Show Me Your longest Trains

Here you go, Arnold.  No gymnasium but it's in the basement.  I don't think you have to have 50 cars to perceive a long train.  The limits of your layout make it look long.  My layout has O42 curves, and I use a helper to prevent string lining.  This consist of 3 GP7', one is the helper pulling 14 mixed freight cars. Wait for the end of the video and you will see how it looks huge, for my layout.

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@Wood posted:

Here you go, Arnold.  No gymnasium but it's in the basement.  I don't think you have to have 50 cars to perceive a long train.  The limits of your layout make it look long.  My layout has O42 curves, and I use a helper to prevent string lining.  This consist of 3 GP9', one is the helper pulling 14 mixed freight cars. Wait for the end of the video and you will see how it looks huge, for my layout.

,WOW Avery nice WOOD!!!  I do like those Heinz cars!!!👍👍

The longest train I've run at home currently is this 54 car tank train.

At a train club event, I ran this 115 car train with two Legacy U-boats.  I have to say, those engines were WORKING!

@Wood posted:

Here you go, Arnold.  No gymnasium but it's in the basement.  I don't think you have to have 50 cars to perceive a long train.  The limits of your layout make it look long.  My layout has O42 curves, and I use a helper to prevent string lining.  This consist of 3 GP9', one is the helper pulling 14 mixed freight cars. Wait for the end of the video and you will see how it looks huge, for my layout.

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Awesome, Wood! But don’t you mean GP7s? 😉

Forty 89ft Lionel Autoracks pulled by 2 SD80MACs. It ran but was temperamental around sharp curves.  Cars are too long and light.    I've run 60 with 4 SD80MACs but never videoed it. 

Passenger train. Returning by steam.

Here's mine:

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Awesome, Wood! But don’t you mean GP7s? 😉

Yes Vern they are GP9's

Thanks for the correction.

The amazing length of some of these trains reminds me of some real freight trains I've seen.

When I was a kid in the early 1960s, I remember seeing long PRR coal drags while sitting by the pool at Hopewell Country Club in NJ where my aunt and uncle, Ruth and Bill Bruce, were members. My sisters, cousins and I would count the seemingly endless coal cars.

During the past year, I've had similar experiences seeing CSX diesels hauling seemingly endless oil tankers along the West bank of the Hudson River near West Point.

It's fun to try to re-create these wondrous experiences on our layouts:

Arnold

Here is the ROCKY MOUNTAINEER a from last weeks Whistle Stop Wednesday Videos.

American Freedom Train.  I need to retake this now that I have the three flatcars and tool car.

So far one of the longest trains I have operated. The longest train is after the middle of the video.

https://youtu.be/S5Gj6gr832o

Well, I'm a small operator, so don't have very long trains. But the Santa Fe Super Chief on the layout right now, is the longest passenger train, with only 7 cars. In the summertime, the Union Pacific Yellowstone Special will replace it with 8 cars. Big difference.

Running a little jerky at slow speed. Time to get out the track cleaning car.

Thank you, Arnold Cribari, for starting this thread.  And my thanks to all of you who posted videos. I enjoyed the videos, and maybe I can soon make one, too, as I have a new iPhone (a gift!).

This is running on O-48 Fastrack from the HHP-8 starter set; with some added straights:

This was taken when TTOS had a store front and multiple operating layouts at a local mall for about 12 years.

The locomotives are double headed K-Line repops of the Marx 333, pulling Marx 6 inch cattle cars.

I lost count of the cars. 69 is the number I remember, but could be wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zl7_MSigPlw

https://youtu.be/UDpJxbWUM_4

6 engines and 1 dummy, 65 cars and caboose. Layout is 32' x 8' with a twice around track plan. It loops the entire layout.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/FGWrJxV5koFNuu3w8

                             COAL HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!        https://youtu.be/y6_DN6MNxho

"Long Train" generally is an oxymoron when talking about O gauge clockwork trains, but I do occasionally run long trains on my O gauge windup layout.  This is an older video I made, it was shot on the previous version of my windup layout that had O42 curves on the mainline and basically fit on a 4x8 sheet.  But, I think the longest train was 27 cars which was just about all that would fit on the layout without the locomotive pushing on the caboose... enjoy "Windup Trains on Steroids":

Super nice video Cap

Windup Guy - Who made the 2 - 6 - 0 locomotive?

