N Scale Model Brightline and Florida East Coast Railway Trains in Action

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
  • In addition to covering Brightline construction, I am also one of the few people, if not the only person, who models Brightline in any prototypical manner. As part of this, I have designed and built my own fleet of model Brightline trains. This video looks at the newest addition, the new Visit Orlando wrapped train, operating on a very small portion of the fecNtrak modular layout that was primarily made up of my Brightline specific modules. I also run a fairly sizeable Florida East Coast Railway freight. This layout was set up as part of Prototype Rails 2024.
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КОМЕНТАРІ • 48

  • @Fire33410
    @Fire33410 Рік тому +21

    You did a great job modeling the Brightline sets!

  • @richiej5884
    @richiej5884 23 дні тому

    Fantastic job you did modeling the Brightline trains and the layout! And I love the alligator climbing on the hill! 🐊Brightline should feature your trains in each of their stations. You do incredible work and your coverage of the construction of the line has been very much appreciated!

  • @offensivebias1898
    @offensivebias1898 Рік тому +10

    Fantastic job bro. Very jelly of your train and layout. Thanks for the updates on the track over the years.

  • @twiggs24
    @twiggs24 Рік тому +7

    I have asked Bachman, Athearn, Atlas, Rapido and Walthers about doing Brightline. Not a word. Yours look great.

  • @ratedpz
    @ratedpz Рік тому +1

    these are incredible models! I respect all the effort it must have took.

  • @DanHPage
    @DanHPage Рік тому +6

    Beautiful job of modeling! Great video, too. Thanks for sharing.

  • @10C45E
    @10C45E Рік тому +4

    Looks amazing! I was looking around for brightline models but no companies make them yet :(

  • @nicholasglisonn836
    @nicholasglisonn836 Рік тому +1

    Grest modeling! Love your scratch built Brightline.

  • @turtlekoff1
    @turtlekoff1 Рік тому +3

    Really nice ! As a rail fan and a retired Chevron Rep good to see one of our retail sites in the set up !

    • @RoamingRailfan
      @RoamingRailfan  Рік тому +3

      There really is a Chevron at that crossing so it had to be there on the model!

  • @richiej5884
    @richiej5884 Рік тому +1

    Wow! I can't believe you made the models of Brightline! You did a terrific job and should be very proud as well of all the coverage you did and have shown us. Thank you so much for sharing! I have a large HO collection, but I don't think they will be coming out anytime soon. Thank you for sharing this with us!

  • @gmmeier321
    @gmmeier321 Рік тому

    Love the modular layout meets/shows. I try to catch the one in Eau Gallie when I can.

  • @wvrails
    @wvrails Рік тому +3

    Great job on the layout and train sets!

  • @danielcraig2573
    @danielcraig2573 Рік тому

    Wow, this is a very detailed 3D model. Thanks for sharing.

  • @shed66215
    @shed66215 Рік тому +1

    Lovely models, very nicely detailed.

  • @J3scribe
    @J3scribe Рік тому

    Very cool modeling. Well done on the Brightline trains.

  • @jacklandismcgowan1413
    @jacklandismcgowan1413 Рік тому +1

    Amazing…Fantastic job. 👍👍👍.

  • @MicrobyteAlan
    @MicrobyteAlan Рік тому +1

    Your Brightlines are beautiful.

  • @PrimeTimeTravelers
    @PrimeTimeTravelers Рік тому

    Wow these are awesome! Great work! I have the wooden ones from the Brightline store on my desk at work. I gotta find red and orange still.

  • @RailFanRob
    @RailFanRob Рік тому +1

    Wow this is pretty cool! Thanks for sharing!!

  • @nordisk1874
    @nordisk1874 Рік тому +1

    I hope someone makes them. Preferably Kato, their autotrain got me to go back to n scale from o. Beautiful models.

  • @HerzogCompanies
    @HerzogCompanies 6 місяців тому

    Love the models! Would definitely be interested in a Brightline model if you plan on making more. Again, great work!

    • @RoamingRailfan
      @RoamingRailfan  6 місяців тому

      @HerzogCompanies Send an email to my Roaming Railfan email and maybe we can work something out: theroamingrailfan@gmail.com

  • @0fficialdregs
    @0fficialdregs 9 місяців тому

    hell yeah!!! I love and model N scale too

  • @Leutenantmike
    @Leutenantmike Рік тому +1

    Nice work!

  • @swimcoach3702
    @swimcoach3702 Рік тому +1

    Sure beats my Lionel set back in the '50s.

  • @condition1bsg756
    @condition1bsg756 11 місяців тому

    Fantastic model layout there. I've been asking Bachmann Europe for some time now to get Bachmann USA to make HO scale models of Brightline trains so I can make a layout based on one of the stations, which I believe would be a first or one of the first in the UK. I would also take it on the exhibition circuit.

  • @azelllatimorejr.1335
    @azelllatimorejr.1335 Рік тому +1

    Great job 👍

  • @fakecumberland
    @fakecumberland Рік тому +1

    The FEC train dwarfs the 10-car coal train I’ve been running with a B&O SD7 and C&O caboose!

  • @bobainsworth5057
    @bobainsworth5057 Рік тому

    Beautiful job on train, and in "N" gauge no less.

  • @BillRicker
    @BillRicker Рік тому

    Marvelous

  • @TheRailwayDrone
    @TheRailwayDrone Рік тому +1

    Oh wow, this is so cool.

  • @Newt1969
    @Newt1969 Рік тому

    I was hoping Lionel would have tooled an O charger and have it in the catalog that was just released. Maybe next year. Awesome job on the N.

  • @giminai8000
    @giminai8000 Рік тому +1

    Man that’s awesome 😎

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart Рік тому +2

    Fantastic job on the build. Did you have to hand build all the various Bright Line facilities?? Or did you use pre-made kits?
    Did any of the BL management come see it?

    • @RoamingRailfan
      @RoamingRailfan  Рік тому +5

      Every structure featured on this layout was scratch built. No visits from management this time but they are well aware of my modeling endeavors and knew me for that before I began making videos.

    • @SMichaelDeHart
      @SMichaelDeHart Рік тому +1

      @@RoamingRailfan indeed...very cool. Good job.

  • @justin_railfan
    @justin_railfan 7 місяців тому

    Just curious but did you use a kato alc-42 or bachmann SC-44 chassis and then design/print/paint the scb-44 shell? To my knowledge you’re the first person to model brightline, looks amazing!

    • @RoamingRailfan
      @RoamingRailfan  7 місяців тому +2

      Neither. I designed these prior to those locomotives being on the market or even announced so it’s based on an ACS64 chassis as that was the closest thing available at the time.

  • @maestromecanico597
    @maestromecanico597 Рік тому

    Still waiting for a Brighline set in HO.

  • @QALibrary
    @QALibrary Рік тому

    very well done on this project - are you runing 12v DC to each line or 15v DCC?

  • @armandoperez7967
    @armandoperez7967 Рік тому

    If not N scale, are HO scale Brightline trains available? Just curious.

    • @RoamingRailfan
      @RoamingRailfan  Рік тому +1

      The only models commercially available are the wood ones Brightline sells in their stations.

  • @QALibrary
    @QALibrary Рік тому

    Wonder if Bachmann North America will produce a Brightline train set?

  • @franz-peterkayser722
    @franz-peterkayser722 Рік тому

    Are the trains 3d printed?