G-Scale Epic Garden Railroad PLUS Lionel O Scale Chicago Layout
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Best model train G-scale garden layout on private property, that I have ever seen! Elaine Silets' train layouts are world famous. Known as the "Train Lady", Elaine has been in the model train business almost all here life. She got her start selling her outdoor layouts in the famous Neman-Marcus Christmas Wish Book, then went on to build custom layouts in all scales. Her son H. L. takes us through one of the largest and best G-scale layouts in the world as well as her incredible Chicago-themed Lionel O-scale model train museum.
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Producer/Director: Guy Georgeson
Director of Photography: Andrew Sheppard
Editor: Guy Georgeson
Associate Producer: Laura Morris
Music licensed from: Pond5, Epidemic Sound
Big thank you to the Bell Fund for additional funding of this season!
Thank you all for watching! We filmed this last summer and are super thankful to Elaine, H.L. and the whole Wandering Tree gang. We travel around the world and feature coolest things of all kinds. More episodes coming out soon! Cheers!-Guy (Producer, Coolest Thing I've Ever Made)
There is a place that is closed in portage mi on austin lake called "the train barn" the curioder died. I think his wife is still w us... anyway it's all upstairs in barn an amazing train display that when I was a kid he'd run on sat morning for a buck fee
Are they open to the public do they allow you know people to come and check it out Is it wheelchair accessible?
How long is the railway line in total?
This is such an underrated channel. These are top tier documentary style films!
@@Jtree96 Thanks Jake! Appreciate the support. We put lot of time and energy into these, so glad people are noticing. More episodes coming out soon! Cheers- Guy
I love her and how she said the coolest thing she ever made is her kids, then next her railroad. ☺️
Us too! lol!
I smiled for 11 minutes and 44 seconds. Coolest lady ever and the whole family and family story was just amazing.
Nice! Glad you enjoyed it! More episodes coming soon!
This lady is awesome. An incredible example to us all, in several ways.
She needs to be in the model train hall of fame if there is such a thing.
Agreed! There’s even more train stories we couldn’t fit in. Her resume is unreal.
Agreed!
A section of the hall of fame should bear her name. Or maybe the road leading to the HOF.
Elaine is living her best life and using her artistic eye to build working pieces of art. The fact that she enjoyed it with her husband and does it professionally is a testament to her craft and art. She would make a killing writing about the way she approaches a project. I hope when I get to my O gauge garden railway, that it is a quarter of the quality of hers.
What a heartwarming story. So nice to learn about her second coolest thing ever made.
Lol! Yes, glad you enjoyed it!
Very wholesome and funny.
Whats the 1st?
@@koben1 Her kids
Wow. I am not quite speachless because I'm going to shower praise on this absolutely amazing, fantastic railway. If I lived in America I'd be there soon. What a wonderful place to live.
I smiled through the whole video. You're mom is an amazing person. God bless her. May your dad RIP. Thanks for sharing this.
The magic in creating something with your hands and having that much passion is beautiful
Absolutely amazing and talented woman
Indeed! Thanks for watching!
Truly amazing. What an incredible woman your mother is Sir. Thanks and best wishes from North West England.
These videos are so awesome. Well shot, and keep my attention the entire time. The "Train Lady's Son" is hilarious, and quite entertaining. This place looks incredible. Awesome job all around.
Thanks so much!! We have a good time doing them! Definitely a passion project for us. More coming out soon! Cheers- Guy
This really shows the great love and respect people have for railroading, and how big of an impact it's had on people's lives. This woman and her husband built a life not just around trains but also MODEL trains. We owe our entire world to the invention of rail and these people celebrate it in the coolest way possible.
This lady is an artist in the truest sense of the word!! All of those layouts she built are by far the most beautiful works of art I have ever seen in my life!!!!
Absolutely incredible. Thank you to your mom for building Wrigley Field and not that other team.
Lol, shots fired
Our daughter grew up with HO and G scale trains. She and her husband love the hobby.
Such a lovely woman and beautiful story and an incredible build
Absolutely amazing, I'm speechless.
LOVE Your Mom !! I grew up on a railroad. !!! I have been collecting trains since I was 8 years old. I'm 72 now and have miles of model trains. All gauges except Z scale and I'm searching for one. Outstanding Video !!
