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Amazing ! Is the roundhouse from the Great Southern ?

Is John S. Fisher still alive? He was a friend many years ago and I used to visit him in San Francisco and then in Oregon. But that was about forty years ago and I lost touch with him after moving to France. Martin A

A wonderful locomotive on a fantastic layout. A pleasure to watch. Thanks for the upload.

Now that is an interesting locomotive. Ive only seen pictures of the prototype, didnt know a model was made in any scale. My grandfather was a fireman/ engineer for CNW i dont think he ever fired that particular engine. I am becoming interested in 2 rail O.

Excellent! 👍👍

Very nice layout

another great video Jim

Two rail is the way to go, more realistic

How long are the passenger cars?

Nice layout thanks for sharing 😊

Where was this taken at ?

Spectacular 🤩

Amazing - Americans model 0-gauge WITHOUT A THIRD RAIL???

They run so smooth on 2 rail. Very nice.

Fantastic, love the scenery.

Wow. Super nice and realistic layout. Awesome trains and scenery. Must have taken thousands of hours to create. It is so relaxing to watch and enjoy!

Beautiful! 👍👍

"Well I ride on the mail train, baby, ...can't buy a thrill"

So much more realistic than the 3rail guys.

Is this layout P48? This is a Railroad in miniture not a model one! At last, a dcc sound steam locomotive with the chuff coming from the stack and not the tender! Fantastic!

The roadbed screams for improvement.

I patiently wait for the day another's big traction layout is built and brought back to the plano train show

Beautiful model! I have one by Sunset-2-rail.

Well done 👍

What a Nice train!

I rode the streamlined steam powered Sunbeam. Roun trip to see a Houston- UTA football game. Good ride. Great Club car too.

Beautiful GS-1. They used to run past my house in Burbank daily at the head of some Mail trains.

You may want to consider double decking this layout. A fine example of that would be Jim Providenza s Santa Cruz Northern railroad. While he is H O scale the concept works for any railroad scale.

JUST WOW!!!!

WOW!!!

The Rock Island color schemes were very attractive to me. I rode the Rocky Mountain Rocket from Chicago to Denver. The last leg of the trip was behind a EMD E-6B. Great ride. Good service too.

I have a PFM SP GS-1 that has been super detailed and also 8 hand built from kits SP passenger train "Klamath." This train shown is superb.

This entire clip is amazing. Great models and scenery plus some very good camera work. Thank you for sharing this with us.

Working high wire is a tough job to do BUT, done right it is terrific! This system is done right!

Tremendous layout. Great scenery work!

Beautiful EP-3 model. I saw them run in person. Th outside bell was a hoot.

very nice . like . thanks for not adding music. i like hearing the people chatter in the background . some nice models too also.

Wonderful! Thanks for sharing

Well done! 👍

nicely done Jim and Pete

Very nice. As a child my dad , just back from Korea, bought me a large 3 rail Lionel train set with massive extra track. Anyway, as much fun as we had with that model rail road, 2 rail is much more realistic. Thanks for sharing the video!

Beautiful job with getting the Hudson to run on 2 rail. I am a 2 "railer" myself and was wondering how you isolated the loco wheels? I had the rare opportunity in the 1960's to obtain that Hudson for $15! I sold it for my first O scale Niagara that I also enhanced, as it was originally made with sand castings, and now has lost wax castings and an entire underframe/new drivers.

That engine is GORGEOUS!!!!

This is a beautiful set.. The Y-1's were always a favorite of mine. Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

This shows that Lionel could have put out nice detailed scale size engines and Passenger cars and could have given the purchaser the choice of having to rail or 3 rail. The pre-war Rolling Stock looks so much better than the stuff he produced after the war. Nicely proportioned and well-detailed.

You can run NPC cars on 2 rail O scale. You just have to replace the wheel sets and since the trucks are plastic that is easy to do. The trucks don't look realistic-looking but since they're totally black it is hard to see them anyways. I bought some to rail d.c. locomotives that ahm had brought out and then they drop the line. I wish they had continued because their prices were decent and their cars were of the same quality of their ho cars. In those days you had to be really dedicated to be an O scale two trailer because everything was made in such small numbers usually by hobbyist making for others products that they made for their own Railroad. That's how Bruce Walters got his start. You look at the 0 scale two rail DC steam locomotive that Milton Cronkite would custom make they would be like $1,000 now this was when a brand new GMC pickup truck with $1,200 so you see how expensive it was. And you needed a minimum size layout of 6 ft in diameter usually layouts were around the wall because of the space required. You could model old-time 0 scale trains and they would take up the same amount of space that an HOA layout would because they were so much smaller and took smaller radius track. You could model an old-time railroad with a 440 standard American or a 4-6-0 ten wheeler. Old-time time engine like these as well as short wood cars would manage very tight radius alleviating the need for a huge amount of space. And 027 size d car would fit the time era as long as you had to rail trucks underneath it preferably Arch bar trucks to be prototypical.

My collection I have a Walters 0 scale catalog. It was $0.25 the same price as a Model Railroader magazine issue. Looking through the catalog at the items available and their prices you can see that 0 scale was an adult man's Hobby not a child's toy. As scale and detail-oriented as h o. Looking through the catalog I thought of the man who bought it I wondered if he survived World War 2? And one of my issues there is it HO scale layout in a basement it belonged to the last Airman killed in World War after which the Nazis had no more airplanes. This Model Railroader died to preserve this country. He never came home to run his trains again. It was a somewhat poignant moment. I look at it and I think all that this guy wanted to do was run his trains. I'm sure that his greatest desire was to be able to come home and go back to running his layout. People nowadays especially young people do not know the sacrifice people have made. If and when their turn comes I don't know if they are up to the task. Time will tell.

The Lionel pre-war Hudson locomotive had a minimum radius of 6 ft which was o72 track. This was called the t rail track. If I am not wrong I believe the cars that were offered with it were diecast. Including the wood caboose. When I came across diecast cars I would buy a ton of them because you're nothing like having a Real Steel freight car when you have a dozen of them being pulled in a train and they go through a switch or across they t h u m p like a real train because of the weight of the cars. Hell you could probably kill somebody hitting them in the head with one of these Freight cars. Hahaha.

In my issues of Model Railroader Magazine from the late 1940s to the 1950s they sell ads of people who make fake cars and the bottom of the freight car allows either Lionel trucks and couplers or scale trucks and couplers. When AMT made the extruded aluminum Passenger cars to go with Lionel's F3 diesel locomotives that was his incentive to make his own. When they show movies of the Lionel showroom layout the cars behind the lion lf3 are really AMT aluminum passenger cars. Lionel did not make them yet so they put them on the layout of course they didn't tell anybody you they weren't Lionel cars.

Nice to see such a beautiful 0 scale 2 rail layout. As a Model Railroader I am so bothered by the fact that people call 3-rail both scale when it's really 0 gauge. Being and xho scale Model Railroader I just disdain the third rail that we are basically stuck with because Lionel was too cheap to go to rail after World War II like American Flyer did. He wanted post-war to be compatible with three war and that meant we were stuck with three rail track. Now you can run three-wheel cars onto rail track as long as you run kitchenary with overhead power. All the GT1 electric can run off overhead electric and therefore you can have overhead electric and two rail with three-wheel cars because there is nothing to short out. I wish this video was longer 4 minutes is not enough to see how beautiful it is. They should also show a track plan with overall dimensions.