CN On My N Scale

Some Canadian National train watching on my home layout

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Model
• Railroad

[trackspike64]

Do you have any trains on this spread high ball !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you have miles and miles of track and your trains crawl I know thats scale speeds but just a little faster would be nice .....All that motive power I would put it to good use .........I use to live next to the cp rail that ran through water town wisconsin to minisota and seen many CN very sweet

[humppyus]

@trackspike64 A couple of people have made comments regarding this. When watching it again, you are right it seems a little slow moving. Usually when I fire up the layout on my own and have a couple of beers I get things moving faster.

[humppyus]

Thanks very much. Being Canadian and growing up with CN It's nice to see many manufacturers making CN Engines. When I started this layout 8 years ago most CN had to be custom painted. Needless to say the layout wasn't originally built with CN in mind from a prototypical point of view. It was meant for my other two favorites BNSF and UP with all of the fallen flags that make up these to roads.

Somedays I run CN, Some, BNSF, or UP. 

[1viva]

WOW!!! very nice!!

[jhonny1392]

Congratulations !. Very well done job for being an N sale layout, and the snowy rocks above the tunnel portal are simply spectacular !. About the speed, is the right one; considering this is a 4 unit consist train (that means is a very, very heavy one on the prototype) with a very long string of cars and probably stepping up some grades too. Imagination is a very important issue in this hobby. So, use it folks !!. Many cheers from Chile.

[superjono2]

Great layout, and the slow speeds look just fine to me.

[Mainland444]

brilliant!!!!!!! your scenery and operating speeds are great as far as I am concerned! so realistic! Im working on some trains for a future CP layout in N scale once I have more room.

[thec0nky]

Fantastic work sir! Fellow CN RR modeler here! Been planning a small N gauge layout for a month now - however this layout is making me re-think my approach! Hats off!

[humppyus]

@muzzavideos The actual engines are SD40-2W's and an SD50F. The SD50F is the wide body unit built in the 80's for CN. Basically it looks like and F45 with CN's Draper Taper style wide cab actually the same cab that is on the SD40-2W's. You are correct these wide bodied units did get the nick name covered wagons. Canadian Pacific had SD40's that were also wide bodied and they were called Red Barns.

[humppyus]

@muzzavideos The actual engines are SD40-2W's and an SD50F. The SD50F is the wide body unit built in the 80's for CN. Basically it looks like and F45 with CN's Draper Taper style wide cab actually the same cab that is on the SD40-2W's. You are correct these wide bodied units did get the nick name covered wagons. Canadian Pacific had SD40's that were also wide bodied and they were called Red Barns.