I absolutely love the marching to the beat of a different drum mentality.
Simply amazing, beyond the imagination of most, the vision of a truly extraordinary woman with a passion and the courage to create.
WOW!!! So amazing > Love this Garden train and the "train lady" too. Beautiful!
I have visited there and the gardens are amazing with the coolest ever thing.The trains! Elaine has designed the most wonderful railroad and botanic gardens!
I love it! Mom is so talented and a genius and it’s great to see a son so involved with his parents passion. That is the best layout/layouts I have ever seen. Thank you for sharing it with me.
I love this lady, I love the story and I love the way you put it all together!!! Also, I need to watch it a few more times.
Thanks Matt!! Appreciate it. You know I’m a big fan of yours too! Great to see all your success and still want to have a drink that amazing backyard sometime! Cheers- Guy
I personally know them and they are the read deal and excellent humans and love there passion for model trains!
A big think you for building the railway loved it from John.
I simply love the idea of train coffe table. Im glad I saw this video, since I used to play with my grandpa model railroad as kid.
Us too! Would be so cool to own a train table!
@@CoolestThing I find building one cool as well, since I made plastic models as kid and played with grandpas model railroad I mentioned, so it would be back to my roots experience.
Lovely story!
This woman is truly iconic ! Her son is so privileged to have such a lovely mother! She really is a gem! God bless them and their relationship ❤
This lady is awesome who ever said she is crazy is a fool. She does wonderful work. Awesome layouts👍. I could sit there all day
Your mother is a great lady she is smart she bright she is intlgent and caring and loving and understanding and a great listner she is down to earth she is friendly she is generouse she is out going she is out spoken and opinated and she would do anything for anyone she has aspirations and goals and dreams and stars in her eyes and she is charming and witty and senstive and she is a great role model and mentor and tutor and teacher and she is fashionable and stylish and she has a great sense of humor and she has a great personality and she is a great person thankyou for beening you you can do anything you put your mind to she is creative and talented she is a great person
Omg I smiled the whole video and I absolutely loved the mom and her son!! Best video!!!
Elaine, the Train Lady, is the coolest thing ever! These model train layouts are beyond great!!! 🤩
Absolutely Awesome !!! This lady is so Cool !!!
There is something about trains and model trains that bring out the child in all of us
what an incredible lady
Indeed!!
I absolutely love this train layout
This is truly amazing. I would love to have something like this or even see something like this in person.
This woman is amazing!!
Her skills are incredible! And what an imagination.
She is truly a talent and wicked sense of humour too!
Glad to see your video again. Love this story.
Thanks! More coming out soon!
What an awesome mom!
Mind blowing. Such an amazing story. Love is true.
I was laughing and in tears at the same time. unbelievable story.
Saw it saveral years ago - really great!
It's very impressive indeed!!
Fantastic
YES!
That is a beautiful wonderful love letter brought me to watering eyes 😢
Amazing! All of it; the story; the family and the trains. 👏
Thanks for watching! They were a lot of fun to film with as well. Such a cool location. More eps coming out soon! Cheers- Guy
Well done! Positivity is a Plus.
Awesome, what a wonderful family.
What a great group of people! I love how much they love that place. Such a great video.
That woman is adorable.. I think she would be a blast to know.. Thanks for sharing.. 😊
Beyond Words, Just Staggering, impressive set up . Thanks for the video.
What an amazing story!
Wow, really cool! I enjoyed this video!
Thank you very much!
What an amazing person!
This is fantastic. Wish you weren't so far away. would love to visit some day. Thanks for sharing this amazing video.
Best part of this video is the mom, I would love to have a conversation with her!
It's been the better half of a decade man, when is this channel gonna start getting the subscribers it deserves? I can't exactly place why but your videos bring me back to being a kid watching treehouse masters. It's a feeling of divine curiosity and joy
Thank you! Yeah, it's been tough making these on the side as a small team. Hoping to figure out funding to make more though. Also, couple more that we filmed already coming out soon! Thanks for your support! Cheers - Guy (show creator)
Omg What more can I say. This makes Disney look like a kids toy.
It is a kids toy, tf? God what are you peoples problems? How do you not want to act out in extreme violence after 30 seconds of this video.
