The LONGEST Miniature Train! | California Vlog #2
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- Опубліковано 23 кві 2024
- More travel vlog shenanigans at Hillcrest, edited by @guppybob! This time we helped put together a really big train and suffered the consequences...
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Little bit of Trivia; That 2-6-2 locomotive "#7 Redwood Valley Railway", uses the drivers from the wreaked model of Sierra #3 from Back to the Future III
I forgot I heard that while there! Such a fun detail. Thanks for sharing :D
Yeah, the RVRY loaned the wheels to the Back to the future crew
Cool.
As a BTTF fan and the fact Sierra #3 is my personal fav engine, I trip out everytime I see the #7 lol
helluva loan, knowing it was gonna go off the edge of a scale model cliff @@baileydevries4494
1:27 Emotional Support Bucket
I said that same thing in my head lol
"He clutched the bucket tightly, the soothing warmth radiating from the bucket calmed his soul as they made their way up the trecherous path."
the thing I like about that shay the most is how it scurries, like the pistons and crank are going a mile a minute while its only actually traveling at a walking pace
Similar to my Chevy 😂
I'd like to point out the in the beginning all three of you sounded exactly like I do in the morning you're so tired that words come out so slowly that if people depended on you speaking fast in order to stay alive they would die. Add definitely feel you guys there
Oh snap, you were the ones who brought us the rail at the bottom of the hill?! Thanks! Was awesome meeting you.
Seriously, hand carrying a long piece of rail!!?! And walking backwards while doing that!?!
Gives new meaning to "break a leg."
whenever I see a miniature saddle tank I always wonder: has anyone ever driven it from the saddle.
Talk about the hot seat...
@@WhitzWolf92I’d lime you if I had any, but all I have are lemons
🍋 🍋 🍋
That killdeer must have a nest near the train tracks. They like the lay their eggs in rocks.
I remember seeing them plowing. If you get too close she will start dragging one wing as if injured and squawking her "killdeer, killdeer" call leading you away from the nest. We always farmed around the nests marking them with rocks.
My 7.5" club had one nest BETWEEN THE RAILS of our mainline last year. We put a flag next to her nest and rerouted on the siding to go around, but thats only 4' away. At first every time a train came by she would jump up and do the "oh, my wing is broken" thing to try to get the train to follow her, but it never did. Eventually she settled for giving it a dirty look each time it came by.
We found Betsy's home town!
Btw the music is just prefect.
We need double headers.
I love how "real" this gauge is!
Reminds me of 2006 at Train Mountain. Somebody organized a train of 80 or 81 cars (everybody came back with conflicting numbers) pulled by an Atlantic at the lead, a UP FEF, and a big boy.
AHHH HYCE ORIGINAL MUSIC THAT I HAVENT HEARD SINCE EARLY RRO!!!!!!!!!
I had no idea steel rail was that floppy. Makes sense why you need the ties.
You'd be surprised - even at full scale, rails are surprisingly flexible.
If it wasn't flexible, we wouldn't be able to haul 480-ft sections of it resting on multiple flat cars.
@@sambrown6426 True. It's just surprising HOW flexible when you first see it.
@@TheOneTrueDragonKing I know
Very early on in my career I was taught the finer points about unloading long strings of rail. Ya done good.
Good story. Rode back in 2014.
You know what Coors Brewing of Golden Colorado needs? It needs a R.R. around it/through it based on this gauge and size of trains for the Tour. :D Ooooh! It could be in collaboration with the CRRM!
I love the raw footage of all that happens. It's amazing that they can haul that much at that scale.
At 13:53, that bird is a Killdeer, a type of plover. Just in case anyone was curious. It might actually have been scouting for a good nesting site, as they typically lay their eggs among rocks and gravel (they don't actually build a nest).
There are too many locomotives in this world that I would love to have as a 5 inch live steam model. IF I can get my hands on one, I WILL get myself a K-28 though.
what about a k37
@@davidphillips5677 I would love that but they wouldn't be true K-37 because of the entirely new boiler and everything
Yep that prairie number 7 is awesome and has really good stack talk when it has its own size tonnage.
It also uses the drivers from the model of Sierra No3 from Back to the Future Part 3.
On the Michigan Central 7.5", a man called Terry, my Papa and I all ran a 114 car train with the smallest car length being 40 scale feet in 1/8th scale. We had some cars which were 50 and/or 60 scale feet and a Pennsylvania Whale Tank to boot. All pulled by one locomotive. I have the pictures of that train still in a photo album if ya'd like a look! :)
Um, yes, I do want to see that, please shower me with pictures of awesomeness.
