Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum – “The Oil Cans”

Extreme Trains January 2018 at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum starring The Southern Pacific Oil Cans by Brent and Brian Milota. Other trains featured are:
(in the order of appearance)

Union Pacific Trona Hoppers by Kip Christiansen
Union Pacific Auto Racks by Luke Brendsel
Colorado Springs Utilities Rio Grande Coal Train by Bill Nagel

I intended to put a complete description of the auto rack train in the video, but forgot and messed that up. Here are some of the stats on auto rack train. It has 16,700 prototype horsepower, is 4000 scale feet long, and weighs 1484 prototype tons. The locomotives are Athearn Genesis and Intermountain. The cars are from Walthers.

"The Oil Cans" was a tanker train that carried oil from Shell Oil Company’s Belridge field over the Tehachapi Mountains and across the LA Basin to its refinery at Carson near Long Beach. An interesting and informative article about this train can be found at

http://sptco.proboards.com/thread/881/ .

Learn more about the Colorado Model Railroad Museum at

http://cmrm.org

and visit the museum FaceBook page at:

https://www.facebook.com/ColoradoModelRailroadMuseum/

The museum store has a two volume DVD/BluRay set that includes 11 Extreme Trains videos: https://www.cmrm.org/shop-cmrm/

The camera dolly track system we used is from Cinerails

https://www.cinerails.com

More about the tank cars (Athearn's website)

http://www.athearn.com/Products/Default.aspx?ProdID=ATHG67812

Видео Extreme Trains at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum – “The Oil Cans” канала Bill Rogers