Dear Grant... I am completely speechless! This cinematic model railroad video, in my opinion, has to rank the best ever produced. That, along with the exceptional quality of the clearly Canadian scenery and rolling stock, great cinematography, and the unique and unexpected choice of bold classical music by Beethoven (one of his symphonies; his music was revolutionary for his time). There is no one else on the planet to date who has ever created such a totally awesome rail video. Not even the world famous Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, could have produced what you did. You clearly deserve First Prize!
If I could model N Scale like this... I'd model N scale. Drop-dead gorgeous. The classical music is a great, unique touch, too. It compliments this layout. Pure class.
Magnificent and elegant presentation of your Model Railroad in action. A lot of people could learn from this video. Sometimes we don't need all the Locomotive sounds , club members talking in the background, or to much description. Simplicity and good camera work with a nice musical score. Thanks for the video.
Appreciate the feedback Adrien, glad you enjoyed it. I was going to add train descriptions as well but credit to my teenage son for advising me to go minimal. I think he was bang on. All the best for the holidays and 2025. -grant
A work of art, layout, a work of art video! Thank you very much for putting this together and sharing it. Just fantastic. Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Scott
Absolutely breathtaking - your scenery work is just incredible! Also the backdrop creates a unique feel of depth. Your layout shows the true power of N scale and is a huge inspiration for the rest of us. Happy Holidays!
Truly stunning thanks for sharing and thanks to Boomer for drawing my attention to your awesome modelling and layout 👌😎☕️🎅🏻🎄🇬🇧ps that river truly stunning
Very nice production and showcase of your fantastic layout. The various scenes and trains coupled with the music was well thought out, which reflects the same type of work ethic you apply your layout. Great way to end the year. Happy Holidays.
Superb! I really like your use of colour tones, from the backdrops to the trees and grass. Everything just flows and looks so natural. Some great layouts have been spoilt with too much 'colour pop' . Colour has scale too and you've done a great job. Merry Christmas to you!
Wow I really appreciate your comment, a different perspective than most. I have 2 or 3 colours that are used as tints in all aspects of the scenery, including backdrop and weathering of rolling stock to maintain a common tone. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment. -grant
Merry CHRISTmas...This is amazing, first time I have seen your work, THUMBS UP...watch the video in full, thought is was HO! Normally not a fan of music, but your selection was very nice. Your work and attention to details is off the chart! Been a lover of trains since about 1955.
Merry Christmas and thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. A compliment to an N scaler is if the viewer has a tough time telling it's 1/160! Be sure to check out some other stuff if you feel up to it. Lot's more to see. -grant
Merry Christmas Grant and I hope you and your family enjoy the season. This was a wonderful sequence of clips and amazing scenery with very realistic rolling stock. I am always impressed by your work 😍😎👍👌💯
Love this, the only suggestion or thing I'd love to see personally is a second or two of dark tunnel before the locomotive light emerges. Spectacular scenery though, some of these shots can easily pass for the real thing!
Spectacular video, Grant! Excellent coverage of your magnificent model railroad. The uncoupling of the helpers "on the fly" was brilliant. Merry Christmas and best wishes in the new year! Mike
Wow an endorsement from the better half... Nothing better than that! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by for a look and Merry Christmas to you and family Brian. -grant
Bellissimo...!!! Grant.!! It would be nice to see one of these with simulated snowfall for the season, if that's at all possible to achieve....although it would make the drone alittle harder to manage...😉😆 Very Nice! To All those rail crews out there and to You and your Family....A Very Merry Christmas...Plus, The Happiest of New Year's. 🎄
Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you as well Ron! I remember Mike Danneman shooting through a pane of glass with white paint flicked onto it to create snowfall. Looked amazing in still photos but would be suspect in video. Might be a way to do it if you could somehow move the glass downward during filming??
@SouthernAlbertaRail, there may be a way to simulate the snowfall on screen...(CGI)? but I wouldn't be the one to ask about that? You'd have to get with some computer special effects wizard for that? Maybe Boomer knows someone?......Cheers!
It turned out to be a spectacular Christmas special, great work Grant. Wishing you and the family all the best for a Merry Christmas and festive season.
Beautiful, simply beautiful! Somebody needs to come up with a way to make streams look like they are moving. :-) Are the real railroads allowed to do that flying helper-disengage - that was cool.
