Mike can U get me with someone that can show me how to properly bind Joe Byden to a rail track. I'd really like to tie him down tight on top of a track switch in case a train dont come soon enough. Any advice would be helpful
Hi Mike I'm excited for the Joplin Missouri Train show this Saturday July 15th. I also go to Springfield Missouri. Sugar Creek model railroad in Siloam Springs Arkansas..Be glad to see any of you my favorite RU-vidrs there like Tom's/Ron train n things.Toy man television.I've been watching him on RU-vid for years to come
Hi, Alex! I am definitely going to try and make it to the Joplin show. Maybe I’ll see you then. I’m also looking forward to the Springfield show this fall. Both are really great events. I always appreciate you tuning in! -Mike
@@MainTrack Springfield Missouri?I'll be at the Springfield Missouri show too. see you there I hope we will find each other somehow to. I missed one guy at the same train show as me.he lives a couple miles from me I did not see him and he didn't see me cuz we didn't know what each other looks like maybe I'll tell him what kind of shirt I'll be wearing or hat.O are you a vendor
Thanks for watching, Timothy! I thought they were pretty cool layouts, too. The owners all did great jobs. I was able to get a lot inspiration from them! -Mike
Going To A Model Railroad Show In our Area Is Always Tranquility Never want To leave them till they Close.Then We go home To our Layouts. Try to Finish up our Layouts to Look Great.
Awesome stuff. The moving chickens are over the top cool. I will be attending my first ever model railroad show here in Temple, TX in a few weeks. I'm 67 years old and am just starting out in the hobby. Thanks for the inspiring videos.
Thank you! Yes…aren’t those chickens cool? That was a first seeing those! There’s no way my clunky fingers could ever build details that small- animated and all! Sounds like you’ll have a great train show coming up. I’d like to get down to TX sometime to visit some of your shows!
For sure! I’m not sure we realized how much we really enjoyed train shows until they were on hiatus! I have read about Trainfest before. I’m sure it’ll be a great one!
I only have a little starter set but don’t have any track yet just ordered some and there is a train store opening in a week right in the parking lot where I work
Hello! I appreciate you watching! Yes, I had to put some A&M in there! It’s a great railroad. I life in Springfield- just up the road from Monett and the A&M. So, it’s pretty close and I enjoy railfanning it when I can.
Great video & great train show. Great layout combinations as well. I’m looking forward to the 2022 model railroad train show in Scottsdale,AZ in October that I plan to go to and check out what the rail show will be this year.
I appreciate that! Yes, it was a lot of fun. We (normally) have quite a few here in the Midwest. I’ve heard of some big ones out west but haven’t had a chance to visit many out that way.
Hello, Bob! I don’t recall seeing any. I had a TSB ACF hopper years ago, but it doesn’t fit well now with my rolling stock as I’ve upgraded over the years. I’ve kept my eye out for a replacement. I’ve never even seen the TSB in real life…I just really liked the yellow paint scheme!
@@MainTrack TSB, while relatively short-lived, had a rich history. It acquired several of the ex-Ann Arbor GP-35s after a prolonged legal battle and ran the line for a dozen years, I believe.
That would be great if they could. I know some modelers will simply buy duplicates and re-number them with decals. I’ve done that a few times. In do appreciate when they do new numbers with re-releases. -Mike
Thank you! We are lucky in that we usually have quite a few each year in the Midwest…”usually”meaning pre-pandemic. I’d like to get to some farther East sometime.
@@MainTrack You're quite welcome :). That's pretty neat about having many train shows to go to, and I imagine each one has its own unique style. I've been to a couple near the Philadelphia area, particularly at an expo center which is on a road where a train station used to be.
