Half mile long HO model train layout, 43 cars. Locomotion!

[donsgotmoney]

The grand funk railroad Sounds good doing a Little Eva song. I have a U28B Athearn NYC that I remotored with a Igarashi motor, its the only train in my roster that will pull 30 loaded cars without any wheel slippage. Incidently, the Igarashi motor is also the same motor that Broadway Limiteds use in all their locomotives. I used to think that Athearn produced a good motor until I had to order one from them, the Genesis line uses the same motor as Atlas, its a Roco motor.

[BigDave8802008]

Hi. Your Bachman Engines, are they the cheapo's with the front axles powered, or the standard 8 axle drive and pickup? Those cheap ones would go so fast, they would fly off the tracks!

[amplivoxsound]

that music really makes it sweet. great work!

[upfan2000]

i have an ho scale train but not like this pone im mean mine is a circle/oval.

[dieselburner]

@stimpsonjc curios what the dimensions of the layout are. also wondering if each car was weighed to the scale weight. Cool video!

[UnionPacificBNSF]

I got 2 of the Angelina & Neches River Railroad boxcars.

[whitenoise201]

if the wheels arent magnetic im siprised it dosent trip unless theres a powered car every 10 rolling stock

[rocker0912]

dumb question, but thats a scale half mile right?

[stimpsonjc]

Nope, my basement is a half mile wide. It is approximately 5 million square feet. I'm planning on opening a super wal*mart at one end of it, and will see how that goes.

[rocker0912]

best of luck :) haha

[disturbedone5009]

If you have a 1/2 mile HO train running in your super Wal Mart I would go.

[hairoftehdog]

@stimpsonjc lawld

[104trucker]

its almost like Kicking Horse Pass

[stimpsonjc]

Thanks for the comment. I enjoyed reading all the history of Kicking Horse Pass. I had not heard of it before.

[104trucker]

No Problem

[naruto1732]

how big is the layout

[UnionPacificBNSF]

Where did You find the Angelina Neches River Railroad boxcar I got 3 of them I live 10 miles from that line.

[stimpsonjc]

I bought almost all of my rolling stock on ebay, over the past 2 years.

[wafflecone98]

is that the challenger?!?

[stimpsonjc]

It's a BigBoy. 4-8-8-4

[wafflecone98]

thnx

[dafrandle]

ok if thers 3 trains puling is that just to make it realer ore dose it actuily need that many

[stimpsonjc]

It needs that many

[BigDave8802008]

@dafrandle , It depends on the engine. If the engine is really heavy, it could do it by itself, although the ones here are probly needed. Remember, it's only a 4 axle engine. A model Dash 9 could probly do it, but a model GP38-tough. Especially up hill. (In prototypical use, A GP38 has 2000 HP. A 30 car Consist isn't uncommon) Look up "CSX 8888." It was an unmanned train with a single SD40-2 (6 axle engine) pulling 47 cars with the brakes on at 15% for about 50 miles before it was stopped.

[Guilford88panam]

very nice man

[13thBear]

Cool! Loved da trains running by to the sounds of Da Locomotion! Yer 'road is rockin'!

[SWilkowski]

i have 1 of those little 040's at 0:30, cool vid

[stimpsonjc]

I installed an N-scale dcc board in the 0-4-0. Not much space in there!

[trainman932]

the desils are GP38-2's and GP40's

[stimpsonjc]

Thanks, I corrected the typos.

[sillywesties]

Very interesting!You would like our branchline,We switch with as much as 40 plus cars.I'll be adding more videos hopefully next month.

Ken