The LONGEST Miniature Train! | California Vlog #2 

Little bit of Trivia; That 2-6-2 locomotive "#7 Redwood Valley Railway", uses the drivers from the wreaked model of Sierra #3 from Back to the Future III

1:27 Emotional Support Bucket

the thing I like about that shay the most is how it scurries, like the pistons and crank are going a mile a minute while its only actually traveling at a walking pace

Oh snap, you were the ones who brought us the rail at the bottom of the hill?! Thanks! Was awesome meeting you.

I'd like to point out the in the beginning all three of you sounded exactly like I do in the morning you're so tired that words come out so slowly that if people depended on you speaking fast in order to stay alive they would die. Add definitely feel you guys there

We found Betsy's home town! Btw the music is just prefect. We need double headers.

I love the raw footage of all that happens. It's amazing that they can haul that much at that scale.

whenever I see a miniature saddle tank I always wonder: has anyone ever driven it from the saddle.

At 13:53, that bird is a Killdeer, a type of plover. Just in case anyone was curious. It might actually have been scouting for a good nesting site, as they typically lay their eggs among rocks and gravel (they don't actually build a nest).

That killdeer must have a nest near the train tracks. They like the lay their eggs in rocks.

13:50 Glad to see us east coast railroaders aren't alone with Kildeer building nests on right of way. A few weeks ago there was one with a nest next to the turntable where I work. Every time I moved the turntable it followed right beside me. Strange creature lol.

I had no idea steel rail was that floppy. Makes sense why you need the ties.

AHHH HYCE ORIGINAL MUSIC THAT I HAVENT HEARD SINCE EARLY RRO!!!!!!!!!

I love how "real" this gauge is!

There are too many locomotives in this world that I would love to have as a 5 inch live steam model. IF I can get my hands on one, I WILL get myself a K-28 though.

Reminds me of 2006 at Train Mountain. Somebody organized a train of 80 or 81 cars (everybody came back with conflicting numbers) pulled by an Atlantic at the lead, a UP FEF, and a big boy.

You know what Coors Brewing of Golden Colorado needs? It needs a R.R. around it/through it based on this gauge and size of trains for the Tour. :D Ooooh! It could be in collaboration with the CRRM!

Yep that prairie number 7 is awesome and has really good stack talk when it has its own size tonnage.

On the Michigan Central 7.5", a man called Terry, my Papa and I all ran a 114 car train with the smallest car length being 40 scale feet in 1/8th scale. We had some cars which were 50 and/or 60 scale feet and a Pennsylvania Whale Tank to boot. All pulled by one locomotive. I have the pictures of that train still in a photo album if ya'd like a look! :)

Wow, that Shay has such a unique whistle design. It's two in one - a 3-chime with a hooter bell cupped over it. I've never seen (or heard) anything like that before.

That little shay has a very nice whistle. Also, I love the music you do!

7:25 "I think we left something behind" I was waiting for it to be hyce

The sheer quantity of hardware on that line is redonculous. Quite amazing!!

13:50 BIRB🐦🐦🐦

Had to double a hill. Now you're railroading, son!

I'm in an area with no wifi so I had to watch this in 480p the first time and that little bird literally blended in perfectly with the gravel/ballast until she moved lmao

LITTLE BIG TRAINS THE SEQUEL🔥🔥❗️❗️

And again great vid 🥰 That's what I meant under the other video; there's just so much you can do without terribly much planning like you'd need on the big thing. Be it the super long train (imagine ordering the timetable for that alone 😂🥴☠️), be it some MOW stuff. Even building track, you just do your thing and often just eyeball the curves and grades without needing proper planning and engineering (different thing with bridges and such, obviously). It feels rather close to the big thing, but without all the TEDIOUS bd around that you do need on the "real" railway.

😂😂😂 the biggest of helpers the prairie

1:28 Dear God! ….A Bucket!! 🪣

A Shay didn't have the beans? Edit: oh that poor Shay was having a terrible day

Very fun video Mark! It makes even more excited I get to involved with my local grand scale club in the STL area.

