HO train layout, wide view, 43 cars pulled by 3 locos. about .5 mile long

[BNSFfan9959]

Nice train. What road name and engine types were pulling the train?

[NsTrainMan07]

SwEeT!!!

[gundam116]

how big the table?

[Pugsleytrainlover106]

That sick

[trainsrgood4u]

you could have made that train longer....

[lowenbausky]

you have lots of cars... hope i have too :-D

[CPWindsorsub]

cool

[yorktown1000]

do you think its long enuff lol.

[pele6922]

@yorktown1000 thats what he said....sorry couldnt resist

[yorktown1000]

@pele6922 hahahahaha nice lol



[MrTransman99]

There's another train going by. Wait, that's our train!

[stimpsonjc]

@MrTransman99

LOL

[darthmal929]

I dont like long trains on a short track, becasue it lookes like a dog chasing its tail.

[stimpsonjc]

@darthmal929

Good to know... You can build your own track that suits YOU, and I'll keep mine how I like it for ME :o)

[thehorseshoecurve]

that is n scale it looks small

[stimpsonjc]

@thehorseshoecurve

No, it is HO scale.

[aerobee58]

Nice  track design.Good long train.:)

[uprrguy89]

nice vid

[shininghappyperson7]

how big is the layout

[stimpsonjc]

It is 7 feet by 13 feet

[shininghappyperson7]

@stimpsonjc oh mines not very much better i have some vids of my layout on my channel .im just looking to expand my set in any way possible.

[02081912Frabas]

Hoping to see a upload from your layout, how it is at the moment? please? regards from NL

[jmsschooner]

is this dc or dcc

[thehossman1]

Thats a nice looking starter layout. What size layout? I'm working with N (no room for HO) so some down-sizing would be needed.

[1974nyarlathotep]

Wow that is a long train dude , I think its cool as hell ! good job.

[critchley3819]

Thats really cool but whats the deal, book of records maybe

[MattsVidsXD]

the power of dc electric motors! torque to the max

[naruto1732]

how big is the layout?

[MrSaturdayNight7]

@naruto1732 It looks like 4 X 12

[RSSsailing]

put all the trains on there and try to get it to fill the whole track! that would be funny!

[crazyboy72375]

thats pretty cool but how did you get that many cars

[bowjasmi]

i been watching this a while and i was waiting for the front to catch up with the back end! .......maybe if you added a few more wagons!

[PATURMANPLUNGER]

Wow!

[kramnosdivad]

Isn't having one long series of loops kind of... boring?..... I am designing my first serious layout as a freight yard where I have to use a shunter to fetch the rolling stock and assemble the consist (through multiple lines, switches and a turntable) before I bring the locomotive over (Just for fun). Then I drive the whole unit over to the siding and park it. Time to switch trains to the suburban commuter (round and round until I get sick of it). Then the steam loco for a "maintenance run" :)

[karelfromholland]

Now, that's a long snake.

Good Fun !!!!

[anskaru89]

It´s incredible to see a train turning onto itself as it do at the loop.

[egarcia7777]

Thank you for your answear sorry to keep bodering you,,, The manual of the train set says do not put more than one loco in the same track. How do you run 3?

Thanks again and Regards!

[stimpsonjc]

Different system. Some can run multiple locos, some can not.

[egarcia7777]

Congratulations!

Very very nice!

I do not know very much about this, but are the 3 locos real pulling? or it is just one pulling and the other 2 are just demos, with out motor. Thank You

[stimpsonjc]

Thank you.  All three have motors and are pulling. Because there are hills on my layout, two are not be enough - the wheels just spin.

[CzarWilkins]

WOW, so, now we can challenge people telling my HO loco pulls more cars than yours :P:P:P

No derrailments :D

[rrougeye]

ya

my U.P. can only pull like, 3 cars so what are using?

[howarth004]

you sure have some pulling power there

[trainOholic]

nice im building a 4x6 N scale layout

[ARTrainsProductions]

Very nice load! Pulling a lot of cars can be tough, my challenger pulled 159 once! It only moved about 1mph but at least it moved, right? :P

Anyways, 5 stars!

[LoneSniperSG]

Holy crap I'm suprised it doesn't collapse on itself

[dmncau]

nice layout view how bigis the layout?

[conrailbuff]

dude thats kewl! i have a 10x18 layout an i have trouble pulling 40+ cars on mine, and i have 3 Dash9's pulling it. idk why, cuz ALWAYS one car near the middle always derails an causes me to stop the train...i can never get a full round on the layout.

[modeltrainboy44]

my bigboy can pull about 2-3 times more than that and its pulling them alone... :P

[stimpsonjc]

I have the Athearn Bigboy. I agree, it seems to have no limits. I'd bet it can pull 100 weighted cars, on a level straight, no problem.  With my layout with its steep hills and many turns, anything much longer than this creates a stringlining problem.

[SExmortus]

OMG - How many locomotives you have dragging that around?

[stimpsonjc]

In this video, I have just 3 entry level Bachmann (not spectrum) pulling 43 cars.

[theinflator]

Ah thats how it was done, Bachmann has rubber one thier power set of drivers, to make up for thier low weight. One engine and pull a lot by it's slef.

[stimpsonjc]

The biggest challenge in pulling lots of cars is not the power of the locomotives. The biggest challenge is the STRINGLINING effect. The cars of a long train like this want to topple over. It requires proper weighting of the cars, smoothly rolling cars, and proper track-laying to make this possible going around turns and up and down hills. I am by far no expert on the matter, but there is much more to it than "lots of power".

[tahthing]

yer i made a oval od track put all my stock on and the train linked at the ends then when i ran it it just floped

[wildfire19861987]

The key is to have the first car weighed the heaviest, then over the next several cars reduce the ammount of excess weight, with the rear half or 2/3 no extra weight. I have to do this when i run my doublestacks.

And that's a good run for that size of layout! You could simulate Tehachapi loop on that one side.

[Boss302fan]

This is a factor even with the big boys. I used to train engineers on an old "logging" railroad that CSXT owned. it later became a shortline. The curves on that line were ridiculous and with a 45 car train you were always trying to pull the cars into a straight line. The binding in the curves was amazing.

[stimpsonjc]

Boss302fan - Whereabouts was that? I'd love to get some behind the scenes looks into some "real" railroading. Nearby there's a big Norfolk Southern yard and lots of buildings where they work on the locos. Not sure how to go about getting a look inside.

[stimpsonjc]

Thanks, yes it is definitely overkill. It is HO scale. Table is 6ft by 13ft.

[yortonjunction]

Overkill or what, defies the laws of physics,

thanks for posting,

you have a bigger one than me !!!!!

C mine 2 perhaps, only 9 coaches,

oh and oo or n or z scale ???

cheers,

yorton J.