Ok now we need the cab of a steamer to complete the experience. Model Railroader did an April Fools article humoring the idea several years ago, where you had to have a fireman shoveling coal; and if he stopped shoveling, the train stopped lol.
that is hilarious. I very much so want to build a steam locomotive cab simulator. Might partner with a couple cool groups to make it happen some day. :D
I’m guessing you folks know about the D51 class loco cab set up as a simulator in the railway museum in Saitima, Japan? It’s cleverly done! A few good videos online, this one is an introduction. ruclips.net/video/6Ac_gWM_30s/видео.htmlsi=kLeVyp-ZUblkI4NW
In Japan they have one with an actual D51 steam locomotive cab. You have the option of having a fireman too and they actually have to shovel coal and use the injectors. It's incredible. It uses footage from an actual trip. I wish I could build something like this, it even uses hydraulics to simulate the rocking motion of the cab. Here's some footage of it, if RUclips will allow me to post this link... ruclips.net/video/6Ac_gWM_30s/видео.htmlsi=pjzpkvvkipz6NL35
You can do anything with PVC pipe and a little imagination! Saw the layout last year with friends and thought the cab simulator was full-sized, too. Hard to believe it was all built by one man. Was told that some members come from out-of-state and stay a few days in Greeley just to operate the layout. I would, too, if I could afford it! Amazing.
Technically that's how NASA's lunar landing simulator worked. Except that the lunar module cabin was full-sized and all the switches and their functions were simulated. A model of the lunar landscape hanged up side down from the ceiling and the camera below moved according the the commands either from the astronauts or the guidance computer and the conditions of flight (spacecraft attitude, vertical and horizontal speeds). The image was projected through TV screens covering the windows, giving you the illusion that you're flying/landing on the Moon.
One of the few simulators you could actually crash, as the camera could crash into or even through the terrain. The new one is just a bunch of boring software.
A lot of early flight simulators were done this way, using a big model board and a servo-controlled camera moving over it. It wasn't until the late '70s or early '80s before fully-electronic image generators could replace the old model boards.
Fun! Reminds me of a Model Railroader article from decades ago in the brief period of time after that technology first became possible but before all the F-units were gone from scrapyards. Someone actually bought an F-unit cab and had it lowered into the basement of the house he was building, and then built a layout with the cab set up as a control station a lot like this.
Someone covered the guy's layout in a video here on RUclips. Don't remember who but the guy models KCS so at least that's something to start a search on.
@@garysprandel1817 Oh, indeed! Looks like it's Dr. Nick Muff. Also either I am misremembering the "control the model trains" setup or he's no longer doing that.
Brilliant! Scaled down or not, that cab looks eerily authentic. Although, as an Aussie, the country that still has a healthy number of EMD streamliners in commercial service, I do wonder why the controls are on the wrong side!
The controls are configured on the left hand side as that is the side most American railroads ran on. So the E and F Units here were configured for that running compared to the Australian offshoots configured for right hand operation.
This is the coolest thing. I've only seen this done a handful of times with model trains. I've seen it done a few more times with train simulators, and maybe three times with simulated footage of an actual train. In Japan they have one with an actual D51 steam locomotive cab. You have the option of having a fireman too and they actually have to shovel coal and use the injectors. It's incredible.
I used to live in Greeley but never got to go to these amazing places. My mom was one of those people who moved every 3 or so years, but we always somehow ended up back here in Durango.
Hi Mark, the simulator is ultra cool! What a wonderful way to experience model railroading! It’s so lifelike. Enjoyed hearing about how the museum came into being, a truly fascinating story. The open plan and encouraging people to interact and thus learn is brilliant! The dispatch center and all that sounds so fun. I also loved seeing the historic objects exhibited throughout. Such a nice touch! The attention to detail is beyond amazing making the simulator even more OMG! I still can’t get over the beautiful monumental bridge and then watching you Mark going over it on the simulator was a WOW moment! This was a fabulous treat Professor, many thanks as always for another amazing learning video! Many thanks to Bill Kepner for sharing his expertise about the simulator with us and Michelle Kempema for telling us more about this fantastic museum! Cheers to you all.
That looks seriously nice. Love the high amount of detail here. However, Miniatur Wunderland still wins out as the ultimate model railroad in terms of sheer detail, scope and scale. This model railroad might be a close second.
