Steam Coal Drag in Hinton, West Virginia

Chesapeake and Ohio HO model Railroad in Bay Area of California. This layout is based upon the prototype and the Main Yard is Hinton West Virginia. You will see a cola drag coming into Hinton Yard, a helper engine added to the end of train in front of caboose and then the train going up the hill to other end of layout. Steam engines use Tsunami sound decoders and Digital system is NCE. (I taped this at 320 with 15 FPS and will record it again at higher resolution someday)

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• Movie
• HO
• Railroad
• Modelrailroad
• Chesapeake
• RR
• MRR
• Railroading
• Decoders

[stixxx79]

very nice layout. Gorgeous locomotives. Question: was it common for the C&O to have a helper engine in front of the caboose like that? I am not too fond of the C&O history but do not recall ever seeing photos of that on any road.

[ownry]

@stixxx79 yes is was common to run helper in front of caboose on most railroads like this. Southern Pacific did it also. or they cut in a few cars in front of rear. depended on number of total cars in string. - Kent

[NW2300]

nice layout. curious if this layout was featured in a model train magazine?

[ownry]

@NW2300 yes, this layout has been in Model Railroader magazine a few years back. It might also be in current RMC.

[7vitaman]

Lionel??? 

[ownry]

@7vitaman not lionel, but HO. various manufacturers. some brass engines.

[southern3048]

Are those soundtraxx decoders in the locos

[Hadleton]

Do I here a model lawnmower with sound as well?

:P

[southern3048]

I meant to say decoders

[NW2300]

do you know what issue it was in?

thanks

[emaglott]

layout looks great, esp the weathering.

[whitbywv]

Well done on the coal tower, Fan freaking tastic detail. That tower still stands at Hinton