Was this engine even running?? All I hear is the EMD behind it. Suspecting it is being pushed.

Lmao I also got as far as the entrance and said Nope! It looked sketchy as hell

I like the whistle and I some times volunteer there

What a GREAT video. I’m working in the railroad industry for 50 years and got to ride on my first narrow gauge in Portland, Maine. Examining the rail, it looked like the rails were standard weight

I like the video

I have a question how old do you have to be to join the la mesa model railroad club

This was featured in an old kids train video titled "BIG TRAINS LITTLE TRAINS" from 1994. I Wonder where Carly & Connor are now?

This has to be the most amazingly CLEAN industrial railroad (& narrow gauge, to boot!) I've ever seen in my life! The locomotives look immaculate & very modern. (What manufacturer built them?). Even the gondoal cars are clean! Iron ically, the ONLY piecr of equipment that showed ANY signs of weathering was the water car! 😄 I'm guessing the fact that this is a desert environment in additon to rxcellent maintenace; and the fact that appatently in a very sparsely populated are means graffitti is non-existent! 🙂 Where in the southwest is this operation located? Very interesting video! 😉

Great coverage of a really unique operation. Also, 16:30 had me laughing a little on the inside. Great video.

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When did shay 3 last operate at PSRM. I know she was sold 98 to Cass.

Steve Lee yelled at Doyle McCormick wanna race

This locomotive was built by MLW for the White Pass and Yukon Railway in Alaska. However it never operated there because they shut down their freight operations in the early 1980s. It was subsequently acquired by USG for their Plaster City operation, replacing GE 70-ton C-C locomotives. It was originally built with the safety cab; there is another unit from the order of three with safety cabs still working on the WP&Y

Thanks for sharing this it sure was fun, we made some great friends. We have been watching many of our old videos lately. We sure created some special garden railroads. 😊

Larry Rose and I are both past presidents of the San Diego Garden Railway Society. Larry’s was one of the first built in 1988-89 I think. Larry’s late wife,Tanya, was a master gardener. We had a lot of fun in those days and didn’t take ourselves seriously.

How to make custom HOn3 USG locomotive? It is beautiful model 🥰

I feel more comfortable with 5ft gauge for industrial operations at a large gypsum quarry and the large gypsum plants. Although timber logging and peat extraction operational sites widely utilizing less than even 3ft narrow gauge NG 750mm~29.528in. The majority of 750mm NG rail roads already have long suspended their operations due to lacking demand for peat. The children's NG rail roads are quit popular among all post soviet states. Such recreational rail roads also serve as a place for internship for students of vocational schools. Much better to grasp knowledge and hone skills, when you work in a real place.

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She's a beauty 🤩

Spreckles really should have listened to his advisors.

Great explore, subscribed. Do you happen to have coordinates to the shack and mine? Appreciate it.

So THAT'S how these double-decker passenger cars looked liked before they were spray painted in graffiti's and put away in 2007 on Carrizo Gorge siding...

This line was a big failure. You dream and sometimes it just goes south.

Is that the Plastar City Railroad as a model?

Great layout and equipment! In case anyone is interested Mike May has partnered up with PBL to produce HOn3 kits for the WP&Y and the USG versions of the Bombardier MLW DL535e(W). I just pre-ordered two of them two weeks ago. The company is called Northbound Model Works. If you’re still into bashing away at it consider this…after twenty years of turning Atlas RS-4/5’s into Alco DL535’s, I’m opting for the kit! The equipment in this video represents the leading edge of the hobby by any measure. Outstanding!

Very cool

What ever happened to that locomotive I remembered it seeing go by my old neighborhood in Tijuana Mexico when I was a kid can anyone tell me ???

This is an awesome video. I didn’t think Narrowgauge still existed. Thanks for sharing.

Jail time!

Scratch built loco? Or is there a place you can buy it?

He was lucky he wasn’t ran over thank you god

Up 8444 and sp 4449 coming through to los Angeles

Up 8444 está soprando original whistle igual a voz do meu primo Júnior e sp 4449 está usando o sp&s 700 cracked whistle igual a voz da tia Marlurcia e sp 6 chime whistle igual a voz da prima alicinha

Up 8444 and sp 4449 arriving at los Angeles ca

What a surprise! 😃😍😍😍😍😍

Been there lots of time never get old❤

I am just wondering what would happen if a shay went way over its max speed?

5:53 despite spending 2 days out there - I annoyingly did not get up on that ridge both days. Definitely want to get back for that…glad to see other perspective from there

I do have to ask though - how did your truck hold up in the sand? I rented a jeep wrangler specifically for this railroad and it did well for me. I initially had a small truck before upgrading to the wrangler thinking a truck wouldn’t get it done. The jeep did well for the most part - but it did get pretty bad for a quarter mile stretch or so about half a mile past the superstition trestle heading towards the quarry.

Great video documenting the operations. What a fun railroad to photograph.

I hope one day to visit the Ghost Town & Calico Railroad in the near future. They have a lot of cool old narrow gauge railroad equipment that were from the states of Colorado and New Mexico. Like Denver & Rio Grande Western 340.

i wouldn't mind being ran over and killed by the 4449, but that guy was a fool by doing such thing

I'm just curious about why the first car is empty on the inbound train?

Interesting that at around 12:07, on the return trip from the mine, the first car behind the locomotive appears to be empty. Is this the case and if so, for what purpose?

I always go out to Imperial County with my family for camping and riding ATVs and we always take the 8 that passed by the rails that run through the refinery. My dad told me that they still ran rail operations there, but I never realized how it worked until I decided to do a little more research

Pretty goofy railroad. Get all that stock tuned up.

My nicknames for the 2-8-2's: 14 - Martin Lawrence 15 - George Harrison 17 - John Lennon 18 - Péter Soltész

Up 8444 & sp 4449

Hi. We lived in DelMar and my son met Trevor. I believed he owned it and this was private property back in the early 90s. He was very kind and gave us rides on this. Please respond. 😊

Where is this exactly, and may I join in?