Smooth

Now that is nice.  Very Smooth.  And great sound.

I see what appears to be the same sedimentary strata under your RR that's found under Oak Hill, as reported in the latest issue of MRH (Up the Creek).

Thanks for sharing.

Sedimentary Strata

Yep Don sure is, just read the article, great read and layout too. Hopefully in the near future i can start burying that "Layered Earth" with some scenery! lol...Take Care.......Ricky'

Jumpiness?

I didnt' see any jumpyness in the film, I thought it was good! Thanks for the monday video.

(need to get you some CV rolling stock for your trains though -

Your eactly right Scarpia

Your eactly right Scarpia lol, I was just looking on e-bay the other day at a few proto 1000 CV boxcars. If you have any links to some rolling stock please let me know, central vermont seems a little scarce on e-bay and my local hobby shops..Thanks' P.S. Just checked out your layout page,,,AWSOME!!! Love the CN F7 Proto2000 models, sound is great!

CV rolling stock

I think I've collected most of what's been commercially available, so I won't fight you for auctions. It is hard to find though, it maybe why I have a tendency to pick up what ever I see, where ever it is.

I'd look for the IHC 50' box cars, and the Walthers newsprint cars - they seem easier to find than others.

I have to admit, I was eyeballing your GT fleet as well, as my collection is woefully underrepresented - just an old Athern blue box gp9 with the olive paint scheme (middling quality).

two auctions going for cheap right now!

CV 600259

and

CV 402501

I already have both! they need weights and better trucks and couplers, but they're a place to start.

CV Boxcars

Ew, IHC foobies. Neither car is correct, nor very nicely detailed.

Better place to start:

http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATH92516

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/920-37160

http://www.walthers.com/exec/productinfo/920-237151

I'm Sold! lol

Just checked out the links to athearn and walthers you sent me Chris, Love that blue scheme on the athearn and the proto 1000's look great too. I seen a 3 car set of the proto 1000 newsprint cars on ebay for around 43 bucks, think i'm gonna grab em' cause this link you sent gives me a much closer shot of the detail. Thanks a bunch!!!  Ricky'

Boxcars

The Proto1000 cars are bang on for the National Steel Car boxcars. The cars come with separate ladders and door bars. I've got a bunch at home in CN/CVC/DWP and CP, and there's quite a large fleet of these cars (mostly CP) at my club.

The Athearn FMC single door cars are also quite nice. They're one of Athearn's newer Ready to Run cars and feature separate wire grab irons and even etched metal crossover platforms at the ends. I've got a couple in RailBox and a couple of the shortline schemes. It's also the correct car for CV's 600000 series cars. Hard to tell from the small photo in the eBay ad link posted earlier, but the IHC car looks like a crude version of an ACF car. Not the correct prototype, and not as nice detail either.

There are other considerations

I'm not going to argue that the IHC cars are not as nice as others on the market. What I am going to suggest is that there are other considerations.

The cars you listed are all out of production, which makes getting them hard, but not impossible. I have all, including all of the Walthers cars by number, except for the blue Athearn.They are nice, but I need to convert most of them to Sergents.

I have found CV stuff very hard to come by, and I'm happy to have just about anything at this time. I'd rather have a couple of rough  cars over none at all. Down the road I expect I'll be refining my fleet to a more prototypical one in appearance and standards, but for the moment I'm more interested in just having some.

With the two offending IHC cars, with metal wheelsets and properly weighted they run fine. For $5 a model on ebay, well you get what you get, and I haven't noticed the crudeness of the model, in a large part because I don't know what I'm missing. What I do know is I have two useable cars for my layout, and right now that's the most important consideration for me.

Even CN Can't afford this.

Really nice models all the way through.  Nice work.  As is with most layouts these days with super detailed locomotives right out of the box, it looks like it took 10 railroad men to run that train. Like I said even CN could not afford that!!  lol!!!     

I'm Firing 8 Railroad men!!

OK thats it Pirosko, i'm taking the cabs off of the 4 trailing loco's and taking the crew out and only the lead loco will have an engineer and conductor,,firing the rest!! lol..........I know what you mean though, definitely looks like we have money to spare at CN Virtual Railways!! haha