This was featured in an old kids train video titled "BIG TRAINS LITTLE TRAINS" from 1994. I Wonder where Carly & Connor are now?
@WA1LBKАй бұрын
This has to be the most amazingly CLEAN industrial railroad (& narrow gauge, to boot!) I've ever seen in my life! The locomotives look immaculate & very modern. (What manufacturer built them?). Even the gondoal cars are clean! Iron ically, the ONLY piecr of equipment that showed ANY signs of weathering was the water car! 😄 I'm guessing the fact that this is a desert environment in additon to rxcellent maintenace; and the fact that appatently in a very sparsely populated are means graffitti is non-existent! 🙂 Where in the southwest is this operation located? Very interesting video! 😉
@NWFProductionsАй бұрын
Great coverage of a really unique operation. Also, 16:30 had me laughing a little on the inside. Great video.
@nomanejane57662 ай бұрын
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@nicholasmedovich86912 ай бұрын
When did shay 3 last operate at PSRM. I know she was sold 98 to Cass.
@ArnoldwMace3 ай бұрын
Steve Lee yelled at Doyle McCormick wanna race
@evanstauffer44703 ай бұрын
This locomotive was built by MLW for the White Pass and Yukon Railway in Alaska. However it never operated there because they shut down their freight operations in the early 1980s. It was subsequently acquired by USG for their Plaster City operation, replacing GE 70-ton C-C locomotives. It was originally built with the safety cab; there is another unit from the order of three with safety cabs still working on the WP&Y
@patriciacurtis62484 ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing this it sure was fun, we made some great friends. We have been watching many of our old videos lately. We sure created some special garden railroads. 😊
@laurarey90364 ай бұрын
Larry Rose and I are both past presidents of the San Diego Garden Railway Society. Larry’s was one of the first built in 1988-89 I think. Larry’s late wife,Tanya, was a master gardener. We had a lot of fun in those days and didn’t take ourselves seriously.
@maciejqantas55355 ай бұрын
How to make custom HOn3 USG locomotive? It is beautiful model 🥰
@jacobsandler4386 ай бұрын
I feel more comfortable with 5ft gauge for industrial operations at a large gypsum quarry and the large gypsum plants. Although timber logging and peat extraction operational sites widely utilizing less than even 3ft narrow gauge NG 750mm~29.528in. The majority of 750mm NG rail roads already have long suspended their operations due to lacking demand for peat. The children's NG rail roads are quit popular among all post soviet states. Such recreational rail roads also serve as a place for internship for students of vocational schools. Much better to grasp knowledge and hone skills, when you work in a real place.
@northerncalirails20086 ай бұрын
🔥
@m686_217 ай бұрын
She's a beauty 🤩
@user-sc7ci7rt5e8 ай бұрын
Spreckles really should have listened to his advisors.
@Brian-HistoricMineExplorations8 ай бұрын
Great explore, subscribed. Do you happen to have coordinates to the shack and mine? Appreciate it.
@FremontRailMedia8 ай бұрын
So THAT'S how these double-decker passenger cars looked liked before they were spray painted in graffiti's and put away in 2007 on Carrizo Gorge siding...
@Howrider659 ай бұрын
This line was a big failure. You dream and sometimes it just goes south.
@SouthernPacific89849 ай бұрын
The problem is company after company comes in with the same business plan to open the line and it ends up in bankruptcy. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
@ryanbahrami10 ай бұрын
Is that the Plastar City Railroad as a model?
@SouthernPacific898410 ай бұрын
This is the San Diego Model Railroad Association HO SD&AE layout. This does include a model of the Plaster City Narrow Gauge in HOn3 in roughly 1950. While this is more of a freelance prototype take on the railroad, it is modeling Plaster City.
@ryanbahrami10 ай бұрын
@@SouthernPacific8984Ohhh San Diego & Arizona Eastern cool
@stevehollenbach431310 ай бұрын
Great layout and equipment! In case anyone is interested Mike May has partnered up with PBL to produce HOn3 kits for the WP&Y and the USG versions of the Bombardier MLW DL535e(W). I just pre-ordered two of them two weeks ago. The company is called Northbound Model Works. If you’re still into bashing away at it consider this…after twenty years of turning Atlas RS-4/5’s into Alco DL535’s, I’m opting for the kit! The equipment in this video represents the leading edge of the hobby by any measure. Outstanding!
@SouthernPacific898410 ай бұрын
Thank you! Mike licensed my original CAD drawings for making this locomotive and modified them for the production run. For those wanting models of the USG cars, they are available on my Shapeways store.
@mamarussellthepie399510 ай бұрын
Very cool
@henrygonzalez7038 Жыл бұрын
What ever happened to that locomotive I remembered it seeing go by my old neighborhood in Tijuana Mexico when I was a kid can anyone tell me ???
@seanpacificrailroad3700 Жыл бұрын
This is an awesome video. I didn’t think Narrowgauge still existed. Thanks for sharing.
@john72ss Жыл бұрын
Jail time!
