What was your longest train in 2016?

Tommy would be hard to beat when it comes to pulling a long drag.

This one pretty good as well.

GN railway:

GN R-2 2-8-8-2 glacier park colors pulling 63 cars.  May qualify as longest pulled by only one engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elC1LoBU2lk  

What, only one caboose!

79 alcohol/tobacco cars "The Train of Sin", with three MTH locomotives MUed. The three locomotives were overkill. I pulled the VO1000 and it ran fine with the ES44AC and SD70ACe.

Unboxing and boxing, I had the better part of 5 hours of setting this train up and then putting it back together.  I forgot and left four cars at home. FWIW, I've picked up a couple more since this was shot.

Big thank you to Putnam Division who shot the video and posted it to his YouTube channel (RutlandMilk)

Gilly@N&W posted:

79 alcohol/tobacco cars "The Train of Sin", with three MTH locomotives MUed. 

 

Big thank you to Putnam Division who shot the video and posted it to his YouTube channel (RutlandMilk)

do you have a list of your alcohol cars?

I would like to see if there are some I do not have.

thanks

47 cars a few weeks ago did not have a video but here is 43 cars with 3 SD70s from MTH (Railking)

I have a small 30ish car army train.......but the die cast vehicles do triple the weight of most cars.....

Peter........I love long trains!

This is from a long time ago. A K-Line Big Boy pulling 60 Marx 3/16 scale cars, all old school. No fast angle wheels or needle point axles.

Steve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRLS3zIrjFE

RUSTYRAIL you are the KING! Nick

A Lionel SD-40 pulling 14 scale auto racks..............Paul

I have been working on my Freedom train consist this year and ran the 18 K Line cars with 3 Atlas 65' flats with containers decorated to match the originals and two modified MTH baggage cars to represent the entry and exit cars.   I have the power car, the concession car and the heavyweight baggage in work which will bring the train to 26 cars.  I pulled this with the recent proto 3 T-1.

Rolland

41 Rail King passenger cars behind an MTH Rail King N&W J 603.

I didn't pull a lot of freight this year, but my longest passenger train was an 18 car Super Chief / El Capitan with 3 heavyweight 72' MTH headend cars, 11 GGD cars including two 72' baggage cars, the 63' RPO, the transition dorm, 7 double level cars and finally 4 21" K-line single level cars.  On the club layout it really looks in scale.

66 coal hoppers behind a U30C/GP30