Large Scale Central

Train time on 5-31-2020

I’ve been wanting to see how long of a train can be ran on the layout ever since the expansion was finished. I still have a few more cars I can add to the train and will try that next time. The train had 4 dash 9’s running at full throttle for about 30 minutes or so. You can see the engines and cars “dancing” around on the track at that speed. At a scale speed it looks more realistic. Anyway, after that I took a few of the “fragile” cars off and put them up. Then I just let the train run at a scale speed while I washed and waxed my wife’s car. Little did I know, people would be stopping by. I pretty much spent the late afternoon giving layout tours. hahaha.

Eventually I will have the rest of my fence put up. But that is going to change how the trains look coming through the long sweeping curves. I have a couple good friends coming over to run trains soon, and I’d like to see them run before I put the fence up. After that, I’ll get the fence up and I have a few ideas to change things up there too.

I lost count. How many cars is that train?

Joe Zullo said:

I lost count. How many cars is that train?

I had to go back and watch the video. I think it was 46, if I counted them right. haha.

It’s was kind of difficult since camera guy didn’t hold the whole train in a single run by but yeah Matt 46 is what I counted

Pete Lassen said:

It’s was kind of difficult since camera guy didn’t hold the whole train in a single run by but yeah Matt 46 is what I counted

Camera guy may, or may not, have had several beers by that point and his focus wasn’t that good either. hahahaha!!! (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)

Now you gotta put them all away . Great video Matt !

great video

here’s another monster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3FQnU-OUGU

jens has finally made it to youtube

John K. Saunders said:

great video

here’s another monster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3FQnU-OUGU

jens has finally made it to youtube

That is Jen Bangs ?? ^^^^ NICE

Wow, Your video is nice. I love it.