This has got to be the most realistic model train set up that Iv ever seen on video or real life. The fact that you use real coal with all the staining is so cool . Thanks for sharing. It’s fascinating to watch and to hear the squeaks and creaks . Pure Gold .
Wow! I never imagined how effectively natural outdoor sunlight and shadows in conjunction with real rocks and vegetation could completely eliminate any artificial or scale model appearance. I even consciously tried to see the presumably real trees in the background as being out of scale and far too large compared to the trains, but I simply could not see any artifice nor even the slightest subconscious "uncanniness" even when consciously and purposefully attempting to do so. Amazing and fascinating! My mind even seemed to insist on seeing your satellite dish as an enormous radio telescope, mentally scaling it up instead of the train down. Thank you for sharing this with everyone!
I really enjoyed watching this video and it's a good learning tool. Everything was explained in detail so that the viewers could learn in a easy-to-use process.
I work at a coal fired power plant in southern WI, we also get our coal by train from wyoming and nebraska, we dump our 114 car trains with a rotary dumper as well. Awesome vid.
I used weighted Dash 9's for heavy hauling. Mac 70's were factory too light. just a thought. years back I had a 12 ft tall flood loading tower , but never go far enough to build it to hold the coal and flooding operation. massive task. I still have the Kadee rotary coupler that I made. but that was it. Great job you did.
So cool You inspired a fun way to garden FOR hauling COMPOST AND WEEDS NOTE MY GARDEN COMPOST KINDA LOOKS LIKE COAL TOO 😊😊😊 SO COOL. A FUN WAY TO HAVE A G SCALE RAILWAYS IN A HOME GARDEN AND A PRACTICAL WAY TO USE IT ?
That sqeeky wheel at the end of the train is the cherry on top for me i mean this setup blows anything eles out of the water, great job more then great im speachless
Outstanding set up, I am in the process of building a g scale layout. Have often thought about being able to load coal or ore. Thank you for this video, great engineering 👍👍👍👍
Wow !! Very impressive operation !! Over powered trains aren't any fun !! Your operation actually NEEDS the power !! Very cool, well done !! The coal loading operation is pure genius !!
Wow! Very similar to how we dump iron ore at Cleveland Cliffs Steel(formerly AK Steel) in Middletown, Ohio. Whether right or wrong, I always referred to it as a Swing Dumper, since it was uncoupled and did not use true rotary couplers.
In the cabs of our units with smart displays we have a slow speed control. Set it and turn it on and it compensates for speed changes. To slow it increases the speed of the traction motors and to fast it lets it coast until it hits the set speed. Our tacks mostly flat so I haven’t seen it try and apply brakes or anything.
Great Layout! LGB tracks for Standard gauge trains faces the fundamental challenge of having track ties and rails already too large, but despite that, you managed to have realistic paint textures, speed and track radius etc.
Really cool! You took the realism of model railroading to another level. Your description of the coal loading, locomotive placement and train handling is very informative. Love the scenery of your layout and weathering of your locomotives and cars.
Awesome!!!!!!! Because of the chance of communication issues, since the helpers are separately controlled from the head locomotives can you use all 4 helpers on rear??? In reference to the rotary dumper, could you put another magnet on the exit side to unhook those cars as well?
Just listening to those last two that you pushed forward that went down the hump those couplers definitely did kind of a crunch. Hope you don’t break any couplers. You may have to think about putting halfway down the track the cushion breaks or a cushion brake system for the cars rolling down Ease up on those couplers,
Time stamp 16:00; well what’s so great about 16:00 well that’s when he finally stopped talking. How many times did I hear 3 on the head end 3 mid and 1 DPU. Great video though 😊😊😊
I live in Cheyenne Wyoming, and I've seen my fare share of coal trains. Even the long ones, maybe a mile long, will only have 3 engines on front, one in the middle and one at the end. Although I think the one at the end, is more to help with braking. I had to wait at a crossing once for 20 minutes as a coal train went by. I think I have seen one coal train with 5 front engines. Plus the middle and end one.
One day, I’ll get promoted from N to G with a good amount of space God willing. Tried to do this same set up with Nscale but I paused that idea for now.
