Went down to the San Diego 3-Railers on May 29th, and had a good day operating my usual my Legacy Acela set, and expansion pack, and my Atlas O Reading C630. This time around I decided to run era specific freight cars with the Reading C630, so I got everything together that was built during the time the C630s were on Reading’s roster. So almost all the rolling stock the loco was pulling was built in the 1960s to the 1970s. The Coal car with the EOT is very likely not accurate, but I do not have a Reading caboose to use with the engine in this case, so I had to run an EOT. Train set ran very well throughout the day, but it would randomly accelerate to maximum speed at random. I have no idea what is going on there, but I will figure it out eventually.
Manifest freight train: Atlas O Reading C630 #5301, Lionel Producers Grain PS-2CD 4427 Hopper, Atlas O ACF 33000 gallon tank cars (X2), MTH W.R. Grace & Company 3-Bay Centerflow Hopper, Lionel Santa Fe 4-Bay Covered Hopper (6-Pack), Lionel Continental ACF 3-Bay Covered Hoppers (X2) (straddled by 3 Santa Fe hopper cars on each side), Clubs Santa Fe coal car, Lionel Frisco 86’ Hi-cube Boxcars (2-pack), MTH Genstar Cement Company PS-2 Hopper Car, Lionel SPFE 57’ Mechanical Reefers (X3), Clubs Northern Pacific coal car (with EOT).
All of the footage is in 1080p60. Some parts will be a bit dark, due to the FPS
1st clip (00:00): RDG 5301 starts up and rolls out the manifest freight train
2nd to 19th clips (01:14): Manifest freight train rolls by at various points of the layout
20th clip (12:21): RDG 5301 ties down for the day with its freight train
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