Catching Some Trains On My Layout Before the Tear-Down (+real train sounds!)

“On a fine spring morning in 1978, I headed out to Plattsburgh to see what I could catch on the D&H Champlain Division. First up was SC-19, the Whitehall-Rouses Point local freight, with a Geep on point. After clearing the yard, SC-12, the Plattsburgh local, headed out onto the siding, and after picking up a boxcar, headed up to the GP mill. After watching them switch the mill, we caught them down at the yard again to wrap up this day of railfanning on the D&H.”

Enjoy! The train sounds were fun to add, I actually recorded the GP38-2 sounds from a real D&H Geep.

https://youtu.be/sEweiGzGyXg

Great job!

A lot of good stuff going on there.

That video was a lot of fun to watch.

Rich

Excellent! What is 5001, an RS 11? The sound is great, and so is the horn. What decoder are you using?

Mike.

Nice video, man! The close-up video is really good!! And the sound was much more realistic than the weak-bass sounds we usually hear from the sound-equipped models.

I hope you’ll be rebuilding soon…

What’s the deal with the tear down? Off to college?

Good Stuff!![tup][tup]
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Hey Harrison, Thanks for the fun vid! Regards, Peter

Thanks for the kind words everyone! Mike, the engine isn’t sound, I added the sound seperately. It is indeed an RS-11. Rio Grande, I’m simply looking to make a better layout with more operational features. The idea is I can finish it before I go off to college…

Sorry to hear about the teardown. Is that layout in a club? It looks VERY realistic. You might find the 2nd layout more enjoyable since you can apply lessons learned from the 1st.