I think the Santa Fe, this livery in particular, should live on, for, many generations, to come. I think it is a classic under tone of American life and culture, this train, and I think it should live on forever.
Hi Bill - Very classic operation, with the El Capitan. Very realistic western railroading. Like the views from the cab. • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
As always, excellent video, sir. The fine folks at the Colorado RR Museum have an exceptional layout, and I hope to see it in person one of these days.
The F-unit A-B-B-A lashup looks AWESOME! I LOVE the "close-coupling" of the units. I'm looking for the "right" couplers for my Overland Models lnc F-3 and F-7 units for close-coupling. I hate wide spaces between the units...they look unrealistic. The entire layout is stunning!
Oh, Bill your scenery is realistic and breathtaking! Makes me wanna hop aboard abd take a ride, but it's the thought that counts here, huh! Great camera work and master crafting of your modeling sir!
Thanks Susan. However, I must clear up one thing. The layout is not my work. It was done by Dave Trussell, the designer and builder of the OC&E and a group of volunteers. The museum gift shop has a series of DVDs on how the scenery was done. See cmrm.org/Videos.html
This is the BEST train set up and video I've seen so far. Only knock I have with it is the view from the driver seat (ex 2:49). Looks like a 1940s style.
What a treat to come upon this beautiful video and what happy and thrilling memories it revives!!!! My wife and I lived in Dodge City, Kansas in 1956, ''57, and '58 where I was the Farm Director at radio station KGNO, and each November of those years we would catch the EL CAPITAN to Chicago for the annual meeting of the National Assoication of Radio Farm Directors (now National Association of Farm Broadcasting). Dodge City was a division point on the Santa Fe at that time and the El Cap would stop at 6:00 p.m. there for about 10 minutes for the crew change. We'd board in the center of one of the cars, stow our luggage on a rack on the lower level, then walk up a spiral staircase to the luxurious chairs on the upper level, and the large windows. This, of course, was the Santa Fe's famous all chair-car luxury train...no sleeping cars...but those chairs would recline almost flat and porters would bring us blankets and pillows so it was not difficult to get some sleep while the El Cap rolled on through the night. We'd occasionally wake up and enjoy for a few minutes the night-time scenery and the little towns we would fly through...sometimes illuminated by a full moon. But because we were seated so high and so far above from the wheels and track, it was very quiet and smooth...and we be alseep again in a few minutes. Then we'd roll into the Dearborn Street Station in Chicago about 7:00 the next morning...and catch a taxi for the short ride to the Conrad Hilton Hotel for the convention. Quite an experience!!!
Absolutely one of the best videos I've ever seen seen, great layout, fantastic scenery and a beautiful train. Love the shots from the drivers seat and from the side of the train. Great!
Man someone with a lot of patience put a lot of detailed work into this layout. Everything from the tressle bridges to the wires on the telephone poles. Fantastic!
What a fantastic ride from all perspectives! Superb videography of a beautiful train and backdrop...so realistic. Will hope to visit someday. Thank You!
Thanks Mal. However, I must clear up one thing. The layout is not mine. It is the centerpiece of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley Colorado. The layout and museum are the creation of Dave Trussell, and a group of volunteers. The museum is open to the public. For more on the museum see cmrm.org
A really wonderful layout and the scenery is beautiful and so realistic looking. Thanks for posting this from here in the UK, I enjoyed the amazing ride.
Awesome shooting sir.... This is absolutely a dream set up !!! I also love this Santa Fe livery. I have a Walthers Proto 2000 F3A modernized similar to these F7's on it's way..... Can't wait !!! :)
I only saw the "cap" in Chicago coming in along Ogden ave in Chicago and later at the sante Fe yards in China town in Chicago where they cleaned it services it, I was in a trace looking at those f-units it was always something magical about those war-bonnets, they looked great in Colorado, new Mexico, Arizona, but they we're equally at home way over on the south side of Chicago, great film bill as always you da man👍👍
Love these videos. Great sound and clarity. and camera work. Especially the ride upons (camera on the train looking out) Love to see more with subdued lighting and the trains passing through towns and such in subdued lighting. I like the lighting effects.
Incredible layout ! And the "El Capitan" is a beauty. I'm trying to get a consist like this one. For the moment I've got the four F7s. Then I will use it in the layout we've got at Gijón Railroad Museum, in Spain. But your layout is much more beautiful than ours... Thanks for sharing this amazing video!
Hi Bill. Really beautiful train and scenery. Also excellent camera work. Please, when we can see 20 minutes some switching action? Thanks for sharing. Johan
WOW! What a big, beautiful layout. I liked seeing it and "riding" through it. I really liked the town (17:32) because I'm thinking about creating a small, small, small layout in my apartment and I want a two lane highway running through the town with parking for stores on each side, so it was nice to see how that might look. However, my OCD can't see past the firehouse. With parking in front, how would a firetruck respond to a call with cars blocking their exit? Maybe add "Do Not Park Here" in those two spaces. Very impressive layout. I wish I lived close enough to visit regularly.