@@Hyce777 They do have a youtube channel so you can have a look at just how incredible they are. They have a full-on operational airport with flying, taxiing and parking aircraft, a real-water basin with radio-controlled model ships sailing around and moving into and out of ports, moving model cars, two working fire departments that respond to various fire calls on model structures, multiple continents worth of trains, and multiple points of interaction for visitors that interact with and affect the layout in various ways, triggering events on the layout such as a fire and an appropriate response from the fire department as mentioned above. Push a button at the chocolate factory in the Swiss section and watch your miniature chocolate bar be made in the miniature factory before your very eyes, and then grow to an appropriate serving size and get delivered to you in full-scale. Also, speaking of the things mentioned above, the ships on the water basin do carry cargo including other vehicles. Yes, there are radio-controlled ferries sailing around a train layout on real water, carrying model trains and model cars that drive on and off said ferries. It's incredible. Bridges that work, planes that land and take off, emergency departments that actually respond to emergencies... when they say miniature wonderland, they mean it. Even the people are animated in some way, whether that's cameras flashing in a hand-built stadium or a little red-haired girl lifting an entire cow while ice skating. Just about the only thing that they haven't figured out how to do is make model people move from scene to scene, such as makng model people that embark and disembark from the model passenger cars or aircraft. As for continents, they have Germany, Switzerland including the Alps, the USA, the Netherlands, and even a few places in Asia and South America. They also have a fictional city called Knuffingen which is where the airport is located. It's time- and distance-compressed of course, but they replicate real-world details with insane accuracy using HO scale models. You will be able to recognize any point on their map and match it with the real-world location it's based on. And they even have a full day/night cycle which rotates every 15 minutes, and appropriate interactions for each part of the cycle! It blows every other layout in the world out of the park in terms of scope, scale and sheer level of detail.
@@Hyce777 It is a MASSIVE layout, you need multiple days to experience it all. It spans multiple continents and countries, all in HO scale. Germany, Switzerland, the North Sea regions, the USA, Africa, South America and Asia. And more than just the trains move too. The automobiles move, and so do the planes and even ships! Yes, you read that right - aircraft land, take off and move around a scale model airport and moving, radio controlled ships ply the real waters of the model North Sea. And it is incredibly detailed and interactive. Buttons placed throughout the fascia enable people to interact with the layout in ways nobody else can replicate. For example, press a button at the chocolate factory in the Swiss section and watch a scale model chocolate bar get made right before your very eyes. Then moments later, receive a real mini chocolate bar, as if the miniature workers in the model factory had made it just for you! And they do more than just static interactions. Press a button in the Knuffingen section or at the airport and a fire starts in a random building... and the fire brigade rolls out to fight it, lights and sirens blazing as the mini fire trucks roll along the city streets in stunning miniature live action.
That high bridge is really cool. I live near Northlandz in Flemington, NJ, and the bridges there never cease to amaze me. Oh yeah, and the EMD cab is brilliant. Great video, Hyce
When I was a kid in the late 80's, early 90's, we lived in Klamath Falls at the end of the OC&E in their last few years of operation. They ran 50 car log trains in from Bly and parked them on two sidings just up the street from my parents' business and blocked the crossing for a good 10 minutes or more while they backed the train in, split it in half, and then parked the second half, letting the road clear in between. I watched them all the time as a kid until we moved a couple years later.
That's really clever. I like that. Seems like something I'd definitely build for sure 👍 (The real cab controls for the locomotive and with the view out the front of the layout trackage - I love this).
That museum reminds me of Roadside America which used to be in PA before it sadly closed. It was a massive model train set and not much else but it was extremely cool to see as a kid.
Oh, so it too isn't a real cab... Man they really are deceptive... I always say the cab at our museum is a D&H U30, because that's where the nose, and all the cab fittings like the control stand, cab signaling equipment and the lockers behind the engineers seat came from. But in actuality, the rest is a garden shed...
Hey @hyce having run the real WP 913 at CSRM, it's definitely a very faithful tribute! That's a 24RL brakestand at 6:32. 24 air is similar to a #6 in that it has non-self-lapping positions to reduce brake pipe pressure, but also has a position for pressure maintaining (a feature of #26 and newer brake stands) at the engineer's choosing. Pressure maintaining will keep the brake pipe reduction constant by feeding just enough air into the brake pipe to keep up with any brake pipe leakage. 24RL is the ultimate brakestand!
