The new Broadway Limited Daylight on a GIANT LAYOUT! 

I want to post the whole thing one of these days. Maybe for members. Not sure. But that was the man, the myth, the Bob in there... :)

Same

It’s realistic, I guess? 😂

O O F.

Sold.... send me an e-mail / discord dm / whatever - I will gush about your facility and choochoos as much as I can. :)

@@Hyce777 AWW SEE IT NOT WHAT YOU KNOW BUT WHO YOU KNOW, GO GET THAT VIDEO HYCE. Maybe an interview with mr McCormick too?

Yes, and somehow sounds exactly like a pitched up full-scale Hyce :D The text was not needed!

Yeah... The folks at the museum said that its too heavy to run on some poor sections of PNWR's tracks, that they were complaining about parts of the tracks having deteriorated support under the rails and thus bending and flexing.

@@rtg Yeah, and UP won't let them run either (no outside steam). PNWR runs sets of (borrowed UP) SD70Ms on the OE line between Albany and Eugene, which together weigh about as much as 4449, so I don't see how that logic works. It's sad how it's so hard for a preservation association to run on the mainline these days. SP&S 700, the stablemate of 4449, just finished its 1472 and now has nowhere to run. At least BNSF is still friendly to steam, and we have smaller self contained steam operations.

I've actually spent a day helping Doyle on his former PA back in '18. ORHF is fantastic.

Dude! Isn't it so cool? It's such a good time. :)

Yeah it’s awesome!

You need to go see her. I've seen her under steam twice. Magical both times.

@@Hyce777 Someday! It's on my bucket list.

Yes Brackett’s Landing

Correct! Filmed from the former offices of Pacific Fast Mail (PFM) - the brass model importer. :)

That's assuming you can even find the BLI ones now, they've proven to be very popular. My LHS can only get wartime black and BNSF...

I used to have a Rock Man Rhymes model. It did what I needed and wanted it to. $10, is, a fantastic price, for any locomotive that moves, in any size... lol! The BLI one ain't cheap, and I am very spoiled that they sent me this one. I've always wanted a nice one like this.

Yes. Yes. Do it. *dew it*.

Gotta love that. When I was younger I wanted the MTH one. Glad it worked out this way though.

One of my local clubs insists on using NCE. NCE's wireless straight up does not function at shows due to interference from all the other systems.

@@SpawnofChaos thats what happens to even the most robust digitrax setups at the edison Greenberg train show

I blame Bubbles. lol!

...holy crap.

Yes, sync'd with the valve events too. :)

I had a BLI Blueline Big Boy back in the day. 120 cars, in HO, up a 2% grade, at the original Pikemasters club in maybe 2014. No one could believe it.

That's incredible. It's amazing what BLI can do. Now if they can just fix their electronics. That's thier only Achilles heel in my opinion

I kinda want to do that too. I love the accurate sound, but my nostalgia does call for the older whistle. lol

Hey now. 611 exists.

I'm having a coupler height and swap session with Leighton here at some point...... The BLi choice for their coupler mounting system leaves something to be desired........

@@JamesPattersonGeepfan one of the reasons I switched to Sergent style couplers on my American stock. It’s been much easier and quicker to get them to work reliably than trying to work with Kadees and their semi compatibility with the knockoffs.

Leighton. Lol. Lawrie's series has been very fun to watch... :D

Fantastic. I am working on getting a full set. :)

@@Hyce777 yeah, a 9 car half Daylight is where I have to stop on the grounds of lack of space for anything longer than that. And that’s fine as it’s more of an excursion style consist in my mind as it’s a mix of “Southern Pacific Lines” and “Southern Pacific” lettered equipment. More or less just what ever pieces of the train I could find online or at train shows. The Kitchen/Coffeeshop/Dining car is itself longer than a Big Boy. Though the full 18 car (19 if you want to model the busy season) would, I think, be pushing it as far as what you could do even on the modular model railroad. Open main would be fine, not so sure about the turn around loops at each end if they go straight into single track running. And as far as seeing the real 4449, I wish I had known it was rolling through Minnesota on it’s way to Michigan back in 09 and stayed through that October to help the Friends of the 261 with the annual fall colors trip due to the Milwaukee Road 261 being down for it’s 1472 inspection and lease renegotiations with the National Railroad Museum in Wisconsin who owned the 261 at the time. And BLI had even made the BNSF paint scheme you showed in the home video of seeing it go by. And as far as what the 4449 would say, I would like to suggest “Santa Barbara”. If the model were the 3 cylinder SP 4-10-2, it could say “Anaheim”.

I played high speed and it didn't work out, and was a bit frowned upon, so I was being nice. :)