Does anyone know why Amtrak appears to not have adopted the transition coach so cleverly used by Santa Fe. Amtrak appears to have sold the story that they invented or carried on the Superliner but history tells a different story. Have I missed something?? Please advise.....
Thank you for the kind words. However, just to make things clear, it's not my layout. I just shot the video. The Colorado Model Railroad Museum (CMRM) was designed and built by Dave Trussell and a group of volunteers. To learn more about the CMRM see: www.cmrm.org/ and facebook.com/ColoradoModelRailroadMuseum/
I use a Mobius camera that has a detachable lens and optical sensor. The camera and lens are mounted on a modified flat car. The lens mount is attached to a heavy copper wire that can be bent to various positions and angles so that lens can be in much the same position as a passenger would be while looking or leaning out of a window.
+Bill Rogers As a child I rode both the El Capitan a couple of times and the combined El Capitan and Super Chief once from Los Angeles to Newton, KS. As I remember the El Caps had 5 units and the combined El Cap and Super Chief had 7 with 2 A units in the lead followed by a 5 unit set.
+Mathew Jackson Thanks Mathew. The layout is HO scale. See the museum website for more details, including a track-plan: cmrm.org and cmrm.org/museumLayout.html
Truly beautiful....but.....if you went all this length for detail....the diaphragms between the cars should also be silver. It takes so little time to fix that, I don't understand why it wasn't done.
I wonder if they were too busy with all of the other amazing epic incredible detail and missed it, didn't want to do it, or just haven't gotten to it yet?
James Watt posted (original comment removed by accident): I have Santa Fe layout here as well. I am working on the passenger trains to make them look like the real ones....stainless steel shining like a mirror and silver diaphragms. I am using Alclad to paint the cars up. It looks great when they are done. Also, you can use 'automobile glass tinting' sheets to make the correct color of tinted glass in the cars.
See cmrm.org/museumLayout.html and cmrm.org/Documents/CMRM_Orientation/OC&E%20Freq%20Asked%20Questions%20v3.1.pdf I'm not sure about the total size of the building.
I think the Santa Fe, this livery in particular, should live on, for, many generations, to come. I think it is a classic under tone of American life and culture, this train, and I think it should live on forever.
I love those inside camera shots,outstanding!
Hi Bill - Very classic operation, with the El Capitan. Very realistic western railroading. Like the views from the cab.
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
Epic. Camera shots and pristine set are amazing. Epic.
I agree
Another great rail fanning tour of a great and iconic passenger train.
The rock work is nut blastingly good. I may have to buy that scenery dvd.
As always, excellent video, sir. The fine folks at the Colorado RR Museum have an exceptional layout, and I hope to see it in person one of these days.
The F-unit A-B-B-A lashup looks AWESOME! I LOVE the "close-coupling" of the units. I'm looking for the "right" couplers for my Overland Models lnc F-3 and F-7 units for close-coupling. I hate wide spaces between the units...they look unrealistic. The entire layout is stunning!
Another excellent video of a superb model railroad!
Your production techniques keep improving with each video. This one may be your best yet!
Great video as usual especially for Santa Fe modelers.
Oh, Bill your scenery is realistic and breathtaking! Makes me wanna hop aboard abd take a ride, but it's the thought that counts here, huh! Great camera work and master crafting of your modeling sir!
Thanks Susan. However, I must clear up one thing. The layout is not my work. It was done by Dave Trussell, the designer and builder of the OC&E and a group of volunteers. The museum gift shop has a series of DVDs on how the scenery was done. See cmrm.org/Videos.html
This is the BEST train set up and video I've seen so far. Only knock I have with it is the view from the driver seat (ex 2:49). Looks like a 1940s style.
What a treat to come upon this beautiful video and what happy and thrilling memories it revives!!!! My wife and I lived in Dodge City, Kansas in 1956, ''57, and '58 where I was the Farm Director at radio station KGNO, and each November of those years we would catch the EL CAPITAN to Chicago for the annual meeting of the National Assoication of Radio Farm Directors (now National Association of Farm Broadcasting). Dodge City was a division point on the Santa Fe at that time and the El Cap would stop at 6:00 p.m. there for about 10 minutes for the crew change. We'd board in the center of one of the cars, stow our luggage on a rack on the lower level, then walk up a spiral staircase to the luxurious chairs on the upper level, and the large windows. This, of course, was the Santa Fe's famous all chair-car luxury train...no sleeping cars...but those chairs would recline almost flat and porters would bring us blankets and pillows so it was not difficult to get some sleep while the El Cap rolled on through the night. We'd occasionally wake up and enjoy for a few minutes the night-time scenery and the little towns we would fly through...sometimes illuminated by a full moon. But because we were seated so high and so far above from the wheels and track, it was very quiet and smooth...and we be alseep again in a few minutes. Then we'd roll into the Dearborn Street Station in Chicago about 7:00 the next morning...and catch a taxi for the short ride to the Conrad Hilton Hotel for the convention. Quite an experience!!!
