Highline Videos

[baggo]

A couple more 2½" Gauge videos:

https://youtu.be/dTGVK8lxoB4



https://youtu.be/0Yds7LQFbtQ



5" Gauge Polly rally (for Polly Models Locos) at my local club:

https://youtu.be/BHZ_IbFTQwI



John

[LVRR2095]

A couple more 2½" Gauge videos:

John

John,
I think 2 - 1/2” gauge is a terrific size. Easily moved about, can be displayed in your living room and yet will pull a decent load with ease!

I just wish the clubs here in the Northeast United States had 2 - 1/2” gauge rails.

Keith Taylor, Maine USA

[baggo]

John,
I think 2 - 1/2” gauge is a terrific size. Easily moved about, can be displayed in your living room and yet will pull a decent load with ease!

I just wish the clubs here in the Northeast United States had 2 - 1/2” gauge rails.

Keith Taylor, Maine USA

Yes, 2½" has to be my favourate gauge, especially as you get older and not so fit! A lot of fun as well as being a bit of a challenge to drive sometimes.

Another advantage is they are relatively cheap to build and don't require big machinery to build them.

We are fortunate in the UK that there are about 30 clubs that still have 2½" rails and a couple of clubs have added them recently which is good news.

John

[Pontiacguy1]

Yep, not much 2 1/2" gauge activity in North America at all. I have a few pieces in 1/2" scale 2 1/2" gauge, as you are probably aware, but I'm probably the only person within 250 miles of me, or maybe more, that is doing anything in that scale/gauge. Maybe someday I can build an elevated layout. I have plenty of room. Love seeing a 2 1/2" gauge locomotive pulling around people.

[Donald Gray]

Here's a video of a trip around the Northeast Ohio Livesteamer's 1000 ft Highline. This was taken with a very interesting 360 degree plus camera and is interactive using your cursor. You can see forward and back, side to side and up and down. Locomotion is provided by club member George Santin and his 1" Atlantic.
https://youtu.be/KBkohsv-jRc

[paralleler]

Here are a few:

GGLS 4-8-4 Northern #4409 following a major re-build in 2018 (the boiler has since failed - new boiler hopefully in the works):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQmzoTYQdmM

IBLS History (1930s to 1989) -- Okay, there are some ground track operation in this as well, sorry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5rhjtoP7y4

GGLS member Loren Thacker in Stockton, CA, back in the 1940s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V93mzDHZ26k

GGLS in Redwood Park in the 1940s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZtFZkSv-54