Very awesome! Your track work also looks great. I'm on the verge of laying my own track, and I'm curious - is your track floating, or is it fixed to something beneath it? Thanks!
Love your work Mate, at 17:30 minute mark with the train going around a right hand corner listening to the creaks coming from the sleepers (ties), I'm Australian, that's realism. Do you have steam or just diesel's? Have you considered running a Y6b and a A class doubleheader with another Y6b on the rear? This really nice and well made production. What width is the gauge? Is it 15 mm or 50 mm gauge? I personally don't know the width to your G gauge?
I run g scale which is 1:29. I have one steam loco for now, Sierra railway #3. Check out one of my earlier videos. I plan to get more steam in the future. Glad you enjoyed!
This is some serious realism. Very good work. Just one thing: Your 2 lead locos appear to be SD70MACs, but they have SD70Ace style radiators. Was this a real life rebuild or modification which was done by the railroad?
I'm shocked that you need a lot of power, I thought for sure G scale trains had an option of some kind, where you could have sanding if you really wanted to add it in the sand fills, but suppose I was wrong.
You aren't the only person in America to do this. I, too, haul actual coal on my G-scale train. In addition to this, I get paid $1 for every $22.5 in revenue the train generates. I'm not allowed to say anything else about this because it's a government secret.
Wow! I know that train is expensive!!!! I have ho scale … 105 coal cars 8 locomotives NS…2 gevos 4 sd70ace 1 dash 9 … 1 ES 44AC …and that’s a couple of grand + , 1 locomotives is 289.90 HO with sound decoders… ho much is one G scale locomotive?
Dude, this is amazing. Your setup is beautiful. Do you use railpro for your locos? If so, how do your dpus not lose connection due to the railpro remote range. I’ve tried putting a dpu on my long intermodal and the railpro range really made it difficult to happen.
so not to brag but i deal with real coal trains everyday (adds smirk) nah but for real this is baddass man id like to see this irl one day. on a side note yes i work for bnsf on the powder river division so i see coal everyday hence why this is so bad ass its my everyday life but on a mini version.
You should come to denver Colorado & see the big ten curve here - I model both N scale & G scale ( just starting out ) plus one I get the money I’m going into live steam ) but I think you would love the big ten mountain division in colorado, - I’m apart of a club in denver where your more than welcome to come check it if you ever in denver - if also you don’t mine n scale - - there’s a RUclips channel ( Moffet modelers )
Thanks fir the invite. I’d love to see it someday. If you have some video up I’ll check them out. I actually named my curve from the same in Colorado. I’ve seen lots of footage of that curve.
Really enjoyed your video, a man after my own heart! I’m on Vancouver Island and currently have about 2600 feet of track. I’ve got a flood loading circle track and have yet to build the flood loader so I was really delighted to see this video! I’m in the process of building a rotary dumper as well but it will likely be another year or two before it’s all done and functional. I also use body mounted Kadee couplers exclusively. I designed a rotary coupler about 8 or 9 years ago and would be happy to share the design with you. I sent the design to Kadee a long time ago but they have yet to introduce one to the market. Where are you located???
when I saw the thumbnail, I was like "another coal train" then I looked again, "Wait THATS G SCALE"!
Yeah. It's G scale
Coal trains need love too.
It was almost perfect, only the fake coal in view gave it away.
1. I’ve been waiting to see someone apply modern trains and tech to g scale exactly like this.
2. 200lbs + holy crap this is some next level stuff
This has got to be the best setup I've ever seen and running live loads. It is a crime that this channel doesn't have more subs.
This has got to be the most realistic model train set up that Iv ever seen on video or real life. The fact that you use real coal with all the staining is so cool . Thanks for sharing. It’s fascinating to watch and to hear the squeaks and creaks . Pure Gold .
Wow!
I never imagined how effectively natural outdoor sunlight and shadows in conjunction with real rocks and vegetation could completely eliminate any artificial or scale model appearance. I even consciously tried to see the presumably real trees in the background as being out of scale and far too large compared to the trains, but I simply could not see any artifice nor even the slightest subconscious "uncanniness" even when consciously and purposefully attempting to do so. Amazing and fascinating!
