As a West Virginian who is quite familiar with the area and the C & O I would like to commend your rolling stock and layout. Excellent. Very close to actual. One tip if I might. Rail line telegraph poles in this area were drenched in creosote to protect the wood from high humidity. Therefore they were a flat dark grey, almost black. Keep up the good work and enjoy!

This really took me back. I was a youngster in Hinton back in 1949-50. Your C & O whistling reminded me of the haunting whistle sounds echoing up thru the New River Gorge. It was surreal. The only thing missing was the sounds of the river near Hinton as it was dotted with boulders. I would hang out at the station after dark watching for the bats flying just above the rails thru the fog that was slightly lit by the street type lamps lining the platform perhaps a hundred feet down the rails. When a coal drag came thru, it took as much as 1 hour or so to pass. It went slightly faster than walking speed. With a distinctive click-click, click, click of the wheels passing over the rail joints, the coal drag would labor past the station. There was a chill in the air. It was an experience I have never forgotten……

C&O railroads are old time. I am enjoying this.

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Such a nice locomotive, have you ever thought of selling it? I would be interested if you are.

Hi there , Love the Area your modeling , Nice job , being a N scaler myself and modeling the same area , it's always wonderful to see others perspectives . Really nice job. Cheers 🥂 be safe and Happy new year , from Alberta Canada🇨🇦 and Shoot some new videos of your wonderful creation . 😊 PS , glad to be your 100th subscriber . 👍

Awesome layout and weathering on your locos and rolling stock. Didn't the real #1644 have over fire jets on the sides of the firebox? or did that begin with #1645 and higher?

Nice layout man, welldone

Absolutely inspiring and outstanding in all regards! I always wanted to do something like this in N Scale, but never. You my friend have achieved this goal that many only dream of.

Amazing layout! I've been dreaming about building my own N scale New River SD for 20 years - but I'm aiming for 1980 era with first and second generation diesels. Do you have a website with more information about the layout, and a track plan? I would love to see how you handled the C&O main crossing the river along the route. Great inspiration - thanks!

Outstanding Layout, hope to see more. Bob, Longshadowsmodeltrees.com

Id love to see the layout plan for this!

Nice meeting you in Utah chasing the Big Boy steam locomotive. You are in my video at 12:56 when we were in Uintah, Utah. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpjPnYeQosp4rLc

This is so cool, my grandpa ran the general store/PO in Quinnimont for the coal miners from 1943 to 1970......they lived at the rail yard. Great job

GREAT VIDEO AS THANK YOU SHOWING THE OPERATION OF LAYOUT

Wow stunning layout. Love the fact you have done steam. Great video hope to see lots more.

Very Lifelike, scenery looked really Good, Thanks

This video is awesome. I noticed something very unique, almost immediately. I'm not sure if you actually designed your layout ,in a manner that would take model train audio, and it's realism to new heights. I am amazed at how realistic these locomotives sound ,regarding the terrain, in which they are traveling. .i can hear every little echo. BTW it's visually stunning as well.

I'm in the middle of producing a cab-ride video of my N-scale layout and had the same problem although my scenery foliage turned purple. I mostly solved the problem by replacing light bulbs with the LED variety. They are kind of expensive (around $4.00 each) but flooded the layout with much stronger light and removed most of the purple. You can also use the bulbs in clip-on work type fixtures to flood dark spots on the layout. Nice looking scenery.

Beautiful scenery 👍

Great layout 0011jmha you captured the Alleghany perfect in N Scale. I model the pensy's but at this point in time I haven't a layout. I do have limited space in my old age working on a 12 foot town scene that will have a lot of switching and run thru's . At one time I had all 4 main line tracks in a garage layout that was my pride and joy in the late 80's early 90's. Keep up the great model railroading!! Warren

Great video ! Thanks for sharing and keep up the great work... Lance 🚂

I love the H8. Fortunately I do not live to far from the Henry Ford museum where 1601 resides. I can remember my dad taking me there as a kid and this locomotive is by far my favorite display piece. I currently own a HO H8 but have yet to send it out for the DCC decoder and weathering. Recently I had the privlidge of riding in the cab of the 1225 2-8-4 Berkshire Pere Marquette; that was a dream come true with having assisted firing the engine. Your layout is a great success with beautiful detail of modeling the landscape. Thank you for all your uploads, they are always fascinating to watch.

Great layout. Appreciate the view.

Beautiful layout!!! You appear to have an L-2 Hudson on the point of your FFV. Did you kitbash that? really enjoyed your video. Thank you.

Nice locomotives. Please, Whose epic layout is this shot on, and where is it located?

No, they were imported by now-defunct Key Imports in 1996, made in Korea by Samhongsa. Three versions were produced; Early as built (#1609), Intermediate/modified (#1644) and late (1645 class).

are the allegheny's scratchbuilt?

There are 4 Key Imports H-8s, 2 K-4s and one T-1 in working order with Lenz decoders. 4 Bachmann 2-6-6-2s and a lot of other plastic steam power. 225 hoppers and another 250 miscellaneous cars.The layout is DCC-controlled.

@Spyda0Jones The layout is N-scale, prototype is the C&O railroad, New River Subdivision 1948-53

0:15 that crunchy sound is coming out of the Bachamann mallet?

@GrandPimp20 The 4-6-2 is a ModelPower Pacific, with Microscale C&O decals and a Concor Berkshire tender. Flying pumps were also added. The boiler is a bit too skinny but I think it's an acceptable F-18. It's a bit noisy, though.

Son of a bitch....

Very good, you got five stars.

Right, it is code 80. However, the wheel flanges of the Key Imports locos are very low, I am quite sure it'll run fine on code 55. The H-8 is sensitive to track alignment, see the #1644 wiggling into Quinnimont in the 2nd video. Curve is almost too tight. Also, the short fixed wheelbase (only the 2nd driver group) makes pulling a long train up an ascending curve demand exact track alignment and not too tight a radius or steep incline.

There is plenty of room in the tender for both a sound decoder and a loudspeaker. I have 4 H-8's in working order, but I haven't run them as pushers (the were seldom doubleheaded). Also, pushers were mostly used east of Hinton, not much on the New River SD, where my layout is set.

The layout is DCC-controlled. The H-8's are Key Imports brass, which I have equipped with Lenz decoders travelling in the tenders.

Very nice layout!