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An overview of O Gauge Trains
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2024
- Thinking about getting into model railroading? Maybe start with a Lionel or MTH Ready-2-Run Set?
MrMuffin of MrMuffin'sTrains prepared this 11 minute video to introduce you to the track systems and control systems available for O Gauge Model Trains
The Muffins own MrMuffin'sTrains - a large O Gauge model train layout and collection, open to the public on Saturdays, when they run the trains. There's no charge for visiting.
The Muffins also sell trains, online at MrMuffinstrains.com and at their store just down the street from the layout.
Both buildings are located in Atlanta, Indiana - just a few miles east-north-east of Indianapolis.
Thank you for watching - I hope you found this to be informative.
In the early seventies my brother and I would set up his O gauge train set.
We would set it up in my parents bedroom during the holidays and they were very tolerant to have to tiptoe around it. The sights, sounds and smells of those trains is still with me. As far as childhood memories, I didn't see how any video game could compare.
I have owned O gauge Lionels since the early 60’s. Bought the trains I have now in the 80’s. Haven’t put them up in years, I had no idea about any of the new technology. I have a lot to learn now.
Hello
Boy, a LOT has changed since I last ran my O gauge Lionels, in the 1980's!
Enjoy all the videos from Mr. Muffins. Wish I could have seen a tutorial like this when I was first getting into the hobby. Happy New Year and thanks for all you do for this wonderful hobby.
I really like your layout and watching your Saturday train runnings
This very helpful. I have an old O gage train set with 3 engines. I played with them when I was a child between 1948 and 1952. The set has been boxed in the storage building for around 50 years. I plan on putting it together and need lots of advice. I hope you continue telling about the O scale sets. Thank you.
Most of info other than tubular track in this video is not about post war trains. Post war are conventional transformer control. This video is modern stuff that use computers and hand held remotes, total different O gage system. Other’s cover conventional Lionel trains that are as your vintage train set.
My father had O gauge layout when I was a kid, the atlas track is what I remember him having, he old three rail style is the only kind of rails I have ever seen besides the atlas my Father had, I still have the Lionel I think "z" transformer.
Nice overview of the basics!
I have the Battery Operated Lionel Polar Express under my tree. I have Lionchief on my Christmas Village table. Being 68 I like lionel and my old American Flyers. This is a very informative video.
Very informative and easy to understand! Thank you.
Thku for telling the story of all things toy trains. Enjoyed it much.
I learn alot watching 👀 your videos so thank you so very much
Excellent content! I really needed a primer for these trains and this filled the bill. Thanks!
this is my favorite scale! They are tuff and survived my childhood!
great info! learned a lot
Interesting and nice information! I run mostly LionChief and LionChief plus on my layout. I don’t live to far from you it’s only about a 15 minute drive to your building. I always love to see your layout and get ideas!
Brilliant educational video, thank you so much! Great layout!!!!!
1000th thumbs up from me! Love the trains. Had the O Gauge Lionel sets with the 3 old three bar track as a kid. Building our giant train track/world was our favorite holiday thing to do. Hoping to give me little kids the same experience and this video helped update me. Thanks!
Great video!
Wow, the video I’ve been looking for…very helpful
Wow thank you for this!!! So much information.
Awesome and a huge layout!
Just now getting in train's I bought my first set and a week later I am buy another one lol I love working on them and cleaning them up
Excellent presentation !!!
Great video! Thanks for sharing, and I just subscribed to your channel tonight!
Thanks for the sub!
Wow, I love your set up. I wish I could do something like this. I'm getting ready to retire in a few years and I don't have the space for a nice setup until I relocate but I've always loved trains and I'm just starting to take this hobby more seriously now.
Great video.Very Informative. Thanks for making it.🙂👍👏😎
Glad it was helpful!
It's amazing how the technology has improved since my Hornby Intercity 125. I think I was born in the wrong era. Thanks for a great video.
Best wishes from London.
Thanks for watching!
I've been out of the loop since 2014. So much has changed in just 9 years.
Awesome video ! Great job !
OUTSTANDING INFO COMMENTARY. All aboard. 🐢🚂🐢🚂🐢🚂
COOL, GOOD INFO.
