It was my second time out on that track. It just seemed right to take it slow and I'm glad you agree.

Unfortunately, I won't be able to do that for awhile. It's a 22 hour drive for me.

I also have over 2 hours of footage from Mill Creek Central from 2010 that I haven't released yet.

Great people there at the CSME. www.csme-eprr.com/

I revisited the line in late February. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jLdgqcKlqc_Hlp8.html

It's a brilliant idea, actually. These locomotives last for decades. What better way to lower your train budget than by going big? I suppose I'm not helping.

i'm married to her sister...apparently :-)

Buy a Mighty Casey and break her in slowly. If the 2-5 year old kids or grandkids love it, she will be easier to convince.

GE? ( insert EMD GP30 fan harumphing noises) 😸

I didn't build this railroad. An army of volunteers did. www.csme-eprr.com I built a much smaller railroad.

@@MillBrookRailroad No,I was referring to the loco you built - is that 1/8 scale?

@@2001cavador It is 1/8 scale. The loco I built, however, is not in this video.

@@MillBrookRailroad Can you please feature the loco built by yourself and is it as big as this one?

It's 1/8 scale. Still very cool, though.

I'll be there again. Probably in the spring.

It's a great track!

There a a few companies that made rail. It is offered in different weights, depending on how much weight you plan on hauling on each axle. There is also a lot of used rail available from abandoned lines.

That's a permanent setup. Look up Chattanooga Society of Model Engineers.

That's a Mountain Car Company gas hydrostatic GP30 powered by a horizontal Kohler (or maybe Briggs & Stratton) V-twin. It may also have a sound system. I'm not sure. It belongs to the owner of the Eagle Point Railroad.

Oh lordy, I don't want to know the cost of that trestle at 7:50. That's some serious lumbering there.

It depends on a lot of factors but from ballast to railhead, somewhere around $9-12 per foot.

I mean, diesel hydraulic locomotives have been a thing that railroads flirted with before. I'm not sure they really ever took off but they did indeed see use.

@@Mini_Celeste True; and in fact they are very common, if not actually dominant, in Europe.

@@Mini_Celeste The Rio Grande and the Southern Pacific railroads experimented with diesel hydraulic locos in the 1960's. They were built by the Krauss-Mafi company of Germany. The units were unsuccessful in American use due to the fact that their wheel diameters had to be kept to within 2-3 millimeters of each-other. Otherwise, the hydraulic motors would try to turn at slightly different RPM's and cause their seals to wear out quickly. Electric traction motors can rotate at different rates without harm and don't have that problem. European railroads service their loco's wheels much more often than American lines. The additional maintenance costs became an issue that doomed mainline hydraulic locos. (However, small industrial hydraulic locos were successful.)

I think they do when there are more trains on the track.

That's what I would like to know what are the red buckets for ?

I presume so. This was a very lightly attended meet.

I wish I could take credit, but it is not my railroad. It was built with assistance from the Chattanooga Society of Model Engineers, who chronicled the construction on their website. www.csme-eprr.com/

@@MillBrookRailroad Fricken amazing pics on this web site, holy cow

@@MrKnash1 I know, right? It's an amazing railroad. When I realized I'd get the chance to visit, I was quite pleased. When I got there and had the chance to run on it, I was ecstatic.

I was wondering the same thing about all the buckets by the track ??

Fire buckets, like in the old days, would be my guess. One used to see red barrels located at wooden trestle bridges long ago.

Prices of track materials have gone up in the past year. The trackage at Eagle Point would probably cost in the range of $10 per foot if built today. The GP30 belongs to the owner of the Eagle Point Railroad and it's about 15 years old. They were around $8500 new from Mountain Car Company.

@@MillBrookRailroad What are all the red buckets for?

@@MrKnash1 putting out fires caused by steam engines.

The buckets are for fires that could be started by the steam engines that were there the day before. Unfortunately, I couldn't get there in time to see them.

@@MillBrookRailroad thank you

I presume they're for fires started by steam locomotives.

I believe water in case of fire. People do run live steam locomotives up there.

@@jbrunsonjr I wondered if that was why but just didn't know

About 12 miles per hour.

I don't know if they do at the Eagle Point Railroad. I was just visiting. I haven't done any holiday displays at the Mill Brook Railroad yet.

Information at www.csme-eprr.com/

Exactly... Unless Jeff is volunteering to build all the red barrels? ;)

Keep sharing, and that may happen sooner.

It'd also be neat if the camera was mounted on the front of the engine. Then all the amazing trackage and turnouts could be admired as well.

Probably during the next meet on the next full moon after the second solstice in June.

Wile E Coyote buys that stuff. not the roadrunner.

That locomotive is now built by Titan Trains.

Fire supression.

Fire fighting in case of sparks from the steamers. Very sensible.

It is in Dunlap, Tennessee. www.csme-eprr.com

Www.discoverlivesteam.com

Not a silly question at all. It is a private railroad, however, the Chattanooga Society of Model Engineers has full access to the railroad and membership in their organization grants you access to the railroad. www.csme-eprr.com/

@@MillBrookRailroad ty for the reply, I'll look at the site. Will be a while before I can do more than look but can research and learn in the time till then.

@@tcampbell5028 for more general information on this size train, there's discoverlivesteam.com And the Backyard Railroading Facebook group.

@@MillBrookRailroad thank you. Will check that out.

@@itoffice I believe itit'a Titan Trains engine.