Hi Earl --
I definitely will have to come up with a garter snake (inside joke). As soon
as I have more wiring done (I HATE wiring), the narrow gauge will have a chance
to play in a video. Right now, I can only run one train at a time and the
narrow gauge is not a round and round operation ...
Lettering on the locos and many of the cars is the SLE&P – St. Louis Eastern
and Pacific – my fictional railroad. The narrow gauge is the CCC – Coal Creek
Central. At one time, before scale S came into my life, I was trying to model
a real railroad rather faithfully. I ran into several problems with that
decision: Reality is WAY too big to model well in any visible scale; I enjoy
the locos and cabooses of more than one real railroad, and being stuck with
just one, while being fiscally responsible, was not a lot of fun; real
railroads tend to be a lot of straight track and not much else.
There is a benefit to having a private road name that was not apparent until I
actually started doing it – it makes the equipment YOURS, and not just anyone’s
who could buy the same piece off the shelf. Even the real railroads do it --
all those F units, while all being essentially alike, got painted into
different road names to distinguish them from all the other guys’ F units. I
recommend having a private road name to anyone who is having trouble settling
on what roads they wish to model. Choosing the name will also help to
“locate” your railroad, even if all you have room for is a couple of tenths of
a mile.
Have fun!
Bill Winans
Prescott Valley, AZ
I too liked seeing the dual gauge. That is not something I would ever try
but it sure is interesting to see. Maybe your next video will have a
narrow gauge train on one track and a standard gauge on the other, ...
I could not read the railroad name on the tenders. What is the railroad?
- Earl Henry, Nashville
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