This is an awesome challenge! I may have to do this challenge guys. 😅 Great video guys!
@TwoRailfans2 ай бұрын
Thank you. I think you should do it!
@MMPlaneSpotting-su3ns3 ай бұрын
Very impressive! The smoothness of your track is amazing, no rocking motion whatsoever!
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thank you! We did our best to make the radius slightly over the standard sizes (22.5" and 19" vs. 22" and 18") since we were using the flex track, and with flex track most of the joints are every 36".
@kellyashfordtrains26423 ай бұрын
Very nice. I'd like to see steam engines running some time, I don't mean Thomas and James, I mean proper steamies without a face.
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thank you. We had to use the best combo of locomotives for this challenge. I love our steam locomotives but they would not have worked for this.
@blackhillsandeasternrailroad3 ай бұрын
This was fun! Back in the day when I was with an HO scale club, we got close or maybe even surpassed prototypical length coal trains once or twice. I'm sure that has happened many times there before and since. I know, I know... I don't have video, so it doesn't count!
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
I haven't seen too many people follow Dave's challenge, but it was fun to see how close we could get. The limiting factor for us was the combination of inclines and curves, not the pulling power. Anything beyond what we ran started to derail.
@czlowiekstarejdaty3 ай бұрын
Very beautiful 👍
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY3 ай бұрын
That length train would never fit on Dylington. In fact, a quarter, the length wouldn't fit on 😁. Great to see it running round your layout....Cheers James 🙂👍
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Well normally we wouldn't run anything near this long. Our layout is not small, but small enough that a train this length looked ridiculous on it. 😂
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY3 ай бұрын
@TwoRailfans well it would certainly look ridiculous on Dylington 😂👍
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
@@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY sometimes ridiculous can be fun though. 😁
@DYLINGTONMODELRAILWAY3 ай бұрын
@@TwoRailfans well yes that is true, and we always endeavour to have fun on Dylington 😁👍
@anfieldroadlayoutintheloft52043 ай бұрын
nice running of long trains thanks lee
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thanks Lee. This was fun to do.
@MoBa-Freunde-MV-Ickern3 ай бұрын
Hello, very impressive, powerful locomotive
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thank you. Those locomotives don’t even have weight in them anymore. The layout limited how close we could get though. I know this combination could pull more.
@Moriks233 ай бұрын
Great video, very beautiful and interesting recording, long train 👍👍👍
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thank you. 😀
@KerleyExpress3 ай бұрын
😮 nice 👍 rail fanning 😊
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thanks Dwight. Finally, a challenge that favors those of us who don't have empire sized layouts! 😂
@davidwhite18643 ай бұрын
Awesome long train action👍
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thank you David. I think this is probably the limit on our layout considering all the curves and the inclines.
@davidwhite18643 ай бұрын
@@TwoRailfans Yeah tight curves are the real limiting factor.
@grandparails88583 ай бұрын
Cool challenge! I’ll have to try this when I get back home.
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
This was way longer than everything we have run up to this point. If we didn't have an incline I think we could have gone much longer without derailment, but this was as long as we could go.
@grandparails88583 ай бұрын
@@TwoRailfans yes inclines do cause problems when trying to run long trains. On my last layout I could only pull 32 up the incline.
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
And our incline goes around multiple curves. 😂
@jessenoklahoma3 ай бұрын
Nice video, I would love to participate, but my track only holds 20 cars lol
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Thanks Jesse. You actually have the perfect layout for this and I think you should give it a try. Add the hashtag to your video. The point is to get the front and back as close as possible. Our layout is a little too big for this to work well.
@jessenoklahoma3 ай бұрын
@@TwoRailfans awesome, that's pretty easy for me 😎
@TwoRailfans3 ай бұрын
Add that hashtag. I’ll be sure to check out your video.
@jessenoklahoma3 ай бұрын
@@TwoRailfans will do, thanks 👍
@jessenoklahoma3 ай бұрын
Are there any other rules I need to know about? And what's the deadline?