The Santa Fe El Capitan tours the Oregon, California, & Eastern at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum. Museum is open to the public. See cmrm.org for hours and location. Re-edited June, 2017
Thank you for sharing this epic layout. And MOST of all, thank you for inspiring so many to never stop dreaming about how awesome this hobby can be, and is!
Incredible realistic model. Congrats on the model and scenery, and on the excellent video production. One of the best on the internet!!! Your cab and side car views are amazing. I wonder how many man-years of scenery and construction are in that layout.
Thanks Randomotion. It took five and a half years, and 30,000 hours of volunteer labor to build. There's lots more information (including a track plan) on the museum website: cmrm.org/museuminfo.html and cmrm.org/museumLayout.html
it's referred to BNSF but it will always be to me. Atchison,Topeka, Santa fe. to see the cap run again is amazing to see it in Raton pass new Mexico must have been beautiful, in Trinidad Colorado must have been beautiful, well I never say the train in those places but I did see it in Chicago in the evening heading to L.A. and it was gleaming and shinning doing her dance along Ogden ave
Bill....i'v noticed it before, but @ 1:55, just to the right of the El Capitan as it pulls in alongside Meyerhaeuser Timber, there is a track the goes down and disappears underground. Have always wondered where that goes? Another high quality Bill Rogers production. We appreciate the quality of your videography...rock steady still shots, super smooth motion shots and inventive camera angles. Always in focus! A benchmark others could learn from.
Thank you BNSF3012 for the nice comment and kind words. That track ducks underneath the tracks on the main level and moves to the outside where comes back up to the main level as it rounds the peninsula. You can just make it out on the layout trackplan ( cmrm.org/assets/images/OCEDiagram_Medium.jpg ). Look near "Klamath Falls Yard".
That is a beautiful train! I have only seen one other as beautiful. It also was a Santa Fe but I think it was a Super Chief not sure. I do know that it was an older version. Is that a micro cam in that lead engine?
That is one the reasons I cropped the picture so that only the end of the needle is visible. It would have been ungracious of me to have pointed out the zero speed to the person who was kind enough and generous enough to take the photo and send it to me.
