Excellent video of an excellent train on an excellent layout. Reminds me of the trip we just took between Emeryville, CA to Denver on the California Zephyr. In and out of tunnel; clinging to mountainsides; climbing over Sierras, the Wasatch Mtns., then finally cresting the Rockies at 9239" in Moffat Tunnel. Thanks for a great video. Our next trip is on the Empire Builder. Seattle to Chicagoland.,
IVE only heard about this town I have not seen it in person that's a shame many years ago I wasn't far from it and at that time ⌚ 😮 I didn't even know it 😮😮 OMG 7 17 2O24
I like the A-B-B-A lash-up of the "F-7" units. The engines look so real, and the landscape of the layout look so fabulous and realistic. Your cinematography is superb.
What nobody knows is that, despite not being in the lead, this is the Last run of the Centennial diesel engine numbered 6936 before being donated to Railroading heritage of Midwest America.
I LOVE those F-units! I have plenty of F-units in HO scale brass from Overland Models lnc. I feel so grateful to own them. But, it's your AWESOME layout that grabbed my attention in this video. The layout is the "star" of this video. The scenery looks so realistic and beautiful. And your cinematography is superb! In your other videos, the layouts looks superb, too. 👍😎
Great cinematography!!! And everything looks so real. I LOVE the F-unit lashup. The headlight and MARS light are so bright they cause me squint while viewing "head-on" shots. This one of the best train videos I've ever seen! 👏👏👏
I remember these Northern Pacific passenger trains going through my home town of Grand Forks, North Dakota in the 1950s. Great Northern was also there too. I like the small cameras along for the ride, very realistic.
The F-unit A-B-B-A lashup looks AWESOME! I LOVE the "close-coupling" of the units. I'm looking for the "right" couplers for my Overland Models lnc F-3 and F-7 units for close-coupling. I hate wide spaces between the units...they look unrealistic. The entire layout is stunning!
All of you model railroad constructors have incredible layouts. Where you separate is this cab ride. I appreciate the little map and descriptions. Immaculate layout also. Great work.
There are hundreds of cab view (or driver view, depending on country) videos (mostly European) on RU-vid that show the full trip station to station. I have watched many of them and enjoyed just about all of them (especially if it's a route I've actually taken). I had to keep reminding myself that THIS video was a model and not "the real thing." That's how real it looked to me. P.S. For those of you who commented on the tracks, come up to Alaska (Skagway) and ride the Skagway train that runs along the mountain side (elevation sea level and up to 4500 feet) from Skagway to the Canadian border as it winds its way around sharp curves and through several tunnels on the way. Now THOSE were "wobbly" tracks. Even the coaches leaned more a few times than felt "safe". But given that that line was built at the time of the Yukon Gold Rush (1898) and mostly by miners whose luck (and supplies) had run out, it's nonetheless a rather exciting (if unnerving) experience.
Absolutely superb jmodel railroading. I live in England & alas have never been to Colorado (yet) but your modelling & consists are exactly what I imagined the scenery & traii consists so be like. I think I even glimpsed a good old Santa Fe El Capitan (perhaps travelling a little off her usual beaten track across The Rockies?) in the background there. All so very good & thank you so much for posting your wonderful models here on You Tube.
