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The Layout is in SC.

They are not currently available except used. They are nice locomotives if you can get one.

Bachmann just announced a rerun of these locomotives

Thank you.

Thank you! Cheers!

Glad you liked it!!

Yes, it is nice to combine hobbies.

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I little of each, some are modified, some are built from kits and some are custom work I did.

Thank you, I am currently building a RR set in France in 1918.

@@BigLarsON30 As Walter Cronkite said to his floor reporter who was being dragged from the 1968 Democratic Convention by the police, “Let us hear from you.”

@@jockellis If you want a little reading you can follow the build here. railroad-line.com/node/37770

@@BigLarsON30 Thanks. I will.

I have never made a video on building switches as Fast tracks already has a great series of videos and they also sell jigs, which I use. Here is a link to their site. www.handlaidtrack.com/

@@BigLarsON30 I thought maybe your turnouts matched your tight radius curves.

Excellent If you are in the area I would like to connect and see if we can go over and have a proper operating session.

It is a scratch build.

@@BigLarsON30 Really nice!

Thank you, the turnouts and track work are hand laid. Fast Tracks already has videos on building these so it's best to follow those instructions. www.handlaidtrack.com/fast-tracks-videos

I usually make the videos and posts them when someone asks me a question about something, and I need a place to store the videos. The proof as I may call it only requires a short video. When I get my full railroad operational, I will then be able to provide longer content.

It was all I had when the pandemic started. This video was to make up for friends not getting to a train show. Sorry you do not approve.

So that’s a question I’ve been tossing around for a while. To my mind there’d need to be some sort of remote uncoupling mechanism. Someone suggested some sort of bar to come up from between the couplers, pop them apart. When I’ve uncoupled the Mk. I and Mk. IV designs, i just used an uncoupling tool as a lever to split the cars apart

Scratch build them out of some solid plastic tube. You can make the cones at the end by putting the rod in a drill chuck, spinning and sanding to shape. Then brass rod for the pipes. Boulder Valley Models did make some in the past. Also look at HO parts for a GP9 TT - they might work on a smaller unit. Good luck.

They can pull a good number of free rolling cars on flat layouts.

Thank you, My current layout is very small so longer videos might get boring. I am open to suggestions on content.

@@BigLarsON30 Well at least 5 minutes or so, not less than 2 min. ones.. I like to look and study the landscape and colors used, weathering, types of buildings/structures, loco's and equipment ect. My wife thinks i'm nuts playing your videos over and over just to see and study.. like certain mods on your loco's type of rollingstock and other things ect.. One other question is how you got your porter here to run so good and slow.. mine is awful.. the gearing in these things are crap, iv'e taken it down a few times and found the pin that holds the gear in the center of the internal chassis is sloppy, even after changing them out. the gear has too much slop and shifts/wiggles left and right not meshing right. just a bad design i guess, it's worse when you go to backup, we call em coffee grinders..LOL!.. I really don't want to order another main chassis from bachmann due to the parts price and shipping.. I don't think the loco is worth to fix?. Bachmann had way too many problems with their On30 loco's with bad gears. (And same with their other scales) The best ones are their 2-6-0s, I have 3 and after tinkering run great!. The other Full metal die cast body 4-4-0 is great too!.

@@crockett11000 Thanks for the info I will see what I can do. As for the layout build, I did write a thread on it railroad-line.com/node/30818 You might get some of what you need there. I have never had a gear issue on a porter, early first versions ones had issues with plunger pickup system to gather track power. I have 11 of them at this point and have worked on at least 100 others. Any porters in the videos have keepalives installed in them. I was doing this as a side gig but stopped due to lack of time. Hope this helps.

@@BigLarsON30 When your modeling is as good as yours, longer videos would definitely not be boring. Your micro layout looks awesome. Thank you for sharing your model railroading hobby.

That one is an out of the box Bachmann model. Das ist ein Out-of-the-Box-Bachmann-Modell.

Danke, ich liebe die interessanteren Modelle.