My mind even seemed to insist on seeing your satellite dish as an enormous radio telescope, mentally scaling it up instead of the train down.
Thank you for sharing this with everyone!
I’m glad to enjoyed it! 😊
Now that was cool to watch !! I just need a bigger back yard.....And my wife's permission. LOL..
I really enjoyed watching this video and it's a good learning tool. Everything was explained in detail so that the viewers could learn in a easy-to-use process.
I work at a coal fired power plant in southern WI, we also get our coal by train from wyoming and nebraska, we dump our 114 car trains with a rotary dumper as well. Awesome vid.
I used weighted Dash 9's for heavy hauling. Mac 70's were factory too light. just a thought.
years back I had a 12 ft tall flood loading tower , but never go far enough to build it to hold the coal and flooding operation.
massive task.
I still have the Kadee rotary coupler that I made. but that was it.
Great job you did.
I add weight to all my locos and the macs from USA trains out perform Bachman Dash 9s all day long. I appreciate you sharing though!👍😁
So cool You inspired a fun way to garden FOR hauling COMPOST AND WEEDS NOTE MY GARDEN COMPOST KINDA LOOKS LIKE COAL TOO 😊😊😊 SO COOL. A FUN WAY TO HAVE A G SCALE RAILWAYS IN A HOME GARDEN AND A PRACTICAL WAY TO USE IT ?
@@SERA52Railfan I was referring to the original Aristo D-9s with their extra weights. LOL The new ones do not have them.
Very creative. Thank you for sharing. I’m interested to learn in more detail about the loader and the dumper too. This was great
I’m glad you enjoyed it. I look forward to sharing more
That sqeeky wheel at the end of the train is the cherry on top for me i mean this setup blows anything eles out of the water, great job more then great im speachless
Outstanding set up, I am in the process of building a g scale layout. Have often thought about being able to load coal or ore.
Thank you for this video, great engineering 👍👍👍👍
amazing, well done
Simply amazing. So realistic. Never seen anything like this before.!!!
Thought this was a another live coal train video,what an amazing G Scale 👍👍👍
This is literally the COOLEST Layout EVER! 🤙
You are an absolute master of scale! The entire system looks so real that I am positive if somebpeople didn't already know, they couldn't tell.
Wow !! Very impressive operation !! Over powered trains aren't any fun !! Your operation actually NEEDS the power !! Very cool, well done !! The coal loading operation is pure genius !!
Wow! Very similar to how we dump iron ore at Cleveland Cliffs Steel(formerly AK Steel) in Middletown, Ohio. Whether right or wrong, I always referred to it as a Swing Dumper, since it was uncoupled and did not use true rotary couplers.
This is so great and realistic good wethering etcetera, also good camera work ! Greetings from the Netherlands
Those are soooo realistic the thumbnail looks real
Everything in the video looks real
That is by far the most realistic video Ive seen
In the cabs of our units with smart displays we have a slow speed control. Set it and turn it on and it compensates for speed changes. To slow it increases the speed of the traction motors and to fast it lets it coast until it hits the set speed. Our tacks mostly flat so I haven’t seen it try and apply brakes or anything.
awesome! well done all the way around! Bravo!
This is so awesome, if I had the funds I would start building one tomorrow!
Did I say "very nice"? I mean this is absolutely great.
Great Layout! LGB tracks for Standard gauge trains faces the fundamental challenge of having track ties and rails already too large, but despite that, you managed to have realistic paint textures, speed and track radius etc.
I use both LGB and USA trains track and much of my layout is flex track!
Outstanding thank You for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it
What's the saying? As close as it gets to the real thing. Unbelievably Awesome.
That’s what I was going for😁👍. I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Really cool! You took the realism of model railroading to another level. Your description of the coal loading, locomotive placement and train handling is very informative. Love the scenery of your layout and weathering of your locomotives and cars.
Thank you very much!