Absolutely one of the best videos I've ever seen seen, great layout, fantastic scenery and a beautiful train. Love the shots from the drivers seat and from the side of the train. Great!
I couldn't even imagine the man hours that took too build!! Greg
Hallo Bill .Schöne Aufnahmen in Bild und Ton mit dem Santa Fe El Capitano durch die Herrliche Landschaft !
Man someone with a lot of patience put a lot of detailed work into this layout. Everything from the tressle bridges to the wires on the telephone poles. Fantastic!
Beautiful train on a beautiful layout! I love the realism!
What a fantastic ride from all perspectives! Superb videography of a beautiful train and backdrop...so realistic. Will hope to visit someday. Thank You!
Thanks Bill for the sensational ride. So real. You have an amazing layout. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Mal. However, I must clear up one thing. The layout is not mine. It is the centerpiece of the Colorado Model Railroad Museum in Greeley Colorado. The layout and museum are the creation of Dave Trussell, and a group of volunteers. The museum is open to the public. For more on the museum see cmrm.org
A really wonderful layout and the scenery is beautiful and so realistic looking. Thanks for posting this from here in the UK, I enjoyed the amazing ride.
That is one fine looking train set!
Fantastic Bill. Enjoy the way that the view points keep changing from video to video.
The most impressive model railway I have ever seen!
Yeah the El Captain from Santa Fe, a real Classic. Thanks for this authentic video
The realism is phenomenal. Really enjoying your videos.
Beautiful train and layout. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome shooting sir.... This is absolutely a dream set up !!! I also love this Santa Fe livery. I have a Walthers Proto 2000 F3A modernized similar to these F7's on it's way..... Can't wait !!! :)
the in-cabin shots are awesome!
Wonderful. Makes me wish I was back in CO. volunteering at the museum, just like I did in the 80's.
I only saw the "cap" in Chicago coming in along Ogden ave in Chicago and later at the sante Fe yards in China town in Chicago where they cleaned it services it, I was in a trace looking at those f-units it was always something magical about those war-bonnets, they looked great in Colorado, new Mexico, Arizona, but they we're equally at home way over on the south side of Chicago, great film bill as always you da man👍👍
love this, you got that El Capitan runnin on time
Superb layout, superb train.
The best 👍💯. Very beautiful. For Hard work of the team great results have came
Best I've seen. Like going back in time.
Love these videos. Great sound and clarity. and camera work. Especially the ride upons (camera on the train looking out) Love to see more with subdued lighting and the trains passing through towns and such in subdued lighting. I like the lighting effects.
Awesome....in every aspect!
Another great video, nice looking train and the scenery looks outstanding.
Hey Bill, this layout looks better every time i see it. Thx for your work
Incredible layout ! And the "El Capitan" is a beauty. I'm trying to get a consist like this one. For the moment I've got the four F7s. Then I will use it in the layout we've got at Gijón Railroad Museum, in Spain. But your layout is much more beautiful than ours... Thanks for sharing this amazing video!
Cab shots are cool thanks bill
FAR OUT amazing details - how very cool your recreation!
Thanks. Very realisiic layout,scenery,and trains.
BEAUTIFUL set
The best video I've ever watched...awsome layout wow
Super Duper!! Well done and enjoyable...😎
Hi Bill. Really beautiful train and scenery. Also excellent camera work. Please, when we can see 20 minutes some switching action? Thanks for sharing. Johan
+PorvooModelRailways There is some switching in this video: ua-cam.com/video/JOXeNVgp6c0/v-deo.html , from the 8 minute mark to the end.
WOW! What a big, beautiful layout. I liked seeing it and "riding" through it. I really liked the town (17:32) because I'm thinking about creating a small, small, small layout in my apartment and I want a two lane highway running through the town with parking for stores on each side, so it was nice to see how that might look. However, my OCD can't see past the firehouse. With parking in front, how would a firetruck respond to a call with cars blocking their exit? Maybe add "Do Not Park Here" in those two spaces. Very impressive layout. I wish I lived close enough to visit regularly.
WOW!!!! Awesome railroad.. Greg
FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amazing Video!
I totally love this and it is gorgeous photography and where is this. Beautiful. This will be my new soundscape to listen to at night for sleep.
