One requirement on the SYVRRy is that folks who bring engines and cars to run are required to oil and clean and electrical rollers so trains run nicely. If we find a bad set of wheels on a car/engine that is taken off the layout until it is fixed. Our Chief Maintenance Officer (CMO) is responsible for fixing the issue, or removing it from operation. Graffiti and weathering is permitted.
This needs to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. A train great run conducted on a great permanent outdoor O Gauge rail layout winding through a grove of real redwood trees. Was it serious or was it fun??? Yes!
My grandfather was a coal miner, and I can vividly remember watching the coal trains riding by the house, at 2 am in the morning, headed to Virginia Beach with coal headed for Europe. I get a thrill viewing this video. This is enormously emotional for me.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Bin völlig begeistert Sie haben tolle Arbeit geleistet. Eine sehr schöne Eisenbahnanlage. Viele Grüße aus Lübeck von der Ostseeküste, GERMANY. Torsten Wilcken.
Thanks for picking my 64th birthday to achieve this feat. I see that there may have been a few more 60ish young boys enjoying the trains also. I love the layout and the location. I know that there's many hours of work and love placed into its construction and I only wish that I could run my vintage trains there just once. I was given my extensive set of Lionel trains in 1956 and have lovingly cared for them ever since. They were always placed back in their boxes and the multitude of lengths of track disassembled with care when the time came for my "layout" to be put away. I would have track running all through the house. I found the receipt for my trains in one of the boxes. It was from a hobby store in Chicago IL, dated 1953. My dad had purchased me my train set when I was a year old, probably in hopes that I would also become a train fan. Was he ever right. Thanks for the video experience it was very well done and congratulations.
Very nice comment. As a 53 year old guy, I do not even know who I will donate my collection too. I will be doing my layout within the next year or two max as I am retiring soon. Plan for all out future when the scepter of the prince and the staff of the beggar lie side by side when all things are equal and line up an heir for your precious cargo.
I still remember when the Museum of Transportation in St.Louis County got a Big Boy . My dad dabbled in Model Railroading when I was a kid and we spent a lot of time at the museum and driving around to towns to measure Railroad buildings . I was lucky , I grew up playing with Cool Trains , what you have is Amazing !! Thank you for sharing your passion !
Glad I came across this video. My parents moved out to the country and the property they bought had a Gauge 1 track and shed the previous owner put up with love and care. There’s 270 yards of track they had removed by an enthusiast who knew the previous owners d showed me the gas powered engines they used on there. Amazing things. I never knew these garden miniature railways were so popular 👍🍻
You have managed to capture that horrible feeling of sitting at a crossing waiting for a very long train to pass. That's is the hardest thing to do! Makes your set the most realistic I've ever seen.
I used to love to visit the model railroad museum in San Diego, CA when I was young. I'm now 36 and still love watching these tiny locomotives chug along!
Man...those three model Big Boy locomotives are powerful little trains aren't they? I've hear how expansive just one of them cost. But from what I see here, you're getting your money's worth.
"Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!! I'm not into model steam trains, but get GREAT PLEASURE seeing them in action! The wonderful DETAIL on these steamers really "turns me on"! HOW do you "syncronize" all these engines??? I love to see "Eric'sTrains" videos as much as I can as he goes into great detail when reviewing these wonderful model steamers (you diesel guys stay at home!!!). This is one very very wonderful hobby for sure! "Gesundheit"!!!
With Lionel's Legacy command control you are able to Lash-up multiple engines so they run the same speed, You can do this with TMCC controllers but not as well as Legacy with different vintage engines.
Several questions have come up asking about the freight cars used for this event. Here are some answers: Of the 114 freight cars, a majority of them (86) were extruded aluminum tank and one Caboose made by K-Line. Reefers and Milk cars (16) made by Lionel. Hopper cars (6) made by Atlas. Big Boy Box cars (6) made be MTH. Generally, all well made freight cars have steel wheels, several had needle bearings, and all had excellent couplers. Our crew went through all of them to give a sparing dose of oil to minimize friction.
I really enjoyed your video of the train layout. I am not a model train person but have ridden all the AMTRAK routes west of St. Louis as a great way to see The West. Several years ago I saw a Union Pacific Big Boy pulling its business passenger cars speeding past the Kirkwood train station, which is a suburb of St. Louis. The loud noise of the locomotive as it neared and went by was deafening. What a sight! I sure enjoy looking at train layouts such as yours. It's incredible.
