Model Railroad Layout at NMRA Train Show 2007

[karelfromholland]

Great video !! This is the longest train I have seen on a modelscale.

[MrAlienHybrid]

Imangine waiting at a crossing for these to pass 0.o

[nscalefun]

I counted 112 train cars not including the engines. EXCELLENT JOB.

[trooper18711]

Longest trian i ever seen.

[luccaopa]

that would be the ideal for my model railway trains

[sillywesties]

Check out more videos of the Sipping & Switching Society of North Carolina.While your at it, check out our daughter club the Ohio Valley Sipping & Switching Society, the difference is they have more hair and no wrinkles!

[iAirsoft69]

my model railroad club has a huge track that is still under constuction but you can run trains on it. but they only allow like 10 cars per train!

[Staratino]

I just wish my own layout was big enough to realistically hold one of those trains at the beginning.

Alas, it's not :(

[sillywesties]

It's great to see that so many folks have enjoyed our layout with long trains! I was told this past fall a new record was tried to pull the longest train of 149 cars. Problem was many cars are new w/o testing,and they had plastic couplers that kept the train uncoupling! If you notice in the video we have 1 engine pulling the westbound that had a pittman and drive shaft.Sorry we can't make everyone happy with speed and period trains! The speed IS correct at 55 scale MPH! Why? it's all it can do!

[yambo59]

Great to see a train of that length in HO, thats one thing many layouts cant manage due to space. its the one major bit of realism I love to see, it adds the illusion of large tonnage, and the feeling engines are really working as in full scale. I'll gladly exchange some out of period rolling stock for seldom seen length such as this. Thanks to the builders for the many hours of work-!

[Silver1Sprg]

I'd hate to get stuck - waiting at a crossing for that train. The trains that go through our town are long enough. (about 50 cars max)

[sillywesties]

@Silver1Sprg I've been stuck WITH a train waiting to cross the mains,Uhhhhh,I wantta switch trains dang it,not wait on trains! Ah,just apart of the fun! Oh yeah,it's bad when the West bound just passed,and the East bound comes into veiw!

[superjono2]

Nice, but the biggest flaw is that the trains aren't running at realistic speed

[trainlover479]

my layout is in the back ground, it is peperal sideing model railroad clup or psmrc, we had a big layout

[Perellisole]

I was thinking about the scale/model speed. In real life that looked like it would have been going at about sixty mph!

[Bowtiesare4lilboys]

ok how long was tht? i wanna know how many engines are pulling that sucker

[Railfan108]

that was not only 119 cars!!!! more like an endless train!!! lol

[trainzrule5]

Awesome vid!..... but that train was completely unrealistic! It had modern and 50s cars!

[Lovinbikess]

wow how much rolling stock i lost count at 100

[Castilo42]

That has got to be the longest model train I have ever seen.

[cprail34]

wow 108 cars on the one to the right

 impresive

[eal1011]

Wow amazing job. Mine is really small this one, is expensive and incredible artwork and layouts. wow. I hope to do something like that, but not like mega gaints.

[iliketexmex2]

I was there and the video I shot was not very good (because I was also making sure my two young son's did not touch anything). I am glad you posted this because that was their favorite display: long trains on a long bridge!

Very good

[sotoncp]

*VERY* impressive ...

[chessie1976]

Awesome Video & Layout!

[Scraghunter]

Eastern Jackson Country Mailiners here in KC beat that at the '98 NMRA national show. Longest train on the layout was 150 car unit coal train. It made my 70 car mixed freight look small. Modular layout was 80'x 40' at least. May have been bigger, it's been a while and my memory is old.

[sillywesties]

My question would be,How long was each hopper?If they were two bay hoppers,their 34' scale feet long.Our longest train on average is close to 80'long!!We have dropped the lenght of our trains so we have more reliable operation.Many of the rolling stock in our trains are 80 foot long!

[csx2788]

WOW! Wonder how big the layout is

[sillywesties]

I just found this comment.Our part (S&SS of NC)of the layout was 66'x 80',freemo folks were about a 1/4 of the layout,they were at the end of our branchline.The total foot print that NTS gave us was 80'x 100'.

[MECU18b]

Paulinskill Viaduct - this is the Sipping & Switching Society of NC layout

[dermotk5]

they were soooooooooooo long

[applecounty]

Kadee No. 5's one assumes?

[TrainFan1982]

good video..

[pimposcar1000]

nice vid

[jazzmann777]

112 cars after the 3 engines cool

[jazzmann777]

112 cars after the 3 engine cool

[watchnu2]

The bridge was carved by hand from styrofoam. A member of the club at a local show in Charlotte NC earlier this was telling a crowd of onlookers of how it was constructed. They are from Raliegh Nc and have website. Just type sipping and switching society on Google

[TimShred]

Is that a model of the Nicholson PA viaduct on the middle module?

[hawaiiantrains]

I don't know, you need to ask the society who built it.

[sillywesties]

@TimShred It's the Paulinskill Viaduct in NJ. Modules haven't been in the S&SS of NC layout in several years.The owner lives in Va. now..