Very realistic operation of a rotary dumper you should be featured in the OGR forum Very impressive 👍🏻✨️✨️✨️✨️✨️
Wow. Excellent and beautiful work! Keep it up.
Thank you! Will do!
Years ago I placed ballast as a load which I glued in, the Ho gondola weighed about 12 LBS. Never saw anyone ever use real coal. it be neat in HO.
there is a hand hold magnic you can use open the cuple which give you feeling that you there working.
Really impressive ! Greetings from Germany
That is a freaking nice outdoor layout. Awesome video, thank you!
Glad you like it!
This is incredible! Agree with you, never seen anything like this before. Amazing layout and video, and definitely looking forward to more!
Subbed!
This is some next level stuff bro! I love it
Now this is proper G-scale; awesome!
Wow this so amazing! I can only hope to have a layout one day as great as yours! Thanks for all your amazing videos. CP
Thanks for watching!
Great design and explanation!
Thank you!
Good video my friends awesome 😮 fantatic locomotive Greeting 🙋
Very awesome vid. Great job, great layout.
Gary
Wow this is the coolest coal G Scale I’ve seen yet great job Brother keep up the great work 💯💪❤️
Thanks 👍
New subscriber. Love the operations
Welcome aboard!
Awesome
Amazing work! Very realistic operation.
Thank you very much!
Deeply impressive, if a little concerning.
This is awesome
This Inspires Me To Build A N Scale Layout Around My Room!
Do it! I started with an idea to go around my office. Now my office turned into a complete train room.
super cool
Wow amazing
I like it!
Very, very nice.
Awesome!!!!!!!
Because of the chance of communication issues, since the helpers are separately controlled from the head locomotives can you use all 4 helpers on rear???
In reference to the rotary dumper, could you put another magnet on the exit side to unhook those cars as well?
Just listening to those last two that you pushed forward that went down the hump those couplers definitely did kind of a crunch. Hope you don’t break any couplers. You may have to think about putting halfway down the track the cushion breaks or a cushion brake system for the cars rolling down Ease up on those couplers,
Time stamp 16:00; well what’s so great about 16:00 well that’s when he finally stopped talking. How many times did I hear 3 on the head end 3 mid and 1 DPU. Great video though 😊😊😊
wow awesome. I am looking to run dpus on my train layout I have 8 dash9s and 2 sd45s to do this.
Thing looks like it’s a real train going by
you should construct a conveyor system to load the tipple for you
Great!
I live in Cheyenne Wyoming, and I've seen my fare share of coal trains. Even the long ones, maybe a mile long, will only have 3 engines on front, one in the middle and one at the end. Although I think the one at the end, is more to help with braking. I had to wait at a crossing once for 20 minutes as a coal train went by. I think I have seen one coal train with 5 front engines. Plus the middle and end one.
Thanks for sharing and watching the channel!
They are all used for pulling and braking. IRL.
One day, I’ll get promoted from N to G with a good amount of space God willing. Tried to do this same set up with Nscale but I paused that idea for now.
excellent ! your topography looks like California Sierra foothills?
Fantastic
Where can you buy the engines and cars they look amazing i wanna buy one sometime.
even a rotary coupler, what happens when your track seperates and goes away from your train. DERAIN AND DAMAGE occurs. Bad idea.
Very awesome! Your track work also looks great. I'm on the verge of laying my own track, and I'm curious - is your track floating, or is it fixed to something beneath it?
Thanks!
Love your work Mate, at 17:30 minute mark with the train going around a right hand corner listening to the creaks coming from the sleepers (ties), I'm Australian, that's realism. Do you have steam or just diesel's? Have you considered running a Y6b and a A class doubleheader with another Y6b on the rear? This really nice and well made production. What width is the gauge? Is it 15 mm or 50 mm gauge? I personally don't know the width to your G gauge?
I run g scale which is 1:29. I have one steam loco for now, Sierra railway #3. Check out one of my earlier videos. I plan to get more steam in the future. Glad you enjoyed!
Awesome!
Pretty cool. I imagine you don't have to do much weathering since you are using real coal.
