Your layout is spectacular particularly the roundhouse and interior. At times, one cannot tell whether we are in real life or just or the layout. Too gooooood.
What an amazing and beautiful layout and the weathering on the Berk and everything so well done. Loved that you got rid of those ugly lionel couplers. Anyway a dream layout to be sure. Could hardly tell it was 3-rail. So realistic!
Incredible work! Just saw the original 1225. Locomotive and AnnArbor cars are like in reality. Specially the many little details around- very realistic. Thank you for sharing.
This is, sincerely, the best video I have seen of Model Toy Trains. It has always been a hobby of mine and my family to buy Department 56 buildings and O-Scale trains and make train tables. Also, to make my own. This video though is by far, a sweet artist's perspective of how well it can be developed. You should honestly have your own magazine dedicated for you. Thank you a million times over for deciding to make this video. This is truely a gift for me to see!! - Mark
I must say, you have one of the most realistic layouts I've seen! I've shown your videos to several people who thought they were looking at real trains!!! It's always been a dream of mine to plan, build, and operate my very own realistic layout. Thanks for sharing your awesome layout!!!
Thank you. Ur running atlas I’m running gargraves. Ur rails a also dark. I’ve been using a rust color rust oleum but not getting the results I like. What are you doing different? Also are you airbrushing your track? And how many inch is your turn table? Thanks a lot! I’m friends with minarik btw. I’m up his place messing with trains often. Any info is greatly appreciated.
I brush painted my rails with Floquil Rail Brown then airbrushed them over with Polly/MM Grimy Black. I think the trick is to use more than one color! If I were to do it again, I'd lay some RR Tie Brown over the tie tops and ends too. Dave has a nice layout, been a while since I've been out that way....we txt back and forth on occasion.
Hey Norm, I first saw your layout in TM's World Class High Rail Layouts, which I picked up in a thrift store. A lucky find! I then hopped over here and found this video, which prompted me to get my own model of the 1225. Couldn't help myself. What a great little machine this model is. Quick question for you. I notice in this video that your marker lights aren't on. Is this intentional? I have trouble keeping mine on, I suspect a tiny short or perhaps a grounding issue.
Wow, that's cool! I keep my class lights off. IRL they weren't even used all that often and in O gauge they tend to be oversized and too bright. On this engine, this is controllable in the CAB-2 extended lighting keys.
@@normstrains gotcha! Thank you for clarifying. To date, I have a pretty basic transformer and I use the LionChief app to run some of the Legacy features. I'm not familiar with all the controls of the Cab2's and 3's, so I'm always curious to learn more about what features are available on there! Tonight's project was to start adding some of the little chains that are on each end/side of PM 1225's tender trucks. Hopefully will be done tomorrow.
The Pere Marquette N1’s are a series of 2-8-4 “Berkshire”-types built in 1941 by the Lima Locomotive Works of Lima, Ohio for the Pere Marquette Railroad as freight use. Two of these N1’s survive: 1223 and 1225. The 1225 was used as the inspiration for the Polar Express.
Do you ever plan to give a tour of the layout? (layout plans etc.) I plan to make a similar design in the near future, i am just wondering what some of your techniques are for making such a realistic route.
TRAINMAN K like a narrated one? Not sure I want to hear the sound of my own voice haha. Maybe if I get 1000 subs I could do a layout tour vid. In any case my layout will be in OGR magazine this fall and will have a trackplan.
I've just built Pere Marquette in second life but one model is as the polar express for Christmas... Secondlife is a sim... Your models are outstanding and scenery... Fantastic work... Well done... Do you have any textures?
Oh ok. I saw one in a D3R open house video and I guess it was somebody else’s. Regardless you got a fantastic model of a fantastic engine. Now all you need is a 765.
I don't get it. Fantastic attention to detail and realism on everything except for the track which is over scale and with that third rail running up the middle. What have the Americans got against two rail fine scale?