Thanks so much, great question. Yes helpers cut off on the fly on the prototype. I've witnessed it on both Marias Pass and Bozeman Pass in Montana. A device called Helper Link is bolted to the front of a helper unit. It has a vertical air activated ram on it that pulls the pin when the helper engineer requests it. I believe it is tied into the FRED on the train being pushed via radio signal so that if the train goes into emergency the units would drop to idle. If you listen to a scanner you can hear a distinctive "Beep Bop Boop" just before the helpers drop off. If you feel like it you can check out my video "Distributed Power and Pushers" to see more and hear the signal. Cheers! -grant
Puse me gusta por el diorrama muy bien logrado y ejecutado pero soy de los que les agradan los sonidos reales de las locomotoras sin gente y charlatanería solo disfrutar del modelo y sus sonidos reales..si deseó escuchar musica ya sea clásica hip hop o reggaeton o realizar Reiki yoga etc colocó en la play list y listo... gustos son gustos 🤔 🙏🤷
I wanted something different with this video. I picked the music and timed the trains to it. I have made others without music in the past. I appreciate your view. Obrigado!
I was chomping at the bit for this one Grant! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you and Family! ! Cheers ~ Boomer. 👍😁
Hey thanks Boomer. Merry Christmas to you and family as well. All the best in '25.
It looks like Disney’s Fantasia! This is pure art! Top class model railroading blended with top class music! Bravo ! 👏
Thank you so much! All the best for 2025. -grant
@@SouthernAlbertaRail All the best for you and your family as well!
Dear Grant... I am completely speechless! This cinematic model railroad video, in my opinion, has to rank the best ever produced. That, along with the exceptional quality of the clearly Canadian scenery and rolling stock, great cinematography, and the unique and unexpected choice of bold classical music by Beethoven (one of his symphonies; his music was revolutionary for his time). There is no one else on the planet to date who has ever created such a totally awesome rail video. Not even the world famous Miniature Wunderland in Hamburg, Germany, could have produced what you did. You clearly deserve First Prize!
Wow I really appreciate your comment, I'm humbled! All the best. -grant
If I could model N Scale like this... I'd model N scale. Drop-dead gorgeous. The classical music is a great, unique touch, too. It compliments this layout. Pure class.
Appreciate the kind words, glad you enjoyed it.
Crowsnest pass is close to my heart ❤️ Superb representation 🎉
Thanks a bunch. Pretty fond of it myself! Cheers. -grant
Magnificent and elegant presentation of your Model Railroad in action. A lot of people could learn from this video. Sometimes we don't need all the Locomotive sounds , club members talking in the background, or to much description. Simplicity and good camera work with a nice musical score. Thanks for the video.
Appreciate the feedback Adrien, glad you enjoyed it. I was going to add train descriptions as well but credit to my teenage son for advising me to go minimal. I think he was bang on. All the best for the holidays and 2025. -grant
Another great video. I love how your trains run at realistic speeds. Slow going up grades…faster in the flatter areas. Have a merry Christmas!
I appreciate the feedback thanks a bunch. Merry Christmas to you and family. Cheers! -grant
A work of art, layout, a work of art video! Thank you very much for putting this together and sharing it. Just fantastic. Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Scott
Cheers Scott, thank you so much! Merry Christmas to you as well!
Absolutely breathtaking - your scenery work is just incredible! Also the backdrop creates a unique feel of depth. Your layout shows the true power of N scale and is a huge inspiration for the rest of us. Happy Holidays!
Thank you so much! All the best. -grant
One of the best layouts around! Awesome video
Wow thanks. Merry Christmas.
Magnificent. The perfect blend of audio with stunning video. This is truly memorable. Thank you.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Cheers. -grant
Merry Christmas! What a great video.
Merry Christmas! Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
What a wonderful ‘Christmas present’ you’ve given to us all!!
Fabulous!!!
Thank you so very much!!!
Thanks John. Good to hear from you. Have a Merry Christmas and all that good stuff. -grant
Exceptional video compilation of an extraordinary model railroad masterpiece .. Thanks for sharing
Hey thanks Rod, really appreciate that. Cheers. -grant
Truly stunning thanks for sharing and thanks to Boomer for drawing my attention to your awesome modelling and layout 👌😎☕️🎅🏻🎄🇬🇧ps that river truly stunning
Thanks so much, I really appreciate that. Boomer is an incredible talent and a real class act. Merry Christmas from my family to yours. -grant
Grant, You make N-scale unbelievable! Just awesome everything. Happy Holidays.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! All the best for the holidays to you as well. Cheers.
This is such a very well done layout. Job WELL DONE sir 👍🏼👍🏼
Thank you very much! Cheers!
Absolutely amazing! Christmas came early!
Thanks a bunch! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Merry Christmas.
Awesome, awesome, awesome! Thank you and Merry Christmas!
