How I built my N scale Golden State passenger train

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@luzmalara5584 9 ай бұрын

Another Nathan Here! We've both modeled the same train, except I've done mine in "HO" scale. I love that you choose Rock Island ABB E-7's to lead your "Golden State Limited"! I believe that's an important part of the streamliner concept - a person could walk all the way from observation car to the locomotive cab traveling through the vestibules. Great work on using Kato drives! Like you, I also love to run my trains, so it's important that they move reliably. Your paint/decaling is magnificent, and your talent exceeds mine. Your train order is accurate, as well as your comments concerning the mid-train lounge and Blunt-end sleeper. I would only add that this is the westbound Golden State Limited as it left Kansas City, Missouri. That's where a Rock Island coach, as well as the two 6-6-4 sleepers, were added from Minneapolis, Minnesota. These three cars were added right behind the cafe-lounge and forward of the first-class diner. When the Golden State left Chicago, the cafe-lounge and first-class diner would have been coupled together. The most expensive rooms on the train were the drawing rooms. Each drawing room was designed for 3 adults, whereas a bedroom was only designed for two. The drawing rooms are in your Golden State, two in each 4-4-2 sleeper (4 bedrooms, 4 compartments, 2 drawing rooms) and one in the Observation-lounge-sleeper. The compartments were also designed for two, but were a bit larger than a bedroom and thus more expensive. This information is from many sources, but one of the best sources is Southern Pacific Technical Society's "Trainline Magazine #59 The Streamlined Golden State". Trainline #59 is the first of four issues from 1999. Almost the entire issue of the magazine is dedicated to describing the many variations of the Golden State over the years. Sometimes, this issue can be found on eBay. You can check out my Golden State on this site titled, "Valentines Day Trains @ The Great Midwest Train Show." Unfortunately, I just ran a few cars as I was focusing on my Espee Daylight non-scale Tenshodo cars. Next February, I'll run the complete Golden State - God Willing - thanks to your inspiration. Nathan in Chicago🇺🇲🇺🇸

@stephenpulver9720 10 ай бұрын

thank you I really enjoyed that! I appreciate you talking about what you kit bash and what you built out of American limited models! I love for you to talk more about your passenger trains. Thank you for the video.

@glendenig9962 10 ай бұрын

Very cool! I have three Golden State (red/silver) Con-Cor cars with a Rock Island bi-level gallery coach pulled by a Big Red Frisco E8 in N scale. This train you have however is several levels up! Very cool! Rock Island passenger trains used to run past our house in Morris, Illinois back in the mid 70s.

@ChristopherORourke-s7g 10 ай бұрын

Great video of the joint Rock Island/Southern Pacific Golden State Limited that ran until 4/10/1968. Rock Island ran it as far as Tucuncari, New Mexico and from there to Los Angeles, CA the Southern Pacific ran it. I’m an N scale model railroader myself in the early stages of my layout. I have the Southern Pacific Morning Daylight as my excursion train that is pulled by the GS4 4-8-4 Daylight locomotive, also have 5 freight locomotive, 7 cabooses, 140 freight cars, 7 static display locomotives, track testing locomotive, 4 Amtrak P42 locomotives, 18 Amtrak passenger cars(Superliner & Heritage).

@bradscherer5268 8 ай бұрын

Beautiful modeling - thank you for sharing! Love that you included the provenance of the cars, and what steps you took after purchase to build/modify the cars!

@keving126 10 ай бұрын

I have some of those cars , yes super rare in n scale. Newer kato e8 dcc and sound equipped rock island e8, rock island e8 rock island rocket lashed up kobo. Centralis, custom. Looks fantastic!