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How was the sound done?

I agree with The previous person i/e the music, but I'm ignoring that & am engrossed by the beaut snowfield landscapes. We, in SA, have never seen such beauty!! Also the written footnotes stay on screen long (& large) enough 4 a slow reader 2 manage.

What a beautiful vidio!!! Most enjoyable!! @ least 1 sees the scenery & everything's not centred on food & drink!!! Thank a lot!!!

My own personal favorite model railroad. Still a great motivator. RIP.

A great video! Thank you!

You're absolutely welcome, Dan Hadley. And I wish to thank you for showing those fantastic railroad shots you took for Pentrex. I'm a tremendous fan of your work. I love Pentrex's railroad videos. I have quite a collection of those programs on DVD, especially some that you videographed. For example, I have "Across Marias Pass", "The Stormy: Southern Pacific's Lordsburg District", "Santa Fe's Mojave Mainline", "Winter Along the Upper Mississippi", "Montana Rail Link", "Kansas City Southern", "Santa Fe's New Mexico Mainline Volumes 1-2", "Santa Fe's Arizona Mainline", "Street Running" and "Union Pacific's Clinchfield Challenge".

I follow Allen’s credo “Good enough”.

Funny in our modern era of superdetailing with separate grab irons etc, to rediscover blue box cheapy freight cars and locos with molded grab irons and more generic. Yep, refreshing. Proof that old stock deserve some respect and be part of the game. Even railroads follow that trend with heritage paint scheme.

Thanks....but you break my hearth, knowing it went in the trash can. So many hours, watching and dreaming of that layout in Model Railroader magazine pages. When was it ? 1980, 1982 ?. I should search it in my library. So long old friend.....

Thank you Dan!

Thanks for the video. Any relation to Guss?

What can I say but, thanks for the memories. Who knows how many hours I spent in the basement on the V&O. Allen's sons and myself would sit in the basement reading/looking at old issued of TRAINS and Model Railroader. One aspect of the V&O that I found especially interesting was Allen"s lighting. It was on a dimmer with white/blue colors. These lights were overhead encircling the entire route. Something that was especially cool that was rarely shown was the extensive lighting inside the houses, buildings, yards etc. So when he would dim the overhead lighting, the RR structures lights would be lit. Quite a sight. I was there that night when Allen had his "end of steam" on the layout. I think this was 1980. He sold off his steamers, a nephew of Allen's got a 2-8-0 consolidation. I don't know who got the 2-6-6-0 though. My favorite train was the XVL(the valley local) Which ran from Afton to Blackstone to Clintwood.(Clintwood was my favorite location, just so much there.) The Clintwood section was saved and I hear that it is in the Chattanooga museum. Another favorite job was the helpers stationed at Dawson Springs. The CTC board was quite a sight. Just like the real thing. He had a college professor to help out in the programming of the computer to assist the ctc board. This was high tech for 1980. Allen had a board where all the trains were listed with departure time, you simply signed up for a train. He used a fast clock. On many occasions your current train would be delayed so much that you would miss your upcoming scheduled train! I never saw the V&O operating inside the new edition of the basement. My life was hectic, just no time left for hobbies I guess. Working lots of overtime. Allen was quite the man. Humble and easy going. Most importantly a kid at heart. He would host the annual 4th of July party, it was fun! His family was almost like a second family to me. Back in 2004 Allen had an auction of his locos/rollingstock. I wanted to go but I just didn't have the heart to go. To see it all broken up would not be pleasant. Allen even helped out in a photo I took at Fullerton at the general store. He got out his portable lighting equipment and I took a photo of a train going by. The shot came out great. (Kodachrome) I was lucky, to have been there. Thanks for everything Allen.

I love memory of V&O Railroad builder Allen McClelland! Thank you!

I liked model trains before I read Allen McClellen's V&O Stor @1970, with hypothetical railfans running to photo trains, but I would never have taken the hobby as far as I have, had I not heard of his brilliant concepts, concerning an actual operating model railroad. A lot of his scenic tricks, like mirrors and tunnels that created the impression that the trains were actually going somewhere, were also taken to heart.

Wow!!! Great movie. Really enjoyed

Always loved the V&O. Thanks for sharing.

Used to read about the V & O and Appalachian Midland in Railroad Model Craftsman.

I still have the book on the V&O I bought as a kid in the 70s. Magical.

That voice brings back so many memories…

Great video ! Have the original VHS by Pentrex...

Beautiful layout. Definitely a historical layout

Definitely a Historical Model Railroad!!! Thanks for keeping it alive in video!!!👍👍👍👍👍

Nice job and great storyline! Beautiful work on the layout!!

Hancock (HO Tower) closed in September 2007 and was the final tower to close on the line as far as I know.

20:42 barred antshrike should be

Love the music 🎻🎷 🎹

Thanks for posting... every video that anybody posts on YT is giving this train much needed and deserved publicity! I'm glad, look like you folks had a wonderful trip... pretty hard not to do though on that train 😂

Unfortunately, the music is a distraction.

see you took the prestige class juding by the room. you do need to talk, more important than the music, show us the menus, tell us what you ordered. some insight into what we are looking at. please do some talking. your photography is good. thanks.

Glad you enjoyed. If you haven't been to Canopy Camp I'd strongly suggest you go.

Lovely.

I love this, I remember a train that passed through the OUACHITA NATIONAL forest in Mena ARKANSAS, I think it was called the # 9, it was very old probably a steam engine, the old people would ride it just to hear the whistle blow, my son inlaw's grand mother was from Salisaw , Arkansas close to Mena, mena had a resort "Queen Willamina" i think this train passed through here, i remember the whistle, and the bell chiming on it, very old early 1900's, it traveled a scenic route.

Music too loud. You need to replace music with an audio narration. Not worth watching even the first five minutes!

This is a very impressive video, about a very impressive videographer. Nicely done, Dan! I'm glad I was able to play a small part in the success of the 2765 video. Oh...one more thing... *you're welcome!*

Fits perfectly with the CSX EK sub

Your work with Pentrex (and now being shown on C Vision) has been an definite inspiration to me when it comes to railfanning with video. I still need to work with editing, but as far as looking for the right angles and positions has largely been from watching your footage in all those shows.

Pentrex footage

I'm sorry, what happens when the towers are replaced? How are the signal and switches controlled then?

it’s mexico no money no care for old relics

Ex excellent music and video ! I remember the L&N in New Orleans and on the Gulf Coast. 😢 😢😢. Shed a tear for those great Fallen Flags : Atlantic Coast Line , Seaboard Air Line , and our great L&N.

In 1968 I got a job as fifth cook in the diner on The Canadian. The train was operated by Canadian Pacific and used its own line instead of the Canadian National line which VIA now uses. Part of the CP line passes along the scenic and rocky north shore of Lake Superior and is far more interesting than the CN which goes through northern Ontario. There's not much to see on this line except trees and a few lakes.

My favorite youtube video

The music ruined it for me. I'd rather have some narration describing the places visited.

Wow! I remember seeing this at Eastrail in NJ back around 2000. It’s even better than I remember it. Thanks for sharing it here.

Fabulous. (I followed on Bing Map)

Nicely done! Looking forward to seeing part 2.

Very Nice Layout !

Very nice. I'd like to go southwest as a native Califorian that moved years ago. No one discusses doing southwest. PS I'll be running ALCO PAs

Nice layout & video, but your narration is difficult to hear over the engines.

Love the music you used....Pat Metheny Group. Great choice.