I watched a guy the other day that had about 166 cars and 6 engines.. I watched and counted and probably am not exact but - his was so boring he had almost all Coal cars. Yours is so much better, enjoyable and I love your cars. You made it interesting.
This is what a G scale train should look like! Must have been a good feeling when the train first rolled foward with no issues! Where the kadee couplers body mounted? And was it battery or track powered?
They actually make trains that size that you can ride on the first time I saw that was when I was little speechless thinking won’t that break it strangest thing I have ever seen at the time
Austin, check out these guys in Germany and tell me what you think. They contacted me after they made the video. The name of the video is: "World's Longest G Scale Train on TH-cam 269 cars / 944 axles" placed on TH-cam by David JaehnertDennis Sirrine
+dennissirrine Yeah I saw that video and their train make-up was kind of weird to me. I was always told that the heaviest cars go at the front and the lighter ones go at the rear and it seemed they didn't follow that rule. There were loaded cars behind flat cars and that's not good! That and they used pretty small cars too. There were also some questionable moments in the video where the train came to a stop and take off with nothing derailing. Kind of odd for a train of that size. For the first two hours I had issues with the freight popping our breakers and derailing cars because it would stop too fast. When I would start the train, if it was done too slow, it would stall, and if done too fast I'd derail cars. I saw theirs jump forward without any issue which was strange. Once ours got rolling though and we figured out correct helper spacing, it ran without issue. I wish you could've been there to see it! I heard you were supposed to come to the layout for the fair but I never got to see you. Austin
I also follow the heavier-before-lighter approach but some of my cars can be deceiving as I load lead into flat cars or gons where I don't intend to ship a load so they are more like a USAT car for weight so it tracks better anywhere in a consist. I saw that European video where the train appears to separate somewhere off-camera. I pointed that out to them and they claimed it was coupler slack. I've run 100+ car trains on my RR and the slack run-in and run-out can be a big issue with the steep grades I have, but I've never had 10' of coupler slack. I think their video consists of three lengthy trains on the same mainline where the pilot of one train was near the rear of another train where they passed the camera location :) Yours gets a thumbs up, loved the consist, weathering is great, fantastic all the way around. I'd love to see that roll here on my rails.
Hi, a little bit short. In good old Europe: Längster Zug in Spur G auf TH-cam - 269 Wagen / 944 Achsen, gezogen von 8 Lokomotiven (4+2+2), 102,5m (336 ft) Fastest G-Scale Train on TH-cam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Dhg... Location: IGG e.V. (www.iggev.de)
Unfortunately your video link does not work for me so I cannot watch it as of now. Anyways, as of now I am editing a video where we ran a train that was 425 feet long that makes your train a little bit short. It will be on my channel in about a week. If you want to get into technicalities my train in the video above is still 4 feet longer.
Yes, impressive. But I wonder how much it had pulled the wagons were actually loaded goods. I think, tanks, containers, etc. are empty inside. They are so light. If fill them with water, sand etc these eight locomotives would rather they did not move. I guess.
Yup, I counted the train as 162, counting the five packs as five individual cars, the five pack counts as one car. If it were five cars then by definition it can be split up, but they cant. The entire 5 pack also has the same car number so by FRA recognition it is one car
A lot of the roadbed seen is on shifting concrete pads laid out in the 90s. Over time the pads move and which causes track undulation. We're replacing a lot of it this year and you're more than welcome to come out and help bring it to your standards
Cool video but it's 3 trains doubled up to each other. You can have a 500 car train if you put enough helper locomotives throughout the consist. I was expecting to see 162 pieces of rolling stock with units on the head end only. If it was 162 cars with no helpers, the knuckle on the first car would break.
+Cummins Power The train in the video is one consist. It is not 3 trains doubled up. As per the most recent addition of the Union Pacific Air Brake and Train Handling Rules, a consist is defined as a set of locomotives coupled together to pull a train which includes all locomotives and all cars, regardless of any locomotives being used as Distributed Power Units. Doesn't get more clearly defined than that. Also the knuckle would not break on the first car. Kadee makes a good product and I have strained their couplers with forces beyond the equivalent of this trains weight without issue. The DPU's I used were only in place to prevent the cut of cars roughly half way back (that were equipped with stock truck mounted hook and loop couplers) from lifting themselves off the track and derailing. If everything on our layout was equipped with body mounted Kadee couplers to begin with, I could pull 200 cars all day long without helpers.