Heres 20 reefers and a caboose which makes a decent train on my little 10'x16'. I've probably added another half dozen since making this video. Siding storage is becoming an issue.

We have MTH Reefers

Atlas Reefers

Steel Train

Some Hy Cubes

Some Alco power

And this one is my favorite   Triple headed steam on the helix with 90 Atlas hoppers

@bluelinec4 posted:

We have MTH Reefers

Atlas Reefers

Steel Train

Some Hy Cubes

Some Alco power

And this one is my favorite   Triple headed steam on the helix with 90 Atlas hoppers

Bravo to you, Ben, and the NJ Hirailers. Enormously long trains look so much at home running on the gigantic and magnificent NJ Hirailers' layout.

@Les Randler posted:

Windup Guy - Who made the 2 - 6 - 0 locomotive?

It's a project I tackled a few years back - a Marx 933/991 body powered by a heavily modified Marx windup riser gear motor.  I like to have a some heavy haulers on the windup layout...

Wow, Very Nice!

NB: in BlueLineC4's video that the ALCO FAs are smokin'! Yes!

UP 8500 turbine freight drag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7GtwRBvyec

SP AC-6 4-8-8-2 passenger train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHx8MIHx9Ls

UP Veranda reefer drag:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VThl0MZzO0&t=29s

UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 ore train:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_QTA73_X4

I wonder what the longest train is that someone here has run on 027 track curves? As a child, I never had much luck running long trains on these curves, and for the last few years, my grandson and I still have not had much success with long trains on 027.

Jeff

Samparfitt, i counted approximately 117 cars and a caboose in your ore train video. Amazing. Beautiful bridges and scenery too. Arnold

I'm pretty sure this is the longest train the Lehigh Valley Hirailers ever ran. 9 engines(not all powered), 3 Atlas articulated autoracks, and 32 MTH autoracks. It was fun running the engines in a DPU setup.

Chris

LVHR

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Samparfitt, i counted approximately 117 cars and a caboose in your ore train video. Amazing. Beautiful bridges and scenery too. Arnold

Thanks.

The hobby keeps my off the streets at night!

The layout is now 44 years old; like dog years, that's ancient!

@mowingman posted:

I wonder what the longest train is that someone here has run on 027 track curves? As a child, I never had much luck running long trains on these curves, and for the last few years, my grandson and I still have not had much success with long trains on 027.

Jeff

Interesting question, Jeff.  I have O Gauge with 031 curves, 022 switches and reverse loops. My maximum length trains are 10 scale cars plus caboose on inner main line loop (which has wider reverse loops than the outer loop), and 11 semi scale cars plus caboose on the outer main line loop.

As I mentioned before, the reverse loops limit the length of my trains more than any other factor. However, notwithstanding this limitation, I'm pleased running trains of 10 to 11 cars plus caboose.

If you choose not to have reverse loops and opt to use wider radius curves than the common post war 027 curved track, then you should be able to run trains substantially longer than the maximum length trains I run on my layout. Arnold

I always seem to limit out around 26 cars. I definitely have more but they're either modern freight cars that don't fit with the Big Boy, or fit a specific theme (Christmas/Military) that can't just be thrown onto a normal train.

This is about the longest I ever ran at AGHR. It starts to get unmanageable packing and unpacking super long trains.

My 15 or 16 heavyweights. see if you can count them. Hudsons running behind schedule. Or, fashionably late.

You may have seen this clip before, my apologies. But, if not enjoy.

Ron H

@AGHRMatt posted:

This is about the longest I ever ran at AGHR. It starts to get unmanageable packing and unpacking super long trains.

How true!!

https://ogrforum.com/...5#162898447581936965

50 car grain train 6 engines.