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Burr Stewart

The Burrlington Northern, Seattle Region, is an HO model railroad set in 1973, based on the operations of the Burington Northern, MILW and UP railroads in the region from Seattle north to Bellingham and east to Skykomish, WA. It also includes the fictitious "Troublesome Creek Railway", a narrow gage road which represents the ultimate expansion of the D&RGW west to interchange with the BN at Everett, WA. This channel features video clips from both standard and narrow gage operations on the HO layout, as well as my N scale layout and other people's layouts that I've visited. It also includes footage of the BNSF railroad taken around Seattle, and a few random music and other kinds of performances.

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Burr Stewart

Finally improved the backdrop in the corner of Burlington yard! Have been wanting to do this for at least 20 years. It took about 30 minutes. The before and after pictures below only somewhat show what an improvement it is to not see that old telephone equipment on the wall in the corner, and all the wires coming out of the two electrical panels. The ideal backdrop is one that blends in so you can stay focused on running trains.

2 weeks ago | [YT] | 82

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Burr Stewart

The long-discussed merger between D&RGW and WY&Y is now well underway, and will be an interchange partner here with the HO scale Burrlington Northern. Look forward to future videos about this, thanks to an overhaul Brian Elchlepp is conducting on these PSC Class 90 GE HOn3 engines. Outstanding! (photo by Brian Elchlepp)

3 weeks ago (edited) | [YT] | 59

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Burr Stewart

Happy to report that most of the skirts are back on, and most of the junk is out of the aisles. 10 days before a major op session. Whew!

3 weeks ago | [YT] | 62

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Burr Stewart

It's amazing how just a couple of details can make a model railroad scene come alive! A few toy cows and vehicles, and it's looking like things are going on! I don't really understand what they're doing, but it looks like they're climbing up away from the Samish River and checking out a random boat on a trailer. I don't know why, but there they are! The hopper in the back is NW Olivine, a company which shipped fine sand to BN engine terminals in the PNW region.

1 month ago | [YT] | 49

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Burr Stewart

Glad to say that we're making progress on getting the layout back together after the remodel project. You can't see it in the dark, but to the right of the dispatcher's desk is now a new water heater, instead of the 22 year-old one that was there before. And you can see that downtown Seattle is back in position at the foot of the stairs, too!

1 month ago | [YT] | 54

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Glad to say that the Skagit river bridge (and hence the mainline to Bellingham) is now back in service on the 1973 Burrlington Northern. The Alco C415 is a brass model visiting from Brian Elchlepp's collection, and it will be featured in an upcoming video on this channel, so you can hear how good it looks and sounds in action. The BN only had two C415's, so, as Brian likes to joke, this represents 50% of their entire fleet of them!

1 month ago | [YT] | 91

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Burr Stewart

One of the challenges of maintaining a large model railroad over several decades is what I would call "paint inventory management." Because when you make a modification or repair to an area, you need to be able to, for example, paint some new sky to match sky color that you applied, say, 25 years ago. Unless you are very careful, paint doesn't last that long. Anyway, these two "before and after" pictures show that today I was somehow able to paint a section of backdrop sky blue that had been patched after a vent pipe was removed last month during the kitchen remodel project on the floor above. Am feeling relieved about this!! (as you can see, green forest paint is coming next).