@ Austin Goodwin - If every car on the train had been equipped with hook and loop couplers, would most of the cars have tipped over when you ran the train? I have seen some fairly long G scale trains, with hook and loop couplers, go around tight curves without tipping over.
Absolutely agree... When people go for a world record model train of any scale, maybe there should be two classes of entry... One as with power ONLY on the head end (unlimited power), and one with "helpers", either mid train or on the end, unlimited as well.... .. How else can you make it an even playing field when someone claims longest train?
This is the best G scale train on TH-cam. Love it!
I watched a guy the other day that had about 166 cars and 6 engines.. I watched and counted and probably am not exact but - his was so boring he had almost all Coal cars. Yours is so much better, enjoyable and I love your cars. You made it interesting.
love southern pacific grew up watching southern pacific on West coast in california I'm bout to model in n scale awesome video
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
AWESOME FOOTAGE!!!!! You have made my playlist called ( Model Trains 100+ cars ). Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Wow! 161 railroad cars on that G scale train.
WOW this is awesome to watch
Unbelievable and beautiful .... I love it and your fun in making this ... thank you
Awesome!
The perfect train speed, love it!
That's insane, yet soooooocool love it!!
Amazing. The San Diego County Fair has trains too but nothing like this!
I love the engines in the train as well as the variety of cars. Nice to see such a cool layout with great scenery too. A very nice video.
Amazing and impressive variety of carefully built cars
This is a beautiful layout. Is it located at the fair grounds year round? I would make the trip from Arizona to see it.
Absolutely super , Great job!
I dig the load out
awesome train video I like the southern Pacific engines
I love Trains 😙😘😚
First time I have seen "age distressed" paint on models. Makes it more realistic.
This is what a G scale train should look like! Must have been a good feeling when the train first rolled foward with no issues! Where the kadee couplers body mounted? And was it battery or track powered?
that is really cool didn't know they made them....wonder if you could sit on one of the boxcars care fully and ride it
around,,,
They actually make trains that size that you can ride on the first time I saw that was when I was little speechless thinking won’t that break it strangest thing I have ever seen at the time
Now THAT'S a train.
What manufacturers are those southern pacific locomotives?
Aristocraft
@@johnnypizarro4956 very nice
@@alternative890 usa trains also
@@johnnypizarro4956 great manufacturers
Since this layout is so large, I assume that you have to use a terminal block, to ensure that power is distributed to the entire layout?
I always like to come back to this video as I subscribed to your channel, I need to go out there one Sunday to help out.
Jose Silva
G Scale
So where is that
Never mind one of the commenters answered my question
Never mind the never mind where is that again sorry
And the award for the world’s best model train with the world’s worst camera angles goes to…
Price of 1 locomotive?
When I originally purchased them around $250 but now they'd be $700ish
track power or RC battery mixed?
+NTCGRR All locomotives in the video are using track power although in recent weeks I have been experimenting with battery power on my steam locos.
Austin, check out these guys in Germany and tell me what you think. They contacted me after they made the video. The name of the video is: "World's Longest G Scale Train on TH-cam 269 cars / 944 axles" placed on TH-cam by David JaehnertDennis Sirrine
+dennissirrine Yeah I saw that video and their train make-up was kind of weird to me. I was always told that the heaviest cars go at the front and the lighter ones go at the rear and it seemed they didn't follow that rule. There were loaded cars behind flat cars and that's not good! That and they used pretty small cars too. There were also some questionable moments in the video where the train came to a stop and take off with nothing derailing. Kind of odd for a train of that size. For the first two hours I had issues with the freight popping our breakers and derailing cars because it would stop too fast. When I would start the train, if it was done too slow, it would stall, and if done too fast I'd derail cars. I saw theirs jump forward without any issue which was strange.
Once ours got rolling though and we figured out correct helper spacing, it ran without issue. I wish you could've been there to see it! I heard you were supposed to come to the layout for the fair but I never got to see you.
Austin
I also follow the heavier-before-lighter approach but some of my cars can be deceiving as I load lead into flat cars or gons where I don't intend to ship a load so they are more like a USAT car for weight so it tracks better anywhere in a consist.
