6/25/2010
My layout for the 2010 Heartland
of America Garden Railroad Show (HAGRS -
www.hagrs.com ) held in Overland Park, KS.
Deployed just over 2000ft of track in 10 loops. (Mixture of brass,
Stainless Steel, AML and Aristocraft
straights with Aristocraft curves, split-jaw direct-to-rail clamps at all joints)
The following engines made their appearance: (All 16 engines are
MTH DCS Protosound 2 equipped)
- 3 - MTH Big Boys
- 3 - MTH Triplexes
- 1 - USA Trains Hudson
- 1 - MTH Hudson
- 1 - MTH Challenger
- 5 - Aristocraft Dash-9s
- 1 - MTH GS-4 (American Freedom Train)
- 1 - MTH GS-4 (Daylight)
Rolling stock:
- 120 - Bachmann coal hoppers (in two - 60 car coal trains)
- 40 - USA trains Intermodal cars
- 10 - MTH Passenger cars - (American Freedom Train)
- 10 - MTH Passenger cars - (Daylight)
- 21 - Aristocraft Heavyweights
Photos of the setup:
During the show:
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The entire 8 loops of 16 powered engines ran on only 16amps (@24v) of power. Protosound equipped engines (DCS) are very power efficient.
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John Dula's real diesel control stand setup used to run
engine. Had wireless video camera mounted on engine running on the inside
loop (track #10) that transmitted back to the computer screen to give the effect
of actually operating a diesel locomotive.
HAGRS 2010:
Select the version /
quality you want to download:
- Video #1 - 5:04 mins - HAGRS 2010
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267MB/HD-7000kbs -
YouTube 1080p HD
- Video #2 - 5:14 mins - HAGRS 2010
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278MB/HD-7000kbs -
YouTube 1080p HD
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Video #3 -
2:48 mins - HAGRS 2010
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148MB/HD-7000kbs -
YouTube 1080p HD
- Video #4 - 3:14 mins - HAGRS 2010
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171MB/HD-7000kbs -
YouTube 1080p HD
- Video #5 - 5:28 mins - HAGRS 2010
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288MB/HD-7000kbs -
YouTube 1080p HD
- Video #6 - 3:03 mins - HAGRS 2010
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161MB/HD-7000kbs -
YouTube 1080p HD
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