Here's a video of a 100 Car Freight moving through the Fiddle yard on the BMHR layout... Members Mike Rinaldi and Al Maiella made up the train... It's Mike's Locomotive and Al's cars... I have not counted the cars but I am sure there's 100... You'll also hear the irrepressible Mike on the audio track... This one was run before the scenery effort started full bore but enjoy it! Prototypical train length!
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Awesome! I think that train warrants a second DD!
Great video! I love seeing the trains snake through in the background. I counted 99 cars and the caboose.
Remarkable! Did one engine pull that entire train? Did you have to push start it?
Pretty amazing one locomotive for that train! I had 50 cars running and thought I had accomplished something!
Great video, love the loco, handsome, never seen one before.
Looks like a great layout.
Thanks for sharing.
hello guys and gals.........
that's very impressive as that lionel DD35 has only 4 of its eight axles powered and plastic body so it doesn't weigh as much as the same size die-cast steamer!!!!!!!! that's very good in my book!!!!!!!!!
the woman who loves toy trains
Tiffany
Pretty darn cool. For some reason, I'm craving a meatball sandwich all of a sudden!!!
That is pretty cool. The Slack alone must be incredible.
I was not present when they ran the train; I'll try and find out answers to your questions... Mike would know but I don't think he's a Forum member [yet]! As it turns out all the cars are Al's...
Well, whoever owned the cars, it was pretty cool. 
Yes, it is... By the way, Mike has joined the forum and I understand will be posting some comments after the audit delay... Hopefully, he'll be authorized today... Someone should ask him how the meatball sub was!!
Very impressive. I couldn't help but think that if each car cost $50, that was a $5000 consist.
And a meatball sandwich to go! That's every railroaders dream. Very cool.
1. I still owe Al a meatball sub
2.Only 1 loco was used, my DD350. I believe that any Lionel with rubber tires and Odyssey speed control could do it since we ran 90 car trains with a GP38 and an SD70.
Starting very slowly and smoothly is important
3.The real barrier to running long trains is avoiding "stringing or chording" on uphill corners. This is where the high forces on the forwardmost cars cause them to tip inwards on the uphill curves and derail. To avoid this we put the heavier boxcars first with hoppers and tankers following.
4.no push start was necessary. We ran the train for ~45 minutes and were stopped when a coupler on the 4th boxcar opened on the uphill run.
Thanks to all for your interest.
Mike
I'd change the title (on YouTube) to match the current description, then take Michael D's points 2-4 and put those in the description. Helps casual browsers spot the video amongst all the other "BLAHBLAHBLAH.MOV/.MPG/.AVI"-titled videos
Other than that, "Behold, the Power of 'O' Gauge"
---PCJ
Verrry cool. Surprised that DD35 can handle it
Very cool indeed but how many meat ball subs can it pull? 
100! Actually counted them. Good job.
The boys from the Detroit 3 Railers ran a 102 car train last weekend (see their post with video) https://ogrforum.com/d...ent/6920524203643572
- but they used two Yellowstones to pull it. Using just one diesel is impressive.
John
I'm seeing a trend here, now there will be a race to see who can put together the longest train!
NICE AND LOOOOONG!!! Make sue you get some Mozzeralla on the Hero!!!!
And I thought 99 was long!! Started with 74 Then kept adding
There's always someone trying to beat the record.
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