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Love this layout. Any chance of a drone flyover of it

Dave...you've done a superb job on the melding of the background scene with the hills.

I'm really impressed with how good that looks from various angles.

Typical mall crawler. What does he do if he gets a flat? He has no spare tire. I pre-ran the Pro course of the SCORE Baja 1000, the toughest off road course in the world, in a two wheel drive 4-cylinder Ford Ranger with 285/70R17 all-terrain tires.

Great shot, thanks for sharing. Dave

Some nice modelling there mate

Very nice mate

Excellent match between road backdrop and hill scenery.

Simply superb.

Where was it ? Which town ?

Blends well with the background. Beautiful scenery all around. Love the Bridge.

How did you change the bulb?

i worked on that train in 2000. chances are im the guy with the hose. what a horrible ugly job

That's Cool ! The covered hoppers are great. Snazzy even. Did you build the grain elevator building ? It's a great structure that really sells the scene. Thanks for sharing Fren.

Looking real good, Dave😊

Incredible.

I’m going to say it’s an 8V 71 with a turbo, that was advertised as a 350 hp. The trailer is what we called a tri axle with 8ft spread. You could licence into Michigan at 117,000 lbs with that. You lifted the front axle when empty or turning corners. I had one that was all on air, it was a nice trailer to pull especially with my Hendrickson Extended leaf suspension on my 76 K 100. You didn’t feel the trailer back there as far as ride went. The spread axle was a bit dodgy on ice slick roads, but with over a 100,000 gross you lift the axle up, and run sensible for the road conditions it felt pretty solid. Keep your 5th wheel greased. Never drove an Astro / Titan but the wrap around dash was quite innovative I thought.

I remember ICL well from back in the day. They were the C class division of International Carriers Limited. They became on of the first fully owner operator owned trucking companies. I believe unheard of in Ontario back in the day. They were spun off from ICL. The GM parts dedicated fleet became Geem, then there was a problem and I think GM severed ties with them. The steel brokers trucks where first class looking iron back in the day. I was an owner op for a competing company that was the C class carrier ( full truckload division of Overland Western ) Trojan Special Commodities out of Stoney Creek On. I left them about a year before deregulation. That pretty much was the death knell for a lot of cross border operators as the tariff boards, and interlining of commodities ended as the loads could go direct to the final destination without trans shipment. I took awhile for these carriers to find their footing in a new playing field. I think ICL like Trojan became a fallen flag. You heard about the golden era of trucking, deregulation was a part of that, but you might say, a door closes, another one opens, but a lot of drivers didn’t make the adjustment. Fortunately for me, I was still young and adapted. Bought a reefer, and started hauling exempt commodities and saw North America. Back to ICL going owner operator owned, I thought at the time that was huge news, but surprisingly one of the prominent truck centric media papers sort of ignored it, and they’re front cover featured our boss with his former rig he used to run fully restored. I think it was a 74 Freightliner pulling a set of A trains. It had a 4 axle lead, a tandem converter, and tandem axle pup. Pretty much an Ontario legal version of a Michigan train. As a matter of fact, this Astro has Trojan livery. We featured Medium Glodenrod paint, aspirin seen on the trailers, ICL had variations of red themed paint schemes. I don’t recall that Astro when started at Trojan in 78. Some commented about the large windshield being a desirable feature. Some drivers found the cab uncomfortable to drive in late afternoon when full sun was radiating through that huge glass area. Guys running team didn’t like sitting in the passenger seat unless they had their pants on…. But that’s another story.

the sound of a cold DD hunting 👍

Whatever helps make the space you have work for you! Congrats!

Hello! Im planning to build something similar and i was just wondering if you still have the plans for this and if you could tell me how much to scale it onto A4 paper. Thank you!

Windows were so big it was like driving a fish bowl.

That's probably the most offroading it will ever see

Would you happen to know if the owner of that trucks name was danny . and after he was hauling steel did he go on with Servall transport out of Scarborough ont

old wagon tri axle

This is so sad 😢

The scenery reminds me of Nova Scotia. Beautiful.

HH

the comments: NO DERAILMENT IN THIS VIDEO THIS IS SHIT- me: damn how is possible that only two diesels are handling more of 100 wagons

Very nice!

Very nice, thanks for sharing. Dave

Very nice, thanks for sharing. Dave

Owww,thats a nice building. Whos the maker ?

Wouldn't that be nice to see an SW1200 go by out in the country. Been a long time since we've seen that down here.

Snazzy pipe loads !

Thank you for these videos, my absolute favorite locomotives and stretch of Canadian railroad by far. I was alive when these were operating still, what id give to have this experience. I used to imagine the wildlife these engineers probably saw every day they went to work, so that brief clip of the bear + cubs was perfect. Also, who else noticed the caboose with insulators & pantograph on that work train? Monitoring line voltage? Beyond cool. Still waiting for the day I can get 3 or 4 of these in HO scale. Maybe one day...

Love the GP9! What did you do for your roads?

This diorama has great potential 😊

its a beauty ... 😀

That was quick, Dave 😄

Oh no WOW how did he ever get over that massive snow pile

Snazzy pipe loads.

When we were kids in the 70's we would stop our bikes and climb on all the Chevy Titans at the dealer on Van Dyke in Warren MI (Detroit). My dad had trucking Co. I've been driving 40yrs

Very nice!

I'm shocked it didn't have 2 stacks with that 318

Kinda skimpy with the chains, but I guess we all did that way back then!

It seems nice , I looked these up and there only seems to be 3 different locos though .

Gretta would be screaming about this.😂

What are you using for the strapping?

Excellent looking loads.