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Thanks for this great video. Hey, I loved the symphonic music :) It's on-brand for this true masterpiece of a layout.
I really appreciate you taking the time to watch! Cheers. -grant
Thanks Grant great run good to se you back Merry Christmas and Happy NewYear
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you Ron! Cheers.
Great video. Fantastic scenery. Love the music!🚂
Appreciate it! Glad you enjoyed it.
A rather spectacular end to 2024, Grant. well done!
A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your's from us and our's, Downunder!
Merry Christmas Gary and thanks for all your support over the years, It's truly appreciated. -grant
Very nice production and showcase of your fantastic layout. The various scenes and trains coupled with the music was well thought out, which reflects the same type of work ethic you apply your layout. Great way to end the year. Happy Holidays.
Thanks for the kind words and Happy Holidays to you as well!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Grant!! You have a phenomenal railway. thank you for sharing.
Thanks a bunch Norm, Merry Christmas to you as well!
That was amazing! Happy Holidays and we can't wait to see more.
Thank you so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Happy Holidays to you as well. -grant.
Absolutely fantastic still hard to believe that it’s N scale. Great music to listen to when the trains are running. Merry Christmas
Cheers and Merry Christmas to you as well Garry!
Superb! I really like your use of colour tones, from the backdrops to the trees and grass. Everything just flows and looks so natural. Some great layouts have been spoilt with too much 'colour pop' . Colour has scale too and you've done a great job. Merry Christmas to you!
Wow I really appreciate your comment, a different perspective than most. I have 2 or 3 colours that are used as tints in all aspects of the scenery, including backdrop and weathering of rolling stock to maintain a common tone. Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment. -grant
Oh. My. God. I thought for sure this was HO but to see this is in N scale is absolutely astonishing
Hey thanks a bunch. Really appreciate that!
Nicely Done! Need to watch this a few more times.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very vety nice video great work .
Thank you very much! Merry Christmas. -grant
@SouthernAlbertaRail Merry Christmas and a healthy 2025.
Merry CHRISTmas...This is amazing, first time I have seen your work, THUMBS UP...watch the video in full, thought is was HO!
Normally not a fan of music, but your selection was very nice.
Your work and attention to details is off the chart! Been a lover of trains since about 1955.
Merry Christmas and thanks so much, I'm glad you enjoyed it. A compliment to an N scaler is if the viewer has a tough time telling it's 1/160! Be sure to check out some other stuff if you feel up to it. Lot's more to see. -grant
Amazing stuff as always Grant! You are by far one of the best in the business. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and your family. - Steve
Thanks Steve! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well.
Merry Christmas and bravo!
Thanks so much! Merry Christmas!
Great work as always Grant! Loved the music choice. Merry Christmas and Happy Years to you and yours 🎄😬
Hey thanks TJ! Fantastic to hear from you. Have a great Christmas Pal.
Quite the masterpiece Grant! Excellent modeling! Marry Christmas.
Thank you so much. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas Grant and I hope you and your family enjoy the season. This was a wonderful sequence of clips and amazing scenery with very realistic rolling stock. I am always impressed by your work 😍😎👍👌💯
Cheers, and Merry Christmas to you as well! Appreciate the kind words!
Hi Grant, brilliant video of your wonderful layout, Happy Christmas to you and the family, from all of us here at Exehaven, cheers, John
John great to hear from you! Merry Christmas to you and your family as well. All the best. -grant
Love this, the only suggestion or thing I'd love to see personally is a second or two of dark tunnel before the locomotive light emerges. Spectacular scenery though, some of these shots can easily pass for the real thing!
Hey thanks I really appreciate the input. All the best and Merry Christmas! -grant
Fabulous video of an amazing layout! Merry Christmas!
Cheers! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Fantastic layout!
Thank you so much! Cheers. -grant
...as always perfect! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year
Thanks! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Spectacular video, Grant! Excellent coverage of your magnificent model railroad. The uncoupling of the helpers "on the fly" was brilliant. Merry Christmas and best wishes in the new year! Mike
Cheers Mike! Merry Christmas to you too!
What a fantastic video! That was a true choreographed ballet. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year! 🎄 🎉
Thanks a bunch! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too!
Great Video.....Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you as well Bob. Cheers. -grant
Great work Grant.
Plate C
Thanks so much. All the best.
Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas to you as well!
Great work Grant, even my wife likes it 😮👋👋 Christmas wishes to you and your family 🎉 Brian
Wow an endorsement from the better half... Nothing better than that! Thanks so much for taking the time to stop by for a look and Merry Christmas to you and family Brian. -grant
Fantastic
Thanks!