13:50 Glad to see us east coast railroaders aren't alone with Kildeer building nests on right of way. A few weeks ago there was one with a nest next to the turntable where I work. Every time I moved the turntable it followed right beside me. Strange creature lol.
13:50 BIRB🐦🐦🐦
7:25 "I think we left something behind" I was waiting for it to be hyce
Had to double a hill. Now you're railroading, son!
1:28 Dear God! ….A Bucket!! 🪣
I'm in an area with no wifi so I had to watch this in 480p the first time and that little bird literally blended in perfectly with the gravel/ballast until she moved lmao
Wow, that Shay has such a unique whistle design. It's two in one - a 3-chime with a hooter bell cupped over it. I've never seen (or heard) anything like that before.
A Shay didn't have the beans?
Edit: oh that poor Shay was having a terrible day
😂😂😂 the biggest of helpers the prairie
The sheer quantity of hardware on that line is redonculous. Quite amazing!!
LITTLE BIG TRAINS THE SEQUEL🔥🔥❗️❗️
That little shay has a very nice whistle. Also, I love the music you do!
That is.. Wow.
“But it was 21 cars!”
At 5:17 I spy some Overfair Pacific action! I really hope they can get things running again at their new home. (The CZU Complex Fire was really gnarly to that whole part of the Santa Cruz Mountains-Ans the Swanton Ranch where they were located.)
“There’s a Leighton as well” he seems like an object on the channel at this point lol
What a grand Adventure. Thanks for sharing 😊
And again great vid 🥰
That's what I meant under the other video; there's just so much you can do without terribly much planning like you'd need on the big thing. Be it the super long train (imagine ordering the timetable for that alone 😂🥴☠️), be it some MOW stuff. Even building track, you just do your thing and often just eyeball the curves and grades without needing proper planning and engineering (different thing with bridges and such, obviously). It feels rather close to the big thing, but without all the TEDIOUS bd around that you do need on the "real" railway.
Wow! That's awesome! Now i really want to see more!
Being use to big train chuffs, listen to the baby grand scale chuffs of little engines working so hard is too adorable.
Why do I see that trains this size would have been used in smaller mining operations to haul coal and ore out then at the end of the day, all the miners scurry on to catch a ride out the mine and this little train just chuffs away
They would have, is why. Or maybe slightly larger narrowgauge (real NG, like 2ft or less) ones that were built specifically for the job rather than being recreations of larger locos. The sound is similar though... that almost relaxed sounding sewing machine noise. chkachkachkachka...
Very fun video Mark! It makes even more excited I get to involved with my local grand scale club in the STL area.
Very entertaining and fun to watch. Thanks for posting this.
the little doot and the rails are so cute! ^.^
Looks like a nice fun!
Hello Brett, that was an excellent video you put together! Watching it made my day! Really liked the detailed shots and all that. Those choo choos are truly remarkable. The bridge was amazing and the roundhouse OMG! Thanks Brett for making this video so that we could share first hand in all the fun. Hello Mark, the longest consist made me giggle thinking about your Derail Valley shenanigans! 🤣 You guys are the best and thanks again for this! Cheers to you Brett, Leighton and, as always, the Professor!
Poor li'l Shay! When she grow up to normal size, she will be able to pull a lot of crap on a sketchy track somewhere in the forest. Just as her grandmas did!
good scenery, good music
Very cool railroad. Thanks for sharing
Now I really want Hyce to react to Narrow Gauge Railways from Germany
If video games has taught me anything, its if you want to scuttle that bridge you shoot those red barrels....
looks like #18's steam exhaust nozzles aren't working very well, there's "negative draft" since you can see flame scoming out of the firebox into the cab.
I see at minute 5:24 is the locomotive from Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, it is one of the original engines that ran in Venice Beach back in like 1905, I've ridden the other locomotive they had in Venice in the mid 70's at Legg Lake in the Whittier Narrows area, I believe that's South El Monte. Rumor has it that the engine is still in the San Gabriel Valley, in a garage.
Oh boy, this ought to be fun
Fun day great railroad.