Now this is something I should go do since I want to work with trains. Understand how they work from the inside view of things. If they had a steam section I will make it a priority to go there before starting my own development of engines.
In Asakusa I remember that about 5 years ago there was this section of the department store that there were all these displays of plates of various named trains and sited next to a column was a literal driving cab section of a train. Had a fun time messing around with it
2:00 the model used for the camera reminds me of the weird camera car thing the SP converted one of the Krauss Maffei engines into, at least in terms of purpose
Definitely a train simulator but on a real model railroad layout. I have to visit the Colorado Railroad Museum and tried that out and I hope I don't die behind the controls :)
Maybe 40-45 yrs ago, MR had an article of someone that acquired the actual cab of a scrapped F7, and built it into his home basement, to use like this on his layout.
Colleague of mine does (or maybe did in the meanwhile) something similar, plundered our workshop for cab parts of our new Locomotives to built a Trainsim controlstand.
I thought someone beat me to it! I'm working on an interface between an actual NY MTA Subway throttle/reverser stand and O-Gauge Subway trains as we speak. (Out of an R68A train). At the very least, I want to bring it to open houses at my club's open houses (TMB, Dix Hills, NY) and set it up in front of a wall mounted TV with a first person camera in the scale subway car's cab. I don't know who the MTA thought was running the trains, but the thing is sturdy and definitely childproof. Perfect for my needs.
In real life the engineer sits right over top the right rail and the right end of the cross tie. That is the perspective he has from the cab. His line of sight is about 12 feet above the rail. The window arm rest is about 10 feet above the ball of the rail (at least in a SD40-2).
Back in the day there used to be flight simulators that worked the way this thing does. Also I believe at least one tank simulator was built in similar fashion. A very unusual intersection of the scale model with military technology.
Hyce: Retired locomotive engineer and operating rules instructor here from a class 1 railroad. The man is incorrect. That appears to be a 24RL brake system, not a 26L or 26C. F and E units were originally equipped with 24RL brake equipment from EMD.
Cheers my friend! I don't know enough about the "mid era" of diesel air to know. Some of the odd varieties of 6 for diesel might as well be entirely different compared to what I've seen on steam. 24 makes sense based on the year of production.
I remember seeing this from the original builder on his RUclips channel, appropriately under the title of Ultimate DCC Throttle. Definitely would want to do a steam engine version someday, just don't know how to convert the controls to digital inputs.
Even with the explanation, it still feels weird to have the CMRM model the Oregon, California & Eastern, and reinforce it with the custom-painted full size boxcar outside. But the OC&E was a cool railroad IRL, and the model railroad empire he built is even more incredible.
I remember there was a multi-part series on youtube of a guy building a setup like this in his basement. This looks exactly like it, and I wonder if this is the same Cab I watched that guy build.
I have been inside of a carbody EMD (well not really cause it was a NoHAB engine) a few years back, I know those are slightly different but DANG, I think those cabs are actually quite similar! (I mean, the controls, the MÁV M61 class has a bunch of extra features that iirc F7s did not have). that sounds like some variant of a 567C to me? the audio from the sim isn't clear enough to tell (or maybe I'm growing deaf) or maybe my head hurts cause I can't tell from the sound alone what position the throttle is in also God that is some DE-LAY on that horn chord
Now if they could get the equivalent of a cell phone camera to actually put in the cab part of the locomotive, they wouldn't need to have that big awkward camera car in front.
The challenge of a cell phone type of camera is its short focal length. If you notice in the video the track right in front of the locomotive is in focus as well as items in the distances.
I did not see the whistle signal for the Crossings, if you're going to run it pro typical, you should at least have a W on a stick that the operator can see.
Frustrated with keyboard controls and the abysmal quality of train sim controllers on the market, I went on eBay and found a real EMD control stand for sale. Would be fun but way too much money to justify for a toy, so I passed on the opportunity.