That's really a neat layout. Steam powered? Wow! It runs real smooth. I've always wanted to build something like that but never had the time or money. My interest is in lighted tunnels and overhead lines. Congratulations to the builders!!
Just to set the record straight... The big Boy engines are Lionel and that are models of steam engines, but run with electric motors. I love that we modelers have different interest!
WOW This is an Outstanding Layout and I am totally blown away by the attention to detail. My Hometown Railroad is Reading PA and I as well have the distinction of being one of those lucky kids born between 1959 to 1964 to be known as a "rambler baby". Looking forward to seeing one of the last remaining T-1's back in steam this year! Keep those engines on schedule my friends!
Great video, great layout. I have seen Union Pacific Big Boy number 4012 at Steamtown in Scranton, PA on 9/24//2012, I had to take 2 pictures of Big Boy 4012 that I have displayed on my dining room table.
This was so neat. A very good job by all that worked on the project. I love railroading. The Tehachapi Loop is on the Union Pacific Mojave Subdivision. begins near the West Colton Yard in Bloomington California from both the Alhambra Sub to the west and the Yuma Sub to the east, to just east of Bakersfield California where it connects to the Fresno Sub to the northwest and the Bakersfield Sub to the west. I was a quality assurance auditor for Progress Rail in Little Rock Arkansas from 1998 to 2008. We reconditioned rail car and locomotive bearings for all the Class 1 railroads in North America and Australia. We did bearings for Norfolk Southern, CSX, BNSF, UPRR, KCS, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and rail companies in Mexico. Where our shop was located was across the street on Pratt Remmel Road near the Little Rock National Airport. The closest subs were the White Bluff, the Little Rock, The Hoxie, and the Van Buren of UPRR. I currently live in Northeast Oklahoma near Grand Lake. My current closest subs are the BNSF Cherokee, Afton, the UPRR Cherokee, Wagoner, Coffeyville, and the KCS Heavener.
I don't have a real interest in trains but if I ever visit the States its these sort of places I want to visit. I don't wanna go and look at a load of stupid stars on a sidewalk. I wanna see the weird and wonderful, filled with eccentrics and real characters with big beards and funny nicknames; like Hobo Mike, I bet he has a few stories to tell, nobody gets called Hobo Mike without having some stories! :D
come visit us dj shades wes got pleanty ta be showin yalls people aren't as bad as no stereotypes make us out ta be wes all nice peoples up in these hollers of saint louis
Amazing! Just wonderful! Such a lay out and the craftsmanship of it's construction. Impressive. The great tanker run. TY worthy to be seen...TV is Dead!
Pretty cool. Far cry from the Lionel set up my dad built and set up for XMas back in 1953 or 54. It had two switches and two ovals, my brother and I would race around a locomotive and blue switcher, trying not to to crash into each other, but it happened. They were very durable and I don't recall them breaking down. My dad built a town and airport with a twirling tower light, he even installed lights in the buildings. I wish I still had it, but for sure it was one thing I vividly remember growing up.
Seeing that young fella at 17:40 made me wonder if he would be a future railway engineer or modeller himself as he gets older, having built several 00 and N gauge layouts in the past, all indoors within a 12’ x 9’ space, I would just have loved to have something like this close by and to think it all had to be dismantled, such a shame, nowadays I don’t have a model railway but fond memories, thanks for sharing this lovely video, Mike West Bromwich, UK
A little history of the Big Boy Locomotives. A total of 25 were built by ALCO at Schenectady, NY. 20 in 1941 (Nos. 4000-4019) and 5 in 1944 (Nos. 4020-4024). Their primary early route was between Ogden, UT to Green River, WY used for WW-II to replace the requirement for double heading long freights over the Wasatch Mountains. The last revenue train using a Big Boy was in 1962. Only eight (non-operating) still exist, which are located generally at museums with the one (No. 4014) which was located at the Pomona, Los Angeles Fairgrounds. No. 4014 was selected by Union Pacific during 2013 as being in the best shape for restoration (thanks to The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Southern California Chapter who maintained it during it's stay at Pomona). It is the only Big Boy that will likely be restored to operating condition after a five year re-work at Cheyenne, WY as it becomes part of Union Pacific's Heritage Steam Locomotive Fleet.