I saw that European video where the train appears to separate somewhere off-camera. I pointed that out to them and they claimed it was coupler slack. I've run 100+ car trains on my RR and the slack run-in and run-out can be a big issue with the steep grades I have, but I've never had 10' of coupler slack. I think their video consists of three lengthy trains on the same mainline where the pilot of one train was near the rear of another train where they passed the camera location :)
Yours gets a thumbs up, loved the consist, weathering is great, fantastic all the way around. I'd love to see that roll here on my rails.
I’ve always thought that these trains would look more authentic with graffiti and rust painted on the cars!
Almost look real.
Don't let CSX's Cindy Sanborn get ahold of it, she'll rip it and the railroad up string-line derailing it all over the place!
Hi, a little bit short.
In good old Europe:
Längster Zug in Spur G auf TH-cam - 269 Wagen / 944 Achsen, gezogen von 8 Lokomotiven (4+2+2), 102,5m (336 ft)
Fastest G-Scale Train on TH-cam: www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Dhg...
Location: IGG e.V. (www.iggev.de)
Unfortunately your video link does not work for me so I cannot watch it as of now. Anyways, as of now I am editing a video where we ran a train that was 425 feet long that makes your train a little bit short. It will be on my channel in about a week. If you want to get into technicalities my train in the video above is still 4 feet longer.
See how nobody really cares about this wonderful hobby,
Great what you can do with lots of $$$$$
Ha it’s a train set inside of a train set
Yes, impressive. But I wonder how much it had pulled the wagons were actually loaded goods. I think, tanks, containers, etc. are empty inside. They are so light. If fill them with water, sand etc these eight locomotives would rather they did not move. I guess.
I counted 142, 5 pack container cars only count as one car
The Santa Fe Guy nah
Yup, I counted the train as 162, counting the five packs as five individual cars, the five pack counts as one car. If it were five cars then by definition it can be split up, but they cant. The entire 5 pack also has the same car number so by FRA recognition it is one car
The Santa Fe Guy Nah it’s an insular Railroad. FRA recognition doesn’t apply
Track not precisely graded. Rail joints not smooth. Trains dip sharply in certain spots.
A lot of the roadbed seen is on shifting concrete pads laid out in the 90s. Over time the pads move and which causes track undulation. We're replacing a lot of it this year and you're more than welcome to come out and help bring it to your standards
Good answer, I really don't like the tone of his comments, certainly not a person who knows anything about our patient and how time goes on it ;)
Technically 137 cars because 6 were 5 unit articulated and count as only 1 car
No like, because the train is very very long, it is a situation surrealism, althoug often indiscriminately in real life happens like this.
What lanet have you been living on? This is exactly how they mash trains today.
there is no graffiti totally unrealistic
Cool video but it's 3 trains doubled up to each other. You can have a 500 car train if you put enough helper locomotives throughout the consist. I was expecting to see 162 pieces of rolling stock with units on the head end only. If it was 162 cars with no helpers, the knuckle on the first car would break.
+Cummins Power The train in the video is one consist. It is not 3 trains doubled up. As per the most recent addition of the Union Pacific Air Brake and Train Handling Rules, a consist is defined as a set of locomotives coupled together to pull a train which includes all locomotives and all cars, regardless of any locomotives being used as Distributed Power Units. Doesn't get more clearly defined than that.
Also the knuckle would not break on the first car. Kadee makes a good product and I have strained their couplers with forces beyond the equivalent of this trains weight without issue. The DPU's I used were only in place to prevent the cut of cars roughly half way back (that were equipped with stock truck mounted hook and loop couplers) from lifting themselves off the track and derailing. If everything on our layout was equipped with body mounted Kadee couplers to begin with, I could pull 200 cars all day long without helpers.
@ Austin Goodwin - If every car on the train had been equipped with hook and loop couplers, would most of the cars have tipped over when you ran the train? I have seen some fairly long G scale trains, with hook and loop couplers, go around tight curves without tipping over.
Absolutely agree... When people go for a world record model train of any scale, maybe there should be two classes of entry... One as with power ONLY on the head end (unlimited power), and one with "helpers", either mid train or on the end, unlimited as well....
.. How else can you make it an even playing field when someone claims longest train?