McKinley Railway

McKinley Railway is a large private British 00 gauge model railway layout created and owned by David Townendhttps://jamesmodelrailwayco.com/2015/05/19/a-visit-to-the-mckinley-railway/ with a YouTube channel of the same name, also known as McKinley Time Machine due to the layout being based around rolling stock in-service between 1956 and 1975.
== Background ==
McKinley Railway began construction in 2001, with the original layout becoming operational in 2004, and initially finished in 2008 before the layout began expanding due to the original fiddle yard being inadequate for shunting trains on the scale required on a layout so largehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeK1PtoHO0o. The YouTube channel was created on 4 November 2006https://www.youtube.com/@dattouk/about, in early 2019 the channel went inactive after the channel's videographer and sound recorder, Brian Gardner, passed away from cancer at the age of 65https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEo2OK0fw3os.
The channel resumed uploads in mid-2019 after Charlie Bishop from Chadwick Model Railway began editing the final cuts of what Brian had shot into videos at Townend's request, the first video edited by Bishop was 21. Building an operating team on McKinley Railway, uploaded on 13 April 2019. McKinley Railway is based on British Rail mainlines in northern and western England, with fictional stations named after real cities, like London, Birmingham, and Sheffield. The model railway has been claimed to be one of the 'most high-tech model railways' in the United Kingdom, due to it's modern computerised operating system.
=== Team ===
https://mckinleyrailway.com/index.php/en/about-us/meet-the-teamhttps://www.youtube.com/@dattouk/videos
* David Townend, founder, owner, main host
* Alan Fall, rolling stock maintenance, operational specialist, joined in 2007
* Bernie Wood, member since around 2001
* David, computer scientist, joined in 2016
* Gordon Edgar, trainer
* Bryan Robertson, sound recorder, joined around 2007
* Brian Gardner, videographer, deceased late 2018 - aged 65
* Peter Edwards, software developer, sound department
* Pete Masterman, electrician, scale modeller, tracklaying department
* Steve Davies, designer, operational coordinator, from Australia
* Iain Bell, researcher, database and information curator
* Steve Copley, spokesperson, guide, tester
* Tony Tibble, model weathering expert
* Steve Knight, woodwork construction
* Martin Forder, woodwork construction
* Ivana, model weathering colourist, featured in multiple videos presenting weathering tutorials
* James Norris, staff builder, featured in multiple videos regarding landscaping
* Kerry Pope, member
* Darren Tecklenberg, member
* Tim Buck, member
* Charlie Bishop, videographer
== Content ==
McKinley Railway Overview (lo-res 320x240), uploaded on 10 April 2009 at 7 minutes in duration is the oldest video on the channel as of 31 July 2024 it has over 4.4K views, 98 likes, and 5 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsBUOJ1LLUU. 32. Block Detection on McKinley Railway., uploaded on 28 October 2019 at 12 minutes and 50 seconds in duration is the most popular video on the channel as of 31 July 2024 with over 99.8K views, 1.8K likes, and 190 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzyds8Oa9C0. McKinley Railway, uploaded on 8 August 2017 at 51 seconds in length is the current channel trailer as of 31 July 2024, it has over 16.8K views, 65 likes, and 8 commentshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHsC-Hy01-M.
== References ==
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