What a grand Adventure. Thanks for sharing 😊

Wow! That's awesome! Now i really want to see more!

Looks like a nice fun!

That is.. Wow.

“But it was 21 cars!” At 5:17 I spy some Overfair Pacific action! I really hope they can get things running again at their new home. (The CZU Complex Fire was really gnarly to that whole part of the Santa Cruz Mountains-Ans the Swanton Ranch where they were located.)

Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.

Very cool railroad. Thanks for sharing

Hello Brett, that was an excellent video you put together! Watching it made my day! Really liked the detailed shots and all that. Those choo choos are truly remarkable. The bridge was amazing and the roundhouse OMG! Thanks Brett for making this video so that we could share first hand in all the fun. Hello Mark, the longest consist made me giggle thinking about your Derail Valley shenanigans! 🤣 You guys are the best and thanks again for this! Cheers to you Brett, Leighton and, as always, the Professor!

the little doot and the rails are so cute! ^.^

Poor li'l Shay! When she grow up to normal size, she will be able to pull a lot of crap on a sketchy track somewhere in the forest. Just as her grandmas did!

Fun day great railroad.

good scenery, good music

Oh boy, this ought to be fun

Being use to big train chuffs, listen to the baby grand scale chuffs of little engines working so hard is too adorable. Why do I see that trains this size would have been used in smaller mining operations to haul coal and ore out then at the end of the day, all the miners scurry on to catch a ride out the mine and this little train just chuffs away

i would love to see some "industry simulating" rail scheduling and the like at a place like this. Like taking on simulated coal or ore into wagons, or loading logs, then delivering them to another spot where you load up a "processed" good like 2x4s or steel, maybe some crates made up to look like real deal stuff, then having details over the day to sort of shuffle the raw goods back to where they began in order for the next cycle to begin. it'd be cute. and fun!

looks like #18's steam exhaust nozzles aren't working very well, there's "negative draft" since you can see flame scoming out of the firebox into the cab.

“There’s a Leighton as well” he seems like an object on the channel at this point lol

If video games has taught me anything, its if you want to scuttle that bridge you shoot those red barrels....

I see at minute 5:24 is the locomotive from Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, it is one of the original engines that ran in Venice Beach back in like 1905, I've ridden the other locomotive they had in Venice in the mid 70's at Legg Lake in the Whittier Narrows area, I believe that's South El Monte. Rumor has it that the engine is still in the San Gabriel Valley, in a garage.

I would love to go to California just to ride behind that Shay, driving it would be awesome, but I'm a big fan of Shays and other geared locos like it.

Quite LITERALLY along the title of the classic Lathrop book..."Little Engines and Big Men"...

Now I really want Hyce to react to Narrow Gauge Railways from Germany

Awesome.

Good video, like!!!

A friend of mine who came to the Lilliputbahn right after me and worked there as a conducter had problems with his ears or something like that. Basiccally his ears always startet hurting when he hears loud, high pitched noises like the "song of many wheels". So one day he had the great idea to put silicon oil on the flanges of the whole train bevore our shift with him as conducter and with me as engineer began (Funfact: the engine I was driving that day was called "jumper" or "hopper" and it was built for the much steeper and winding railway in Wasserpark but we got it really early on because its wheelkarrangement was somehow so messed up that the loco startet to jump on the rails and losing traction) . As we left the shed I noticed that the trainbrakes weren´t really doing anything, I also noticed that the squeeking didn´t get any better at all. I came into the station and nearly overshot althoug I didn´t even enter it with the normal speed (ca 25 kmph) We run a really tight schedule especially durning the main season. It was main season at this time and the shift was really fun. I overshot twice and had to slow down all the trains that ran on that day becaus of this. The guy who took over the train after me and saw me coming into the station looked really scared and after I told him that he´s "gonna have some fun" he just started swearing (Vienna is fun and you learn a lot).