I like the emergency vehicles. They'd be PERFECT for modeling collision and derailment scenes. Just add some spilled freight or a few bloodied victims of the appropriate scale and you're all set! 🤣🤣🤣
If anyone is even remotely interested about 8 years ago I scored 4 Lionel engines 2 of which were South Pacific Santa Fe N gauge engines and two steam locomotives new in their boxes. I am thinking the stuff was made early 90s the boxes also seemed to say to me the stuff was in a house the burnt or was on fire. I paid eighty bucks and don't even have a track set up period it was the blue & yellow Santa Fe engine is why I even bought the sheet and it sits on an office shelf behind my deck chair here and I still wonder why I bought the things. The detail on the thing is awesome really is. I thought Lionel was out of business and I was thinking it was stuff from the 60s or 70s but the dates on the boxes are 1990 and 1991. I would like some history on the stuff I can't find anything on google but that is nothing unusual
There is one coming to Hicksville NY about 40 minutes from me I plan on attending it will be my first train show as I’m just starting out built a 4x8 table from scratch. Any tips you can give a newbie like myself will be greatly appreciated
Very cool…that won’t be too far of a drive for you at all! Hope it’s a great show and you have fun. I’ve got plenty of how-to videos in the works. Feel free to drop any questions you have. I’m always looking for topics to cover!
@@MainTrack like I said I’m brand new to railroading so I happen to like the steam engines and the diesel ones wife ordered the hog warts express not sure how I’m gonna run the 2 together or what I’m gonna model my railroad after
Thanks for another great video Mike. I really enjoy your personal layout. I met you a few years ago in Springfield at the train show. Are they putting one on this year, and if so have you heard of the day and month? I've been working on my layout. Been really slow with not much time to spend working on it. But maybe someday when I am nearing more completing it, I would like to show it to you. I'm about an hour away from Springfield Mo. Anyway I enjoy all your videos so keep them coming !!!
Hello! good to hear from you! Always enjoy sharing new videos with everyone....thank you for watching! Yes, there is a train show planned for November 19th at the Oasis Convention Center on N. Glenstone. It was a pretty good show last year, and I'm glad to see it'll be returning that that venue. I understand about slow progress...I certainly have a lot of those periods, myself. Sometimes it's a challenge squeezing in layout time between work and life!
Hello! Thank you for watching! I highlighted the HO and N layouts since that’s mostly what we feature here and most of the layout there were of those scales. But…I will take that as a request for some O scale stuff and will be sure to include some of that next time!
Hello! Thanks for stopping by! Which song in particular? My intro and outro song is called Friction Locks by Silent Partner- which produces music geared for videos. They have some great music!
Hello! I did get some footage of that as well and plan on possibly using that in another future episode. It was a pretty cool layout, too. I was already running a little long on time for this one.
Hi, Richard! Atlas Trainman, Athearn Ready-To-Roll, and Walthers Trainline all have some very nice affordable locomotives to start out with. The good things with this hobby is- you can start out basic and then grow out and up from there. I always recommend starting with something simple like those I mentioned- to make sure the hobby is for you. Then, it’s easy to expand as your knowledge and experience levels increase. This sounds like a great question and topic for me me to cover in a future episode!
I used Atlas Code 83 up until recently you. It’s great track. I recently started using Peco Code 83. I like the detail better. It is a little pricier, but think it has been worth it. As for my favorite railroads…Katy is my favorite, but I also like BN and Santa Fe (before BNSF) as well as Missouri Pacific. These were all railroads serving different towns I lived in while growing up.
Hello! Yes, those layouts were in one of the side rooms and were pretty cool. I did get plenty of shots of the arch and Star Wars modules and saved those for additional episodes in the future.
When I watch a video like this, I wonder about the realization of indutrial-complexes in the model scale. For me it seem´s like nobody is looking for your real old and nice buildings you have got in your country without a doubt. But in most of the cases there are modern and ugly buildings shown. If I had the money to realize a minature dreamworld, my dreams wouln´t be ugly in any way. That´s for shure. You ask about what your watcher prefere: I prefere european model railways, because there is a much greater romantic spirit in most of the installations. Sometimes, if for example an old big wooden railway-bridge is built, taken out of the "western" landscape in US, it becomes very close to that "spirit" I wrote about. You also have got a unbelieveable great amount of landscapes and natural wonders in your country. That is what I miss very often in american model railways. I give you an example, what I´m talking about - and this very well built in the US: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kRLbS226dqA.html
Hello! Thanks for watching! There are definitely a lot of differences between U.S. and European railroads in that sense. I have long wanted to go on a trip to Europe and tour the country by rail- both to see the sights and the railroads! I agree with you about western American railroads and I certainly lean toward those in my interests. Some may find the western landscapes bland, but I find a lot of beauty in that part of our country. -Mike
