O-Gauge Amtrak Auto-Train (Debut videos added 1/11)

Been accumulating rolling stock for this one for more than a decade, followed by a three-year concerted effort to upgrade various facets of the equipment (LED lighting, motorizing the dummy unit, some custom painting). While it's not a car-for-car replica of the real Auto-Train (only 9 Superliners and 12 autoracks), it does appear to be the first online video of an effort to re-create this train in O-Gauge. and it's still heavy enough that it draws just under 6 amps while running as seen below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1NZVhY1k8c

A longer video with a few more runbys has been added below as of 1/11/15

---PCJ

Cool

Great Model! Though I kept waiting for a Cat to leap out of the tree and attack the train

And now the public "debut" video visible to the YouTube viewership at large, with full description:

Part One:

http://youtu.be/UQTmqdmNDu8

And Part Two, with the rest of the story in the description:

http://youtu.be/QHJ0-LL8SNs

---PCJ

Excellent video! The train even sounds real as it goes by unlike the muted rattle you get from HO or N models.

OlympianHiawatha said:

Excellent video! The train even sounds real as it goes by unlike the muted rattle you get from HO or N models.

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Yep, a 57 pound train will do that

(I'll have to inspect that switch to make sure the transition joints held)

---PCJ