Model Railroading > Chicago Great Western GP30's

Just wanted to share a picture and video I finally got around to editing of a quartet of GP30's on Mike Porter's HO scale layout. The Geeps are by P2K, and include sound and Mars lights in the nose. The audio in the video came from GP30's on Kansas' Cimarron Valley RR.

The model of the Des Moines River bridge is 15 feet long, and it's prototype is in Ft. Dodge, IA.

Enjoy,
Jeff Carlson



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/12/13 12:48 by bnsfsd70.

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Would love to see more of this awesome layout. I live in central Iowa and not to many model this area. The high bridge looks spot on to the real thing.
JC

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Wow! Incredible scene, nice sound effects!!
Chris Grote
Gulf Western Modular Railroad Society

Very nice video! The prototype sound really adds to the video.

Awesome bridge!

Dennis

Very impressive! Wish I had a wall that long!

Tom Y

One of the best HO videos I have seen; nice and slow with great sound.

dnuck

Thanks for the nice words guys. I've previously posted some more of this layout here:

http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?3,3016995,page=1

I've taken a few more videos of it as well, though I've not edited them yet. Finding appropriate audio, then editing that to sync up with the video talks a while. Give it time, I'll make it happen.

Thanks,
Jeff Carlson

And while you're at it, I've got the same video as above up on Youtube, but with a sweet 1960's film filter on it, to make it look more like train movies of the era.

You can catch that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9KXu5Iyeuc

- Jeff

Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Four units at a total of 6000 hp equaled 6 F units correct?

wabash2800 Wrote:
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> Very nice. Thanks for sharing. Four units at a
> total of 6000 hp equaled 6 F units correct?

I think your math is off a little bit here. After doing some work on the interwebs, I found that the GP30 had 2250 hp, while the F7 had 1500 hp. Therefore, three of the 30s could do the same work as four F7's, based solely on horsepower. In addition, I'm sure there were some added tractive effort and maintenance things that favored the newer engines.

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Yes, my mistake. Four units time 2250 each is not 6000.