-)

@donhanley1213

26 күн бұрын

@@boomerdiorama yeah the thought of equipment hitting the floor can give one nightmares.

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

@@donhanley1213 It should only happen once. 🤣

Clever.

@boomerdiorama

23 күн бұрын

Car saver . . . lol. ;-)

😂😂 what an absolutely brilliant idea!!

@boomerdiorama

25 күн бұрын

It works better than I first thought so I'll take it. 😉

Woah! I new there was a smart man hiding in you somewhere.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

😉

@thomasboese3793

26 күн бұрын

Have you seen the 'working' derail he built?

@Christiane069

26 күн бұрын

​@@thomasboese3793 Yea! I have been following Boomer for years. Amaizing modeler. Learning something every time. This design is so good and simple, how come nobody came with it before? Not me.

@thomasboese3793

26 күн бұрын

@@Christiane069 'Need', the mother of creativity.

@Christiane069

26 күн бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 OK

That's very clever! I came up with an axle hook type of thing for a similar purpose, but it's for hidden staging and permanent, which decreases its flexibility. I see a lot of potential in your design.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

There is something about ease of operation and functionality, especially when you get a little older. No duck-unders or hidden staging for me anymore. I want to see everything without bending over or crawling under if you know what I mean. ;-) Cheers.

@J3scribe

26 күн бұрын

@@boomerdiorama I do know what you mean! I'm in the design phase of a modular shelf layout, but in N scale, so hidden staging is a mere 8 inches below the visible layout. Just enough clearance to reach in and grab a derailed car. lol

Ingenious Boomer

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

👍

Interesting idea. Does it bother you that the "backstop" is not prototypical for the car float? Oh, I guess I responded too quickly, I did not realize it was all removable.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

There is nothing more worse than prototype dogma to ruin immersion and smooth trouble free operations. I don't care about "legalistic" Proto 87 standards when I model - it's a rabbit hole that leads to burnout and frustration. The backstop is actually removable for camera shots and has nothing to do with the look of a prototype in my case. I only use the prototype for a jumping off point and could care less about it's doctrine when it comes to building a functional model. ;-) Cheers ~ Boomer.

Boomer great idea

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

👍

Boomer could you please do a class on how you weathered that flat car

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

Maybe a different one. That one is done.

Are you going to make the barge double-ended?

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

No. It's actually a Ferry. What you see is just part of the deck.

is that proto based? what or how would they in real life? just curious.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

I am curious as well. So much research on this build it's exhausting.😁😊

@thomasboese3793

26 күн бұрын

From what I've seen on the lake rail car carriers of Ann Arbor, lots of clamping chocks and chain tie-downs.

@boomerdiorama

26 күн бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 Sound about right. 👍

@TWNTY-es8lu

26 күн бұрын

@@thomasboese3793 perhaps like an automobile on a flat tow. makes sense

@thomasboese3793

26 күн бұрын

@@boomerdiorama Found this on Wikipedia Full page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_ferry The Ann Arbor Railroad of Michigan developed a system of making cars secure that was adopted by many other lines. Screw jacks were placed on the corners of the railcar and the car was raised slightly to take its weight off its wheels. Chains and turnbuckles were placed around the car frame and hooked onto the rails and tightened. Clamps were placed behind the wheels on the rails. Deckhands engaged in continual inspection and tightening of the gear during the crossing. This system effectively held the cars in place when the ship encountered rough weather. Now for the fun part, building working tie-down equipment, to scale.