Union Pacific Intermodal Pig Trains With DDA40X - La Mesa Model Railroad Club

[@davidstewart5694]

Man it's in my bucket list to go operate there for about 3 days lol. Could easily stay there 12 hours straight. They've come so far since I was there in 98. They've given me a invitation to bring a train. See we got some UP reroutes here lol. Good looking stuff. Definitely enjoy seeing some good weathering.

[@jimrockford3662]

A big regret that I haven’t been to the museum YET. Great to see the Centennial in action.

[@cheryltysver6132]

Your ability to find locations on the layout and to factor in train length in order to get shots that will allow the viewer to determine the distances between the headend and the rear end of the trains is phenomenal and the consistent presentation of engine consists together with an uninterrupted view of the entire consists from multiple locations on the layout is something that a lot of other video presenter's could learn from! Excellent job, as always.

[@artkemberling7764]

Love seeing the Conrail Trailvan and CF piggybacks.

[@daviddryden8088]

The scene at 23:00 is what sets this layout apart from almost all others. The backdrop painting. Worthy of canvas. Whoever painted that is one heck of an artist. I realize not everyone is Bob Ross, but most model railroads appear as if the backdrop was painted by a 4 year old. It would be better to just paint the wall blue than to destroy the illusion of great modeling with bad painting.

[@colinanderson3490]

I would love to see the steam locomotives from various railroads of America and Canada such as 4-8-4s, 4-8-2s and. Various Mallets.

[@HiVoltish]

This is what layouts look like in Heaven.

[@danielboone3770]

I love this model piggy back!

[@needs2quit1atgmail87]

Wow I'm very impressed not only do you have different types of flat cars super detailed,, you also have different types of trailers and early containers,. I didn't see any duplicate road numbers!!!

[@riogrande5761]

Nice TOFC flat car train and appears fairly faithful to about 1985 or 86 with the KTTX back to back trailer flat cars. A few of the 40' foot trailers would have been rare by then I'd guess.

[@kcsnow9447]

Yeah...I'd be shocked to learn a DD40 ever ran over Tehachapi even one single time. As I recall, the UP units like the DD40s sported "in cab" signalling, such indications transmitted through the rails and visible to the engineer in his seat (a GYR stack of three, if I remember right, off to his left where the control stand sat), regardless of where he was in a given block. Pre Wi-Fi, you might say. Certainly pre-Command Control. :D Today you could probably hack that sort of arrangement from your cellphone... ...even if you could barely text. I'm sure such an advancement--it certainly was back in the day--has been long since eclipsed. Sigh. I miss those grand old days.

[@BNSFandSP]

6936 did, with an OCS in '99

[@kcsnow9447]

@@BNSFandSP And it looks like you are right, so color me shocked. Not sure what the OCS was, but I'll guess it must have been some sort of "special," as keeping the 6936 in service simply for the purpose of moving general tonnage would have been pretty desperate. In the same way that keeping a Challenger or Big Boy going to move a double stack train would be. So what was the OCS?

[@Mr6stringchaos]

6936 ran over Tehachapi in 96, shortly after the merger. It was leading a freight. Saw it a year prior on a high priority stack train in Cajon.

[@wasatchrangerailway6921]

The cab signals were Green---proceed! Green/Yellow---40 mph! Yellow/Red---30 mph! Red---Restricting! For a total of 4 aspects!!!!

[@FFred-us9tw]

@@kcsnow9447 OCS= Office Car Special.