Fabulous Detail!! Really captures the feel of the LA - San Diego line. Although a Midwesterner I've ridden the route about a dozen times. Keep up the good work! David 😷 in Chicago 🇺🇸
Here is a tip for what it's worth. As can be seen in this video, the standard passenger car lighting in such models is extremely bright. You wouldn't be able to see that much brightness, or much see inside the car at all, on a real train in daylight. (Same goes for the interior lighting through the vents of the Siemens Charger engine.) I had added magnetic reed switches to a number of cars for a museum railroad to turn lights off. This is not new. But then I got the idea to just drastically dim the lights and leave them on at all times. I did this for a number of HO Broadway Limited SP Daylight passenger cars. I reduced the lighting current from 12.5 ma to 2 ma. The effect is that you can just barely see that lights are on in normal room lighting. But with dim lighting or darkness, they look like how a train in real life looks. Not a million candle power streaming out, but a nice glow. In this way, there is no need to turn them on and off. And if we dim the room lights, it is almost as if they have magically turned on, although they have been on all the time.
As mentioned, they look like the Overland Models set. I'm quite sure that's what they are. Very, very nice, but can cost 3 to 4 thousand for a set IF you can find them. And you still have to add lights and sound yourself to the cab car. Another way, which I have done myself for a railroad museum layout is use the Walthers "Surfliner" cars. These are correctly painted for the three Superliner 1 cars Amtrak has. They differ from the other Surfliner cars in that the blue window stripe only goes to the top of the side and not part way up the roof, are not "California Cars" with two entry doors per side, and do NOT have the big "Surliner" logo on them. But you can get decals for that from Union Station Products. And then you scratch build one of the coaches into being a cab car at one end. You can also get sides from Union Station Products, but you have and almost scratch building and painting project including having to scratch build everything about the cab car. Also as mentioned, Athearn is producing them and they are supposed to be delivering them this month (August 2021). Regarding the set I made from the Walthers cars (and it is fun to see the lights and flashing ditch lights of the scratch built end of the cab car) quite a few HO modelers have asked me "Where did you get those?" I suspect at least a couple of others have done the same thing. I saw one TH-cam that seemed to be Walthers cars similarly modified.
I'm sure those are the Overland Models brass set made many years ago. They sell for 3 to 4 thousand dollars for the set IF you can find a set for sale. And you still have to add lights and sound to the cab car. I made a set for a museum using the Walthers Superliner 1 cars they sold in Surfliner paint scheme and adding Union Station Products "Surfliner" big logo name to them. And scratch building one end to be a cab car with lights and sound. Athearn has since offered a set which is estimated for delivery August 2021.
If that’s union station, then where are all the homeless people wandering the streets? And all the grime? I’ve lived in LA my whole life, and it’s never been that clean.
Having said that, I actually proposed to my wife on the surf liner. We went down to San Diego for our anniversary and on the way back I popped the question. Cheers 🍻
Very impressive. Would love to hire you to help me with a version of CalTrain from San Francisco to Gilroy! LOL! Or Capitol Corridor from Sacramento to San Jose!
I'm quite sure those are the Overland Models brass import set from some years back. Very rare and if you can find a set might cost 3 to 4 thousand dollars.
You folks have an absolutely amazing layout going! It would be great to see a full video showcasing your track plan.
Awesome vid, I'm actually modeling it between San Diego and Oceanside.
I wish I had all those HO scale Surfliner trains! 😃😎👍
Me too dude!
Love this, especially the blooper scene at the end...I hate it when that happens also. :-)
Fabulous Detail!! Really captures the feel of the LA - San Diego line. Although a Midwesterner I've ridden the route about a dozen times. Keep up the good work! David 😷 in Chicago 🇺🇸
That was a great video!!! Nice clips at the end....classic
Amazing. I want to get back into the hobby.
Here is a tip for what it's worth. As can be seen in this video, the standard passenger car lighting in such models is extremely bright. You wouldn't be able to see that much brightness, or much see inside the car at all, on a real train in daylight. (Same goes for the interior lighting through the vents of the Siemens Charger engine.) I had added magnetic reed switches to a number of cars for a museum railroad to turn lights off. This is not new. But then I got the idea to just drastically dim the lights and leave them on at all times. I did this for a number of HO Broadway Limited SP Daylight passenger cars. I reduced the lighting current from 12.5 ma to 2 ma. The effect is that you can just barely see that lights are on in normal room lighting. But with dim lighting or darkness, they look like how a train in real life looks. Not a million candle power streaming out, but a nice glow. In this way, there is no need to turn them on and off. And if we dim the room lights, it is almost as if they have magically turned on, although they have been on all the time.
