Trains Across America - Part 19

This interactive video series features model railroaders sharing their trains around the USA.

The transformer from part 15 comes to the Pacific coast.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• BN
• SP
• Chessie
• System
• UP
• Rio
• Grande
• HO
• scale
• model
• railroad
• train
• Amtrak

[TSBYrailroad]

awesome layout!! i love the yard near the end. fantastic video and great sounds (they were right on the dot!)

[wesolint]

Thanks for the great compliment! I really enjoyed making videos for this series and tried really hard to put together a good quality show. Comments like yours make it all the more satisfying. My personal favorite is part 12.

[phillonly]

hi.. im relatively new to the hobby and ive seen in some videos the cars uncouple automatically.. is this done by a pice of track or what?

[wesolint]

Hi back.

There are several ways to do it. I suggest you ask at your local model train store as I do not have room to describe it all here. They will be, at least in my experience, more than happy to assist you in learning all about this hobby (they want you to spend money in their store!). There are also a lot of good beginner books available too - they have them.

I prefer to uncouple by hand and then edit the film!

[consistadore]

Great vid as usual Steve! Gotta love 'em man!

Keep 'em coming! Love that BN!

[mtrails]

One of, if not your very best!! Loved the sequencing FRED's at the end, cool!

[JadedRomantic]

I miss so very much that cascade green of the big mean bn machine.

[TSBYrailroad]

@wesolint no problem! i'll check it out!

[wesolint]

That would be TOO COOL if it were all generated from the models! It took a lot of editing to get it to sound "just right". Thanks for the super compliment!

[Sunclief]

@wesolint All along I was thinking that it was the trains that were doing the sounds and the rumble and stuff and I thought that this must have cost you an absolute fortune. I will say that this is worth watching very well made.

[BNforever2009]

I have a old rebuilt brass Alco C-636 and custom painter into a private railroad scheme (ZGM--Zyglot Gold Mines RR) and this railroad hauls coal and aggregrate from upper Michigan Peninsula and Minnesota and southern Manitoba Canada and a seperate line in the Yukon Territories which connects w/ CP in Canada. I will be concentrating on Minnesota and connecting with the BN as far as coal trains is concerned and shipping coal to the Texas ports as well as the Seattle ports.

[wesolint]

I wish! I do a lot of editing with real train sounds laid over the top of my clips. It would be a lot easier if the models were doing it but I guess that's half the fun of doing this.