NICE JOB VERY INTERESTING AND IMPRESSIVE YOUR LAYOUT IS AWESOME BEAUTIFUL AND YOUR PASSION FOR SURE I APPRECIATE YOU SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS VERY INTERESTING AND COOL INDEED THANKS AGAIN JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Wonderful layout.
Great video
Very nice video, looking forward to more.
Beautiful layout! Great lesson. Thank you!
You are so welcome!
Excellent! Thanks again!
This great video warrants and like and sub! Thanks for posting!
This was great... can use all of the info you wanna show!
I am a dinosaur! All this bluetooth/apps etc is new to me! Thanks for explaining it all!
My husbands aunt passed away a few months ago. We uncovered the massive Lionel train sets they had as children. my father in law who is now 80 said to just get rid of it, throw it in the dumpster. I do resell on EBay but trains are not my niche at all. I know nothing about them but I couldn’t let them end up in the dumpster. I plan on listing them super cheap so someone else can enjoy them
Still have it all?
I like the old tubular track.
Thanks for sharing.🛤🚦
Thanks for watching!
Great video...Unfortunately if there was only O gauge I couldn't model because it'd really limit me because of the room I have . I love HO for that reason . N is too small to work on for me with some physical issues I have ..So , I have a disused bedroom with a fairly substantial layout in DCC and Sound via Athearn , Intermountain , BLI and Bachmann and analog stuff mostly Bachmann via HO and something I can work on . O Gauge though is fantastic...This vid was fun to watch..
Interesting comment. The size of many home layouts is dictated by the available curve track radii/diameters commercially available. Lionel makes 027 track which has a 27 inch radius that many of their smaller O Gauge trains can negotiate successfully. Many of their larger regular O Gauge trains run on their 31 inch diameter O Gauge track. The equivalent standard available HO train curved tracks are pretty close to this with 16", 22" & 26" standard radii track available.
@@Tomeleck G'day Thomas...Thanks for the reply ...Something I also forgot to mention ..O gauge is pretty hard to come by here in Australia at an affordable price to do reasonably well too . If I was in the U.S. it'd be a lot more accessible i think . I do have a close friend in Baltimore though who enjoys Lionel O very much . My HO layout is about 16 x 5 with a little more scope for expansion at some stage . Running several DCC trains and the odd analog one on a combination of set track 22 and 26 " and flextrack is a lot of fun.. that said O Gauge looks amazing .
Personally wish they'd bring back O-27 tubular track and switches. Makes a neat old-fashioned layout, the track is easier to modify than the scale stuff, and you can have a more complicated layout in a smaller space.
Buy Menards tubular track. Ross makes switches.
Great the video👍
Finally!!! Finally some good f****** guide.... Thank you very much....
Thank you
OUTSTANDING 🐢🚂🐢🚂🐢🚂
O scale i love them
this is really helpful i have a bunch of old track and i've been searching for similar looking stuff i had no idea that lionel discontinued it and upgraded it i thought that plastic base was for a different gauge. is the plastic base track compatible with the old 3 prong track if you compensate for the height difference? thanks for sharing
I'm curious about that MTH C&O locomotive that you fired up with the iPad, that horn was incredible. What locomotive is that, and is the horn stock?
You overlooked S gauge, the Size between O and HO.
LOL... nobody today is taking up S gauge.... American Flyer was bought by parents to cheap to buy Lionel
So cool! What ever happened to those cool big ol Lionel two handle transformers we had as kids? Kinda wish iphones would stay out of the model train world, even though the technology is amazing...
They're still used....
Hello, I am looking for a train set for my grandchildren (10 & 12) and I. They come over every weekend and I thought it would be a fun project. I am 100% new to model trains. Here is what I am looking for, please point me in the correct direction.
Looking for:
*To spend $1000 or less (little leeway, I want the best I can afford)
* O Scale
*Something with low maintenance (I am not a tinkerer)
*A tried and true work horse that won’t break down with reasonable use.
*Metal wheels on cars, no plastic stuff. Looking for something to last.
*Starter kit but if a company don’t offer what I am looking for in a set, please give me a company for what I would need.