@The_Duggler25 Жыл бұрын
Scratch built loco? Or is there a place you can buy it?
@SouthernPacific8984 Жыл бұрын
Scratch built/3D printed. It may be available in kit form in the future.
@The_Duggler25 Жыл бұрын
@@SouthernPacific8984 that's awesome! I really dont know why no one has gotten into the market of making these. Or even the sd70ace-bb
@CertifiedConsolidation Жыл бұрын
He was lucky he wasn’t ran over thank you god
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Up 8444 and sp 4449 coming through to los Angeles
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Up 8444 está soprando original whistle igual a voz do meu primo Júnior e sp 4449 está usando o sp&s 700 cracked whistle igual a voz da tia Marlurcia e sp 6 chime whistle igual a voz da prima alicinha
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Up 8444 and sp 4449 arriving at los Angeles ca
@danielboone3770 Жыл бұрын
What a surprise! 😃😍😍😍😍😍
@waynelove813 Жыл бұрын
Been there lots of time never get old❤
@ToritheGSMR1702-mz3rc Жыл бұрын
I am just wondering what would happen if a shay went way over its max speed?
@Hail2Pitt412 Жыл бұрын
5:53 despite spending 2 days out there - I annoyingly did not get up on that ridge both days. Definitely want to get back for that…glad to see other perspective from there
@Hail2Pitt412 Жыл бұрын
I do have to ask though - how did your truck hold up in the sand? I rented a jeep wrangler specifically for this railroad and it did well for me. I initially had a small truck before upgrading to the wrangler thinking a truck wouldn’t get it done. The jeep did well for the most part - but it did get pretty bad for a quarter mile stretch or so about half a mile past the superstition trestle heading towards the quarry.
@Hail2Pitt412 Жыл бұрын
Great video documenting the operations. What a fun railroad to photograph.
@nathancorcoran5347 Жыл бұрын
I hope one day to visit the Ghost Town & Calico Railroad in the near future. They have a lot of cool old narrow gauge railroad equipment that were from the states of Colorado and New Mexico. Like Denver & Rio Grande Western 340.
@celrailfan4449 Жыл бұрын
i wouldn't mind being ran over and killed by the 4449, but that guy was a fool by doing such thing
@patlatorres7000 Жыл бұрын
I'm just curious about why the first car is empty on the inbound train?
@voidjavelin233 ай бұрын
act as a buffer car
@patlatorres7000 Жыл бұрын
Interesting that at around 12:07, on the return trip from the mine, the first car behind the locomotive appears to be empty. Is this the case and if so, for what purpose?
@SouthernPacific8984 Жыл бұрын
Buffer car for loader at the quarry.
@patlatorres7000 Жыл бұрын
@@SouthernPacific8984 Thanks.
@chloecover1276 Жыл бұрын
I always go out to Imperial County with my family for camping and riding ATVs and we always take the 8 that passed by the rails that run through the refinery. My dad told me that they still ran rail operations there, but I never realized how it worked until I decided to do a little more research
@stanleybest8833 Жыл бұрын
Pretty goofy railroad. Get all that stock tuned up.
@kylestrasbourg4885 Жыл бұрын
My nicknames for the 2-8-2's: 14 - Martin Lawrence 15 - George Harrison 17 - John Lennon 18 - Péter Soltész
@FabioSilva-mt9wr Жыл бұрын
Up 8444 & sp 4449
@kathyoffutt1661 Жыл бұрын
Hi. We lived in DelMar and my son met Trevor. I believed he owned it and this was private property back in the early 90s. He was very kind and gave us rides on this. Please respond. 😊
@DoctorVdW Жыл бұрын
Where is this exactly, and may I join in?
@Josh_Rowe Жыл бұрын
Awesome! We were up in the area scouting turkey, and decided to check this location out. Ran into the squatter shack, was wondering about it, didn’t look like a mining structure. Great video! Glad you were able to document this location.
@tracksidethomas Жыл бұрын
It's so cool to see these places in real life and then how people construct them in a model layout. It looks really awesome!
@cmdoggy24 Жыл бұрын
That is so cool! I’ve been on that locomotive for over 15 years now
@kadenrobinson7067 Жыл бұрын
0:17 Let's be honest 14 whistle will always be the best and beautiful whistle on the EBT if you disagree your probably lying to yourself
@AbandonedMines11 Жыл бұрын
That second entrance you show where you comment about the pieces of foam is interesting. The Forest Service installed one of those PUF foam plugs in that entrance. That’s sometimes how they seal these abandoned mines. I know a couple other explorers who went up there about five years ago and attempted to dig that foam out. When the foam is exposed to sunlight, it degrades quickly. I do believe they actually made a hole big enough to get in there but it really didn’t go anywhere from what I remember them telling me.
@AbandonedMines11 Жыл бұрын
Nice video! That cave-in that you showed happened about seven or eight years ago. Before that, that tunnel went a lot further into the mountain. Time and gravity eventually win in the end.