Model Trains

I have 2 FP45 locomotives on this engine unit consist numbers 5942 leading and 100 trailing the units in between are 2 SDF40-2s 5452 and 5266 hooking up to their consist almost 30 cars long I didn't really count when I should have but their is always next time these cars are heavy loaded which is why the cowl units are needed for this consist this train will be traveling through San Diego yard to Oceanside and all the way up the Arizona Divide nearly topping out in certain areas of the layout up to 40 to 65miles an hour.

Here you all go everyone I finally managed to get the perfect mixed manifest train of my Santa Fe Fleet to make a Super C at least in my mind but I know the Santa Fe Super C was a mixed postal mail train, trailer, and the other one I'm forgetting that's okay for now though this is all about fun I hope you all enjoy the video series here it will be the longest one on this channel thus far.

Here is part 2 of this upgrade installation of LED for this Santa Fe FP45 107 this locomotive was part of the famous Santa Fe Passenger trains one of them known as the El Capitan which ran from Los Angles to Chicago.

All Santa fe Locomotives that are on this train are Santa Fe FP45 100 custom led installed, Santa Fe SDF40-2 5254 with leds already installed by the factory, Santa Fe F45 1936 with custom leds installed, and Santa Fe FP45 5942 Custom Leds all with Truck lights as well. I also have my recently acquired Scale Trains Kit Classic Cabooses that I installed Leds into as well caboose number 999005 is light with leds both warm white and red leds on both ends and inside.

Here you see my Santa Fe Super C train in high ball out of the Box Springs Siding after a crew change in box springs. The Santa Fe Super C number 5 train is running a bit behind schedule about 2hrs as we look at Engineer Sean Makes up the 2hrs in a snap.

Here is another Santa Fe FP45 Led upgrade video now this locomotive did already have LEDs in it but not the kind that where good to go on this locomotive so I did my Custom led job on it and it's a lot better I installed a Red LED 402 for the emergency warning light and warm white leds for the truck lights I will get end footage of that. it turned out a lot better in the long run but holy crap it was a nightmare to install the leds.

I'm showing you all how to put together a Scale Trains Kit Classics Santa Fe caboose but this is really how to do it for all Scale Trains cabooses that you have either pre-ordered or you buy online https://www.scaletrains.com/ is where I got mine from they are the manufacture of the kits. I also show you what my process is for lighting these up.

okay everyone I'm showing you how to install lighting on your cabooses regardless of what type they are in Ho scale now I used 402 leds for this both Red and Warm white colors I used 1k ohm resistors I think they where 1/2 or 1/4 watt they are colored brown so be sure to get that color do not get any other colors of resistors. I used the smallest drill bit I could find that wouldn't make a big hole into the exterior of the caboose the name of the game is to make it believable here. I can say without a doubt that my model trains always get the best treatment when it comes to custom work on them but still looking stock as best as possible. also I know the video HD quality is kinda bad sorry about that

okay everyone I'm showing you how to install lighting on your cabooses regardless of what type they are in Ho scale now I used 402 leds for this both Red and Warm white colors I used 1k ohm resistors I think they where 1/2 or 1/4 watt they are colored brown so be sure to get that color do not get any other colors of resistors. I used the smallest drill bit I could find that wouldn't make a big hole into the exterior of the caboose the name of the game is to make it believable here. I can say without a doubt that my model trains always get the best treatment when it comes to custom work on them but still looking stock as best as possible.

I hope you all enjoy this video. During the early days of railroading conductors and brake men on trains needed a place to stay the engine cabs of locomotives where to noisy and to cramped so a conductor commandeered a boxcar and made it his own office and stuck it on the rear of the train thus the caboose was born. cabooses where essential for train operations without them you couldn't go anywhere they had lights and places to have a conductor to do his paperwork, sleep, eat, and other railroad jobs on his train. now in Ho scale I made modifications to these athearn ready to roll caboose in the Santa Fe that I collect and run with so I gotta say putting leds into these has been kinda a challenge you have to drill a hole in a certain spot to feed the wires to the wired trucks if you got them if not you have to make them I would rather buy the wired the trucks and snake the wires into the frame and just solder the wires together so the leds pick up power from the tracks.

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I installed LEDs to this caboose this is track powered I don't do that battery power crap it's a real headache so installed 2 red 402 leds on the tail ends of the caboose and then one warm white led into the cupola I used 2 1k ohm resistors brown colored. I also noticed the top of the cupola had the warm white led bleeding through the plastic so I had to go back and paint the top black but I forgot I super glued the led to the ceiling so I painted it black and then wiped off the led of any paint still a little bleed but it's not that bad next time I will be sure to paint the interiors of my cabooses black so no light bleeds through so their will be more led projects soon.

Here is more of my Santa Fe El Capitan Train entering San Diego union station.

Here is more of my Santa Fe El Capitan

Here is my Santa Fe El Capitan Train I'm not sure how many cars there where still be on this trains consist so I'm kinda winging.

I have 2 Santa Fe F45s in the Pinstripe Paint scheme and one of them is getting a new LED light install treatment and another is getting worked on it's taking a while to get these done but they will get done as soon as possible.

Hey everyone sorry for the pro longed no updates I'm so busy with my jobs and I really don't have time to myself sadly it really sucks. but I manged to get my new video here uploaded hopefully that makes up for not being on for so long.

Santa Fe Train Number 45 stops in Colton for a crew change then departs 1hr later and heads to Arizona.

Here you will see my locomotives FP45 100, SD75M 226 and SD45-2 5809 running as Train 45 as a high priority freighter through out the Santa Fe Division come join us in oceanside to see these awesome Ho scale to see these trains in action.

so I am putting together a MOW train that the Santa Fe would have used but I was having trouble with it on the club layout so I need to work on this train to make it a little better.

I named the Video Santa Fe Unstoppable because the Santa Fe Black Bonnet GE ES44AC locomotives these are fantasy paint schemes on these 2 locomotives the Santa Fe Railroad never had them in real life but they look like the AWVR 777 in the movie unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine so I thought why not make a little fan video with fantasy locomotives

I named the Video Santa Fe Unstoppable because the Santa Fe Black Bonnet GE ES44AC locomotives these are fantasy paint schemes on these 2 locomotives the Santa Fe Railroad never had them in real life but they look like the AWVR 777 in the movie unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine so I thought why not make a little fan video with fantasy locomotives.

I named the Video Santa Fe Unstoppable because the Santa Fe Black Bonnet GE ES44AC locomotives these are fantasy paint schemes on these 2 locomotives the Santa Fe Railroad never had them in real life but they look like the AWVR 777 in the movie unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine so I thought why not make a little fan video with fantasy locomotives.

I named the Video Santa Fe Unstoppable because the Santa Fe Black Bonnet GE ES44AC locomotives these are fantasy paint schemes on these 2 locomotives the Santa Fe Railroad never had them in real life but they look like the AWVR 777 in the movie unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine so I thought why not make a little fan video with fantasy locomotives. also there are some bloopers here of my train un coupling from the other part in this video so watch out for it and you might even see me pop in the video.

I named the Video Santa Fe Unstoppable because the Santa Fe Black Bonnet GE ES44AC locomotives these are fantasy paint schemes on these 2 locomotives the Santa Fe Railroad never had them in real life but they look like the AWVR 777 in the movie unstoppable with Denzel Washington and Chris Pine so I thought why not make a little fan video with fantasy locomotives.