@vettebecker1 Thank you! This is one of those projects that requires alot of time, patience & money, but I love it! 16 years so far in the making of mine. I've currently got a series going right now on this project if you wanted to check out my newer videos!
@@markbickelhaupt4414 Thank you very much! I've been hard at work the past few months and making videos of the progress as well! Thank you for the support!
I would watch this train unload in Hamburg, NY when I was 8 yrs old until at least High School. You did a brilliant job, recognize a lot of the pieces. Great job, Cheers!
Around 2008 I started collecting the Walthers circus stuff,ads,cars, clowns,people, brochures, rides. You name it I was finding it on ebuy and then I couldnt find any more. Its like it dried up. I worked with a guy at the U.P. heritage fleet who was a foreman on Barnum and Baily and he had some storys. Love all the circus stuff. I was always told to buy the car,the harley and all of your toys before you get married and have kids and it is true. I have a horn assbly. off of a 1997 -99 (not sure) G.E. loco. Where I worked in Council Bluffs,Iowa. The first thing we did was to bring in the locos and take off the horns so when we flipped the hoods open on top we didnt break one, well someone did and I got it. I hook it up to a air bubble or my compressor and freak out the neighbors.
😂 I love that last comment/remark about the "reveal" you didn't want to be "that guy w/ 3 cars "look at me I have a carnival train 😂" When you go big you go big!
Impressive job. I spent years, (years ago) building rides set up and trailer loaded and even some partially set up. I worked for a show for out of Newburgh Indiana called DP amusements, sold off now named Brady's Amusements, and I modeled the whole show plus a dozen or so other rides that booked in with. Anyway, I let my boys play with them and they had a fight over them and feel on em. Whole midway was gone.
Damn man that sucks its all gone. I worked for a show for quite a few years and got a ton of photos of rides and details. I was going to model that show but I always loved the JESX train so I decided to model that. I've still got a couple years left to finish this project. Thanks for the support!
1:21 that's me. I love both. Can u do a vid where you show all the rides an what they are? I saw a mondial top scan but others are more difficult to identify when racked
I found that the cardboard from cigarette cartons was the perfect material for alot of scratch work. That and tooth picks which I used for painting details. Don't know if you care what I did but I wish I knew more people into my hobby way back when. I have a buddy/ old coworker Chris Walden, who has a huge midway, I mean like insane.
I think I've seen some of his work. Super nice stuff. I do alot of kit bashing and scratch building with various styrene and model kit parts. Faller is great for taking parts from!
I spent about 10 years working on the Strates Shows Train crew loading and unloading that beast, started on the dog chain crew, then as lead man for walking the wagons up the flats. Got my ribs broken 15 times, broke my back in 3 places when a tire jumped the gunnel and the dolly's tongue we were steering the 8 trailers we were walking down the flats with snapped into my ribs and kept going as Billy Whiteman dreamed as he ran the tractor which was pulling the trailers by cable from the side of the run. Threw me a good 15, 20 feet from the train. I climbed my sore a$$ into a crane to lift the trailer while Billy pulled the front back in line and Steve-o re-positioned the dolly tongue. Then I spent the next 14 hours loading before I could even hit the hospital for pain killers... Oh, by the way the flats are blue now. I left because I wanted to take a ride and John wanted me to quit smoking pot, considering all the junkies and crackheads he hired my smoking pot on my own time and nothing else mase me a pretty model employee imho. Either way, great looking train, you should show it to Raul Hoffman, he'd get a kick out of it. If I'm honest I made some pretty good money between my salary and my green help pay for working rides during shows,
@rockyfanatic6846 I don't currently have any NS or CSX Power but maybe someday after the train is done. I plan on running a full train even with lesser loads on some flat cars such as dollies or trucks. Sadly still a long way to go yet before it's done.
Awesome looking project, fantastic work! I always wanted to do a Strates circus train
@vettebecker1 Thank you! This is one of those projects that requires alot of time, patience & money, but I love it! 16 years so far in the making of mine. I've currently got a series going right now on this project if you wanted to check out my newer videos!
I love your shirt, especially the trucks, you got to put the train on a big layout and run it...!!!
@LourdesReynoso-x7p Thank you! Yeah whenever I finally get around to making a layout it will be designed to run this train comfortably!
Carnival Train, I can appreciate the time and effort that you have put into it! A great model! And more to go! 👏👏👏🎡🎠🎢🚂🚛🚚
@@markbickelhaupt4414 Thank you very much! I've been hard at work the past few months and making videos of the progress as well! Thank you for the support!
