Model Railroading > Mid-train slaves in HO

Caught a northbound empty grain train, looks like the chief dispatcher put two empties together today with mid-train slaves. A shame for the crew one brand new C40-9W and another year old are the mid-train power. They get the trusty SD40-2 and some older GEs on the front end.

Movie taken at Altavista VA, where the old N&W and Southern built a connection track. Notice the CPLs on the N&W side and the Southern Style signal bridge on the ex-Southern main.

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Good God that was awesome!!! Everything, the cars, the engines, the trackwork, the metal wheelsets on the joints...it does not get any better than this....great work weathering it all up...please post up more video's of your layout. Don't hide it...LOL...

I hope everyone will look at this outstanding video. I've never enjoyed one as much!

Regards, Bobby

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Very impressive. I love the weathering on the engines. The high hood U boat is my favorite. The bench work and track appear to be top notch. Fine work and thanks for sharing.

Hella awesome! I second and third the below comment! That consist up front was enough for me, and then came the train. Wow!

Newman Wrote:
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> Good God that was awesome!!! Everything, the cars,
> the engines, the trackwork, the metal wheelsets on
> the joints...it does not get any better than
> this....great work weathering it all up...please
> post up more video's of your layout. Don't hide
> it...LOL...

This has to be the nicest Ho train that I have ever seen.Wow!

Thanks for the comments. I will take some more videos. Here's another one from today, I love B-boats, and there incessant clunking, so here's B30-7A1 with newly installed sound and LEDs on the shakedown run, working Cargill before it got assigned to the previous grain train. I absolutely love the cast Nathan P5 horn on the loksounds..it's awesome!

*Just in case you are wondering the tag in this video says "Busick", and in the previous video I referenced Altavista, the layout pranksters made an appearance and swapped some tags around. Made for much more excitement when no-one knew where they were really at. Time to get out pee-cups for the crew.

Cooper



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/27/15 17:02 by SOU3921.

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Nice job assembling and weathering that train!
Tim Costello

Great video! Nice variety in the train.

SOU3921 Wrote:
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> I love
> B-boats, and there incessant clunking, so here's
> B30-7A1 with newly installed sound and LEDs

It sounds and looks really good. Is it Atlas with the decoder swapped out?

Correct, it started life as an Altas B23-7, it's had some C30-7 grills and doors grafted into the shell.

Really nice work Cooper! Great weathering.

Joe Atkinson
Council Bluffs, IA
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GREAT, Thanks for sharing.

Brian
Burlington, Iowa