I liked seeing the cars lit up with the people inside. It brings a lot of life to the layout.
Quite a turn of events for bachmanns usual model quality, but an excellent model none the less
Nice trains. I assume the Surfliner cars must be scratch builds? Well done on the details.
Amazing. Good job !
Very nice ,thanks for the video .
Is there really lights inside the loco behind the X brace on the rear ?
Seemed odd to me too. I don’t know if the real locomotive has that.
@@TRRailfan It does
Incredible video! Subscribed.
Me too
I'll be here waiting for oceanside to be added
Awesome 👍
I did the trip and I love it
Where did you get those passenger carts from? I’ve been looking for those type.
Nice 👍 locomotives Amtrak
Is that HO scale?
where did you find the passenger cars, I've being looking all over the place for them
Those look like the cars Overland Models imported 10-15 years ago
They're custom models BUT athern trains are doing them now
As mentioned, they look like the Overland Models set. I'm quite sure that's what they are. Very, very nice, but can cost 3 to 4 thousand for a set IF you can find them. And you still have to add lights and sound yourself to the cab car. Another way, which I have done myself for a railroad museum layout is use the Walthers "Surfliner" cars. These are correctly painted for the three Superliner 1 cars Amtrak has. They differ from the other Surfliner cars in that the blue window stripe only goes to the top of the side and not part way up the roof, are not "California Cars" with two entry doors per side, and do NOT have the big "Surliner" logo on them. But you can get decals for that from Union Station Products. And then you scratch build one of the coaches into being a cab car at one end. You can also get sides from Union Station Products, but you have and almost scratch building and painting project including having to scratch build everything about the cab car. Also as mentioned, Athearn is producing them and they are supposed to be delivering them this month (August 2021). Regarding the set I made from the Walthers cars (and it is fun to see the lights and flashing ditch lights of the scratch built end of the cab car) quite a few HO modelers have asked me "Where did you get those?" I suspect at least a couple of others have done the same thing. I saw one TH-cam that seemed to be Walthers cars similarly modified.
@@AussieGunzel Only took them 21 years of making F59phi's to finally make the cars. Still waiting on an announcement for N scale.
Hello where can I get track plans in H.O. scale for L.A.U.P.T & 8th street yard?
where di you get the surfliner cab cars from?
How was the backdrop created?
What is the name of the music playing in the background
You put a capital corridor/san joaquin
At 1.52 where did you get the viewliner baggage? Or is it scrachbuilt somehow?
It is 3D printed.
who asked for that northetneer coach?
is the disneyland station real or is it a picture print?
Oh it’s real. You can see Disneyland better kit in some of our other videos. 🙂
Where u get your Surfliner Amtrak passengers car's r who's passengers car's
I'm sure those are the Overland Models brass set made many years ago. They sell for 3 to 4 thousand dollars for the set IF you can find a set for sale. And you still have to add lights and sound to the cab car. I made a set for a museum using the Walthers Superliner 1 cars they sold in Surfliner paint scheme and adding Union Station Products "Surfliner" big logo name to them. And scratch building one end to be a cab car with lights and sound. Athearn has since offered a set which is estimated for delivery August 2021.
some of those grades need to be fixed lol
I was on 715
Well I'm jealous... I've been trying to find superliner cars in Amtrak California livery for as long as I've been ho railroading. :(
1:32 That bothers me for some reason
You’re not the only one
If that’s union station, then where are all the homeless people wandering the streets? And all the grime? I’ve lived in LA my whole life, and it’s never been that clean.
Having said that, I actually proposed to my wife on the surf liner. We went down to San Diego for our anniversary and on the way back I popped the question. Cheers 🍻
GREAT VIDEO. the old town station looks notthing like the real old town station need to be fix and plaese add san diego trolleys
Very impressive. Would love to hire you to help me with a version of CalTrain from San Francisco to Gilroy! LOL! Or Capitol Corridor from Sacramento to San Jose!
15:35 bike train
Who california Amtrak passengers car's
I'm quite sure those are the Overland Models brass import set from some years back. Very rare and if you can find a set might cost 3 to 4 thousand dollars.