I’m here in my garage, with my neighbor, Gavin, who you’ve seen in one of my videos before.
Gavin, you told me previously that one of my model trains is your favorite. Which one is it?
The White Pass.
The White Pass which is conveniently located right behind us right now.
One of my favorites too, but… I have a dirty little secret I’ve never told you.
There’s actually a problem with the White Pass locomotive, and it doesn’t work right.
WHAT?!?!
Your favorite locomotive, and one of my favorites, has been broken ever since I’ve had it.
What did you do?
When I bought it, it came to me defective.
The sound card that’s built in to it, that produces the realistic train sounds, is all messed up.
Let me show you in a video clip what happens with the sound on this one.
Yeah, so that ticking sound… it shouldn’t be making that… but it does.
That’s annoying. That’s really annoying!
You don’t want to run it because the sound is all goofed up. So…
When you told me that this was your favorite locomotive…
And it’s one of mine, too, I thought…
Well, this is the perfect excuse I need to spend a lot of money to get…
A second working model of the White Pass locomotive.
So, what I’m going to do is hook these two up back to back as a double header…
Turn the sound down on this one, and use the sound from the new good one.
Let’s put it on the layout and make it work.
Good idea!
OK.
Let’s do it!
OK, that’s great that the White Pass locomotives are working together as a double header…
But the layout is kind of boring.
I wonder what Gavin would think about adding some more track and some more trains.
OK… I have an important question for you.
OK.
Shall we build it bigger?!?!
YES!
Build it bigger!!!
The bigger the better!
So, Gavin and I made some modifications to the layout…
Including adding another set of tracks…
So that we could run three White Pass locomotives at the same time:
My two diesels in a back-to-back double header…
And the White Pass steam train.
So, thanks to Gavin for helping me set up the layout today…
And for operating the trains while I did the camera work.
I feel like I’ve got just the right guy living across the street from me.
It was 38 degrees the day we shot this video!
That’s why we set this layout up in the garage instead of out in the back yard!
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I’m Jim Zim… and as always, thanks a lot for watching!