Train running.
Got some emails promoting the new BLI engines N&W Y-6B and UP Big Boy so it motivated me to run mine.
N&W Y-3 2-8-8-2. This was made by Custom Brass back in 1978. I installed a new can motor, painted it, added LED's and installed a TCS 1517 decoder.
Videos:
Coal drag. All Athearn cars. Auxiliary tender by BLI.
At Skykomish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLPrGMumKro
Leaving Hillyard:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...jY&pbjreload=101
UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4. Made by KEY in 1983. Again, painted it, added LED's and installed a TCS 1517 decoder. Freight cars are vintage metal Athearn/Varney and wood Silver Streak/Ambroid kits.
Leaving Seattle: I enjoy the wheel noise from the freight cars.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3ZcA0AnoEI
Leaving Tye:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsqE0Ynk8M
Got both trains running same direction on different levels:
The BLI cattle car with sound randomly activates in the video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKIExS3hf5E
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N&W Y-3 2-8-8-2:
The engine has a removable cab roof:
Departing Seattle's yard.
Skykomish.
UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4:
Chumstick canyon trestle.
Some of the more unusual vintage freight cars in the train.
Metal cars:
Have never seen this 'bill board'.
Different from the 'usual' state of main potato car paint arrangement.
Wood kit.
Wood kit cattle car.
Flat loads:
This is BLI's cattle car with sound. While running the train I noticed a spring hanging from the bottom's frame. After removing the car I found a 'ton' of metal parts along the bottom of the car. Evidently, the speaker's magnet is so strong that it picked up a lot of metal 'scrap' along the track, mostly spikes but one part of a metal spring.
'Dual' pictures of both trains. Chumstick canyon trestle and west of St. Paul.
Tumwater canyon trestle.
The Big Boy just fits on the Walther's 130' turntable with the ends 'overhanging'.
Son and family came down from Michigan after Christmas.
Ran the new NP A-3 with smoke for them.
