Three Hudsons: Comrades in Arms

Great looking layout and trains to go with it.  You have captured 

the World War 11 period in America.  The only thing missing is the

Andrews Sisters.  Well done.

Billy C

That's great Lee. Any military vehicles running on the streets to go along with those trains? Maybe a marshal law scenario with General Patton crossing in front of a jeep. 

Looks great. 1st time I've see your trains run clockwise

That is so cool! Nice job.

Wow, Lee

I would hate  to put all of those cars away. Nice videos

Thanks

Pat

WWW.PATSTRAINS.COM

They look really great Lee.  Who are you going to invade?

You can tell that Lee is truly having FUN with his RR!

Yeah, it took an hour: they go on a high shelf.

fix that portal!  got to have the gun running on the rails!

I really enjoyed that Lee! Great videos!

Thank you everyone for you comments!!  

A note: I decided not to try triple-heading them.   To do so I would have had to install O-gauge couplers in place of the beautiful scale model couplers installed from the factory on two of them, and I don't want to do that for one brief if fun triple-header event, cool as it would be. I briefly thought of just using wire and briefly strapping them together but decided that I'll just give up on the idea.

Good morning Lee

How well are the Locomotives speed matched? should be really close. No need to couple, Just put the slowest ones in the front of the consist. I don't know if that works running conventional? Sometimes I will find my lash up not coupled. MTH speed control is really good.

Clem

OK, what's the low down on the gun? Source?

"Valeeintellesting" (Sgt. Schultz)

The big railway gun is  from my "War Train" which I made in the fall of 2012. Most of the armor and cars are from that, too, although the cars with the sherman tanks and the missile are newer.   I posted the War Train in June 2012, almost exactly two years ago now.  It was pulled then as one monster train by four "Battle BEEFs" (all two-motors each) and was a lot of fun.  The thread shows a video and has photos of each car explains in detail each was made: the Schnabel tracked mortor is also very cool, I thought, and the smaller railway cannon is pretty cool, too.

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/t...war-train-army-train

The railway gun was made using the trucks from an MTH Schnabel car, the body of an MTH 14" gondola car as the central cannon "platform,, with the rest of it scratch built from styrene.  Design pretty much follows WWI era US 12 inch coast defense railway cannon design, but the gun is sized to be a 50-calibre 16" US Navy Mk II cannon.  

The Santa Fe Hudson will be on my shopping list for sure!    I will be looking for 3463 in particular.

lee,

just showed my 16 yr old your 4 army train videos, he is foaming at the mouth. He wants to make a road trip...

Lee, I think you need a small figure of General Patton somewhere on the tank train.

Very nice, Lee.  

And I agree with you about the MTH Santa Fe 3460-Class engine being easy to own.  I bought one from the first run and it still performs daily.  It is really reliable, never cranky in turnouts or on reverse curves.  I can't say those things about all my locomotives.

Fine work all around Lee. Great videos and your layout looks like its worthy of your prodigious  modeling skills.

Pete