Bellissimo...!!! Grant.!! It would be nice to see one of these with simulated snowfall for the season, if that's at all possible to achieve....although it would make the drone alittle harder to manage...😉😆
Very Nice! To All those rail crews out there and to You and your Family....A Very Merry Christmas...Plus, The Happiest of New Year's. 🎄
Thanks, and Merry Christmas to you as well Ron! I remember Mike Danneman shooting through a pane of glass with white paint flicked onto it to create snowfall. Looked amazing in still photos but would be suspect in video. Might be a way to do it if you could somehow move the glass downward during filming??
@SouthernAlbertaRail, there may be a way to simulate the snowfall on screen...(CGI)? but I wouldn't be the one to ask about that?
You'd have to get with some computer special effects wizard for that? Maybe Boomer knows someone?......Cheers!
Final Cut Pro...has snow simulation.
Might have to have a peek at that Ron. Cheers.
Fantastic video Grant! 🙌 Merry Christmas! All the best to you and your family! Cheers!🎅🌲😀
Thanks, Merry Christmas to you too Dwayne. Hope there was enough Dash-2 action for you!
It turned out to be a spectacular Christmas special, great work Grant. Wishing you and the family all the best for a Merry Christmas and festive season.
Cheers! Same to you and yours Justin.
Just wonderful. Merry Christmas! 😎👍🎄
Thanks a bunch. Merry Christmas!
Very cool video, this is a awesome layout!! I was waiting for a Sasquatch to dart
out of the tree line!!!! 😁😁😁😁
Thanks a bunch. Let's just say they keep a low profile in the Crowsnest!
@SouthernAlbertaRail 🤣🤣🤣🤣
That was awesome. Grant. Merry Christmas to you and the family. Thank you for sharing.
Cheers and Merry Christmas to you Vincent!
Really classic video Grant!
Merry CHRISTmas from the Mesquite Belt Railroad in Texas!
Cheers! Merry Christmas to you down in Texas as well!
The layout looks spectacular. Merry Christmas
Thanks a bunch! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Looking good. Had fun watching this year and look forward to next year. Have a Merry Christmas and all the best in 2025.
Cheers and thanks. All the best for 2025.
incredible work ! i really need to visit you again.
Thanks Sandro. Let me know next time you're heading to this side of the Atlantic! Merry Christmas.
Magnificent! Bravo!
Thanks a bunch!
Another great video Grant. I just wish they were as long as the trains.
Thanks so much. I really appreciate that. Cheers!
Beautiful, simply beautiful! Somebody needs to come up with a way to make streams look like they are moving. :-) Are the real railroads allowed to do that flying helper-disengage - that was cool.
Thanks so much, great question. Yes helpers cut off on the fly on the prototype. I've witnessed it on both Marias Pass and Bozeman Pass in Montana. A device called Helper Link is bolted to the front of a helper unit. It has a vertical air activated ram on it that pulls the pin when the helper engineer requests it. I believe it is tied into the FRED on the train being pushed via radio signal so that if the train goes into emergency the units would drop to idle. If you listen to a scanner you can hear a distinctive "Beep Bop Boop" just before the helpers drop off. If you feel like it you can check out my video "Distributed Power and Pushers" to see more and hear the signal. Cheers! -grant
@@SouthernAlbertaRail Very interesting. Thanks!
Merry Christmas beautiful layout 🚂🎄🤶🎅🏼⛄️🚃
Thanks Tom! Merry Christmas to you as well.
Question? Is SAR721 a kitbashed flared radiator SD70M?
Good eye noticing the flare. Not a 70M but a SD70macT1. Kit bashed from a Kato SD70mac and flared rads from a Kato SD70m.
@ Ahhhhh. Ok Ty very much and Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas.
Beautiful layout! What’s the footprint that it takes up?
Thanks so much and Merry Christmas. The layout is 18 feet by 46 feet double decked.
Beautiful.
Thank you! Cheers!
🤠👋🚂🗯
Cheers!
Puse me gusta por el diorrama muy bien logrado y ejecutado pero soy de los que les agradan los sonidos reales de las locomotoras sin gente y charlatanería solo disfrutar del modelo y sus sonidos reales..si deseó escuchar musica ya sea clásica hip hop o reggaeton o realizar Reiki yoga etc colocó en la play list y listo... gustos son gustos 🤔 🙏🤷
I wanted something different with this video. I picked the music and timed the trains to it. I have made others without music in the past. I appreciate your view. Obrigado!
If I want to hear music i'll go to the symphony. This is a train video, I want to hear trains!!!!!!!
N scale's just not that loud.........
music ruined it
I'll try to better next time... Merry Christmas.