Remembering Kirk Reddie - a tribute to his N scale dream model railroad - March 2025 скачать в хорошем качестве

Remembering Kirk Reddie - a tribute to his N scale dream model railroad - March 2025

Kirk Reddie devoted much of his life to N scale, as editor of the magazine "N Scale Railroading" and as the creator of one of the largest and geographically ambitious model railroads in the world. The layout was planned to faithfully model the railroads in the entire Pacific Northest part of the US. This video is a summary of how far Kirk and his friends progressed in building his dream train layout, before Kirk unexpectedly passed away in 2024. Gordon Kennedy gives an overview tour of the completed parts of the layout including accurate passenger station models, and then Burr Stewart shows a variety of trains in action on the double-track mainline between Seattle and Portland, as well as the working model of the Great Northern's Salmon Bay bridge. The video concludes with an overview of the areas of the layout that were still under construction. Kirk was a voracious researcher of railroad history, and his model trains were based on real places and operations in the early 1950's. For more information about modeling the railroads of the US "Pacific Northwest," the Great Northern Railway Historical Society is at https://gnrhs.org and the Northern Pacific Historical Association is at https://nprha.org . 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. And if you're interested in operating model trains more realistically, check out the resources of (and join!) the Operations Special Interest Group (https://opsig.org) affiliated with the National Model Railroad Association (https://nmra.org). 0:00 Introduction 2:14 Layout tour by Gordon Kennedy 4:18 Seattle's Union Station 6:47 Passenger train schedules & schematic 7:00 Helix to lower deck 8:10 King Street Station & vicinity 10:42 Explaining Kirk's complex design 12:31 GN mainline north to Everett 17:18 MILW mainline east to Cle Elum 24:09 Maps and schematic diagrams 28:06 Trains along the Columbia River 37:46 Boeing Field 38:45 Trains meet near Black River Jct. 42:17 Tacoma vicinity 43:47 Scenery construction details 44:25 Portland Union Station 45:11 GN's Interbay yard & vicinity 46:37 GN's Salmon Bay Bridge (#4) 49:58 MILW's west coast extension 53:28 Layout overview eastward 54:42 Everett to Seattle on MILW 56:53 Black River Jct. meet 58:00 MILW line Snoqualmie Pass to Cedar Falls yard 1:03:28 Layout overall shots 1:04:08 GN mainline westbound 1:06:02 MILW line scenery details near Renton 1:06:37 Salmon Bay Bridge action 1:07:40 Renton buildings & street running 1:08:10 Salmon Bay Bridge action 1:11:46 Black River Jct. schematic diagram 1:12:55 GN map & Interbay yard 1:13:34 Construction & scenery details 1:14:46 St. Maries, Idaho 1:17:42 Backroom overview 1:18:33 Rolling stock closeups 1:18:58 Conclusion