In tribute to the WDHS 10th anniversary I made a video with a new twist. I hope it is as good as it was hard to make. Never before had I the urge to put my fist through the computer screen.
Thanks James. The photos of that train always made me drool with excitement. It took forever to get those locos to behave well enough to pull this off.
Thanks. My coworker used Glaze it and was repairing the ones that popped. I told him not to because half the windows were missing by the mid 50's anyways. I think it really adds some character. He did a great job on that monster.
@@allenscottmontgomery3929 love to see a top view of the whole layout, if possible maybe fly a drone across.... I bet the work never ends on that... great job!
@@andypettit5869 Actually, I hate the view from above as I scenicked everything to look good from the railfan perspective. From above all I see is where I could have done a better job:) Yeah, it never ends. We've been working on Laramie for a year and a half...
Thanks! IIRC the Challenger is a Athearn but it took forever to get that brass working well enough to shoot this movie. Man, they are finicky little jerks.
@@jwrailve3615 Brass loves to short out but the real monster is that the tenders derail when going backwards with ease. And for this movie, going backwards was key. I took a lot of time to fuss with them to get them to roll properly. Since I am a diesel guy, it took even longer.
Allen, this video is Terrific.. I found myself drifting off, feeling like I was really at the Sherman Hill incline. You're too humble..You are already a fine movie maker.
It took half a dozen trips through Chian before the weather was nice enough to see more than 50 yards out the window, so I know what you mean. Thanks for subscribing! Hopefully you can live vicariously through this and never have to go back:)
Manas reminds me of a video I saw on the rail giants at 9000 class couples in front of a big boy very good. You know I wonder how well it would look at the union pacific decided to have 844 ahead of the big boy instead for an excursion
I was there for that maiden run with 4014 in front of 844 and it sure looked odd. I understood why they did it but next time I want to see them in a traditional lash up.
Congratulations Allen, you really created an outstanding monument, time capsule and tribute to the prototype! You really keep me going and I must visit that great place!
Hey, you're the one with that amazing 9000 on the counter top! You're braver than I. Just can't seem to work up the courage to weather these steamers. Thank you for the compliment. And you should get out here, especially for an op session.
A very nice video and layout. I have plans to expand my own HO scale layout (and narrate my own stories), though I don't believe mine will be quite as large as this.
@@allenscottmontgomery3929 You're quite welcome, and thank you for your kind words :). Only one out of eighteen aisles? Goodness gracious, that's an impressive amount of track!!
@@Stussmeister Yeah, my calculation is about 7000' including all the turnouts. Most of the layout doesn't have scenery yet, even after 11 years! But I'm working on it...
@@allenscottmontgomery3929 I'm in a similar situation, albeit on a somewhat smaller scale. My above-mentioned plans include designs for a 10 x 6 2/3' layout, and while I've been working on them for over four years, I still have yet to put up the benchwork and scenery.
@@Stussmeister Well you know what they say. It won't get done if you don't start. I have a couple tricks to get my juices flowing for a project, like go out and do some real rail fanning. I always come back ready to go. I'm building freemo modules at home for a side project and they are tricky and I lose the wind in my sails more than I would like to admit.
5097 needs to be red-flagged for that damaged crosshead! Should be able to reseat it and the guide on the yoke, but I would stop running it until you get that done!
Hey bud. Hope all is well for you. That thing must have popped out while shooting and then gone back in place. I can't see anything wrong with it now. But it is a problem. I've had trouble reversing that loco before. Hence all the time it took to get these things running well enough for a video.
@@HOTRAINUNIVERSEANDDIORAMAS Speaking of love. About a year ago I started cooking Indian curry dishes for the first time. Now I don't want to eat anything else! Tonight's leftovers are a chicken green mango cashew I made. I just wish I could find fenugreek here.
That's a fantastic narrative! I saw a similar photo of the same rescue in a back copy of Trains, and am making a series of videos about the locomotives in the photograph. I had been wondering about the train movements - and whether the Big Nine was a helper specifically for Sherman Hill, with the challenger running through to Ogden, or whether they were both running all the way through. Did you base your video on the blurb on the photo, and surmised to fill in the gaps? Or is their a detailed report somewhere? Great job!
Well thank you! I used the captions of several photos in UP books to surmise most of this. As for loco assignments, the 9000's went all the way to Huntington, Oregon and filled in everywhere in between so I can't say what it was doing. The Challenger more than likely was headed to Green River. I wish there was a clearer story of that day...
That shot is a victim of compression. I was going for the area where the mains split and from my maps that is where the original main line is still used.
The two reports differ, one says it was a clogged smoke box and the other said they just didn't have time to turn them. I find that unlikely and went for the more dramatic story line.
