Thanks, Jim, but I have to say you're a bit prejudiced! LOL. And, for overall scenery, your Feather River Canyon layout is tops in my book, hands down!

Switching can be tedious but so far we haven't had too many parts littering the roadbed.

I think it's a cool way to go if you can make it work. Looks like we did, eh?!

@@kazoik Yah! It's all in the loops and the reveerse curves. I intentionally put 4% grades into it so that I could have a helper distrct I have had 12 units pulling and shoving trains up the grade toward Summit. The grade is so stiff that I need real working brakes. I designed a prototype that works great, and I want to go into business with my inventions, but I have Primary Progressive MS and it is really screwinbg things up for me. Would you be interested in running my company? It is called Miniature Railway Foundries. I just can't do it now after my wife died. I need someone to run with it. I don't want to tell everyone on YT about the things that I have dreamt up because they can be stolen. They are so simple, and so easy to put on a layout that I have to be careful talking about it!!! Would you be interested???

@@wasatchrangerailway6921 I appreciate the offer, but I think I will pass on it. I like being retired and plan to keep it that way. Perhaps somebody like David Hussey who owns Cannon & Company might know of someone. www.cannonandco.net

Awesome, thank you!

Yeah. I wish ho didn’t cost that much tho for sound. I mean I could put a sound decoder in them.

HO is the perfect size in my opinion. Not so small that it's impossible to get good details, not too big that you can't have a nice sized layout.

Thank you! Will do!

Thank you!

That Old Dutch Cleanser weathered reefer was acquired as is from Tony Thompson. I use a lot of modeling license by operating it during my 50s era sessions!

Thank you!

Just don't call her Sheila! 😂

It will happen at some point. Where I live, western North American railroads are what's modeled on most layouts. There are three east coast-themed layouts on my radar to do layout tours here, though. Just have to get back to being able to get together in person.

@@tsgmultimedia Understandable, have a great day. All I can think of is just this little mainline in the thick woods as a big green pacific goes rolling by with matching coaches, then a black consolidation huffing and puffing along with a long freight...

Thank you. I crushed my left big toe moving that wig wag back in 1996 but I guess it was worth the pain and blood that followed.

Thank you, Kevin.

Thank you, Jerry!

Thank you, Bart. Glad you enjoyed the video. Hope all is well with you on the big UP.

Glad you enjoyed it. We do run a "Denver" local which currently sports a pair of Rock Island GP7s (power/caboose get swapped around between sessions, using either Rock, CB&Q or D&RGW). Train originates in staging, interchanges at Junction City and then works a few on line industries before returning to staging.

Thank you, David.

Thank you, Joe.

Thank you, Tim.

Thank you JL! Appreciate the comment!!

If your interested in the Amador Central, go to the Amador County Model Railroad Museum in Pine Grove, CA. They model the Amador Central and other locations in California.

Two of my favorite pieces of railroad. Only worked the Placerville Branch to Nimbus (for UP) but I did ride the entire line in 1978 as a "non-paid" brakeman (I knew the crew personally and they convinced me to mark-off my brakeman's job at Central California Traction for a day and ride with them to P'ville. Glad I did!).

@@kazoik you lucky dawg! I've rode the Placerville branch on their '38 Skagit motor car, very fun. Cant wait to ride their full size trains when this pandemic is over. I live near the amador central as well, sad to see what it has become.

Glad you enjoyed the video. Shortlines will always be at the top of my list of favorites.

There's a whole play list of layout tours like this here: kzfaq.info/sun/PLnxQpj82XbtoGG46eQx2UC56B0sVjs73g

Thank you!

Thank you for your comments. Much appreciated!

@@kazoik absolutely amazing Dave! Just fantastic!

Glad you enjoyed the tour, Tony!

Thank you. I appreciate your comments.

Thank you. We're trying...

Thank you! I remember quite a bit of it as a kid. As far as SP steam, I can recall hearing an occasional whistle while visiting my grandparents in downtown Sacramento...but no visual memories.

Thank you, John!

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you, William!

That's Pat Davis' Baldwin. Painted and decaled (made his own decals if I'm not mistaken) Stewart model with added LOK sound.

Thanks Ray!

Thank you, Larry.

Right on!

Appreciate that, Kraig.

Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you for your comments, William. At Oakwilde, the main line (against the backdrop) is about a 2% grade. The climb from the drill track back up to the main is short but steep, above 4 percent. Two places I worked in the real RR world had switching leads that were exceptionally steep, the Best (Fertilizer) run-around at Lathrop, California on the SP and the Steed Industrial lead on the WP's Reno Branch. Handling short cuts of cars never proved to be an issue with either.

Yes, it's a Suydam kit I had sitting on the shelf for several decades.

Dave told me when we were recording, but I don't remember now.

Is there any way to get a hold of Dave by email? I really liked it.

He checks this comment thread from time to time. I'd be surprised if he doesn't chime in at some point.

The beets are anise seed. I picked them along a nearby country road (had to shuck them too!) but you can buy them in the spice section of your grocery store. A bit expensive though!

I use anise seed that was growing wild near my home. Had to do my own shucking which was time consuming. You can find it in the spice rack at your grocery store but it's not cheap.

Haha...give me a break JA.

@@kazoik ​ One break... Coming up!

You'll notice I got my autographs before telling everyone else not to. :)

Theres been several times I've seen celebrities in airports etc and been on the same flights. I would never approach them for an autograph. The only time we did that was after Braves games when I was a kid. And that was at Milwaukee County Stadium which shows I old I am

@@mpetersen6 might that have been Hammering Hank Aaron or perhaps Eddie Matthews?? I remember them well too!

That is an AC4/5 Cab Forward 4-8-8-2, numbered incorrectly as an AC6. Broadway Limited manufactured the locomotive but we installed a Soundtraxx decoder and discarded the factory supplied QSI decoder.

@@kazoik ah ok thank you, an impressive locomotive design

@@stefanlorse2249 the cab forward was a design unique to Southern Pacific, to prevent crew asphyxiation while traveling through the tunnels and snowsheds in California.

Did you try searching for it on Google?

@@tsgmultimedia I did and I got links to videos of GP-9s

Angie, the four SP passenger-service GP9s, 5622-5625 (later 3004-3007) didn't have dynamic brake fans and grids on their roof but instead had air reservoir tanks, resembling "torpedoes" thus the nickname torpedo boat.

@@tsgmultimedia Yes, of course I did, before I posted my question. Nothing about railroads. A lot about "PT Boats" and John F. Kennedy.

@@mpetersen6 Oh, please. I got at least 50 hits Googling "torpedo boat" and ALL OF THEM WERE ABOUT NAVAL VESSELS. Not the first (none, zilch, zero, zip, nada) mention of anything to do with any railroad whatsoever. Maybe you have a different brand of Google in your location. Or maybe you're full of sh*t.