Model Railroading > CB&W Eastbound 117-car manifest, Wed., 8-31-2022, Parts 1, 2, 3

This was an eastbound, 117-car manifest being run on the Chesapeake Bay & Western (CB&W) model RR club's layout in Grafton, Va. -- 7 miles south of Yorktown, Va.  This run was made on Wednesday, August 31, 2022.  The train had no issues all the way down the layout and the run took around 40 to 45 minutes to accomplish at the speed you're seeing here. PARTS THREE and FOUR will be added as the computer states they ".....are ready for viewing."

PART ONE shows the train negotiating "Bear Junction" crossovers, then the camera swings back over the upper Helix, then we go back to the Horseshoe Curve at Bear Junction.  At the end of Part One, I swing the camera around to show the first portion of the train already making a reverse curve move under the woodwork frames supporting the upper part of the layout.

PART TWO shows the train making the over-and-under LOOP (as seen through the woodwork at the end of Part One), and rolling by "Dead Sheep Curve."



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/06/22 10:51 by rbx551985.

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We never see the mid train helpers? Must have some? At a scale speed of around forty mph taking forty minutes to traverse, truly amazing layout.
JB

How many engines and what grade did it have to climb?

Nice but I would have liked to have  seen more of the loocomtives pulling the train.

tomstp Wrote:
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> How many engines and what grade did it have to
> climb?

In the direction it is going it is all down hill..I once ran a full 100 coal cars with a prototypical BN set up of two SD70MAC's in the front, and one in the back.  Ran great "down" the layout, it did not make it far going back up.  The max is around 4% in the main helix.

Jim

pwh Wrote:
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> Nice but I would have liked to have  seen more of
> the loocomtives pulling the train.

A red-painted Allegheny Midland unit was leading the pack. The line up was: (1) AM wide cab leading, (2) CB&W bicentennial #200, (3) a CB&W GE unit 8500, (4) a "Southern Atlantic" GE [gray-painted, freelance] unit, (5) a Virginian & Ohio SD40-2, (6) a Allegheny Midland SD40-2, (7) a Boston & Maine F-unit re-lettered for CB&W - facing toward the rear, and Southern GP38-2 No. 2771-k.

Those are in Parts Three and Four which were also taken of this move. I'm still waiting for the Google cloud (??) to state it's "Ready For Viewing."  This was shot with a celll phone camera.

PART THREE IS HERE.  NOTE the horseshoe curve in the TOWN when this video starts: it's always in the upper left background (---in the upper left CORNER, mostly---) UNTIL THE 2 CABEESE APPEAR, then finally swings fully toward the Helix.



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 09/06/22 13:26 by rbx551985.

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