Garden Railways Flat Service Train Article - Revisited

Garden Railroading
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Hi to All,

I created a video with two USAT Rio Grande GP-30 locomotives pulling a Flat Service Train. The idea of a Flat Service Train came from Garden Railways Magazine. There was a article featured some time ago on how flat type cars are often over looked and how much fun it is to run a flat type service train. I believe the article came out around 2003 because I created my Flat Service Train in 2004 and have been having fun with it ever since. I’m glad the article got published but this train sure has been fun to run.

Flat cars can range from pulpwood cars which take wood to the paper mills to centerbeam flat cars which take plywood to lumber warehouses. Even the Auto Carriers are built on TTX Flat Type cars. Flat cars can feature a endless variety of different loads. My Flat Service Train even has 2 pipe load flats, 2 depressed center flats with construction equipmet and a spool of cable on another depressed center flat which one could model going to a construction site project. The ideas for flat type cars are endless.

Video Link >
http://youtu.be/Qh-8YeV1iSE

I Thank Garden Railways Magazine for the “Flat Service Train” article.

Shawn

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I see that I came across this late, but is there a different link for the video, or perhaps you did not mark it for public viewing?

Greg

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video not working

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My Apologoes,

There were alot of major updates to our Video Channel so alot was changed.

Here is the link to the video for the “Flat Service Train” being pulled by a USAT NW2 Cow and Calf

http://youtu.be/Qh-8YeV1iSE

Here is the link to the video for the "Flat Service Train being pulled by 2 USAT GP-30 locomotives

http://youtu.be/VTgZ3kvX9zc

Thanx For Your Patience

Shawn

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Tried to use your links to both videos on 2 laptops and 2 desktops and could not get there. Went to my channel on YouTube and cut/paste your title and found the videos at these address.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-8YeV1iSE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTgZ3kvX9zc

Looks like you got a stray period (dot) inside the address.