The Great Northern Empire Builder at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum
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The Great Northern Empire Builder tours the Oregon, California & Eastern at the Colorado Model Railroad Museum.
Re-edited July, 2017
In 1951 Great Northern Railway introduced a brand new Empire Builder trainset, naming it the Mid-Century Empire Builder. It was powered by three EMD F3 passenger locomotives, and it used a 17-car westbound consist. All cars were flat-roofed.
During 1955 the Great Northern took delivery of dome coaches and full-length lounges; all were called Great Domes (the use of the word Great applied to the railroad, not the type of dome). Great Northern subsequently changed the name of the train from Mid-Century Empire Builder to the Incomparable Great Dome Empire Builder. This train represents the summer tourist season Empire Builder. The configuration is essentially correct from 1956 through 1964. The summer train had 4 power units and 17 cars.
From front to back, here is the consist:
Lead cab unit: EMD F7A Passenger Diesel #364-A, prototype builder #11073
First booster: EMD F7B Passenger Diesel #364-B, prototype builder #11077
Second booster: EMD F7B Passenger Diesel #372-B, prototype builder #9568
Trailing cab unit: EMD F7A Passenger Diesel #368-C, prototype builder #9565
72' Storage Mail Car #272
72' Storage Mail Car #274
85' Railway Post Office - Storage Mail Car #40
85' Baggage - Dormitory Car #1200
85' 60-Seat Chair Car #1213
85' Great Dome Chair Car #1330
85' Great Dome Chair Car #1321
85' Great Dome Chair Car #1326
85' Coffee Shop-Dinette-Lounge Car #1244 - White Pines Lake
85' 7 Duplex Roomettes - 4 Sections - 3 Double Bedrooms - 1 Compartment Sleeper #1271 - Fraser River
85' 6 Roomettes - 5 Double Bedrooms - 2 Compartments Sleeper #1377 - State Pass
85' 7 Duplex Roomettes - 4 Sections - 3 Double Bedrooms - 1 Compartment Sleeper #1261 - Sun River
85' 36-Seat Dining Car #1251 - Lake Wenatchee
85' Great Dome Lounge Car #1392 - Mountain View
85' 7 Duplex Roomettes - 4 Sections - 3 Double Bedrooms - 1 Compartment Sleeper #1269 - Poplar River
85' 6 Roomettes - 5 Double Bedrooms - 2 Compartments Sleeper #1374 - Park Creek Pass
85' 6 Roomettes - 4 Double Bedrooms - 1 Compartment Lounge - Observation Car #1197 - Grand Coulee
This 17-car consist was as shown above for the westbound trip from St. Paul, MN to Spokane, WA. For the eastbound trip from Spokane to St. Paul, one of the 72' storage mail cars was removed.
The locomotives and all the passenger cars are by Walthers Proto. All but the 72' cars are from the latest run of the Empire Builder by Walthers in 2013 and 2014. The Storage mail cars are from an earlier Walthers run. All 4 of the locomotives have DCC and sound. The decoders are Tsunamis by SoundTraxx.
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Great cinematography!!! And everything looks so real. I LOVE the F-unit lashup. The headlight and MARS light are so bright they cause me squint while viewing "head-on" shots. This one of the best train videos I've ever seen! 👏👏👏
Impressive train! If you ever get to Greeley Colorado, it's a nice layout to visit!
Wow! That was a great video with outstanding camera angles! I found the high level of detail in the scenery to be very realistic and very lifelike with the different colors and textures. What really caught my eye was the birch trees with the fall colors outside the depot! Nice job all around!!!
There's just nothing bad to say, here. Spectacular layout, beautiful train, and a very well shot and edited video.
Awesome train, the skill in your modeling to the tinyist detail is wonderful. That could be a movie set. I just love everything about it.
This is amazing. Awesome video!!
Magnificent,,,Geoff,.UK
I really do enjoy this Beautiful passenger train video and the Beautiful layout outstanding!!!
Great camera positions! This video took a long time to produce. It is much appreciated.
Hello ! super layout with wonderfull colors and very nice landscape. Thank for beautiful pictures.
I think this is just about the best layout video I've ever seen. A lot of care and thought went in to the camera work
Fun Fact. The real Great Northern 364A still survives. It’s currently at the Wisconsin Great Northern in Wabash colors
love this layout so glad I saw it in person
Thank you for sharing. I enjoyed it. Thanks
that was fun to watch
Amazing. Thank you so much for sharing.
Well shot, very well edited.
I’ve been hoping to model this exact great northern train for nearly ten years, hopefully this year i’ll have my first A and B unit along with 9 cars.
Great recording. Did the E7 units ever pull the Empire Builder consists that included domed cars?
Very nice.
Very Cool.
Hello, I'd like to say that I love the videos you post, the way you make the movie is so amazing!! Could you tell me how do you film this? And I'd like to know the manufacture of this great northern please. Thanks
SUER CHINGON !. CONGRATULATIONS !
love this layout too. really hoping I can visit one day. is it possible to visit and bring your own models to run?
@tmotorman
7 жыл бұрын
Now there's a good question! I'd like to know that too!! I'm from upstate NY, so it would be quite a haul for me, but I'd bring some SP tunnel motors if I knew I could.
@billr991
7 жыл бұрын
Volunteers with a certain number of hours can bring personal trains on specified days. Of course volunteering on a regular basis would be difficult for someone who does not live in the area. Volunteer information: cmrm.org/BecomeVolunteer.html
Looooooove your video 🚅🚅👍👍😊😊
The enginer was in a hurry and dident stop to let some passengers off, and there really pissed!
8-)