I'm pushing the limits
Again just the link 
Clem
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Awesome, Clem! Inserted the media for you. Hope you don't mind 
WOW.. thats about a 1.75 mile train aint it? Pretty cool!
Jim
Very awesome!!! And love your layout, can you post a track plan? -Ken
Wow - That is great !!! Must be every car you own !!
It's about three times every car I own
! Great job.
George it was everyone of my Diesel era cars and then some from the steam era and some I thought of selling. If it wasn't for that circuit protection someone made for me this could have been a big disaster. I tested it several times.
Clem....this is incredible....got to be some sort of record! Get with me to see if we can include this video into our digital version of the magazine next time....
AMAZING. 
I agree the video is smazing.
Almost always, running long trains enhances realism. However, when the train is so incredibly long, the thought occurred to me that it may be too long to be realistic.
Clem FANTASTIC !! Can you tell us how you set the "speeds" of each of the 5 puller and 4 pusher diesels. Did you consider having any diesels mid way? I wonder if you or anybody on the forum knows how real railroads "set" such situations? Thanks for showing and sharing this !
I wonder how long it took to assemble this train? Did you have to test which cars performed good in this train?
INCREDIBLE---SEEING IS BELIEVING!!!
Very cool!!
I assume you had to use some sort of wire tie or other device to keep some of the couplers together?
-Dave
Hi PRRHORSESHOECURVE...........It is that time of year when I change over from modern to steam. so all the modern stuff is boxed up for a year. And all the steam returns. I did not test each car, I did not put the light weight cars directly behind or in front engines. Really only had two cars that fooled me, Atlas tropicana juice cars they derailed between two unweighted Weaver short tank cars, that stayed on track. Strange. I played all afternoon starting out at 100 feet.
Clem
TURTLE7.........The locomotives all 9 are MTH p2 and one p3. so all their speeds are the same, they are divided into their normal use of 4 different lashups. The whole thing was then operated under the DCS ALL command.
Clem
That is too cool! Especially in your own home!
-Greg
DAVE45681........ I use Kadee couplers. Both plastic and metal. 15 cars still have claws, not sure I'm going to keep those. They came off the for sale dept.
Clem, do you have an itemized list of the train's consist/manifest?
Also, can you calculate the actual weight of the locomotives and cars--that'd be some interesting numbers.
Really cool! Who makes those pine trees? They look great.
Carl .............I don't have an itemized list.......However I can get you the weight of locomotives. Cause I do weigh those. I put weight inside my locomotives, NO traction tires.
Will.........The trees are from Scenic Express (Creative Accents) $$$
Clem
WOW I just LOVE IT!!!! Enjoy!!!
(now has mental image of 200 foot gi-raffe car train) 
Mitch
That was a great ride, thanks for posting. You have a remarkable railroad, congrats! Russ
Far Out! That's hard to believe even when I'm seeing it. It's an awesome layout. The track & scenery are tops. Trains working to perfection. The engines didn't seem to be laboring, either....is that correct? Yeah, and the couplers staying coupled....impressive. And I'm with you on the traction tires. Hate 'em.
Huge thumbs up
Russ...Mitch....Laz...... Phil.............Thank you my next one will be a long Amtrak !
The engines where not working hard at all, running I think 22 smph, At 27 smph I would trip a breaker if I had all nine engines in the same power block. I have the track divided into 4 blocks, but with a train this size sooner or later all nine will be in the same block even if its on another level or other side of the room.
Clem
Absolutely amazing! very cool watching the same train on three or for different levels at the same time.
This is the stuff that makes model railroading so much fun.
Bob
Truly amazing, thanks for making the video.
Very nice video.
Fantastic! Remembering years ago I managed to pull 23 Lionel cars with my old 2026 without derailments or couplers opening up unasked...And I'm with you on traction tires,hate them.I'll go with traction tires when EMD,GE,and any others start using them!
clem k posted:
I'll say you're pushing the limits. 
How long did it take to put it together and get the perfect shot? I can relate. I left you a comment on YouTube.
That's really impressive, Clem. How many powered units did you have running?
That is impressive and a lot of fun, Clem. I always like seeing trains run on your layout. Here one train takes up about the whole layout! Great!!
I must say, that is cool. I enjoyed that ride.
Great layout and video. Love those huge trees!
My overhead is 200 feet and I pull an average of 25 cars per the four engines than run on two main lines. So...I love your long consists. Your layout is a classic! Thanks for this.
Jerry
Arnold D. Cribari posted:I agree the video is smazing.
Almost always, running long trains enhances realism. However, when the train is so incredibly long, the thought occurred to me that it may be too long to be realistic.
I counted about 140 cars/intermodal platforms. Pretty sure CSX has done that under the auspices of Precision Scheduled Railroading
---PCJ
Bob.....Hoki71....Eddie g......Jack....Mark....William.....Jerry G......Elliot...........Matt.... Thank you for all the kind words..I'm just trying to have a little fun outside the box
Matt.......All nine locomotives are powered, unfortunately some are getting old, so I'll have to replace 8 speakers, the Cotton Belt is still good.
Elliot....... Once I got up to 175 feet minor things started happening. So about two hours after I got to 200 feet I took this video. It was a lot of fun, the 2.2 percent grade really messes with things. Gravity is strong stuff.
Im surprised nobody said anything about the 89' flat car piggyback consist. The 9 locomotives are really four mu's operating under the DCS ALL function. You believe somewhere in there, are plastic Kadee couplers !!
Clem
The United States has set their limit on the length of freight trains on 3658m*, which was done because of the limits of the air brake technology. However, one special run on Union Pacific railway consisted of 296 container cars that were pulled by nine locomotives. The total length of that train was impressive 5.5 kilometers (3.4 miles).
*3658m = 2.273 miles.
Record length double the length of the posted train when converted to 1:1. WOW~!
Jim
WOW is right, Jim!!