I got to see number 4023 in Nebraska on my trip to Council Bluffs. When they say Big Boy, these beasts truly are big. The driver wheels were taller than my dad who's a little under 6 feet. I currently reside in Frisco, Texas where number 4018 resides but I have yet to see it. I can't wait to see one of these finally operating again.
Absolutely wonderful. The effort to construct the track and locomotives plus rolling stock is very impressive. Really enjoyed watching, thanks for posting. The Big Boy was such an impressive engine, would have loved to have seen one in real life.
I live in Cheyenne WY, and I've touched the old Girl that is being restored, she still has life left in her. And when they got her all the way down to the cast iron frame, it was in perfect shape. Cant wait to see her run under her own power.
I am wondering just what the actual pulling load is? Even a hundred and ten feet of model railroad cars has got to be a substantial amount of weight. Nice job Y'all.
What a fantastic layout! Thank you for sharing this event. Seeing the young ones there with the older folks and everyone in between, well, thats the best part. I live in Arizona, U.S. and have seriously put thought into doing an outside layout. Im by the Mohave desert and it gets kinda warm at times, 🤣 yeah, kinda warm😉. So im thinking I would have melting plastics to contend with. Anyway, an inspirational, just downright beautiful layout you all have there and I thank you for sharing.
Wow!! I am forced to believe what I have a hard time believing. That is astounding !! I didn't know that model railways could achieve this length. This is an eye-opener.
It was a challenge! Good equipment and persistence. If you follow our video, we had a failure a few years ago to try and run a mile long diesel train with 7 powered engines.
Just love the music."Freight Train" if my memory serves me correct. Long time no hear. The locomotives are just super. If I had the chance to see this layout when I was a boy it would have changed my life for sure. Thanks a million for the video.
The most that my dad and I ever made it was 55 cars on out oof line we had in o gauge, which we used a QSI SD 90 Mac to pull them all. Occasionally we’d use his old postwar Santa Fe locomotive with magnetraction. That thing would pull like nobody’s business. Other times we’d run 4 old Lionel Chicago Northwestern FM train masters to that consist. We’d run her wide open on a ZW with nothing else connected to the ZW because they would draw a lot of current and we didn’t want to melt down the old transformer.
The way those articulated locos - and all those cars - went around those insanely tight bends was amazing. Fantastic.
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What is just as impresive is just how clean it is all being kept; let alone just having that much stock. Magic.
One requirement on the SYVRRy is that folks who bring engines and cars to run are required to oil and clean and electrical rollers so trains run nicely. If we find a bad set of wheels on a car/engine that is taken off the layout until it is fixed. Our Chief Maintenance Officer (CMO) is responsible for fixing the issue, or removing it from operation. Graffiti and weathering is permitted.
What a wonderful video. 4-8-8-4. Sort of a holy grail. I will watch this again.
Fantastic!!! To run a train that long without any problems is a testament to the quality of construction
Very nice O gauge set up. Enjoyable. Still have my Lionel from about 1956 in their boxes. One of my prize possessions.
Has to be one of the most fascinating things I've seen in a very long time!
The smaller redwood trees really give it a real-world view!
This needs to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. A train great run conducted on a great permanent outdoor O Gauge rail layout winding through a grove of real redwood trees. Was it serious or was it fun??? Yes!
Stormtrooper1488 bummer
@Stormtrooper1488 no!! It's never been scrapped has it???
@Stormtrooper1488 whaaaa???
I LOVE this long freight train! This is like the most amazing long train I have ever seen on a model layout.
What a festival of trains with tiny miniatures, elegantly firing up running!
My grandfather was a coal miner, and I can vividly remember watching the coal trains riding by the house, at 2 am in the morning, headed to Virginia Beach with coal headed for Europe. I get a thrill viewing this video. This is enormously emotional for me.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻Bin völlig begeistert
Sie haben tolle Arbeit geleistet. Eine sehr schöne Eisenbahnanlage. Viele Grüße aus Lübeck von der Ostseeküste, GERMANY. Torsten Wilcken.
