Two Locomotives and 115 Mixed Freight Cars

I am getting "video unavailable". I tried it a few times.

same here, a no show..

Me too! I can view it on YouTube though.

Art

I can;t see the video but, you're getting there.  Only two U-boats - very good for just two.  I know they can pull, but wow!

I right clicked the video, copied the url and pasted into a new browser tab.  That train just keeps coming and coming!

Click on the heading inside the black screen and it will take you to you tube and you can watch it.

that worked..... thanks

I'm not sure why it doesn't work properly, I pasted it just like all the others I've done.  You can click on the top header as mentioned and it'll take you directly to it on YouTube.

This is my personal best consist, previously I was stuck at around 75 cars.   I was impressed that the two U-Boats would do the trick, even up the grades, not too shabby.

WOW, a long train. At the end of the viedo, is that a second train ? Yall have a lot of coal cars

A great layout

brent

Actually, that's the same consist, it went up the other side of the room, through the reverse loop, and was coming up the other side.  115 cars makes for a long train.

I've seen this happen when Youtube thinks you've violated a copyright (background music for instance.)    If the video says "syndication unavailable" in the attributes that's the issue. If they detect a violation they allow playing on the site but not through links or mobile.  Weird but true!

John,

Another very enjoyable video, thanks for posting.

Alex

Pretty impressive, but probably hard on the traction tires even with two powered units.

Thanks for the comments guys, it was fun to get this going.  The key was getting two engines that were closely matched, we tried a similar one with four Legacy locomotives and kept pulling things apart, they weren't as closely speed matched.

I have no doubt the U-Boats were working pretty hard, I was surprised we didn't toss a traction tire or two.

Up the ante, sounds like a current Delta TV add. I just love it, why not 150 cars next?

I think I may have fixed the video.  I had to certify that this has never aired on TV in the US, I think I can safely say that as I just took it last night and uploaded it to YouTube.

I now get a different message that says wait, apparently they're processing the changes.

I feel sorry for those poor folks waiting at the crossing.  They'll have to back up and turn around.

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Dennis

Nowhere to go Dennis, the RR runs through the entire town!

John,

Are the engines MU'd front & middle or just a close speed match?

There were MU'ed and run as a set.  These tested really well running configured for an MU individually and keeping their spacing, so I figured they'd be a good candidate for the job.

Really cool!

Peter

Nice John, But you just upped the bar again!!!

Rats, now we have to go for 150!

Whew!! That's a lot of cars.

Really neat, John.  After having seen the layout I was imagining that train traveling over and through the bridges all over.

Thanks guys.   Brian, on the other end of the layout it was serpentine around the yard area, you could see four different instances of the same train moving in different directions, pretty intense.

That would be something to see!

It would be interesting to put a trigger pull gauge on that consist. Thought I was looking at a real train

I tried that when we were doing the previous 65 car consist, and it was a really healthy pull, but we didn't have a scale handy to see what it measured.  That's an interesting thought however.

Well I think that we will in time work our way to the 150 cars.

We have plenty of cars. With 4 engins we might make it to at least 200 cars or more

 We have them here and time to play.

It is nice to keep setting our goals higher each and every time.

We keep learning more and more with each run.

We just keep in mind the weight of the cars.

The coal cars are 1lb each and the old weaver box cars at 3/4lb per car.

I think we need a good hevey fish scale to measure the rolling weight of this train.

to see how much stress were puting on the couplers and engins.

It has been FUN!!!!!

Nice job John,

I tried putting some coins in the donation box in the lower right but they kept falling onto the laptop keyboard.

Best,

Hugh

No problem Hugh, we accept Visa or MasterCharge.

I didn't even notice before the jar sitting there.  Yes, it's empty...