05:16
Early Burlington Northern passenger trains with rainbow consists.
08:32
Christmas treats out on trains. UP, SP, early BN and Amtrak.
02:49
Christmas treats on the Cascade Subdivision! Big Sky Blue invades Oregon!
08:50
I ballast the curve from He!! and re do the tunnel portal, add scenery, run trains.
00:32
Short N scale repro of today's "Coast Starlight" rushing south through Oregon City.
02:59
Amtrak #11, the "Coast Starlight," the real one rushes through Oregon City today.
08:25
Union Pacific passenger trains back in the day.
01:29
Merry Christmas from the Southern Pacific 1971
01:30
Merry Christmas from the Burlington Northern and Amtrak in 1971.
00:38
Christmas in Soda Springs, CA 1974 on the Southern Pacific With #5.
00:55
Big news from the Cascade Sub!
02:01
Paring the huge UP "City of Everywhere" down to a smaller, reliable consist.
03:54
I put the SD60 back on the Monster City of Everywhere. It goes ok at first...
01:25
Monster Christmas Union Pacific "City of Everywhere" departing Cheyenne, WY
05:04
One engine pulling the previous Southern Pacific freight train. How will it compare to 4 F units?
03:58
Four Southern Pacific F7s struggle across the Cascade Sub.
04:48
Solo SD9s at work out West and down South.
04:37
Burlington Northern and Early Amtrak trains in the PNW 1970, 1971.
01:59
Union Pacific 4 unit manifest rolling thru Hubbard, OR today as I wait for cheap gas. Barely got it
01:25
Southern Railway's #5, the "Piedmont" in 1975 roiling thru VA w F units and pigs.
05:02
The SP SD7 goes solo, warts and all. It stalls in Oregon City, needs the F7.
07:31
First and second gen units on Southern Pacific freights.
04:09
Southern Pacific F units at work on passenger and freight trains.
00:49
Ryker the cat in the Christmas tree. Hasn't he seen "Christmas Vacation?"
04:39
Re-decaling Superliner cars for the 80's , then I run a variety of Amtrak units with them.
02:51
Layout update 14,432 or so. It works! SD40T and an SD45T run the curve smooth as silk.
02:09
Layout update #1,421. That $%#&*& curve on the extension. DANGER! don't build an extension lol.
04:08
Early Amtrak Coast Starlights, if SP had held onto PA's, E9s and more F7s into the Amtrak era of 71!
00:28
Ryker and Gus doing goofy animal things.
01:00
Walking the Canby Logging Trail, and I sort of miss a Cascades
02:23
A heavy Thanksgiving Coast Starlight near Klamath Falls, Oregon today.2 new Chargers get help.
06:42
Re-doing the curve I just redid! I bring an SP SD40T-2 back from the dead and run a long train !
05:16
I worked on the #$%^ curve before the tunnel, then I run some SP trains over it
07:08
Treat from the train show/swap meet in Longview, WA 11/23/24. SP SD45-T2and some locos along I-5.
01:17
Oregon Pacific SW9 setting out cars in Canby, OR for the UP to pick up.
05:28
Where was I last week? I was here 40 years ago in a dome car behind Amtrak F40s.
04:22
Santa Fe silver and red Dash 8 Warbonnets on TOFC/intermodal in Arizona.
04:43
Santa Fe in Arizona, 1987. Shouldn't Paint So Fast. TOFCs and double stacks.
00:46
Amtrak "Cascades" #503 s/b ripping thru Hubbard, Oregon Nov 3, 2024.
00:16
BN ex passenger F7 on a local.
09:21
Union Pacific Dash 8s getting attention, the BN F7 gets nose stripes, too.
04:06
Big Power on the SP 1990s part 2. SP throws new and old at the Cascades as UP takes over.
05:52
Big Power on the Southern Pacific in the 90s. Slips, stalls, DPUs, rear helpers, too.
03:13
Long Southern Pacific freight train.
03:48
BN short freights
05:14
I chased a BN freight out of Spokane in 1979, and got a meet in the process!
05:26
Detailing and painting the new BN F7. Then we run it with it's sisters, still in NP black w/stripe
02:48
LawsonLogCarChallenge high in the Oregon Cascades with Black Widows
08:13
Mail Call- Unboxing a Burlington Northern F7 It looks good! Photo correction. Bill Edgar, not Egdar
03:10
Some love for the Santa Fe. Warbonnets at speed hauling freight in the 90s.
02:09
Early Amtrak in California.
03:39
Just a short Southern Pacific freight I chased back in the day in Oregon. It's snowing there today!
05:31
More Rainbow-era Amtrak in the Northwest. F unit heaven! Amtrak, GN, NP , Great Domes, obs cars...
05:06
New angles, Southern freights, moving buildings around for different looks and scenes. Enjoy!
04:19
Some early Coast Starlights' with SP Coast Daylight equipment; UP, BN thru cars, too!
05:08
An N scale tribute to Lee Witten's "Early Amtrak, Rainbow to Bilevel " video.
02:15
The late, great Amtrak "Pioneer." It may come back.....
03:25
Beautiful locomotives and cars. I visit the Bridgetown Railroad Prototype Modelers show 10/05/2024.
01:28
Special excursion with Doyle McCormack's Alco PA NKP 190 and GN F7!
03:11
Running the new F9 in different power combos on ex BN Amtrak trains.
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Hi. I have a spare bedroom N scale layout. It features Southern Pacific's Brooklyn Yard in SE Portland, Oregon, Oregon City, and some generic Oregon countryside and Cascade mountain scenery. I like to re create trains I have ridden, grew up with (Southern Railway in the 70s) and watched with my son in the 90s and early 2000s. It is set in the mid to late 1990s, but sometimes a 1940s Daylight with a GS-4 or an Alco PA/PB will be featured, or a 1980s freight or Coast Starlight. I I really like Rainbow -era Amtrak; the variety was incredible. I got to ride on some odd consists in the 70s!
I was lucky enough to have worked for Ensco, Inc in Springfield, VA in 1984/85 doing track surveys on Amtrak and other railroads. Riding the head end of 3 F40s screaming across Arizona at 90 mph plus was an experience I will never forget.
I have written articles for TRAINS and CLASSIC TRAINS magazines, starting in 2000.
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