I would watch this train unload in Hamburg, NY when I was 8 yrs old until at least High School. You did a brilliant job, recognize a lot of the pieces. Great job, Cheers!
That's awesome! I've watched alot of video from that area of this train! Very lucky to see it that long! Thanks I appreciate it!
Around 2008 I started collecting the Walthers circus stuff,ads,cars, clowns,people, brochures, rides. You name it I was finding it on ebuy and then I couldnt find any more. Its like it dried up. I worked with a guy at the U.P. heritage fleet who was a foreman on Barnum and Baily and he had some storys. Love all the circus stuff. I was always told to buy the car,the harley and all of your toys before you get married and have kids and it is true. I have a horn assbly. off of a 1997 -99 (not sure) G.E. loco. Where I worked in Council Bluffs,Iowa. The first thing we did was to bring in the locos and take off the horns so when we flipped the hoods open on top we didnt break one, well someone did and I got it. I hook it up to a air bubble or my compressor and freak out the neighbors.
Cool train Sir! Where is the Tilt-a-Whirl, Zipper, Rock-o-Planes & Eli Ferris Wheel? Lol. Looking forward to seeing your updates
Thank you! I'm still far from done as you can tell haha 12 years now so I should be done in another 10 or so lol
😂 I love that last comment/remark about the "reveal" you didn't want to be "that guy w/ 3 cars "look at me I have a carnival train 😂"
When you go big you go big!
Very few people knew about the train until I had enough to show!
Impressive job. I spent years, (years ago) building rides set up and trailer loaded and even some partially set up. I worked for a show for out of Newburgh Indiana called DP amusements, sold off now named Brady's Amusements, and I modeled the whole show plus a dozen or so other rides that booked in with. Anyway, I let my boys play with them and they had a fight over them and feel on em. Whole midway was gone.
Damn man that sucks its all gone. I worked for a show for quite a few years and got a ton of photos of rides and details. I was going to model that show but I always loved the JESX train so I decided to model that. I've still got a couple years left to finish this project. Thanks for the support!
1:21 that's me. I love both. Can u do a vid where you show all the rides an what they are? I saw a mondial top scan but others are more difficult to identify when racked
I sure can!
Looks like an awesome train 👍🏻
Thanks buddy!
I found that the cardboard from cigarette cartons was the perfect material for alot of scratch work. That and tooth picks which I used for painting details. Don't know if you care what I did but I wish I knew more people into my hobby way back when. I have a buddy/ old coworker Chris Walden, who has a huge midway, I mean like insane.
I think I've seen some of his work. Super nice stuff. I do alot of kit bashing and scratch building with various styrene and model kit parts. Faller is great for taking parts from!
I spent about 10 years working on the Strates Shows Train crew loading and unloading that beast, started on the dog chain crew, then as lead man for walking the wagons up the flats. Got my ribs broken 15 times, broke my back in 3 places when a tire jumped the gunnel and the dolly's tongue we were steering the 8 trailers we were walking down the flats with snapped into my ribs and kept going as Billy Whiteman dreamed as he ran the tractor which was pulling the trailers by cable from the side of the run. Threw me a good 15, 20 feet from the train. I climbed my sore a$$ into a crane to lift the trailer while Billy pulled the front back in line and Steve-o re-positioned the dolly tongue. Then I spent the next 14 hours loading before I could even hit the hospital for pain killers... Oh, by the way the flats are blue now. I left because I wanted to take a ride and John wanted me to quit smoking pot, considering all the junkies and crackheads he hired my smoking pot on my own time and nothing else mase me a pretty model employee imho. Either way, great looking train, you should show it to Raul Hoffman, he'd get a kick out of it. If I'm honest I made some pretty good money between my salary and my green help pay for working rides during shows,
I can relate with this as my 67 train is taking longer then I thought
Definitely a labor of love haha
thats fun to make out of cardboard or papers
Are you going to run this train when it’s fully done
Yes. I'm in planning for a layout so I will be able to run it someday.
@@midwestmodelrailroadworkshopare you gonna use CSX or like NS to pull the train and will you have a marker on one of the empty flatcars
@rockyfanatic6846 I don't currently have any NS or CSX Power but maybe someday after the train is done. I plan on running a full train even with lesser loads on some flat cars such as dollies or trucks. Sadly still a long way to go yet before it's done.
@@midwestmodelrailroadworkshopwhere did you get the carnival trucks at and who made them plus who made the passenger cars you have there
@rockyfanatic6846 Trucks are a mix of Athearn and Herpa along with alot of custom work of course. Passenger cars are all from Walthers.