Thanks for picking my 64th birthday to achieve this feat. I see that there may have been a few more 60ish young boys enjoying the trains also. I love the layout and the location. I know that there's many hours of work and love placed into its construction and I only wish that I could run my vintage trains there just once. I was given my extensive set of Lionel trains in 1956 and have lovingly cared for them ever since. They were always placed back in their boxes and the multitude of lengths of track disassembled with care when the time came for my "layout" to be put away. I would have track running all through the house. I found the receipt for my trains in one of the boxes. It was from a hobby store in Chicago IL, dated 1953. My dad had purchased me my train set when I was a year old, probably in hopes that I would also become a train fan. Was he ever right. Thanks for the video experience it was very well done and congratulations.
Very nice comment. As a 53 year old guy, I do not even know who I will donate my collection too. I will be doing my layout within the next year or two max as I am retiring soon. Plan for all out future when the scepter of the prince and the staff of the beggar lie side by side when all things are equal and line up an heir for your precious cargo.
I still remember when the Museum of Transportation in St.Louis County got a Big Boy . My dad dabbled in Model Railroading when I was a kid and we spent a lot of time at the museum and driving around to towns to measure Railroad buildings . I was lucky , I grew up playing with Cool Trains , what you have is Amazing !! Thank you for sharing your passion !
Glad I came across this video. My parents moved out to the country and the property they bought had a Gauge 1 track and shed the previous owner put up with love and care. There’s 270 yards of track they had removed by an enthusiast who knew the previous owners d showed me the gas powered engines they used on there. Amazing things.
I never knew these garden miniature railways were so popular 👍🍻
This is one of the coolest things I have ever seen!!!!
You have managed to capture that horrible feeling of sitting at a crossing waiting for a very long train to pass. That's is the hardest thing to do! Makes your set the most realistic I've ever seen.
When people say :”I like to collect O-gauge trains” I have a big layout in my basement. This guy right here- Hold my beer 🍺
so true
More like- Hold my keg. I have a feeling he's a "Go big or go home vibe" guy.
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After watching this video,i only saw 1 old man and a bunch of young boys/girls enjoying watching train
I'm overwhelmed! This is like a hobbyist " I've died and gone to heaven" system. Yeah, I'm gushing. Fantastic!
im a hobbiest and i realized ho espensive this would be
A dream come true for everyone to see! Thank you for the video!
What an amazing minature railway.
A lot of effort gone to creating the layout and rolling stock.
Would like to visit one day.
Nice to see a youngster interested in this hobby.
Wow, that was very impressive! Jawtooth Approved!!
Wonderful! Takes me back to my childhood.
I love trains. Makes me feel like a little kid again.
I used to love to visit the model railroad museum in San Diego, CA when I was young. I'm now 36 and still love watching these tiny locomotives chug along!
That layout is amazing! Thanks for sharing and NEVER GROW OLD!
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I love the articulateds! One day I will have one. But, I think the commentary at the end was best. Reminds me of my grandparents. 👍🇺🇸
Man...those three model Big Boy locomotives are powerful little trains aren't they? I've hear how expansive just one of them cost. But from what I see here, you're getting your money's worth.
"Ach du lieber, mein schatz"!!! I'm not into model steam trains, but get GREAT PLEASURE seeing them in action! The wonderful DETAIL on these steamers really "turns me on"! HOW do you "syncronize" all these engines??? I love to see "Eric'sTrains" videos as much as I can as he goes into great detail when reviewing these wonderful model steamers (you diesel guys stay at home!!!). This is one very very wonderful hobby for sure! "Gesundheit"!!!
With Lionel's Legacy command control you are able to Lash-up multiple engines so they run the same speed, You can do this with TMCC controllers but not as well as Legacy with different vintage engines.
Amazing! The capital outlay for the rolling stock and engines alone must be in the stratosphere.
Such a wonderful reconstruction of miniscule train model , real memoir of the nostalgia of past. Quite a feat. Nice feelings to see it.
I must say though, Lionell has some pretty good looking stuff. And the Soundsystem is beautiful. Sounds great!
That was awsome! Love the outdoor layout and real trees. Great job.
Just A Great Feet Of The Power Of The Locomotives. Wonderful Set Up And Completion Of The Run Loved It Thanks👍👍👍👍
Well done! Great show! I didn't think the train would make it round all those curves, but it did!
