NYC Pacemaker Unit Train Video

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great run Chris!!!

That's a lot of LCLs!  38 cars plus caboose. Wow!

Thanks for posting!

 

Peter

Wow!! That was really impressive!

That looks so cool going through Alex's helix.

Thanks for posting.

Mike R

Chris, excellent video.  Thanks for sharing.  Glad to see 6 of my NYC Pacemaker Standard O boxcars being put to great use!!! 

 

David

There you go David....now you see why I was collecting them.

 

Thanks everyone.  To give proper credit, the last 4 PMs are Alex's and so is one tender.  My tender shorted at the club and fried some wires.  Of course Alex has now made it as good as new.  

 

I love me some unit trains!!!

Chris....what a fantastic video!!  It sure makes up a beautiful train....and double headed at that...Holy cow!!

 

It sure looks great on Alex's layout....thanks so much for posting this..

 

Alan

Wow, the Double Header was fantastic. The Steamer Sounds were great, and what a long train. Nicely done and please show more of this really neat Layout. Thanks.

That was great Chris!

Hello everyone,

 

Chris and I had a blast setting up for the open house, It took us a good half hour to rail all those Pacemakers. It looks even better in person, the credit has to go to Chris only 4 Pacemakers were mine, the rest is his.

 

 Like Chris said we were having some trouble with one of his tenders, every time it went over a switch the sound dropped out. At first we thought it may need a battery, or the IR tether wasn't lining up. After checking all of that I told Chris use my tender and I'm taking yours to the workbench for a closer look.

 

I'm glad I decided to take a closer look, once i opened the tender I couldn't believe my eyes. Melted burnt up wires through out the entire tender, how it was running was a miracle. I caught this just in the nick of time, so the very next day I started tracing wires and installed new wiring through out the tender. She's now back on the layout running great.

 

I thank you all for the great comments, Chris thanks for a great day and a great video.

See photo's below of the burnt up tender wires .

 

Very cool train

Very cool video.  I have only one Mohawk (now re-liveried as an ATSF Mountain)- one of my favorite looking and running locos.  Your look very good double headed.

Very neat video. Looks like you guys were having way too much fun.

 

Gerry

 

Can't wait til the 2nd!

Great video.

Chris and Alex,

That is some beautiful 'BLOCK' of Pacemaker box cars, caboose, locomotives and tenders, as NYC's 'PACEMAKER' 'Inaugural Run,' of the late '40's and which Nick had set up.

I know of David's six 'O' Scale Pacemaker box cars, but how were you able to wrangle up all of the other Pacemaker cars?

I have a few Atlas 'O' Scale box cars and one of the cabooses, which Malcolm created for Nick and myself, BUT, not that many box cars.  WOW!

FANTASTIC!

Ralph

 

 

Thanks Chris.  Very fun to watch!  

 

- Mike

Great video guys. Looking forward to Aug. 2nd.

Ditto on all the great comments; beautiful video, train and layout.

 

I was shocked (SHOCKED, I say!) by the absence of any smoke from those beautiful Mohawks. I always presumed that smoke- and lots of it- was mandatory on the Smoke King's layout!

Mack

Well, since it was a dry run for Alex's Open House and he's expecting a boatload (or is it heavyweight load?) of folks we figured it was best to run sans smoke.  It hurt but we had to take one for the team.  

I found several sets of 6-9 cars on an auction site (not dabay).  I've noticed this site tends to bunch rolling stock together in one lot and sometimes it will be a lot of identical cars.

 

I have a bunch of PFEs (acquired the same way) awaiting delivery of the VL BigBoy. And yes, I will run that with the smoke on!!

I am counting the days.  This will be a big outing for me.  Thanks Chris and Alex.  NYC rules.