These videos are so effing stupid....they say they are for entertainment purposes yet they arent entertaining at all!!! I wish they would just get lost!
Would like to hear more about your early experienes with Lionel, and maybe explain (or better yet show) the various accessories in operation. I recently dismantled and sold my 15 x 25 foot layout that was featured in Classic Toy Trains magazine because it was all modern-era, and I am going to replace it with a smaller postwar-style layout later this year.
Thanks. So happy to find video on Jack's layout. The build quality is truly first rate. Probably one of the best layouts ever and my favorite big steam era layouts (I'm biased - NP and Montana fan). That brass Z-8 and A-4 are amazing. Then spotting all the rare brass steam models in the yards and engine facilities, painted and weathered to perfection, perfect trackwork, etc... - so jealous. Central Valley products are first rate too. Besides the bridge kits I have already, I have to get a few dozen of those NP flatcar and stockcar kits.
Neat vintage style layout. Was born too late to know Lionel back in their heyday, but thanks to TM books vhs tapes always wanted one. Finally got lucky a few years ago and snagged a 2026 steamer with a gondola, oil tanker, and a caboose, it was worth the wait. From there, it snowballed into building a train room and a layout so they could have a permanent home to run around in.
Tom and Paul, great layout and great video! Now that Covid restrictions are easing, we would love to have you both join us this season for a ride on the rails! The new 60 ton diesel will be in service starting Mother's Day Weekend, and the SCPC #2 (the "Chiggen") will be hauling passengers by the end of September. Check PSVRR.ORG for details, or call me at 916-597-0107.
Jack was a fantastic modeler, engineer and built many great cars for the NP modeler: the NP stock car (which I have built 8!) and the NP flat car (which I have built 4!). Jeff has carried on the baton at Central Valley Model Works!
I used to listen to KFRC all the time when I was young. I joined the army in August of 1975. Every year when I would come home on leave I would tape hours of KFRC. I still have the tapes, uncut and just as they were recorded. I have since put them on cd. It has everything. It is like you are literally listening to it live. I am so glad I did this back then. I treasure these cds. Take care.
Thanks again, Paul, for doing the video of my railroad. It was such a pleasant surprise to see it. You did a great job! I have just added a video to RU-vid - "How to Video Your Model Railroad". The video shows how to do some innovative ways to photograph a model railroad. Just enter Bert Donlon and it will come up. Enjoy! Bert
@@paulpatterson9559 You can see our small N scale layout on RU-vid. "N scale Oregon City Layout tour" parts 1,2 3 and other videos starting with "N scale coast Starlight, Empire Builder. " also summer 76 Southern, chessie trains etc...enjoy!
Paul - thanks so much for shooting this video of my Placerville branch. Much appreciated. Tom Peterman had sent me an email today with a link to your channel. The video is quite good by the way - you did a great job featuring just about all the branch line and your editing was top notch. Ill put a link to it on my own channel ...again thanks very much and great job! .
Hi Tom, I am glad you enjoyed it. I very impressed with your layout and it has caused me to rethink on how I can improve mine. My layout occupies my entire garage. Can you send me an email to mine four605@aol.com and I will send you some pictures. I have acquired as part of my layout a 40 year old layout.....
Hi Tom thanks. Here is a video of my layout which is work in progress. I hope to adopt some of your techniques. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7yxhrblo_hE.html
4:14 - you got me with that shot! I was really starting to oogle over how nice that Accucraft (?) Shay's looks! X-) (45mm gauge, 914.4mm gauge - same difference!)
This train system was once part of a larger network of "short line" railroads called RailAmerica which had this plus trains in Peru, Chili and many roads cross the US and Canada.
0:00-He says his favorite Hawaiian steam railroad, the Sugar Cane Train. 0:15-He talks about the Sugar Cane Train’s history. 1:41-A wooden trestle bridge 2:24-He talks about the Anaka.
Disney really hit a home run with their "renovation" in 2012. the red car has to be my favorite piece of this expansion, mostly because my home town used to have a red car route and there are still Pacific Electric remnants spread around. My grandfather would always brag how he could ride from Huntington Park to downtown for only a nickel, try getting that now with Metro. The historical background was a nice touch!
Correction: ALL of the equipment at the Swanton Pacific is from the Pan-Pacific Expo. A few pieces aren't at Swanton, though. Four of the cars, regauged to 18 inches (Swanton is 19 inches), are at the Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad in Los Gatos. One of the locomotives is on display in the lobby of the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and another is missing, either privately-owned or scrapped.
