...in John's own words...
"Okay, finally, I get the latest tries for this site.
It's May 1st, 2008.
I was attempting this load with a Pennsy C-Liner by LL P1K and an SD-45 by Bachmann spectrum.
Something happened to the SD-45... GRRR!
So, I swapped the locomotives.
Sound, lights, action... Two Athearn Genesis F-3 Demonstrators pull the load.
A bit of technical difficulties, and then resuming the train.
Funny, with the other locomotives, there were no problems until I started filming. Go Figure!
So, here it is... Just a teensy bit over 100 freight cars... Double locomotives, 100 cars, two(2) cabooses."
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Look at that strange car at 2:38! It looks like a tank car inside a gondola with a small reefer body on the end, there MUST be a story behind that..what is it?
I found it at 2:28. Got in contact with him today so I'll let him explain it...old school modeling at it's quirkiest.
---Ahh, my Coco maker!
It's a tongue-in-cheek kitbash.
The base is of a 50' Athearn Express reefer, cut down, er, the ends and the portion where the doors are, make up the box part. The tank is from a 20' RoundHouse/Model Die Cast old time tank car. What the tank is sitting on is the remainder of the roof from the reefer. There is actually another part to this car. It is the chassi from the tank car. I made it look like a skeleton car (looks like it could hold a load of logs) but it carried something else.
Sorry I can't explain this any easier, but here is the story with it in my creation:
I have a 40' open-top hopper that carries dark chocolate from the chocolate mines. Every now and then, the train pulling these three cars, plus another car (a "Baker's Chocolate") carrying milk chocolate (it's actually one of Athearn's r-t-r 40' tank cars) to be added to the mix. When the times is needed, the train continues to run while the tank on the "flat/reefer chassi" mixes the dark and milk chocolate. Finally, when arriving at the destination, this car is pulled up besides one very large but flat pan. The mechanics of this weird looking car activates the pouring pipe out for the mixed and molten chocolate blend, for the mix to flow into/onto this large and shallow vat. And all the while more mixing is being done.
And, again finally, when the chocolate cools in the vat, it is lifted out and broken up in 8' x 10' 4" thick pieces and lifted, then lowered onto the open skeleton car where it is fastened down by strong wax cables. You should see the eyes on the kids when I finish the story. Visions of chocolate dancing in their minds.
That's the story.
Oh, the remaining walls from the cut up reefer, I made them to look like the giant pieces of chocolate.
That's the truth, the whole truth, and nuthin' but my creative mind's truth.
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