This video captures the essence of 14 hours of train operation on Burr Stewart's HO scale model railroad layout, during the "SoundRails" operating weekend in March, 2024 in the greater Seattle area of Washington State, USA. Long trains, short trains, unit trains, passenger trains, caboose hops, you name it! Burr narrates the video in his usual manner, with multiple "bang"'s. The camera footage came from Burr's iPhone while he was simultaneously supervising the two op sessions, which is sometimes heard the background discussions.

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) Railroad 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 threefoot narrow gage (HOn3) D&RGW fictitious "west coast extension", the Milwaukee Road (MILW)'s western extension and the Union Pacific (UP).

For more details on some of the signature trains, here are links to some of Burr's previous videos that focused on them:

For the "Pacific Zip," BN's signature intermodal train, watch these:
Part 51:    • Part 51  Unzipping the "Pacific Zip"...  
Part 33:    • Part 33  BN HO train repositioning m...  
"Repositioning the Pacific Zip":    • Pacific Zip repositioning move  

For the "Jet Job," serving Boeing's huge aircraft assembly plant in Everett, WA, watch these:
Part 56 "Planes on Trains":    • Part 56  Planes on Trains  BN's "Je...  
Part 14 BN's "Jet Job":    • Part 14 BN's "Jet Job" for Boeing's ...  
Burr's live presentation on the Jet Job to the OPSIG:    • 20211010 Virtual Meetup  Burr Stew...  

For the "Sky Local," see:    • Two sidebyside BN trains racing pas...  

For more "rock train" action, see Part 83:    • Part 83  BN four axle diesel "green ...  

For switching Interbay, watch these:
Part 1 Switching Interbay:    • Part 1  Switching Interbay Arrivals ...  
Part 2 Switching Interbay departures:    • Part 2  Switching Interbay Departure...  
Part 3 Heading east from Interbay:    • Part 3  Heading East from Interbay o...  

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

Watch even more videos about Burr's HO model train layout on this channel @muchfunwithtrains, which includes both model and prototype footage of trains, mostly in the Seattle region.

For an "onboard" complete tour of Burr's HO scale model railroad layout, see the "cab view" train ride video at    • Part 40  Burr's complete HO layout t...  

Another comprehensive orientation to the layout as a whole is also shown in "Part 38" of Burr's model railroad operations series here:    • Part 38  BN trains and layout overvi...   and a briefer 4minute orientation video is at:    • Overview 4min intro to the Burrlingt...  

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 video footage was taken on two action cams and a cellphone, edited with Davinci Resolve 18.

0:00 Introduction
1:05 Ballard Local
1:21 Unit coal train
1:57 Trains meet at Bayside
2:26 Switching in Stacy & Burlington
2:55 Coal train on Paul Scoles' bridge
3:23 Dispatcher at work
3:40 Argo yard action
4:41 Delta yard action
7:38 Interbay engine terminal
9:46 Skykomish area action
11:28 Interbay arrival
13:16 Transcon freight at trestle
14:40 Elk country
15:14 "Jet Job"
18:20 Crowded layout overview
18:35 Rock train runs again!
20:12 Golden Gardens action
21:27 3way meet
22:49 Rock train downtown
23:21 Long manifest train
24:10 GP9 ties up
25:04 Layout overview
25:38 Long train on "Squid bridge"
26:50 Unit grain train!
27:45 Interbay engine terminal
28:12 Grain train at Delta
29:30 Grain train at "Rainbow bridge"
31:58 Grain train at Samish river bridge
34:10 Grain train at Carkeek Park
34:32 Grain train arriving Interbay
36:01 Incident at Skykomish
36:32 "Pacific Zip" rides again!
38:50 Pacific Zip at Everett Jct.
39:46 Darrington Logger at Delta Wye
40:35 Pacific Zip at Interbay
41:42 Dispatcher overview
42:25 "Burrthday Special" passenger run
42:55 Interbay engine terminal
44:00 Burrthday special at Squid bridge
44:37 Conclusion