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

You can pretty much use your imagination with this one. Rarely if ever a DDA40X ran over Tehachapi before the UP and SP combined into a mega railroad. The fact of the matter is, the La Mesa Model Railroad Club has a wide variety of members. Many of those members no only model the SP or Santa Fe but they also contribute to the variety of trains from various eras. On any given day during public operating days members will operate CSX, Canadian National, Illinois Central, Western Pacific, Burlington Northern to name a few. On this day I brought my UP VAN train consisting of various types or classes of power but also modified Trixx stock cars to replicate CSLAZ that ran between Chicago and Los Angeles. Featured are Athearn RTR SD40-2s I heavily modified and detailed including an Atlas U30C.
Enjoy.
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[@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.

[@danielboone3770]

I love this model piggy back!

[@HiVoltish]

This is what layouts look like in Heaven.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.