*Durable low maintenance track (plan to have 4x8 set up)
**Knowing what you know about trains, what set would you buy for your grandchildren?
WE have all kinds of ready to run sets that fit the bill, plus a track plan that you would like - are you capable of building a layout table or do you need to buy one? You can email me at mrmuffin@mrmuffinstrains.com and I can send you the details. Lots of grandparents have done this.
Thanks for this great video! I grew up always wanting Lionel trains, but was far too poor to have them. Now 45 years later things are much different. I’m into all things vintage and plan to seek vintage track and trains, but should I get started with a new starter train set and buy vintage trains down the road?
I think if you experience modern trains you will forget all about vintage trains. When I started using command control with TMCC back in 2000, I sold all of my old trains.
With the lionel app blue tooth can you still run multiple engines at the same time?
Do you know where I can get Lionel Orange FasTrack? Or know of any websites to look on to find the trak and Halloween O gauge train cars?
Man just wish I had the money
And the space!
@@tomy.1846 yeah lol
@@tomy.1846 lots and lots of space lol
Good stuff - I use K-Line shadow rail, I used to buy it at a K-Line Super Store, in your hometown. Indianapolis, Do your remember these guys?
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
trainroomgary yes, Train Express.
Would like to come visit your shop soon heard a lot of good things about u an how you maybe able to help my friend an I get ours track up an running
Who knew Neil Young was a model train buff?
From what I remember he has a son who has a disability and he loves trains. So Neil worked with someone to develop a system that allowed him to run the trains. The story is out somewhere on RUclips as that’s where I saw it.
What is Lionel 2021vol. 2 Shipping date DOES ANY BODY HAVE A CLUE?
Menards sells that track regular tubular track
I bought the Lionel Polar Express Ready to run version, and I want to know if you could use it with the O-Gauge version?
If the set you bought has three rail track, then yes, it will work with the O Gauge version..... Lionel also made an PE set in HO and American Flier, S gauge. Both of those systems are two rail.....
@@MrMuffinsTrains there’s also a polar express set that has the plastic track
I'm have volt problems lol I just expanded my main layout to 6x16 with one loop down so far and a 4 track staging yard 2 legacy diesel's dubble headed and 3 mth diesel's triple headed under load the lionel 180wat brick is only giving 16.5v. Plus the other section ain't even built yet that's going to be 6x10 🤷♂️
Thanks for the info, im interested in seeing a vidio of a lionmaster challenger or any lionmaster product in action on conventional and then legacy to see power and sound differences as im running in conventional on my garden layout and would like to purchase one.
Caseyville model Railroad my apologies, but I don’t have a single lion master product in my collection as I stick with Scale engines. You might search the OGR Forum for just such a demonstration, or post there.
Did you intentionally skip S gauge or just forgot to mention it???... Just sayin'... Good stuff thanks for posting. Just happened to come upon this video.
I See there is More than 3 Styles of O scale wow.
At least.
Where did the 027 gauge fit in? That's what I had as a kid? Thanks!
How about information on prewar systems .....1934--42 ?
Very informative for those just getting into the "hobby" of electric trains like myself. Can you use MTH track with a Lionel conventional transformer ? And is it better to buy the Lionel train (without the "set" Fastrack) seperatly and then mate it with the MTH ? Fantastic layout...you must have an understanding wife.
You can use any track with any power supply and any train. The sets are priced so that you get everything for about the price of an engine.
Hey Mr. Muffin. I'm looking into purchasing a digital system for the 1st time. I have several gauges. N, HO, O. Can you use the same digital system you buy for different gauges? Also I have a lot of vintage trains. How do you know which would be DCC compatible? Obviously the older ones won't be. But I have Loco's I bought in 2007. Thx. Very new to this.
The new MTH DCS system that will be out in 2021 with do HO, O and conventional..... it's really a mixed bag....
Steve who does all your carpentery Benchwork ?athose display shelves under the Layout arewonderful!
Mrs Muffin and me
Will Ross Switches work with Atlas track? I've heard Ross switches are the most reliable
Yes, they do - Atlas makes an adaptor pin..... Ross switches allow a 3.5" center rail to center rail spacing - so you can get more tracks in the same space in your yards. I use Atlas O switches for the main line - like switching between tracks - then Ross switches in the yards.