You three are definitely not morning people lol
i would love to see some "industry simulating" rail scheduling and the like at a place like this. Like taking on simulated coal or ore into wagons, or loading logs, then delivering them to another spot where you load up a "processed" good like 2x4s or steel, maybe some crates made up to look like real deal stuff, then having details over the day to sort of shuffle the raw goods back to where they began in order for the next cycle to begin.
it'd be cute. and fun!
instead of loading real livestock just have a chute that dumps a bunch of cheap plushie sheep made of like, heavy duty canvas or old wool bags in the livestock cars or somethin :p
that, or keep some actual chikkums onsite (if the chikkums don't mind that is!)
Maybe a lil model "steel mill" set that dumps loaded gondolas into a mystery chute (aka into the Wheelbarrow That Eventually Goes Back To The Ore Mine), makes a cheesy little light and smoke show with some painted scenes and maybe shows an animated diorama dumpin' slag, then steel rails or beams or whatever is on hand slides out onto the loading dock (pushed by Some Guy probably) and you load up and move on...
Yeah this isn't particularly likely to ever be feasable it'd just Be Cool
I would love to go to California just to ride behind that Shay, driving it would be awesome, but I'm a big fan of Shays and other geared locos like it.
Quite LITERALLY along the title of the classic Lathrop book..."Little Engines and Big Men"...
P.S....They DO have some sort of train air or vaccum brakes to control the trains, dont they, not just an Independant on the locos??
oh my! baby choo!
That little engine reminds me of BETSY!!!
Have you looked into the Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway in England, it has carried freight and was used for air defence in WW2
A friend of mine who came to the Lilliputbahn right after me and worked there as a conducter had problems with his ears or something like that. Basiccally his ears always startet hurting when he hears loud, high pitched noises like the "song of many wheels". So one day he had the great idea to put silicon oil on the flanges of the whole train bevore our shift with him as conducter and with me as engineer began (Funfact: the engine I was driving that day was called "jumper" or "hopper" and it was built for the much steeper and winding railway in Wasserpark but we got it really early on because its wheelkarrangement was somehow so messed up that the loco startet to jump on the rails and losing traction) .
As we left the shed I noticed that the trainbrakes weren´t really doing anything, I also noticed that the squeeking didn´t get any better at all. I came into the station and nearly overshot althoug I didn´t even enter it with the normal speed (ca 25 kmph)
We run a really tight schedule especially durning the main season. It was main season at this time and the shift was really fun. I overshot twice and had to slow down all the trains that ran on that day becaus of this. The guy who took over the train after me and saw me coming into the station looked really scared and after I told him that he´s "gonna have some fun" he just started swearing (Vienna is fun and you learn a lot).
Brett’s the Captain now!
Good video, like!!!
Awesome.
Question was it Selma CA yall were in in the beginning that's my home town lol never thought Hyce would come around my neck of the woods
RVRY 7 the freaking GOAT 🙏🙏
Thank you, very inspiring and entertaining, keep on railroading! Greetings from Austria🎉🎉
Some of the music today really reminds me of the game Rimworld.
they need a mini climax
So, re: helper ops at Hillcrest - can they/do they cut the brake stand out of the locomotives like on their bigger cousins?
That was a LOT of blowback in the tunnel. o_o
Hey there is the rear truck of the engine that was in use at the beginning powered or was it a normal trailing truck
@Hyce who does your soundtrack? My mom was originally from Chattanooga and my grandma used to sing the Chattanooga Choo Choo all the time...trips back always included going to the Choo Choo
me, don't say it, don't say it. also me, it would be the geared engine that broke down. 😉
the fact that they have a geared make this automatically twice as good.
I have to guess it can't possibly be geared as steep as the real thing, otherwise you'd be able to overtake it by crawling on the ground :D
@@tahrey Smaller displacement, shorter strokes especially, do allow for higher max RPM without the thing destroying itself, though the practicality of doing that is questionable at best.
Trains are so absurdly efficient
Are all of these locmotives custom built by the railroad or are they ordered from a manufacter, and if so what manufacturer?
What’s the name of this railroad that you were filming?
I would be the kind of mad billionaire that would commission a triplex locomotive right after seeing the Shay struggle on the hill. I have no idea if it would work any better than the full size version but at that level of wealth what's half a million dollars or so here and there?
The problem with it wasn't power, though, it was more that the boiler wasn't able to raise enough steam... whilst the first loco pulling the extra long train was the one with enough pressure but not enough piston power.
A very calming video of a perfect and charming little railroad run just like a full size one... nice :) ... seems maybe the Shay and the engine that ran out of beans should swap boilers maybe?
