CamTrak II in the NJ Hirailers Subway

My newest camera carrier car, "CamTrak II". makes its public debut on 01/17/2009 at the NJ Hirailers ( http://www.njhirailers.com/ ) open house for members of the O Gauge Railroading Online Forum.

This car was built following the failure of the first CamTrak to successfully complete a full lap of the subway portion of the layout, and was designed to not only travel in the tight confines of the subway level, but also on the main layout, clearing the DZ-1000 switch machines that the previous CamTrak struck at various times during my other "engineer's eye" video.

I scratchbuilt CamTrak II entirely out of sheet styrene, it rides on a pair of MTH freight trucks, and is equipped with battery-powered LED headlights sourced from the innards of a pair of keychain flashlights.

Oh yes, also marvel at the craftmanship of the NJ Hirailers as the car passes through the completed stations. There are views here that few people, let alone cameras will see,

I'll probably make one more of these when the subway level and the yard connecting it to the main layout is completed, and when the elevated line you can see under construction as the camera approaches the tunnel portals is finished and connected,

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• model
• train
• O-Gauge
• MTH
• Lionel
• CamTrak
• NJ
• Hirailers
• camera-car

[littleevan99]

Was it a Lionel R27 subway cars? It sounded like them?

[RailRide]

@littleevan99

Yes, those are the Lionel ones pushing the camera car.

[drfate234]

Awesome layout, although I can't understand WHY there's a repsentation of griffity on the subway cars, this is a sick

thing to include on a layout, and people who like this crap are just as sick as the people who do it as this IS NOT ART.

[RailRide]

That's largely the work of one person who does custom "re-decorations".

I prefer my trains clean as well, so I just ignore his :)

[TheMaster592]

How did you make the 3rd rail

[RailRide]

"I" didn't. (I'm not even a member of the club). But the folks who did make it, appear to have used HO scale flextrack rail.

[alexgets98]

1:08 to 1:54 my favourite part!!

[Videomaker326]

this isnt cool. THIS IS AWESOME!

[StickFight775]

And a Redbird!

[StickFight775]

What? Did I saw a R12-14 work train?

[StickFight775]

Wh

[prorobo]

This is incredible. Love the 3rd rail detail. Wicked amazing!

[prorobo]

@drfate234 A layout is a MODEL of REAL LIFE. In a perfect world, there would be no weathering of equipment, rails, ballast, or anything like that and a layout would look like toys. Realism includes graffiti.

[manny298]

NY NY... I love New York... This is why I live in Miami now...

[MrBlaqBobbi]

Agree with Parrot, graffiti is not the best use of talents in our inner cities, but it is a part of life, and it adds to the "reality" of the model. I say paint a few more of and paint over them to show a repaint job! Graffiti can be "art" just as all paintings have the POTENTIAL to be "art".

[kemoblue4u]

i agree with him....graffiti is NOT art...it is ugly vandalism....it looks disgusting...and i live in NYC i see it all the time.