When I was in my late teens I used to work as an apprentice carpenter and we worked on this one house and the owner had one room which was just beyond massive with a complete 00 layout all the track was down but no scenery at all just track, at that time I was making models and painting miniatures as a hobby and got really friendly with the owner who offered me a weekend job to make all the scenery for his layout which I did over the next few years. that was 30 years ago now. because of that man being so kind, it put me on the track of what I am today a self employed Miniature Artist. You never know what will turn up in life but I thank my lucky stars I found the locomotive man.
@MichaelMordor What a wonderful story. As you say, you never know what life has in store for you. After reading your story I subscribed to your channel.
Model railroading is a great hobby and the people that built that beautiful layout should be really proud of the work they have done, it is by far one of the nicest O gauge layouts I have seen on youtube or anywhere for that matter.
hi everyone ,if anyone else wants to uncover how to build a model railroad layout try Pycanta Model Railroaders Protocol (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some decent things about it and my brother in law got amazing success with it.
Being a RR buff as I am, I can really appreciate his collection & the time he has put into it. There R good things about it. 1-the weather is always ideal. 2-no accidents what so ever or sabotage people. 3- no idiots running the RR crossings. 4-all your platform people R always where u leave them. 5- whatever u want to change or make better is your decision & not your platform people. A good book to have that Amazon sells-Train Wrecks-by Robert C. Reed, only B & W Pages all kinds of accidents wonderful book for a train buff to have & enjoy.
That millionaire has employed more than these three engineers in this effort. There's everyone involved in manufacturing every last item that went into it. Literally THOUSANDS of people have made money off of this millionaires hobby. What has your hobby done for the world?
Fantastic! Greetings from France! You need somebody to sweep the leaves up in those miniature forests to avoid miniature forest fires lol. Great layouts, it's wonderful!
I have a 28' x 15' O Gauge layout that takes up about 1/3 of my basement, I built it myself over a 20 year period but its small compared to this. This artistic creation is one of the best O gauge layouts I've ever seen.
Wow! that's one hell of an awesome layout, I'm a model railroading fan myself. but how I got started in the hobby is a Heck of a story behind it first train set was a pennsylvania flyer and sadly that one met the hands of a six year old who had no respect for taking care of his trains , trains vs an open can of paint , the second one is better but it to had something happen to it but not as bad just the speaker doesn't work anymore , the last one is sure to make anyone cry because it is the most special memory behind it it was a translvania express set and that was the last one I got, because my grandpa got sick stage 4 but your all probably thinking "he could make it" right? Sadly no he passed away on December 13, 2013 He was the only person who understood me and he even before he died he built a layout by the name of coal bridge railway and I'm waiting for it to be able to get passed down to yours truly 😉 !
More thing like that needs to be all over to get the new generation involved. It's a scary thing when they see the electronics of the layout. Then the DCC and whatever people run. Intimidating.....
I am part owner of a large train set that is totally outdoors. Parts of it can be seen in multiple locations. A person can actually ride on this train set. There is a large number of cooperative owners. The scale is 1:1. The name of the system is “Amtrak”.
Such a great resource to have, an effective rail network. Besides the obvious benefits, it's just so much more fun than most other modes of transport. Have you ever travelled on the Swiss system?
Years ago I was involved with a couple of guys in model railroading We billed it as one of the largest portable layouts at least in Eastern U.S. It took several tractor and trailers to move it from place to place. It even had running water in the streams. We mostly toured malls
This is great, illuminated passengers on trains, but no evidence of the train crews needed to run them. So only half marks there. We always said in England that we could "Run a perfect train service if it wasn't for the passengers", from a retired English train driver. ( only half the job again ).
Model Trains and Railfanning I love your videos I’ve been watching you for a long time now and it’s pretty cool that you saw my comment. I really like your farewell to the f59 video
Model Trains and Railfanning dude it’s so awesome and I will definitely miss the f59s I grew up always seeing them on the Amtrak cascades and always thought they were pretty unique looking
The F59’s are really something special. Let’s just hope the SC-44’s don’t last as long as long in service as the F59’s did. I don’t want to be stuck looking at them for 20+ years.
Rod Stewarts layouts are bigger than most houses, the main one he has in the U.S. and even the "slightly" smaller layout he has at his home in England. And he built both of them from scratch himself and one took 25 years.
@@DavidHughesPiano Quite right David. I have seen a video of him tinkering with track but not his forte obviously, but as you say his structure building is brilliant. I believe he did a little track work on a smaller layout he has at his UK residence. What do you think of the layout Sinatra had if you have seen it? He had a "crew" as well, and I do not think he built any of it. Quite a few model railway magazines also say that. Leaving that aside, love your piano work too by the way. Such dedication to restoration, lovely pics of your work. I know this because a friend of mine was looking for restorer for his old piano and he did a search and your business came up in list. The sad part is my friend lives in Australia, but he had heard of you.
