242 - Twin City Model Railroad Museum - Wisconsn 2019 - Compilation of John C Hill Videos - Part 113

This is a compilation of some of John Hill's videos of trains on the line between Chicago and Omaha on the C&NW (now the Union Pacific)

John C Hill (1955 – 2023)
Former member of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum - John Hill was an avid rail fan, model railroader and photographer

John took thousands of slides and took videos of: trains, airplanes, river barges as well as lake boats on the Great Lakes
He specialized in photographing and documenting railroad yards and areas that many others seemed to avoid

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If you and your family would like to see beautiful models of trains like these operate -

Please Visit the Twin City Model Railroad Museum

The address is
668 Transfer Road - Suite 8
St. Paul Minnesota 55114
651-647-9628
https://www.tcmrm.org/
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The Museum is open every Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday
The Regular Museum hours are
Friday 10 AM - 3 PM
Saturday 10AM – 5 PM
Sunday 12 PM – 5 PM
Monday 10 AM – 3 PM

Special Events - Night trains, Circus Trains, Military Trains (Memorial Day), Spooky Trains (Halloween) and Holiday Trains are run at different times during the year.

Please check the website for details

https://www.tcmrm.org/

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Train shown on this video include:

CN Canadian National double stack container train with a C44-9W leading and a C44-9W mid-train power near Duluth, Minnesota

Note - this very long stack train is typical of trains that the railroads have been running for the last few years
Essentially the railroad puts two trains together – it saves time and money but can lead to long wait times at grade crossings…


BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe SD-75 leading with a C-44 9W DPU Distributed Power Unit at the rear of a
ballast train from HERZOG - a track maintenance supplier

BNSF Burlington Northern Santa Fe C44-9W / C44-9W with an empty Balkan oil tank train - Southeast Wisconsin

Amtrak P-42 / P-42 with Number 7-27 – the Empire Builder stops at Tomah Wisconsin

CSX C44-9W / Canadian Pacific C44-9W / C44-9W / GP-40 / SD- 40-3 / C44-9W with a Westbound freight train - Southern Wisconsin
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The Twin City Model Railroad Museum has many of different types of trains, buildings and other models – of all sizes - including:
O Scale - the internationally renowned O Scale layout - 1/48th
G - Garden – about 1/24th
Standard Gauge -1/32nd
O Scale – 1/48th - Lionel Trains
LEGO Gauge - approx. 1/50th
S Scale – 1/64th – American Flyer Trains
OO Scale 1/72nd
HO Scale – 1/87th
OOO Scale - 1/152nd
N Scale 1/ 160th
Z scale – 1/220th.
Toy trains are also represented from different manufacturers including:
Lionel,
American Flyer,
Märklin
Marx
Hornby
and others

There are also exhibits that show the various scales side by side - for comparision - inlcuding the International Train Display at the rear of the Museum.

The Children's Area has many different layouts for the girls and boys to operate as well as work tables where they can create and build models and run wooden trains. There is a LEGO Work Area and Thomas the Tank Trains to run as well.
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