The Colorado Model Railroad Museum is in Greeley, Colorado. See cmrm.org for hours and directions.
In a word ? WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a fantastic video!!!!
Beautiful
Does anyone know why Amtrak appears to not have adopted the transition coach so cleverly used by Santa Fe. Amtrak appears to have sold the story that they invented or carried on the Superliner but history tells a different story. Have I missed something?? Please advise.....
5 stars, awesome
Bill, your layout is awsome!!
Thank you for the kind words. However, just to make things clear, it's not my layout. I just shot the video. The Colorado Model Railroad Museum (CMRM) was designed and built by Dave Trussell and a group of volunteers. To learn more about the CMRM see:
www.cmrm.org/ and facebook.com/ColoradoModelRailroadMuseum/
17:00 Southern Pacific Golden Pig Service could save me a fortune on ham, bacon, and sausage.
The camera angles from the sides of the cars are amazing! How'd you do that?
I use a Mobius camera that has a detachable lens and optical sensor. The camera and lens are mounted on a modified flat car. The lens mount is attached to a heavy copper wire that can be bent to various positions and angles so that lens can be in much the same position as a passenger would be while looking or leaning out of a window.
Cool!
Looooooove your video.
very impressive
Hello Bill. Can you please tell me the brand and sound you use on the f units they come across so real
I had to watch it twice
Also the manufacturer of the f units
Nice and realistic.
This video is amazing! What type of camera do you use for your cab and trainside shots
good show 2A's and 2B's the only way to run a model RR
Exquisite layout
hey Bill how many ft of track do u have, nicely detailed. K
Very Cool! :)
Amazing footage! Did El Capitan always have 4 locos pulling it?
+Pablo Gravez Thanks Pablo. It probably did not always have 4 locos. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Capitan_%28train%29#Equipment
+Bill Rogers As a child I rode both the El Capitan a couple of times and the combined El Capitan and Super Chief once from Los Angeles to Newton, KS. As I remember the El Caps had 5 units and the combined El Cap and Super Chief had 7 with 2 A units in the lead followed by a 5 unit set.
I think it had a minimum of 5 unit most of the time ABBBA
Outstanding. What scale?
+Mathew Jackson Thanks Mathew. The layout is HO scale. See the museum website for more details, including a track-plan: cmrm.org and cmrm.org/museumLayout.html
what couplers are used on these f-units?? my athearn blue box f-units the conductor would need a catapult to go between them!
Cool model.
How much does that train cost? I'll have two...
cool trains
Amazing
Awesome!!!
Truly beautiful....but.....if you went all this length for detail....the diaphragms between the cars should also be silver. It takes so little time to fix that, I don't understand why it wasn't done.
I wonder if they were too busy with all of the other amazing epic incredible detail and missed it, didn't want to do it, or just haven't gotten to it yet?
The train in question belongs to a volunteer, not to the museum. I can't say for sure, but I think it is the way it is because he likes it that way.
James Watt posted (original comment removed by accident):
I have Santa Fe layout here as well. I am working on the passenger trains to make them look like the real ones....stainless steel shining like a mirror and silver diaphragms. I am using Alclad to paint the
cars up. It looks great when they are done. Also, you can use 'automobile glass tinting' sheets to make the correct color of tinted glass in the cars.
Wow ! Is this HO scale Bill? Thanks for posting.
Yes. See cmrm.org/museumLayout.html for more information an a track plan.
Thanks Bill. I will check out the site.
Nice, what Scale is it? And the largest Model train in the World ist the Miniatur Wunderland here in Hamburg / Germany. And they don’t Need Sponsors!
It's HO scale.
Jim Steinborn Thanks, looks larger.
Is that lift bridge a working model?
+Pistol Pete I don't think so. I've never seen it open, but then I've never asked either.
Love it!
teriffic in every way! Ide like to see the Milwaukee roads Ollimpian Hiawatha running on your maine line! but they all look great!
Only mistake I see is the RPO. The El Cap never ran with one, you only saw a RPO on the combined SC/El Cap
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LOOOOOOOOOOVE THAT LAYOUT.
What is the transition car with the antenna called?
Crew bunks crew sleeps its baggage dorm
Also called step up car
I love trains. Don’t know I just do. I love trains mixed with rain for soundscapes. Yeh only thing I don’t like is the clikity clack noise.
What is the size of the layout, also the room size? Thank You.
See cmrm.org/museumLayout.html and cmrm.org/Documents/CMRM_Orientation/OC&E%20Freq%20Asked%20Questions%20v3.1.pdf
I'm not sure about the total size of the building.
Muy Bueno SALUDOS
It is AWSOME beatiful K
nice video
nice ABBA
Look! Beta Superliners.
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