great to see you have them (some of) running around your fantastic looking layout , all that talent shows how much you love the hobby, question have you done a how to on the steel rolls how you made them?
Thank you! Everything runs on the layout at some point lol Its all a matter of whether I feel like filming or not. I have not done a video on the steel coil loads themselves. They are all either the Walthers kits or the premade ones from Tangent.
Thanks for the video. Got some Conrail units I will be adding to loco fleet soon. Watched some mid 80s videos of the prototypes and noticed CNW and Conrail pooled power quite a bit. More than I thought, so want to replicate that on my layout. Just stumble upon this video and will start checking out your other videos, always get ideas from other layouts. So thanks and I subbed.
Thank you for watching! I have some CNW power myself to add to consist from time to time but I defiantly need to add more (waiting for another run of CNW SD40-2's from Scaletrains).
Thank you Ted! The NS power is being run by a Conrail crew on the O&WV. Save for the "bag" style toilet the crews always take a pair of SD40-2's any chance they get regardless of what railroad it is!
Pool power was becoming a big thing in the 90s, the home road crewed the Locomotives from other pool partners, I live on the former Conrail line from Anderson Indiana to Elkhart Indiana and I saw alot of run thru power, the Illinois Central Death Stars were definitely cool!!
Thank you! The MT-6 is almost done with weathering and the MT-4 is about to start weathering. Cheack out the layout update I will be posting today to see the actual progress on them.
@ConrailSteve I saw some railroad action today sitting in a dock waiting for my trailer to be loaded, I was at the Toyota plant in Madison Alabama and they were moving long strings of Auto Racks with leased engines for the connection with NS!! Great show!!!
@ConrailSteve That's cool, I pass the CSX Yard every morning in Nashville TN, it used to be the L&N yard plus the Tennessee Railroad Museum is in downtown Nashville!!
Great layout, about the only nitpicks I can think of is the weathering on the locos is just a bit over the top, and the lack of six axle power is weird to me. I've lived in NW Ohio for about 60 years and sitting on the Chicago Line was where I did most of my trainwatching, and 4 axle units on the mains were few and far between. That PC green boxcar looked very close to the real thing.
Thank you! The weathering is based on the units in my area in the late 90's and while it may seem heavy alot of the local power I model never seemed to make it to any wash racks back then and as such looked very ratty. I do plan to add more six axle power I just need to find the time to build the units I want to run and have been on a four axle kick the last few years.
@@ConrailSteve One of my favorites was CR 7592, and at the end of it's CR life, it would have fit into your locos pretty well, but only those old Geeps were at the level your stuff is. The worst looking local unit, and one of the worst running units period, was a black LTEX leaser GP40 that for years seemed to hang around on CSX. I always wondered why it never seemed to leave the area. One day, I saw it and something was different, it was freshly washed, and was RED. That's how nasty it was. It hung around for a couple more months, and then was gone. I know that a couple of the old CR Geeps went to shortlines, I hope 7592 was one of them. I wish I had your talent for weathering, I would love to make a layout that duplicates the CR Chicago line through the Toledo area, along with the Toledo Terminal RR that went past our house when I was a kid. I saw everything there was on the TT, new units, steam locos going to scrap, passenger trains, and the endless early 60's grain and coal trains. The starring locos were new EMD 40 series, and of course, the TT's own Alco S2's. We called the Alcos "Tooledely Doos" due to their wierd exhaust sound, and being "Toledo" locos. TT #103 survives to this day and seems in great shape.