Ok now we need the cab of a steamer to complete the experience. Model Railroader did an April Fools article humoring the idea several years ago, where you had to have a fireman shoveling coal; and if he stopped shoveling, the train stopped lol.
that is hilarious. I very much so want to build a steam locomotive cab simulator. Might partner with a couple cool groups to make it happen some day. :D
I’m guessing you folks know about the D51 class loco cab set up as a simulator in the railway museum in Saitima, Japan? It’s cleverly done!
A few good videos online, this one is an introduction. ruclips.net/video/6Ac_gWM_30s/видео.htmlsi=kLeVyp-ZUblkI4NW
@@Hyce777 Montezuma Simulator lol
@@Hyce777 So it'd be like those first person shooter cabinets, only for railroaders and railfans? I'm down for that.
In Japan they have one with an actual D51 steam locomotive cab. You have the option of having a fireman too and they actually have to shovel coal and use the injectors. It's incredible. It uses footage from an actual trip.
I wish I could build something like this, it even uses hydraulics to simulate the rocking motion of the cab.
Here's some footage of it, if RUclips will allow me to post this link...
ruclips.net/video/6Ac_gWM_30s/видео.htmlsi=pjzpkvvkipz6NL35
You can do anything with PVC pipe and a little imagination! Saw the layout last year with friends and thought the cab simulator was full-sized, too. Hard to believe it was all built by one man. Was told that some members come from out-of-state and stay a few days in Greeley just to operate the layout. I would, too, if I could afford it! Amazing.
Technically that's how NASA's lunar landing simulator worked. Except that the lunar module cabin was full-sized and all the switches and their functions were simulated. A model of the lunar landscape hanged up side down from the ceiling and the camera below moved according the the commands either from the astronauts or the guidance computer and the conditions of flight (spacecraft attitude, vertical and horizontal speeds). The image was projected through TV screens covering the windows, giving you the illusion that you're flying/landing on the Moon.
One of the few simulators you could actually crash, as the camera could crash into or even through the terrain. The new one is just a bunch of boring software.
WOW I never knew that one, but of *course* thats how you could do a flight simulator when you don't have computer-generated graphics..........
A lot of early flight simulators were done this way, using a big model board and a servo-controlled camera moving over it. It wasn't until the late '70s or early '80s before fully-electronic image generators could replace the old model boards.
Fun! Reminds me of a Model Railroader article from decades ago in the brief period of time after that technology first became possible but before all the F-units were gone from scrapyards. Someone actually bought an F-unit cab and had it lowered into the basement of the house he was building, and then built a layout with the cab set up as a control station a lot like this.
Someone covered the guy's layout in a video here on RUclips. Don't remember who but the guy models KCS so at least that's something to start a search on.
@@garysprandel1817 Oh, indeed! Looks like it's Dr. Nick Muff. Also either I am misremembering the "control the model trains" setup or he's no longer doing that.
11:31 when I volunteer I always love seeing people’s reactions to seeing the beautiful waterfall and the massive drop that even scares me😂
Brilliant! Scaled down or not, that cab looks eerily authentic. Although, as an Aussie, the country that still has a healthy number of EMD streamliners in commercial service, I do wonder why the controls are on the wrong side!
The controls are configured on the left hand side as that is the side most American railroads ran on. So the E and F Units here were configured for that running compared to the Australian offshoots configured for right hand operation.
Really want to go to the museum now 😊
This is the coolest thing. I've only seen this done a handful of times with model trains. I've seen it done a few more times with train simulators, and maybe three times with simulated footage of an actual train.
In Japan they have one with an actual D51 steam locomotive cab. You have the option of having a fireman too and they actually have to shovel coal and use the injectors. It's incredible.
That is incredible. On my list now...
I used to live in Greeley but never got to go to these amazing places. My mom was one of those people who moved every 3 or so years, but we always somehow ended up back here in Durango.
Durango ain't a bad place to arrive. :)
Out of all the places I’ve lived so far, Durango is definitely the best by a long shot.
After a horrible day at work and crap after I left work this really made my day.
Great work! And I love your presenting style. Cutting back and forth between the cab ride and the interview gives a more dynamic feel. Lovely!
Fpv cameras on live steam model trains are the best
This is pretty awesome, wow.
