Carnival Train Project Revealed!

[@vettebecker1]

Awesome looking project, fantastic work! I always wanted to do a Strates circus train

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

@vettebecker1 Thank you! This is one of those projects that requires alot of time, patience & money, but I love it! 16 years so far in the making of mine. I've currently got a series going right now on this project if you wanted to check out my newer videos!

[@LourdesReynoso-x7p]

I love your shirt, especially the trucks, you got to put the train on a big layout and run it...!!!

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

@LourdesReynoso-x7p Thank you! Yeah whenever I finally get around to making a layout it will be designed to run this train comfortably!

[@joewlosjosephwlos5713]

I would watch this train unload in Hamburg, NY when I was 8 yrs old until at least High School. You did a brilliant job, recognize a lot of the pieces. Great job, Cheers!

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

That's awesome! I've watched alot of video from that area of this train! Very lucky to see it that long! Thanks I appreciate it!

[@wilfred8326]

😂 I love that last comment/remark about the "reveal" you didn't want to be "that guy w/ 3 cars "look at me I have a carnival train 😂" When you go big you go big!

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

Very few people knew about the train until I had enough to show!

[@hotron9000]

Cool train Sir! Where is the Tilt-a-Whirl, Zipper, Rock-o-Planes & Eli Ferris Wheel? Lol. Looking forward to seeing your updates

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

Thank you! I'm still far from done as you can tell haha 12 years now so I should be done in another 10 or so lol

[@belaskodegamo6267]

I found that the cardboard from cigarette cartons was the perfect material for alot of scratch work. That and tooth picks which I used for painting details. Don't know if you care what I did but I wish I knew more people into my hobby way back when. I have a buddy/ old coworker Chris Walden, who has a huge midway, I mean like insane.

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

I think I've seen some of his work. Super nice stuff. I do alot of kit bashing and scratch building with various styrene and model kit parts. Faller is great for taking parts from!

[@philragu5298]

I spent about 10 years working on the Strates Shows Train crew loading and unloading that beast, started on the dog chain crew, then as lead man for walking the wagons up the flats. Got my ribs broken 15 times, broke my back in 3 places when a tire jumped the gunnel and the dolly's tongue we were steering the 8 trailers we were walking down the flats with snapped into my ribs and kept going as Billy Whiteman dreamed as he ran the tractor which was pulling the trailers by cable from the side of the run. Threw me a good 15, 20 feet from the train. I climbed my sore a$$ into a crane to lift the trailer while Billy pulled the front back in line and Steve-o re-positioned the dolly tongue. Then I spent the next 14 hours loading before I could even hit the hospital for pain killers... Oh, by the way the flats are blue now. I left because I wanted to take a ride and John wanted me to quit smoking pot, considering all the junkies and crackheads he hired my smoking pot on my own time and nothing else mase me a pretty model employee imho. Either way, great looking train, you should show it to Raul Hoffman, he'd get a kick out of it. If I'm honest I made some pretty good money between my salary and my green help pay for working rides during shows,

[@belaskodegamo6267]

Impressive job. I spent years, (years ago) building rides set up and trailer loaded and even some partially set up. I worked for a show for out of Newburgh Indiana called DP amusements, sold off now named Brady's Amusements, and I modeled the whole show plus a dozen or so other rides that booked in with. Anyway, I let my boys play with them and they had a fight over them and feel on em. Whole midway was gone.

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

Damn man that sucks its all gone. I worked for a show for quite a few years and got a ton of photos of rides and details. I was going to model that show but I always loved the JESX train so I decided to model that. I've still got a couple years left to finish this project. Thanks for the support!

[@anthonythomas2255]

thats fun to make out of cardboard or papers

[@EPWI92]

Looks like an awesome train 👍🏻

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

Thanks buddy!

[@valerieconover1201]

I can relate with this as my 67 train is taking longer then I thought

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

Definitely a labor of love haha

[@micoasters]

1:21 that's me. I love both. Can u do a vid where you show all the rides an what they are? I saw a mondial top scan but others are more difficult to identify when racked

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

I sure can!

[@rockyfanatic6846]

Are you going to run this train when it’s fully done

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

Yes. I'm in planning for a layout so I will be able to run it someday.

[@rockyfanatic6846]

@@midwestmodelrailroadworkshopare you gonna use CSX or like NS to pull the train and will you have a marker on one of the empty flatcars

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

@rockyfanatic6846 I don't currently have any NS or CSX Power but maybe someday after the train is done. I plan on running a full train even with lesser loads on some flat cars such as dollies or trucks. Sadly still a long way to go yet before it's done.

[@rockyfanatic6846]

@@midwestmodelrailroadworkshopwhere did you get the carnival trucks at and who made them plus who made the passenger cars you have there

[@midwestmodelrailroadworkshop]

@rockyfanatic6846 Trucks are a mix of Athearn and Herpa along with alot of custom work of course. Passenger cars are all from Walthers.