@MrMuffin's Trains do you think Ross Switches are better? I know Eric's Trains had trouble with atlas switches and switched out with 1 he did video on and put a Ross Switch in he said they're good and the track in the Switch itself was better placed if I'm correct in what he said
@@daivdwalker2374 Atlas re-engineered their switches several years ago to improve the electrical conductivity through the switch. On my layout, I drop a power lead on all three center rail points of the switch and tie them together underneath to improve connectivity. Ross switches are certainly beautiful and function well. That's why I recommend them for high traffic areas like yards.
That piece is O27 gauge. There was one larger then the monsters you ran out side.
Okay
Back in the '60s I had a track called super o is that one that you have that maybe was called something else?
Yes, Super O....
All of the train equipment, including the engines, are at least 70 years old. Any suggestions on getting started? Even the transformer/power house is old.
I would first see if the transformer works. You could get an inexpensive voltage tester. If it puts out power, I would put some track down, hook it up, and try an engine. The stuff lasts forever. The engine might need cleaning and lubrication - there are books about that - try trains.com. Most people upgrade the track first, though it can be cleaned with a scotch-brite pad - not steelwool! Check out the OGR Forum - the #1 place to talk O gauge trains in the hobby!
@@MrMuffinsTrains Thank you so very much. I just getting over cancer surgeryand as soon as I'm better I'll set up a sample system Again thanks.
Bill - let’s talk about this when you’re up to it. A lot to type otherwise.
Mr. M. , did you have to program the Lionelengines to cooperate with the app. ?
The Legacy engines with Bluetooth run fine with the app on your phone or tablet. Once the track is powered up, the app sees them. With the Legacy Cab 1L or 2, the engines come up in the default ENG 1, or you can program to a specific number in Legacy bu using the pgm/run switch on the engine.
@@MrMuffinsTrains thank you
S?
Never liked the third rail...why does o gauge not have a 2 rail track
They do. Atlas has it. Nobody buys it.
You forgot Z Gauge
What was the track before it was sectional
hand laid.... spiked rail on wooden ties.... a group out east went to Atlas and asked them to make a jig for hand laying track and switches and they said how about we just make the track?
strip rail pressed into wooden ties. issmayer is generally credited with the first sectional track, although marklins 1891 innovations providing the turnout and crossing and seperate sale track really got the ball rolling with regard to a model railway
I thought marklin invented o gauge
So can you use O gauge as a garden train?
Some people do..... not sure I think it's the best idea....
Yes , but they can not get wet from rain 🌧 nor can your power supply!
What does the "O" stand for?
I could be wrong but it originally was 0 (zero) because the track gauge was smaller than the so called “1 gauge” that was common when it was invented.
@@johnlichtenstein6158 yes it was originally zero, and for a substantial amount of European enthusiasts it's still zero, both zero and oh should be considered correct
Something tells me you skipped S gauge on purpose LOL
Yup....
Is oo gauge not used in usa
Nope
@@MrMuffinsTrains hi there can tell me what train talk to dispatch talking
I Have o Gauge train's
Only "four" gauges of model trains? Really? Really? Several of my associatges and myself we model in "Finescale S," the BEST scale, the "craftsman's scale," and the best ratio, or 1:64. You didn't even mention this? Apologies, if they may be forthcoming, MIGHT be accepted. I don't even consider Lionel "O: scale trains to be a "gauge." That is just 'toy triains,' like American Flyer. How can you seriously consider Lionel 3-rail track to be any scale model at all? I don't see any prototype train running on track that has three rails, using 15" high rail, or about 325 pound rail in a five foot gauge!. Come on, folks, track is a model too. Let's get the track accurate, and cease from defining where a gauge is an actual "gauge" according to the results of some popularity contest!. You will hardly find better modelers than those who seriously pursue "Finescale S." Now Proto-48 -- there is something that deserves mention and recognition. But Lionel? when all you have to do is get out your checkbook, and reminisce from when you were five years old at Christmas time? That's nostalgia, not serious model railroading.
Great video!
Great video!