Hi Mark, the simulator is ultra cool! What a wonderful way to experience model railroading! It’s so lifelike. Enjoyed hearing about how the museum came into being, a truly fascinating story. The open plan and encouraging people to interact and thus learn is brilliant! The dispatch center and all that sounds so fun. I also loved seeing the historic objects exhibited throughout. Such a nice touch! The attention to detail is beyond amazing making the simulator even more OMG! I still can’t get over the beautiful monumental bridge and then watching you Mark going over it on the simulator was a WOW moment! This was a fabulous treat Professor, many thanks as always for another amazing learning video! Many thanks to Bill Kepner for sharing his expertise about the simulator with us and Michelle Kempema for telling us more about this fantastic museum! Cheers to you all.
I could spend DAYS playin around with this cab rig, thats the neatest thing I've seen
That looks seriously nice. Love the high amount of detail here.
However, Miniatur Wunderland still wins out as the ultimate model railroad in terms of sheer detail, scope and scale. This model railroad might be a close second.
I desperately want to get out to see Miniatur Wunderland. :)
@@Hyce777 They do have a youtube channel so you can have a look at just how incredible they are.
They have a full-on operational airport with flying, taxiing and parking aircraft, a real-water basin with radio-controlled model ships sailing around and moving into and out of ports, moving model cars, two working fire departments that respond to various fire calls on model structures, multiple continents worth of trains, and multiple points of interaction for visitors that interact with and affect the layout in various ways, triggering events on the layout such as a fire and an appropriate response from the fire department as mentioned above.
Push a button at the chocolate factory in the Swiss section and watch your miniature chocolate bar be made in the miniature factory before your very eyes, and then grow to an appropriate serving size and get delivered to you in full-scale.
Also, speaking of the things mentioned above, the ships on the water basin do carry cargo including other vehicles. Yes, there are radio-controlled ferries sailing around a train layout on real water, carrying model trains and model cars that drive on and off said ferries. It's incredible.
Bridges that work, planes that land and take off, emergency departments that actually respond to emergencies... when they say miniature wonderland, they mean it. Even the people are animated in some way, whether that's cameras flashing in a hand-built stadium or a little red-haired girl lifting an entire cow while ice skating.
Just about the only thing that they haven't figured out how to do is make model people move from scene to scene, such as makng model people that embark and disembark from the model passenger cars or aircraft.
As for continents, they have Germany, Switzerland including the Alps, the USA, the Netherlands, and even a few places in Asia and South America. They also have a fictional city called Knuffingen which is where the airport is located.
It's time- and distance-compressed of course, but they replicate real-world details with insane accuracy using HO scale models.
You will be able to recognize any point on their map and match it with the real-world location it's based on.
And they even have a full day/night cycle which rotates every 15 minutes, and appropriate interactions for each part of the cycle! It blows every other layout in the world out of the park in terms of scope, scale and sheer level of detail.
@@Hyce777 It is a MASSIVE layout, you need multiple days to experience it all.
It spans multiple continents and countries, all in HO scale. Germany, Switzerland, the North Sea regions, the USA, Africa, South America and Asia.
And more than just the trains move too. The automobiles move, and so do the planes and even ships!
Yes, you read that right - aircraft land, take off and move around a scale model airport and moving, radio controlled ships ply the real waters of the model North Sea.
And it is incredibly detailed and interactive. Buttons placed throughout the fascia enable people to interact with the layout in ways nobody else can replicate. For example, press a button at the chocolate factory in the Swiss section and watch a scale model chocolate bar get made right before your very eyes. Then moments later, receive a real mini chocolate bar, as if the miniature workers in the model factory had made it just for you!
And they do more than just static interactions. Press a button in the Knuffingen section or at the airport and a fire starts in a random building... and the fire brigade rolls out to fight it, lights and sirens blazing as the mini fire trucks roll along the city streets in stunning miniature live action.
You will be stunned. I guarantee it.
What we need is a cab ride through Miniatur Wunderland
That high bridge is really cool. I live near Northlandz in Flemington, NJ, and the bridges there never cease to amaze me. Oh yeah, and the EMD cab is brilliant. Great video, Hyce
this is what will make railfanning more fun :D
This is mind blowing! Coolest invention ever
The size of this layout means you aways have something for someone to do, as folks have kids they can come into the hobby etc. Very cool!
This is so cool! Now, another layout to add to my bucket list. Joy! Thanks for referring to Linn Westcott as well.