However can I make an out-of-band technical request? *PLEASE* set your cameras and/or editing software to 30fps not 24?
The mismatch on a regular 60Hz monitor or TV makes any motion jerk around quite terribly six times a second, and we don't even have the benefit of interlacing to spread it out a bit. Plus I'm not even sure if YT's player software internally runs at anything higher because the effect still seems to persist when I run it on my laptop's internal panel set at 240... it's really rather distracting and spoils the experience a bit.
The loco is so diddy
6:43 First time I've seen full-on flames out the stack (vs. cinders or smoke), can anyone explain why that happens? Is it intentional? Does it have something to do with entering the tunnel or not?
Otherwise really enjoyed the quiet editing style, nice change of pace for once :)
The engine drafts so hard that the fire literally gets pulled out the stack! The 18 is a wonderful little gremlin
I'll be making comments as I watch, but right now I gotta wonder: How light is that rail?! Wow, only three dudes lifting!
And congrats on the safety test!
I'd wager it's about 15 lbs per yard ish if I had to guess.
@@Hyce777 That's pretty light, some early US rail was nine pounds per yard at full scale, but again that was EARLY-early, like pre-Transcontinental early.
I was wondering all those engines are they all built from scratch?
the microphone is kind of one directional, made the sounds very different depending on exactly where/what it was looking at. kind of liked that
This looks to close to RailRoads Online. So so close to the look of it. Witht he coal mine, rails, rail ties, The little choo choo 5:35 so close to the game. After 14:11, lots of ASMR sound of the trains.
You’re not joking that train is really long.
What size of rail is that? And where can I buy some?
I'm not sure. Probably on the order of 20# / yd.
11:09 I’ll get in the back and push I’ll get it to go up
What're those red barrels on the side of the bridge used for? I've seen them in books and photos, but I've never gotten a solid answer as to what they're for.
Fire fighting.
@@Hyce777 So they're just full of water to put out fires? Interesting.
@@sambrown6426 Sand, I think?
@@tahrey Interesting
I would not mind being a hobo on that line.
be difficult to find a comfortable sleeping spot in the boxcars though!
I wonder what the weight of that rail is?
12lb rail.
Also I wanna go play Choo Choo here
Where can I find the guitar version of Chattanooga Choo Choo. I keep hereing it but I can never find it.
open.spotify.com/track/37sUOm6Mifq5ZAB2z9WxJE?si=8f70ea4b717b4baa
@@Hyce777 Thank you, is it only on Spotify?
where is this place
Hillcrest in Reedley California.
What kind of rail is that? I know lightrail trains run on lighter rails, but those look smaller than even that.
Light rail is actually an odd misnomer. Runs on the same size as the freight stuff, almost always. That's 115 or 136 lbs per yard. This is probably more like 15.
It's more the trains and their duty that's light, than the rail itself... you don't want more axles than are necessary on such a train after all
@@Hyce777 I'm working by the light rail construction in Minneapolis. I knew it was different, I don't know beyond that.
@@tahrey I am only going to speak of my experience. I'm friends with someone who's working on the light rail extension in Minneapolis. all I know is that the rail is different. I believe he said it's lighter weight, but to what extent that is, I do know
What're the red barrels on the bridge?
Believe it’s fire retardant.
In history they would have been for extinguishing spot fires started by cinders or ash from steam locomotives. Can also be seen sometimes on roofs of wooden roundhouses in 1800s photos.
someone needs to explain to me why there are red barrels on the bridge
In case of fire! Moreso a recreation rather than an exact use thing.
7:15 5482!!!!! that d&rgw box is like so funny cus my username
What is the name of song at 0:50? I know it from old Atari game with steam trains, I would like to learn how to play it :) Sounds like simple thing and nice idea for duet of 2 guitars. But first I must find name of that song...
I'd be surprised if it was an Atari game, unless you're hearing parts of a Railroad Tycoon piece in there, but it's probably from or related to something from Sid Meier's Railroads!, as that's where the inspiration for The "Online" Game That Shall Not Be Named came from, and the actual recording used here is one Hyce made for said game (with a lot of the pieces being cover versions of those from the original)...
C h o o
Can one of those trains have a boiler explosion? If not cool if so ummm ouch.
They are still live steam locomotives, so they act exactly like the real things. So it is possible if there is not enough water in the boiler for the locomotive to suffer a boiler explosion.