This is some serious realism. Very good work. Just one thing: Your 2 lead locos appear to be SD70MACs, but they have SD70Ace style radiators. Was this a real life rebuild or modification which was done by the railroad?
I added the side radiators to give the locos the appearance of looking similar to sd70ace’s just because I liked the look
@@SERA52Railfan Nice work.
when dynamic braking is an actual requirement on a model railroad 🤣
I'm shocked that you need a lot of power, I thought for sure G scale trains had an option of some kind, where you could have sanding if you really wanted to add it in the sand fills, but suppose I was wrong.
You aren't the only person in America to do this. I, too, haul actual coal on my G-scale train. In addition to this, I get paid $1 for every $22.5 in revenue the train generates. I'm not allowed to say anything else about this because it's a government secret.
Wow! I know that train is expensive!!!! I have ho scale … 105 coal cars 8 locomotives NS…2 gevos 4 sd70ace 1 dash 9 … 1 ES 44AC …and that’s a couple of grand + , 1 locomotives is 289.90 HO with sound decoders… ho much is one G scale locomotive?
I lost count
@@SERA52Railfan lol good answer About 800$ to 1k!
When your model train can move an 1/8th of a ton....
Who makes the sd70s? They look too big to be mth. This is such an awesome operation
DPU.....I see you.
Just wow! You refer to this as your layout - but I think calling it your railroad would be more accurate and well earned.
Possibly the coolest train video ever! Fantastic job!! What state are you in?
California
@@SERA52Railfan you should give tours. So realistic it’s almost better than real.
Do you use a digital controller? With a digital speed read out? I think that would make things easier. You've got a great layout.
Yes I do!
Dude, this is amazing. Your setup is beautiful. Do you use railpro for your locos? If so, how do your dpus not lose connection due to the railpro remote range. I’ve tried putting a dpu on my long intermodal and the railpro range really made it difficult to happen.
Glad you enjoyed it. I do use Railpro and it is a challenge on long trains. I generally use manned helpers which requires 2 remotes
What are those strange UP SD-units with a hood much lower than the cab?
What if you link the head end to the mid train power. Making that dp. Then, making the rear end a manned helper?
How many pieces of rollingstock on your layout at one time? Do you have a large railyard? Do you have a trackplan we could see?
so not to brag but i deal with real coal trains everyday (adds smirk) nah but for real this is baddass man id like to see this irl one day. on a side note yes i work for bnsf on the powder river division so i see coal everyday hence why this is so bad ass its my everyday life but on a mini version.
Thanks for your comments 👍
If this is what you see everyday then you have my dream job!!!
What horn is that on your sd70’s? K5LA 5 chime or 3 chime?
Is that rc car winches I see to control the rotary dumper
Yes they are
You should come to denver Colorado & see the big ten curve here - I model both N scale & G scale ( just starting out ) plus one I get the money I’m going into live steam ) but I think you would love the big ten mountain division in colorado, - I’m apart of a club in denver where your more than welcome to come check it if you ever in denver - if also you don’t mine n scale - - there’s a RUclips channel ( Moffet modelers )
Thanks fir the invite. I’d love to see it someday. If you have some video up I’ll check them out. I actually named my curve from the same in Colorado. I’ve seen lots of footage of that curve.
speeds vary from 0.2 - 1 mph when loading.
Those 70macs would be way better if they didn’t have those weird flared radiators added
Why do the macs have flared radiators on them?
Really enjoyed your video, a man after my own heart! I’m on Vancouver Island and currently have about 2600 feet of track. I’ve got a flood loading circle track and have yet to build the flood loader so I was really delighted to see this video! I’m in the process of building a rotary dumper as well but it will likely be another year or two before it’s all done and functional. I also use body mounted Kadee couplers exclusively. I designed a rotary coupler about 8 or 9 years ago and would be happy to share the design with you. I sent the design to Kadee a long time ago but they have yet to introduce one to the market. Where are you located???
I would absolutely be interested in checking out your design. I am in the foothills of Northern California so a ways from you.
How best to connect?
ITS A G SCLAE!?
Long train- how many cars? How many engines?
epic
Doyou store the trains indoors for winter?
Ever try mth g scale