That is really cool, added to my bucket list. Thanks for the video!
When I was a kid in the late 80's, early 90's, we lived in Klamath Falls at the end of the OC&E in their last few years of operation. They ran 50 car log trains in from Bly and parked them on two sidings just up the street from my parents' business and blocked the crossing for a good 10 minutes or more while they backed the train in, split it in half, and then parked the second half, letting the road clear in between. I watched them all the time as a kid until we moved a couple years later.
That's really clever. I like that. Seems like something I'd definitely build for sure 👍 (The real cab controls for the locomotive and with the view out the front of the layout trackage - I love this).
This is amazing
That museum reminds me of Roadside America which used to be in PA before it sadly closed. It was a massive model train set and not much else but it was extremely cool to see as a kid.
The lay out it self is as huge as fitting two loco motive inside. Place is so huge. Impressive layout with all the scenery.
The horn is the fun part about truck driving also
That is a cool museum, and shows how nice Colorado is.
Oh I need a Cab Setup like that! This is just too amazing!
Oh, so it too isn't a real cab... Man they really are deceptive...
I always say the cab at our museum is a D&H U30, because that's where the nose, and all the cab fittings like the control stand, cab signaling equipment and the lockers behind the engineers seat came from. But in actuality, the rest is a garden shed...
Hey @hyce having run the real WP 913 at CSRM, it's definitely a very faithful tribute! That's a 24RL brakestand at 6:32. 24 air is similar to a #6 in that it has non-self-lapping positions to reduce brake pipe pressure, but also has a position for pressure maintaining (a feature of #26 and newer brake stands) at the engineer's choosing. Pressure maintaining will keep the brake pipe reduction constant by feeding just enough air into the brake pipe to keep up with any brake pipe leakage. 24RL is the ultimate brakestand!
Amazing thank you👍😎
Now this is something I should go do since I want to work with trains. Understand how they work from the inside view of things. If they had a steam section I will make it a priority to go there before starting my own development of engines.
In Asakusa I remember that about 5 years ago there was this section of the department store that there were all these displays of plates of various named trains and sited next to a column was a literal driving cab section of a train. Had a fun time messing around with it
"That's the most fun part... everyone knows that..."
/nods ❤
ok, that's SICK! I really need to go down their and put my F unit skills into action
I think I’ve seen this on RUclips years ago. It was soooo cool.
2:00 the model used for the camera reminds me of the weird camera car thing the SP converted one of the Krauss Maffei engines into, at least in terms of purpose
Quite a setup...👍
thats like my dream, too frikken cool.
I can only imagine the three little dcc decoders just being hotwired to some giant speakers for a tv
This is amazing. Just needs a blue card
Great video!
@Hyce i gotten to visit that museum june 2023 on my way back home from visiting family in my hometown (Washington State)
Definitely a train simulator but on a real model railroad layout. I have to visit the Colorado Railroad Museum and tried that out and I hope I don't die behind the controls :)
Awesome video
The man that built that cab was 1 hell of an engineer.
whoa thats cooooool
Maybe 40-45 yrs ago, MR had an article of someone that acquired the actual cab of a scrapped F7, and built it into his home basement, to use like this on his layout.
I see Hyce is running in notch ten.
Colleague of mine does (or maybe did in the meanwhile) something similar, plundered our workshop for cab parts of our new Locomotives to built a Trainsim controlstand.
I thought someone beat me to it! I'm working on an interface between an actual NY MTA Subway throttle/reverser stand and O-Gauge Subway trains as we speak. (Out of an R68A train). At the very least, I want to bring it to open houses at my club's open houses (TMB, Dix Hills, NY) and set it up in front of a wall mounted TV with a first person camera in the scale subway car's cab. I don't know who the MTA thought was running the trains, but the thing is sturdy and definitely childproof. Perfect for my needs.
Great, now I have to convince my missus that I need one of these
I volunteer at two museums near me: the New Braunfels Railroad Museum in New Braunfels, Tx and the Texas Transportation Museum in San Antonio, Tx
In real life the engineer sits right over top the right rail and the right end of the cross tie. That is the perspective he has from the cab. His line of sight is about 12 feet above the rail. The window arm rest is about 10 feet above the ball of the rail (at least in a SD40-2).
