Awesome! I lived and worked in Denver during the 80s and 90s. I visited DRGW's major hub there many times. It was a great place for railfanning. I miss those days. Also Southern Pacific and lots of Santa Fe back then, especially the yellow bonnets and blue bonnets. (I forgot: also a good showing of pre-merger BN there, and an occasional "ketchup-and-mustard" SP/SF motor. I grew up with BN Green and Rock Island Blue 75 miles south in Colorado Springs in the 70s.) I always hated seeing fallen flags, but as they say, that's the price of progress. Thanks for this! 👍
Very cool! Must’ve been nice seeing all the railroads at the time. I love Colorado because of its rich railroad history. I actually grew up a block down the old Burnham shops in Denver. I was lucky to see a few unpainted SP and DRGW locomotives stored at the time.
That's a nice looking train there, young man! And congratulations on getting all the cars right. So many times people run a steam loco, 2 stock cars, then an intermodal car, then a boxcar with roofwalks, back to a new intermodal followed by a caboose. I know it's a little thing, but I am always impressed when someone remembers to keep the era correct on the whole train. Next time can you show more of your layout? Thanks!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the train! I had a lot of left over rolling stock when I had my old SP/DRGW/ATSF collection. I try to replicate my model trains to be as close as real thing as possible. I will definitely post another layout update as soon as I can. Thanks for watching!
A very nice layout and video. I have plans to expand my own HO scale Unitrack layout, though as I'll be modeling the 1940s-50s steam era, I don't think mine will look quite as modern as yours.
@@5371productions Indeed. I like all sorts of trains, though I have a soft spot for steam locomotives. I also likely won't be modeling the 1990s era like on your layout, but was fortunate enough to have grown up during that period.
Very nice! I have never had a model train, but I was a shortline engineer/conductor for 20 years, so I know my way around railroading. Your setup looks great. Dumb question, but what gauge is that? I hear terms like "HO", but I don't know what that means. Oh, where's the graffiti ? Haha. I rarely see a car anywhere without it.
Thanks! That is HO gauge, HO gauge means that the gauge is the standard 4ft 8 1/2 inches apart but in 1:87th scale. If someone is running Ho scale narrow gauge they refer it as HOn3 “n” meaning narrow and 3 meaning 3 ft apart from each rail. It’s just model railroad terminology we refer it to as.
@@5371productions Something I heard years ago is that HO literally means "Half O." When you consider that O is 1:48 scale, HO scale is almost exactly half the size of O scale, hence the nomenclature. Some model railroaders will use HO scale track for On3.
Awesome! I lived and worked in Denver during the 80s and 90s. I visited DRGW's major hub there many times. It was a great place for railfanning. I miss those days. Also Southern Pacific and lots of Santa Fe back then, especially the yellow bonnets and blue bonnets.
(I forgot: also a good showing of pre-merger BN there, and an occasional "ketchup-and-mustard" SP/SF motor. I grew up with BN Green and Rock Island Blue 75 miles south in Colorado Springs in the 70s.)
I always hated seeing fallen flags, but as they say, that's the price of progress.
Thanks for this! 👍
Very cool! Must’ve been nice seeing all the railroads at the time. I love Colorado because of its rich railroad history. I actually grew up a block down the old Burnham shops in Denver. I was lucky to see a few unpainted SP and DRGW locomotives stored at the time.
That's a nice looking train there, young man! And congratulations on getting all the cars right. So many times people run a steam loco, 2 stock cars, then an intermodal car, then a boxcar with roofwalks, back to a new intermodal followed by a caboose. I know it's a little thing, but I am always impressed when someone remembers to keep the era correct on the whole train.
Next time can you show more of your layout? Thanks!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the train! I had a lot of left over rolling stock when I had my old SP/DRGW/ATSF collection. I try to replicate my model trains to be as close as real thing as possible. I will definitely post another layout update as soon as I can. Thanks for watching!
I was at that TECO show running my trains.
Awesome! TECO is a great show.
A very nice layout and video. I have plans to expand my own HO scale Unitrack layout, though as I'll be modeling the 1940s-50s steam era, I don't think mine will look quite as modern as yours.
That should be fun! that kind of era is pretty nice too.
@@5371productions Indeed. I like all sorts of trains, though I have a soft spot for steam locomotives. I also likely won't be modeling the 1990s era like on your layout, but was fortunate enough to have grown up during that period.
Awsome rio grand units i have a couple of diesel and one steam
Very cool!
Very nice! I have never had a model train, but I was a shortline engineer/conductor for 20 years, so I know my way around railroading. Your setup looks great. Dumb question, but what gauge is that? I hear terms like "HO", but I don't know what that means. Oh, where's the graffiti ? Haha. I rarely see a car anywhere without it.
Thanks! That is HO gauge, HO gauge means that the gauge is the standard 4ft 8 1/2 inches apart but in 1:87th scale. If someone is running Ho scale narrow gauge they refer it as HOn3 “n” meaning narrow and 3 meaning 3 ft apart from each rail. It’s just model railroad terminology we refer it to as.
@@5371productions Something I heard years ago is that HO literally means "Half O." When you consider that O is 1:48 scale, HO scale is almost exactly half the size of O scale, hence the nomenclature. Some model railroaders will use HO scale track for On3.
Like those Rio grande locomotives r they scale trains or athearn
Thanks! They are athearn
@@5371productions welcome I thought they were Rio grande locomotives r Sharp looking
Hmmmm how many cars on the train?
Approximately 40 cars were being pulled
no weathering or graffitti get buisy and and make it look real