Did you see some of Burr's recent "shorts"? This video shows the full-length, horizontal format versions of a bunch of recent fun trains we ran, along with a brief layout construction update in the middle. The trains include a UP 4-6-6-4 "Challenger" hauling a reefer block, a narrow gauge GE 44-tonner, several British trains of both steam and diesel, and Brian Elchlepp's detailed BN diesels. The operations took place on Burr Stewart's HO/HOn3 "Burrlington Northern" train layout on December 5th and 12th, 2024. He took the videos in 4K with an iPhoneX, and edited the shots using Blackmagic's Davinci Resolve 19.1.2 software on a MacBook pro.
Brian's HO diesel masterpieces have been featured in several previous videos here, such as:
Part 74: [ Ссылка ]
Part 64: [ Ссылка ]
Part 60: [ Ссылка ]
To see a recent overview of the layout without all the trains running, see "Part 100": [ Ссылка ]
Burr's HO/HOn3 model railroad is set in the BN's Seattle region in 1973, three years after the 1970 corporate merger that created the Burlington Northern (BN) Railway out of the Great Northern (GN), Northern Pacific (NP), Burlington Route (CB&Q) and the Spokane, Portland and Seattle (SP&S) railroads. Playing smaller roles on the layout are the three-foot narrow gage (HOn3) D&RGW fictitious "west coast extension", the Milwaukee Road (MILW)'s western extension and the Union Pacific (UP). After the BN merger, the Alco locomotives were all based in Portland, OR, where the legacy SP&S maintenance shops were skilled in taking care of them.
A comprehensive orientation to Burr's layout as a whole, with maps and station diagrams, is shown in "Part 38" of Burr's model railroad operations series here: [ Ссылка ] and a briefer 4-minute orientation video is at: [ Ссылка ]
For even more "fun with trains", and additional detail on the layout, here are links to some of Burr's previous videos that focused on them:
For switching Interbay yard, watch these:
Part 1 - Switching Interbay: [ Ссылка ]
Part 2 - Switching Interbay departures: [ Ссылка ]
Part 3 - Heading east from Interbay: [ Ссылка ]
For highlights from other op sessions, watch these:
Part 80 - Highlights of three BN operating sessions: [ Ссылка ]
Part 37 - Highlights of an op session with FOBNR: [ Ссылка ]
Part 11 - Op session #25: [ Ссылка ]
For narrow gauge operations, see:
Part 4 - Narrow gauge mine run to Cascade Copper Co. : [ Ссылка ]
Part 42 - HOn3 camera car tour: [ Ссылка ]
For completely different "onboard" tours of Burr's HO scale model railroad layout, see two "cab view" train ride videos:
HO standard gauge lines at [ Ссылка ]
HOn3 narrow gauge lines at [ Ссылка ]
You can find more information about the real Burlington Northern Railroad, which operated in the US "Pacific Northwest" between 1970 and 1995 (and the subsequent BNSF and Montana Rail Link (MRL)) by joining the Friends of the Burlington Northern Railroad at [ Ссылка ] . The Great Northern Railway Historical Society is at [ Ссылка ] and the Northern Pacific Historical Association is at [ Ссылка ] . The Milwaukee Road Historical Association is at https;//mrha.com . All of these volunteer organizations are terrific resources for modeling Pacific Northwest trains in earlier eras.
Many other videos about Burr's HO model train layout (and other layouts that he's visited) are on this channel @muchfunwithtrains, which includes both model and prototype footage of trains, mostly in the Seattle region.
0:00 Introduction
1:04 UP Challenger 4-6-6-4 articulated steamer
4:11 British Diesel right behind
4:38 Challenger at Snohomish River
5:11 British steamer
5:50 "Illegal cutoff"
6:13 Lighted firebox detail
6:21 Switching at Interbay
6:35 High speed steamer
7:00 Stalled BN caboose hop
7:38 Brit steam after a stall
8:10 GE 44-tonner on the narrow gauge
9:03 Riffing on John Allen
9:28 44-tonner in Delta yard
9:48 British express passenger service
10:26 Delta yard action
11:52 Construction update
12:12 Brian Elchlepp's six BN diesels
13:40 British diesel with GN ore jenny train
14:16 Downtown Seattle
14:46 Interbay yard to Bayside yard
15:45 Conclusion