Okay this is cool. It is hybrid of the Japanese Train arcade simulators and model railroading. Would love a try one day if I ever get over there
Back in the day there used to be flight simulators that worked the way this thing does. Also I believe at least one tank simulator was built in similar fashion. A very unusual intersection of the scale model with military technology.
If I was Bill and noticed that Hyce was looking at my shirt to make sure he got the position title correct, I would've gone "My eyes are up here."
Huh that absolutely massive layout looks familiar
We must see more about that Dispatch office!
Hyce: Retired locomotive engineer and operating rules instructor here from a class 1 railroad. The man is incorrect. That appears to be a 24RL brake system, not a 26L or 26C. F and E units were originally equipped with 24RL brake equipment from EMD.
Cheers my friend! I don't know enough about the "mid era" of diesel air to know. Some of the odd varieties of 6 for diesel might as well be entirely different compared to what I've seen on steam. 24 makes sense based on the year of production.
Mind officially blown.
I remember seeing this from the original builder on his RUclips channel, appropriately under the title of Ultimate DCC Throttle.
Definitely would want to do a steam engine version someday, just don't know how to convert the controls to digital inputs.
Even with the explanation, it still feels weird to have the CMRM model the Oregon, California & Eastern, and reinforce it with the custom-painted full size boxcar outside. But the OC&E was a cool railroad IRL, and the model railroad empire he built is even more incredible.
Imagine running this
I remember there was a multi-part series on youtube of a guy building a setup like this in his basement. This looks exactly like it, and I wonder if this is the same Cab I watched that guy build.
Whats up Hyce, this is Guys
I am building The N-C-O in standard gauge HO scale freelance from Lakeview to Burns .freelance .
Who gave me a membership to this channel?
One of the kind folks on one of the last two live streams, if I had to guess! We got around 300 new members thanks to the past two streams.
@Hyce777 funny thing I never watched a stream from you
@@Hyce777 so many on your tf2 stream jesus
When I first saw the F7 cab interior it felt like I was in the model itself, and it's scratch built and accurate I give it a go 0 out of 10
👍 👍 👏 👏 👏
oh hey there’s a wild foamer(me) at 13:17
Told ya I'd leave you in :D
I have been inside of a carbody EMD (well not really cause it was a NoHAB engine) a few years back, I know those are slightly different but DANG, I think those cabs are actually quite similar! (I mean, the controls, the MÁV M61 class has a bunch of extra features that iirc F7s did not have).
that sounds like some variant of a 567C to me? the audio from the sim isn't clear enough to tell (or maybe I'm growing deaf) or maybe my head hurts cause I can't tell from the sound alone what position the throttle is in
also God that is some DE-LAY on that horn chord
This beats the detail compared to the layout at a museum I work at.
I am working on a similar type thing inspired by Bruce Kingsley but mine is modeled after a BNSF SD40-2.
I'm constructing mine in such a way to where it's mobile and can be loaded in a trailer and taken to different places
25 seconds ago?
Apparently! Look at how early ya are. Lol!
I'm standing next to a huge whee whee
James May would like to know your location
Any chance you would attend and/or plug the 2nd Annual 2025 Colorado Rail Proto Meeting that Michelle has set up for Sept 27-28th?
Compared to that the largest model railway in Australia is kinda small
I've come to the conclusion that I need to get more trains
Now if they could get the equivalent of a cell phone camera to actually put in the cab part of the locomotive, they wouldn't need to have that big awkward camera car in front.
The challenge of a cell phone type of camera is its short focal length. If you notice in the video the track right in front of the locomotive is in focus as well as items in the distances.
That sure reminds me of 5771.
26 air brakes are not that hard. As a matter of fact I enjoyed them.
wait is that Sid Meier's Railroads music?
POV: you think your driving a real train, but your actually driving a toy train
I did not see the whistle signal for the Crossings, if you're going to run it pro typical, you should at least have a W on a stick that the operator can see.
I dunno, I'd say scaled down rideable models kinda blur the line more than a simulation...
Sigh.... I need to move back to Colorado....
Frustrated with keyboard controls and the abysmal quality of train sim controllers on the market, I went on eBay and found a real EMD control stand for sale. Would be fun but way too much money to justify for a toy, so I passed on the opportunity.
Fastest I’ve ever clicked on a @Hyce777 video