Southern Pacific Railroad in the Cascades - Cab Forward Passenger Operations Re-edit

Same as "Cab Forwards Passenger Operations" of June 8 except for changes at 12:33 and 17:14. Added a better cab interior image. Final edit at • Southern Pacific Railr...

[@christophers.o622]

I always liked the Southern Pacific cab forward 4-8-8-2 which was the steam version of a diesel locomotive which ran through the tunnels in the Sierra Nevada mountains & over Donner pass and on some of the Cascade route in Oregon because of the tunnels & snowsheds.

[@billr991]

Thanks treefrogflag. One or two of the lumber loads were made with small individual pieces of scale lumber glued together. This is very tedious and time consuming, so I duplicated the original lumber stacks with resin casting. The stakes and cross ties were then individually applied for each load.

[@TouchoftheBrushModelWeathering]

Great video! Love the cab rides and aerial view!

[@billr991]

Sometimes you get the blinking light. Sometimes you don't. I'm glad the decoder BLI put in this locomotive works at all. I've experienced a certain amount of flakiness with these decoders.

[@a22stanley]

I LOVED it!

[@sphauler]

Fantastic operation video! Just a tip, try adding some figures in the locomotives. Especially in the 4346. I think you'll like the effect. Thanks for sharing. Long live the Espee.

[@nathan1li]

Thank you.

[@JamesPattersonGeepfan]

that was actually pretty prototypical what he did, depending upon yard space they would usually have the engine get all the way before the forward would have made its way towards the depot. Usually they also did switching of head end equipment at crew/engine change points as well, so the wait usually is negligible.

[@paulreyn71]

Also try changing those BLI and Athearn Sound decoders to Tsunami sound decoders the stoc ones have to be driving you crazy by now

[@billr991]

Caboose Hobbies in Denver, Walthers , Intermountain Railway, Broadway Limited Imports. Use Google to find the URLs. I can't post them here.

[@paulreyn71]

Personally i'm not crazy about realistic operations but if the passengers on a train had to wait for all that you would have some pretty pissed off people it would be 4-8-2 uncouples and moves to siding 4-8-8-2 moves to couple train leaves 4-8-2 moves off to roundhouse.

[@TreefrogflagProductions]

Also, how do you make the lumber loads on your flat cars, I really like them!

[@TreefrogflagProductions]

Is there a way to get rid of the blinking light on the Cab Forward?

[@CPLWTrainz]

im just curious what company made those southern pacific coach's im having trouble finding anything like it

[@billr991]

Some of the cars were built from Branchline kits; the rest were purchased ready to run from Walthers. I bought them several years ago and don"t know if they are still available. Try searching the Walthers and Branchline websites.

[@nathan1li]

Where did you get the trains?

[@trainmantim99]

Bill who made the SP cab forward? Is it from BLI.

[@billr991]

It is an AC-4/5 from BLI.

[@trainmantim99]

Bill Rogers That is who I thought it was from.

[@boomer8806]

Does that 4346 have RC couplers or was that uncoupling scene just some fancy editing?

[@billr991]

It has ordinary couplers. I just edited my hand out.

[@boomer8806]

Ah, ok. Your layout is the best multi level layout I've ever seen, its one of my favorites to watch videos of. I think the only layout that rivals yours is the La Mesa club layout in San Diego

[@billr991]

+Thanks BroadwayLimited