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Southern Pacific refrigerator train
Very nice!
Love the cabooses!
The cab forwards are always nice and you people have a great layout and seem to enjoy sharing it with the rest of us. Thanks for all the fine work and creativity.
“I didn’t know they had color film during the days of SP steam. Wait, what?!? This is MODEL Railroader?”
Nice job. Love the cab forward.
It must be nice to have a extra large layout. We peons are jealous.
Nothing better than a long (model) train with helpers, moving at scale-prototype speed. Love the weathering on the reefer cars, too. This video is inspiring me to get downstairs and work on my layout right now. Great job, Brian!
Great video!
SUPER!
WHY THREE CABOOSES?
Always quality! Good show!
MAN !!! you guys do such a great job !!!
BRAVO!
Very nice models! But, unless the railroad was absolutely desperate for power 2-8-0’s would not be matched up with Cabforwards. Reason: look at tender capacities. Cabforwards had much larger tenders. SP engineers who worked cabforwards have told me that they would make Roseville to Sparks (Reno) on one tank of oil, during said trip they would have to take water three times. The 2-8-0’s would have to take water much more often due to smaller capacity tenders: Not the way to make time with a high priority reefer train. Usually reefer hot shots had 2 to 3 cabforwards going up the Donner route.
What a great scene. The speed was perfect and allowed the cars to sway just enough to look real.
Nice train. I was raised in western Nebraska and as a train buff I would see trains of reefers at Grand Island on the Union Pacific. I was just a young man and always tried to figure out where the reefer trains would go. Not that many people in Omaha for that much train.
Great!
Makes me wish I was a hobo waiting for a ride.
Cab Forwards seem to be such an ideal design. Wonder why they didn’t START out this way? Crews wouldn’t have to have heat waves wafting back in summer, 180 degree visibility, smoke stack is in rear, all pluses! Seems logical; is THIS why it wasn’t done all the time? Just asking…
So wonderful to visit California again in 1954. Superb modeling and operation.
Excellent! Smoke would be nice. Somebody needs to figure a way to simulate steam effects. Whistle, pop offs, cyl. cocks, etc. Then the illusion would be complete!