Thought some folks might enjoy a peek at our club railroad. We are a group of about 6-8 guys comprised of mostly real railroaders and me as the resident technician. First post will be some vids shot just last week, then I will post some from our archive.
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Got D&H?
Very Nice!
Love that D&H!
Albany, NY view with the Shaefer brewery...
Our club railroad is loosely based on the Capital District of Albany, NY around the D&H and the NYC. We are now introducing New England roads to the railroad by expanding our locomotive and rolling stock fleet. I have more vids to post, but they take a looooong time to upload. Thanks for viewing.
Rich
3 rail alco doctor posted:Albany, NY view with the Shaefer brewery...
Did you modify the Rs11 to EOB to run with the C424?
How is the mfg of the 50' PS-1 red D&H boxcar?
Excellent layout.
Thanks.
Chris, we have had excellent results running Odyssey with EOB, but right now our only Odyssey are two RS-11's and some E8's. We run long lashups, so dummies play a big role too, but with our grades we need a minimum of two power units for our long freights. The Atlas 628's are insane good pullers, so I try to sneak one in on every D&H lashup. The Lionel Rs11 and Atlas C628 get along fine, so I am looking for more EOB and Odyssey locos. I really wish Lionel had a C420 with odyssey. I can't get Legacy to get along with anything lashup wise. ERR seems to only lash up with ERR, and we have a lot of ERR upgrades, and even then I have to ensure matching of MFG's and tweak them. Because we are alco fanatics, I'm trying to source late model Weaver Alcos to ERR upgrade.
SD40-2, the 50 red PS-1 is a custom painted Atlas. I have a great custom painter on my team and we have some very unique D&H items because of him.
Rich
Nice layout. Love the ALCO collection.
Nice layout and nice area to model. I really like the Schaefer brewery.
disregard the goofy guys talking in the background
nice angles
The name of our club is "Overlook Dream Rails". Operating sessions are every Wednesday evening at 6 pm. Visitors are welcome by advance notice.
more power variety to come soon, here are some GE's though...
Ghost of the O&W.
Lots and lots of Alcos.
A little wishful thinking on the amount of tracks in Altamont, and an over powered pig train...
A little New England flavor.
Grrrreat Stuff!
Very impressive!
Looks great! The swinging pilots and three rail track always bother me more watching a video than in person, which is probably due to being able to see the full impact of the layout during an in person visit.
Gotta love those lightning stripes! Nice work!
Jeff C
Alco smoke...
Love the scenic backdrops! Reminds me of living up in Corith.
How refreshing it is to see Alco dominate a layout.
Smoke 'em if ya got 'em.
3 Rail AJCO Doctor:
Your club has created a wonderful layout. ALCO, the D&H and NYC are among my favorite things. My dad worked for ALCO & I got to visit the Erie Blvd. shops as a kid. I have D&H engines from Lionel, Weaver & Atlas and a good deal of rolling stock on my small layout. Since I am local to you (12205), I'd love to visit sometime.
Tony
Up on "The D & H Bridge Line"
Great videos.....great layout!!!!!!!
Thanks, Peter
I am an Alco-holic Love them Great videos
lots of RS3's...
Here's some era-appropriate audio to go with that radio tower on the layout:
Jon 
Nice layout. I used to live in guilderland so I cant believe I never heard of this layout.
A W E S O M E ! Thanks for posting.
The next series of posts will be a series of vids taken from one go pro vid broken down into 100mb vids to upload here. The go pro was placed on the front of a track cleaning car on the point of a PA powered D&H passenger train.
Moved the go pro car to the front of the RS3 powered unit grain train, now we can see the PA's passing on the inner mains, and the GE powered coal train on the upper main.
Very nice Doc. Whose D&H passenger cars are those please? The locomotives too?
3 rail alco doctor posted:Alco smoke...
Whose RS 1's/3's are those that smoke so well? I bought a recent D&H RK Scale RS3 with smoke and it is pitiful, no fan output at all - it just sort of wafts out haphazardly.... Very disappointed to say the least. My older RK RS1's are good smokers however.
Sam, thanks for the like. The RS3's that smoke are Atlas, I put Lionel C420 first generation smoke units in them that had been modified for improved output. We have only a few MTH locos on our layout due to being an all TMCC club, any MTH we have I have converted to ERR. Long story short, DCS does not work in parallel with our TMCC due to signal loss. I am a huge fan of Atlas with EOB, the best locos we have are our 628's. The D&H passenger cars are MTH. I will work that train (with lionel PA's) into a video next week.
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