Wonderful and inspirational. Thank you for sharing this. 😊
We had a blast filming and editing it. Glad you enjoyed it! More episodes about cool things coming out soon! Cheers- Guy
Great idea, done with amazing details, patience and passion.
What a wonderful story. Absolutely beautiful!
Thank you so much!
The attention to detail... 7:32 even the tunnel has exhaust soot!
Very impressive !!!
We sure don't have many people like Elaine Silets on earth.
What an inspiration for me to love!
God bless her she’s amazing!
This was amazing. I need to visit!
Absolutely loved their history with trains , and family. Thanks for sharing...
No problem! Thanks for watching!
what a lovely story
Thank you! More episodes coming soon!!
Very entertaining video, well done. Superb design & craftsmanship, fascinating family!
Thanks so much! Appreciate it! Super fun location to film in too!
That is so amazing!
Absolutly beatiful, i love it because i love also moedlrailway and i had a smaller version (N & TT) in my room at home. 🥰😍❤
❤❤❤wow...legendary!!!
I’m nerding out to this lol. Fantastic layout.
Heartwarming 😊💜👍✌️💜
Just Amazing…
Wow this RR is incredible,
Absolutely outstanding .
It really is! Such detail and care. The gardens alone are impressive!
Gotta love the old girl the coolest thing I’ve ever made was my children and the second coolest thing was the railroad - she says she dances to her own tune and her son obviously does too - I stared this video rolling my eyes at him and by the end (film over there) he had me cracking up - I love these kind of people REAL people - her love letter broke me …. This is the best thing I’ve watched in months - thank you for sharing your story truly amazing
Thanks Zac for your kind words! Glad you enjoyed it! More coolest thing stories coming out soon! Cheers- Guy
I remember the Train Shop manager over here telling me I was crazy for thinking about building an outdoor garden train, and that it would be "stolen". You know you're doing something right when people call your ideas crazy!
lol, true! I think they lock up the trains at night here though.
Lovely. That’s all that needs to be said.
Thanks for watching!
She is an amazing Lu gracefully lady
This is absolutely incredible and I love how positive she is about all of that and how incredible of work she did
It’s soooooooooo cool
Well said! She was such a joy to film with and being there for a day was fantastic. We film in a lot of basements, so nice change of pace for sure!
Amazing what imagination and unlimited funds can create.
That's so cool
Wow this lady is just the coolest ever. I love Barrington...I never knew this was here. Looks like I'll have to visit I love model railroad build.
Love watching your video and liked thanks for sharing DD.
Appreciate that! It was a joy to film and edit. More coolest thing episodes coming out soon!
@@CoolestThing Great news thanks
This lady cracks me up 😂
😱woah this is so cool 😃
YES! Agreed!
I wish she was my mother. Such a great woman! So creative! I am a painter(specializing in portraits) and I am very creative(that I even took a job as a 3D CAD builder, in architecture related designs) and I grew up being very different from my entire family that I always felt alone. If there had been at least a single family member that understood me by sharing the same creative passions, I would have had a happy childhood. Many don't know how lucky they are to have creative parents. I was exceptionally talented that at a young age I could make replicas of the Mona Lisa and whatever classical painting you could think of, and the normal eye wouldn't be able to tell the difference, but my kind of family is the kind that throws away my artworks to the trash: Since I lived in a very indifferent household and everyone was an eccentric genius in their own way, that my creativity and talent wasn't special at all. I was never supported by my parents when I pursued arts, so I taught myself on my own. It was a struggle to be criticized for choosing a career that makes one happy instead of rich. Haha. If you have creative parents, value them, because not everyone is as fortunate as you.
So cool. Your mom is really good at trains.
Thanks for watching! Yes, she is one of the best!
Haha i love that, thats so cool! Yoir mother sounds so cool!❤ i would love a mini one in my yard but i too wouldnt be able to stop,lol
Great story of true love ❤ this was an amazing build of trains. Love the detail of everything and all the hard work and thought put into it all.
This is amazing
Always happy to see a new upload on this channel
More to come!
What a awesome G scale layout
It’s truly the best we’ve seen!! Such Beautiful detail and work!
This is so enjoyable. What beautiful work!
Glad you like it! More coolest thing episodes coming out soon