More Trains on the Palo Verde & Southwestern RR
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- Опубликовано: 15 авг 2015
- This is another video showcasing the many trains that run on this beautiful layout every year. Most of the video highlights our Cotton Belt GP-40's, which are in a consist with a Southern Pacific SD-45. These locomotives are AirWire Controlled and Battery Powered. In Fact, every locomotive you will see in this video is AirWire Controlled and Battery Powered. And taking this topic even further, over 3/4 of our locomotives are now converted to AirWire and batteries, which makes running trains so much more fun! It's the only way to go because of 2 issues: No more cleaning the track and no more polarity problems. With battery power, there are no more continuity issues - EVER! You can run your train on any track - anytime - anywhere - without ever having to worry about the positive and negative of electrical current!
On another subject, the Santa Fe PA's and streamlined passenger cars that you see throughout the video are products of MTH. We were able to interface the AirWire board with MTH's DCS system, so we could control the locomotive's speed and direction. We haven't figured out how to control the whistle and bell yet, or turning on and off the smoke unit with a throttle. But we are working hard on these issues, and hope to have them solved before our Christmas Open Houses in December.
Now for the power - since the B unit is a dummy, and has no electronics, we were able to place (2) 22.2 volt Lithium batteries inside the dummy to power each of the A units. And so far, that has worked out really well. It has given us about 4 hours of run time before the batteries need to be recharged. And 4 hours is a lot of time to have fun with trains!
After the power was fine tuned, we next turned our attention to the passenger cars. First, we separated the shells from the frames of each car. Then we siliconed 20 to 25 USAT figures and secured a 14.4 volt Lithium battery into each car to run the lights. That's why there was no flickering in the passenger cars as they went by because they were not reliant on track power. The battery power is constant source of power, and provides a much more realistic feeling as you view those cars around the layout.
This MTH Santa Fe passenger train is a really Great Looking set-up, and we get lots of compliments whenever we run this incredible train!
So sit back, grab a cold one, and enjoy . . . . . . .
"More Trains on the Palo Verde & Southwestern Railroad" 
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Another awesome layout Dennis. Thank you for sharing. 🚂🚂
Thats a railroad to be proud of! 😋
This must be the best G scale layout ever seen. Its simply amazing.
Like going to the Moon. at least Dennis can say I built this and enjoyed it while it lasted. RIP Palo Verde & Southwestern RR
Very nice
Locomotives ...A+ Long trains...A+ Sound...A+ Videography...A+ Write-up ...A+
Thank you very much for sharing it with us, Peter.
***** That was very kind of you Peter. We really appreciate all of the positive comments about this video. Thank You!We have a great time making them and it seems most people enjoy watching them. And we have some more videos in the works that should be ready to post in the next few weeks. Please check back with us. We would love to show you those videos too!Dennis
chad.moe.tablet@gmail.com hi
inspiring!
My train stock has been stored for 11 years... Should have tracks in the garden by the end of May
Getter done! You will have a lot of fun running trains in the Garden my friend!
A new fantastic video about this excellent garden layout , I like it .
Well done !
Yet another find video of your railroad thank you for sharing again just one of the best you tube videos
Once again, a beautifully done video. I especially like the last segment-passenger cars at night. It feels as though I spent a whole day at your site!
Long trains, love it. Awesome RR and video.
Thanks for sharing,
JJ
I work for dennis on the pass around 2007 helped doing back yard work
It looks amazing...
Good to hear from you Heriberto! Those were fun times my friend.
Fantastic
Amazing !
Thank you, I enjoyed the video.
Excellent!
woww
Great layout, and a very high quality video. Thanks for sharing.
Hey / well thanks for watching! We are glad you enjoyed this video we did of our fun railroad.Dennis
Hi, great layout and awesome trains! Thanks for sharing. I am just getting back into the hobby after about a 10 year absence. The biggest change that I see is the Airwire stuff. Obviously, you are a big fan of it. Some people have told me that it is a joke compared to DCC, but it seems your stuff all looks, sounds and controls great...
I wanted to cry when I heard this Layout is gone. It seems that Dennis ran into serious financial problems. The house had to be sold. Sadly no one realized the value of the Layout. It had to be destroyed to sell the property. I believe that Dennis was able to sell the rolling stock. I could live the rest of my life for what it was worth. Thanks for leaving the videos.🥱
Thanks again for sharing, the tips too. I wonder if Ray Manley can help with the MTH Airwire combo?
Did you ever have any problems with weeds growing on your decomposed granite track ways with the benderboard? did you haft to lay a tarp down before you put the rocks?
Looks great! What brand are the long flat and bulk head flat cars that you are running?
+FTLOT,Flat Cars are my Thing! I have more Flat Cars in my possession (well I use to) than any other freight car or piece of rolling stock. And the fun part is coming up with unique and interesting loads that will turn heads and get people talking.I have Flat Cars from every major manufacturer of G scale trains in the market today; USAT - Aristo-Craft - LGB - Delton - Accucraft - MTH - and even a few custom Flats there were made for me. And almost all of my Flat Cars have had real wood decks put on them, which are then stressed and stained, to give the appearance of heavy duty service. So I love Flat Cars and the many unique things they can do and can carry!Dennis