Several questions have come up asking about the freight cars used for this event. Here are some answers: Of the 114 freight cars, a majority of them (86) were extruded aluminum tank and one Caboose made by K-Line. Reefers and Milk cars (16) made by Lionel. Hopper cars (6) made by Atlas. Big Boy Box cars (6) made be MTH. Generally, all well made freight cars have steel wheels, several had needle bearings, and all had excellent couplers. Our crew went through all of them to give a sparing dose of oil to minimize friction.
OK are we talking 1:1 scale miles or 1:43.5 scale miles here...? I'm confused.
Wow
I would not have believed it if I hadn’t seen it for myself!
An Arkansas railroad fan.
Long live the UP.
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And Each car had the appropriate weight in it that an actual to scale train car used for freight would have?
Where is this
Incredible detail and talent putting that together!
Just found your video, and I am very impressed. So glad you had a successful run.
So are we!!! Thanks for your comment.
I really enjoyed your video of the train layout. I am not a model train person but have ridden all the AMTRAK routes west of St. Louis as a great way to see The West. Several years ago I saw a Union Pacific Big Boy pulling its business passenger cars speeding past the Kirkwood train station, which is a suburb of St. Louis. The loud noise of the locomotive as it neared and went by was deafening. What a sight! I sure enjoy looking at train layouts such as yours. It's incredible.
This is a wonderful layout! Congratulations on your achievements and great success on this historic run!
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Beautiful layout. Legendary Locomotives. Great consist in tow. Thank you!
This is beautiful. I used to love train when I was little.
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WOW! A lot of effort was put into creating such a fantastic layout, thank you for sharing. Enjoyed watching this run.
That's really a neat layout. Steam powered? Wow! It runs real smooth. I've always wanted to build something like that but never had the time or money. My interest is in lighted tunnels and overhead lines. Congratulations to the builders!!
Just to set the record straight... The big Boy engines are Lionel and that are models of steam engines, but run with electric motors. I love that we modelers have different interest!
WOW This is an Outstanding Layout and I am totally blown away by the attention to detail. My Hometown Railroad is Reading PA and I as well have the distinction of being one of those lucky kids born between 1959 to 1964 to be known as a "rambler baby". Looking forward to seeing one of the last remaining T-1's back in steam this year! Keep those engines on schedule my friends!
Loved this! Planning a small outdoor layout, can’t wait! 🚂
Make sure equipment is outdoor rated.
Well done, enjoyed watching. Props to conductor and crew.
Great video, great layout. I have seen Union Pacific Big Boy number 4012 at Steamtown in Scranton, PA on 9/24//2012, I had to take 2 pictures of Big Boy 4012 that I have displayed on my dining room table.
Lovely train and really iconic music to go with it. Very nice to see and keep up the good work.
Wow, I had write a novel, bake an apple pie, and read 2 books. I came back and we are STILL going by this train!
This was so neat. A very good job by all that worked on the project. I love railroading. The Tehachapi Loop is on the Union Pacific Mojave Subdivision. begins near the West Colton Yard in Bloomington California from both the Alhambra Sub to the west and the Yuma Sub to the east, to just east of Bakersfield California where it connects to the Fresno Sub to the northwest and the Bakersfield Sub to the west.
I was a quality assurance auditor for Progress Rail in Little Rock Arkansas from 1998 to 2008. We reconditioned rail car and locomotive bearings for all the Class 1 railroads in North America and Australia. We did bearings for Norfolk Southern, CSX, BNSF, UPRR, KCS, Canadian National, Canadian Pacific, and rail companies in Mexico. Where our shop was located was across the street on Pratt Remmel Road near the Little Rock National Airport. The closest subs were the White Bluff, the Little Rock, The Hoxie, and the Van Buren of UPRR.
I currently live in Northeast Oklahoma near Grand Lake. My current closest subs are the BNSF Cherokee, Afton, the UPRR Cherokee, Wagoner, Coffeyville, and the KCS Heavener.
Your video was so fun to see. Thank you ! 👍👍👍👍👍
Seen this a couple times over the years and it amazes me every time!