RVRY 7 the freaking GOAT 🙏🙏

oh my! baby choo!

Have you looked into the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway in England, it has carried freight and was used for air defence in WW2

So, re: helper ops at Hillcrest - can they/do they cut the brake stand out of the locomotives like on their bigger cousins?

Brett’s the Captain now!

That little engine reminds me of BETSY!!!

Question was it Selma CA yall were in in the beginning that's my home town lol never thought Hyce would come around my neck of the woods

You three are definitely not morning people lol

Some of the music today really reminds me of the game Rimworld.

Hey there is the rear truck of the engine that was in use at the beginning powered or was it a normal trailing truck

That was a LOT of blowback in the tunnel. o_o

@Hyce who does your soundtrack? My mom was originally from Chattanooga and my grandma used to sing the Chattanooga Choo Choo all the time...trips back always included going to the Choo Choo

Thank you, very inspiring and entertaining, keep on railroading! Greetings from Austria🎉🎉

they need a mini climax

Are all of these locmotives custom built by the railroad or are they ordered from a manufacter, and if so what manufacturer?

What’s the name of this railroad that you were filming?

The loco is so diddy

This looks to close to RailRoads Online. So so close to the look of it. Witht he coal mine, rails, rail ties, The little choo choo 5:35 so close to the game. After 14:11, lots of ASMR sound of the trains.

Trains are so absurdly efficient

me, don't say it, don't say it. also me, it would be the geared engine that broke down. 😉

I would be the kind of mad billionaire that would commission a triplex locomotive right after seeing the Shay struggle on the hill. I have no idea if it would work any better than the full size version but at that level of wealth what's half a million dollars or so here and there?

I was wondering all those engines are they all built from scratch?

A very calming video of a perfect and charming little railroad run just like a full size one... nice :) ... seems maybe the Shay and the engine that ran out of beans should swap boilers maybe? However can I make an out-of-band technical request? *PLEASE* set your cameras and/or editing software to 30fps not 24? The mismatch on a regular 60Hz monitor or TV makes any motion jerk around quite terribly six times a second, and we don't even have the benefit of interlacing to spread it out a bit. Plus I'm not even sure if YT's player software internally runs at anything higher because the effect still seems to persist when I run it on my laptop's internal panel set at 240... it's really rather distracting and spoils the experience a bit.

I'll be making comments as I watch, but right now I gotta wonder: How light is that rail?! Wow, only three dudes lifting! And congrats on the safety test!

the fact that they have a geared make this automatically twice as good.

What size of rail is that? And where can I buy some?

the microphone is kind of one directional, made the sounds very different depending on exactly where/what it was looking at. kind of liked that

6:43 First time I've seen full-on flames out the stack (vs. cinders or smoke), can anyone explain why that happens? Is it intentional? Does it have something to do with entering the tunnel or not? Otherwise really enjoyed the quiet editing style, nice change of pace for once :)

11:09 I’ll get in the back and push I’ll get it to go up

What're those red barrels on the side of the bridge used for? I've seen them in books and photos, but I've never gotten a solid answer as to what they're for.

Also I wanna go play Choo Choo here

I would not mind being a hobo on that line.

7:15 5482!!!!! that d&rgw box is like so funny cus my username

You’re not joking that train is really long.

I wonder what the weight of that rail is?

What're the red barrels on the bridge?

What kind of rail is that? I know lightrail trains run on lighter rails, but those look smaller than even that.

I went and saw rgs 20 today!!! I've got vids on my channel

Where can I find the guitar version of Chattanooga Choo Choo. I keep hereing it but I can never find it.

What is the name of song at 0:50? I know it from old Atari game with steam trains, I would like to learn how to play it :) Sounds like simple thing and nice idea for duet of 2 guitars. But first I must find name of that song...

where is this place

Can one of those trains have a boiler explosion? If not cool if so ummm ouch.

someone needs to explain to me why there are red barrels on the bridge