What to do if your model railroad just has too many cars gumming up the yards!

Enjoy two long train run-bys on Burr Stewart's HO scale train layout, as his friends try to remove extra cars from later than 1973, the nominal year that Burr is trying to model. After that, Burr breaks in three new engines that do belong - two Atlas GP7's and a ScaleTrains SD7, running from Skykomish yard down to Delta yard in Everett, WA, USA. The fun never stops on ‪@muchfunwithtrains‬!

Burr's HO scale "Burrlington Northern" model railroad tries to be 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). The Milwaukee Road's "Western Extension" was given trackage rights over the BN from Everett to Bellingham as part of the ICC's approval of the BN merger, so it was common to see MILW trains on the BN mainline along the coast during the 1970's.

To see a recent overview of the layout without trains running, see "Part 100":    • Part 100 (!) - Burr celebrates with a comp...  

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:    • Part 38 - BN trains and layout overview ma...   and a briefer 4-minute orientation video is at:    • Overview 4-min intro to the Burrlington No...  

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:    • Part 1 - Switching Interbay Arrivals on th...  
Part 2 - Switching Interbay departures:    • Part 2 - Switching Interbay Departures on ...  
Part 3 - Heading east from Interbay:    • Part 3 - Heading East from Interbay on the...  

For highlights from other op sessions, watch these:
Part 80 - Highlights of three BN operating sessions:    • Part 80 -  Switchers, locals & hotshots - ...  
Part 37 - Highlights of an op session with FOBNR:    • Part 37 - Highlights of an HO op session w...  
Part 11 - Op session #25:    • Part 11 - Burrlington Northern HO trains r...  

For narrow gauge operations, see:
Part 4 - Narrow gauge mine run to Cascade Copper Co. :    • Part 4 - Switching a Narrow Gage Mine Run ...  
Part 42 - HOn3 camera car tour:    • Part 42 - HOn3 Camera Car captures continu...  

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    • Part 40 - Burr's complete HO layout tour f...  
HOn3 narrow gauge lines at    • Part 42 - HOn3 Camera Car captures continu...  

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 https://FOBNR.org . 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.

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).

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. Burr took this video's footage with an iPhone 17 Pro, and edited it with BlackMagic's Davinci Resolve 20.3 software on a MacBook Pro.

0:00 Introduction
0:30 BN/SP northbound run-through train
2:29 BN "rainbow era" train roll-by
3:12 Construction recovery update
3:38 Rear end of train
4:36 Backing up and removing a car
5:15 Putting extra cars away in drawers
5:54 Motive power survey
6:28 Three new engines in Skykomish
8:16 Heading downgrade towards Everett
9:47 Moving through Delta Yard