I don't have a real interest in trains but if I ever visit the States its these sort of places I want to visit. I don't wanna go and look at a load of stupid stars on a sidewalk. I wanna see the weird and wonderful, filled with eccentrics and real characters with big beards and funny nicknames; like Hobo Mike, I bet he has a few stories to tell, nobody gets called Hobo Mike without having some stories! :D
I agree. There is so much more out there than the status quo.
Me too! And there's just no way I'm going to ignore Hobo Mike!
come visit us dj shades wes got pleanty ta be showin yalls people aren't as bad as no stereotypes make us out ta be wes all nice peoples up in these hollers of saint louis
November you can see all these trains at the convention center even buy some of yas own
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Amazing! Just wonderful! Such a lay out and the craftsmanship of it's construction. Impressive. The great tanker run. TY worthy to be seen...TV is Dead!
In reality, a bigboy locomotive could pull a five Mile long train from a complete stop on level ground
Pretty cool. Far cry from the Lionel set up my dad built and set up for XMas back in 1953 or 54. It had two switches and two ovals, my brother and I would race around a locomotive and blue switcher, trying not to to crash into each other, but it happened. They were very durable and I don't recall them breaking down. My dad built a town and airport with a twirling tower light, he even installed lights in the buildings. I wish I still had it, but for sure it was one thing I vividly remember growing up.
Seeing that young fella at 17:40 made me wonder if he would be a future railway engineer or modeller himself as he gets older, having built several 00 and N gauge layouts in the past, all indoors within a 12’ x 9’ space, I would just have loved to have something like this close by and to think it all had to be dismantled, such a shame, nowadays I don’t have a model railway but fond memories, thanks for sharing this lovely video, Mike West Bromwich, UK
A little history of the Big Boy Locomotives. A total of 25 were built by ALCO at Schenectady, NY. 20 in 1941 (Nos. 4000-4019) and 5 in 1944 (Nos. 4020-4024). Their primary early route was between Ogden, UT to Green River, WY used for WW-II to replace the requirement for double heading long freights over the Wasatch Mountains. The last revenue train using a Big Boy was in 1962. Only eight (non-operating) still exist, which are located generally at museums with the one (No. 4014) which was located at the Pomona, Los Angeles Fairgrounds. No. 4014 was selected by Union Pacific during 2013 as being in the best shape for restoration (thanks to The Railway and Locomotive Historical Society, Southern California Chapter who maintained it during it's stay at Pomona). It is the only Big Boy that will likely be restored to operating condition after a five year re-work at Cheyenne, WY as it becomes part of Union Pacific's Heritage Steam Locomotive Fleet.
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SYVRRy thanks FOR the update AND history
I got to see number 4023 in Nebraska on my trip to Council Bluffs. When they say Big Boy, these beasts truly are big. The driver wheels were taller than my dad who's a little under 6 feet. I currently reside in Frisco, Texas where number 4018 resides but I have yet to see it. I can't wait to see one of these finally operating again.
Were they ever triple-headed like this? I've seen pictures of Big Boys double headed.
The train community hopes 4014 will run under it's own power in 2019.
This is the result of PURE ART .. love, and D E V O T I ON 👏👏👏👏 Thanks for sharing this mind blowing experience 👏👍🙏
Way cool . Seen old pictures of the big boy doing all that solo .
Absolutely wonderful. The effort to construct the track and locomotives plus rolling stock is very impressive. Really enjoyed watching, thanks for posting. The Big Boy was such an impressive engine, would have loved to have seen one in real life.
Interesting layout and nice job on the train.
You had me foold until I saw Hobo Mike--I thought it was the real thing! Excellent video and music. Definitely one for the records.
Whoa this is awesome. Also the Centurion tanks look awesome.
Marvellous, I'm from Brazil! Congratulations for your big job!
Wow - I find myself singin' " Freight Train " and with this music playin' along with me, i sound petty dawg-gone good. - Thanks for the buzz !
good work on the detailing of each train car
I live in Cheyenne WY, and I've touched the old Girl that is being restored, she still has life left in her. And when they got her all the way down to the cast iron frame, it was in perfect shape. Cant wait to see her run under her own power.
James Hart I live in Casper and need to make the trip down.
You and about a thousand others will be there when 4014 comes out of the barn puffing smoke.
That'll be a glorious thing to see to be certain. :-) I haven't laid eye's on 4014 since it was located at the Pomona fairgrounds.
She’s back
Yep. My brother and I saw the Big Boy at West Chicago last year.
I didn't think the vision line big boy's could pull that many freight cars. Nice work!!
I am wondering just what the actual pulling load is? Even a hundred and ten feet of model railroad cars has got to be a substantial amount of weight. Nice job Y'all.
Amazing video! Big thumbs up from me and new subs. Now got your back catalogue of videos to watch,deep joy! Thanks guys.
Great , great stuff lots of love invested to get this job done !!
It takes a crew to get the track and accessories run for a run. The folks who run their own trains really like to be engineers on the layout.
Great project, nice video as well. Thanks !
I estimate the cost of the locomotives and rolling stock alone in this video to be $12-14k. Very cool!
Approximately $2700.00 for one BIG BOY Dec.2019 on TH-cam video.
@William Kirkland My first car = $200.00 😅🤣😂
You can buy a narrow gauge locomotive for less than that.
What a fantastic layout! Thank you for sharing this event. Seeing the young ones there with the older folks and everyone in between, well, thats the best part. I live in Arizona, U.S. and have seriously put thought into doing an outside layout. Im by the Mohave desert and it gets kinda warm at times, 🤣 yeah, kinda warm😉. So im thinking I would have melting plastics to contend with. Anyway, an inspirational, just downright beautiful layout you all have there and I thank you for sharing.
Amazing run!!
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Great video!! Love that Steam!!
Wonderful wonderful train layout. Awesome to watch the trains move on the track. I missed Santa Ynez, California.!
Wow!! I am forced to believe what I have a hard time believing. That is astounding !! I didn't know that model railways could achieve this length. This is an eye-opener.
It was a challenge! Good equipment and persistence. If you follow our video, we had a failure a few years ago to try and run a mile long diesel train with 7 powered engines.
This really cool, I took pictures Of Big Boy in Cheyenne Who. In 1985 it was on display in a park.
great collection, ive never seen the union pacific tankers in yellow in person.
Very, very, very impressive and enjoyable, to say well done is an understatement. My hat off to you.
I LOVE THIS VIDEO. THANK YOU.
Let's go! how cool! Love the fact it's outdoors and steam!
Keeping the layout clean must be a full time job, especially cleaning the tracks for good electrical contact.
I would say that hes using a dead rail system with the locomotives running on batteries. Although i could be wrong and probably am.
Just love the music."Freight Train" if my memory serves me correct. Long time no hear. The locomotives are just super. If I had the chance to see this layout when I was a boy it would have changed my life for sure. Thanks a million for the video.
Bubbles of Trailer Park Boys would have tears in his eyes seeing this
Wonderful video, really enjoyed it.
Nobody:
TH-cam recommendations: Hey wanna see this mile long model train
Why no body 😡😡😡 ? 😡
Why no body 😡😡😡 ? 😡
great video for old school train fans of the hobby
Awesome, love it. Quite the accomplishment.
Also diggin' the irony of steam loco's pulling fuel tankers. Lmao. Thought only i did this
A real train set. I wish I could have seen this as a kid. 7th heaven. Those 2 engines have to be heavy to pull that much weight.
The most that my dad and I ever made it was 55 cars on out oof line we had in o gauge, which we used a QSI SD 90 Mac to pull them all. Occasionally we’d use his old postwar Santa Fe locomotive with magnetraction. That thing would pull like nobody’s business. Other times we’d run 4 old Lionel Chicago Northwestern FM train masters to that consist. We’d run her wide open on a ZW with nothing else connected to the ZW because they would draw a lot of current and we didn’t want to melt down the old transformer.
Wow! Very nice. I’ve never seen an outdoor O gauge setup before.
Even at 1/8 scale, I still cant tell which train is moving in the station. The one I'm on or the one beside me?
Fantastic and beautiful. Thanks a mile.
Love it, I would like to be there.
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Fantastic also listening to the comments makes this worthwhile watching !
Who the hell gave this video a thumbs down? Shame on you. Some people just suck.
they just jerks.
Agree
the dislikes are from the metric system nerds
Every thumbs up on this comment takes away some of the dislikes
Those people are dumbasses I like this video great 👍🏻 job
Well done in a beautiful setting