Layout Tour: John & Judy Fiero's B&O Railroad
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- Welcome to another layout tour video. We recently visited John and Judy Fiero's Baltimore and Ohio RR, an HO scale layout that emcompasses three seperate rooms in their basement. The layout is fully operational and the scenery is spectacular! Judy made nearly all the trees and did a fantastic job painting the backdrops.
The era is the late 1940's. The railroad runs from Cumberland, MD to Connellsville, PA. (Staging) The main yard and engine service facility are in Cumberland. John does have operating sessions and can accomodate 6-8 operators.
John is a prolific craftsman kit builder, and he enjoys building and selling kits. He has a robust business and many repeat customers as his skill and craftsmanship are top notch. Judy even gets into the game- she does the weathering and it is absolutely gorgeous!
So sit back and enjoy the tour. We even ran the camera car to provide a unique and interesting view of the layout.
I wish to thank Mr. Dick Bradley for his efforts to introduce me to John and keep pushing for a video. Thanks as well to John and Judy for taking the time to show us their wonderful layout and for their gracious hospitality. They are both extremely skilled and it was an absolute pleasure to see the results of their efforts!
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Beautiful layout. The cam car part was excellent.
What a delightful tour! I was born in Cumberland and raised in Hyndman. I didn't think anybody knew these places existed.. lol.
It brought back a flood of memories, including my ride on the last passenger train from Hyndman to Cumberland.
What a fabulous pike! Thank you for the tour!
Mr and Mrs Fiero has talent! Wow! Beautiful layout!
Fine layout, fine layout. I can recall, as a young lad going out shopping and, occasionally, being stopped at a nearby B&O grade crossing. I always thought that their bay window cabooses were pretty cool. Also, Judy's backdrop artwork is truly remarkable. Her expert depiction of atmospheric extinction is nothing short of impressive. I grew up with the Pennsy and the B&O so this is a real treat for me. As a matter of fact, one of my maternal grandfather's brothers was a steam locomotive engineer on the B&O.
Love your videos Rob! John may remember me, he used to work at the local hobby store in Jamestown NY. My dad and I would stop in a talk to him while getting stuff for our model railroad and I can remember him showing us photos of his layout. I never got to see it until I found this video! What a beautiful layout! Love your videos of the kits you build and these tours! -Steve
I also loved the Friday and weekend special parlor cars .I think on weekends too.
Just fantastic buildings and details thank you for sharing this with us It's very much appreciated.
Awesome layout. Great structures.
Frank
I love how he makes the trees smaller in the background - forcing perspective and depth. And then there are the backdrops... I favor photo backdrops, but this is AMAZING.
Excellent 👌👍 Beautiful layout. So many beautiful scenery to see.. I would love to make tree's like your wife Judy? I'm trying one out of 3 came out ok but really not ready to go on layout I want to change things around and make it more as your scene then city life which is in the middle of the round wall I'll leave city there but made the mistake of putting roads around the layout I want more country...love the team work guys . again great 👍 video . Thanks for the ideas guys , joe
Rob, the camera car is a winner. That perspective is great! This is a wonderful layout.
Wow ! That backdrop was really impressive ! And a very nice layout too. Thanks for another super video !
A great video Stefhen of a fantastic ho layout,,,,kudos to John+Judy.
What a beautiful layout! I just loved that wye. The depth in the background hill is incredible. A wonderful creation.
The ballast looks amazing. Almost too perfect.
Yes, but did you notice he didn't paint the rails? Pity
Impeccable. Your wife's landscapes behind Rockwood look so convincing with your aesthetic forward work on the bench.
I have modeled the B&O for decades and have a layout set in 1947 of Harpers Ferry to Ellicott City with the Brunswick engine yards and the Point of Rocks interchange and district. I too placed Ellicott City beneath the Brunswick MD benchwork and built the street scene dipping down to a mirror allowing a street leading away perspective. I too placed N scale farmhouses, barns and livestock figures on the background hills to force perspective as well as a smaller scale Hilltop House hotel above Harpers Ferry station.
The layouts are very similar, but your work bests mine. Thank you for sharing this.
wow! what a really cool layout! thanks for the tour Rob! looking forward on your next video of your layout.
Beautiful Layout !!! I also like the SW 1 Switcher, I volunteer at the Wilmington & Western Railroad and we have B&O SW1 No.8408 and it is painted in the same livery. I have a short video on my channel of them putting her to bed at the end of the day. Barry Broyles
Thank you for sharing this video. I model B&O in n-scale, but my home railroad is set in central Illinois which calls for much different scenery and landscapes. This is inspiring.
Wow! What a beautiful layout, and the building and scenery and detail is perfect, thanks for sharing
-Randy
B&O and Chessie my two favorites
WOW! Thanks for the tour of this beautiful layout.
This certainly is a fantastic layout!! You did a great video showcasing John and Judy Fiero's B&O Railroad!! Thank you for sharing it with us!!
Wow, great job bringing us to such a beautiful layout. Very impressive detail and design.
First of all. Happy thanksgiving Mr. Bennett,and family. This is a spectacular layout to say the least. I can't believe all the talent that is in Pennsylvania. These layouts are some of the best ever seen on RUclips. You have a great eye for capturing these layouts. John & Judy are artists! The backdrop that Judy did is beautiful! John's skills are awesome too! Thank you for sharing with us this couple's hi rail empire.
Beautiful layout. I love Appalachia and the train route to Washington DC from Chicago. Caught a glimpse of the post war Studebaker. Beautiful! My uncle had one of them. Greetings from Milwaukee!
You are getting better and better at video taping these layout tours, this video is outstanding. The camera car especially, showed the out standing scenic work and modeling. There are some scenes from camera car with the wonderful backdrop where you forget it’s a model. Thanks.
Nice Era correct buildings, and a good variety of them also. Great naration, I learned a bit about the Era and area...thx
Wow Steve...What a beautiful Layout and the camera work is outstanding. I really loved the camera car ride. John and Judy are amazing artist!!! The backdrops were stunning and the buildings are very detailed and weathered beautifully. It really felt like I was the engineer in the cab riding through western Maryland...So good i had to watch it twice and I'm going to watch again while I work on switches... Thank You for the tour of this amazing layout TOM
Awesome video my mother started working for the b&o in Cumberland Maryland and my grandfather on my mom side also worked on the b&o in Cumberland Maryland sweet video i really like that layout
THANK STEPHEN FOR VERY DETAIL ON BEAUTY LAYOUT AT YOUR FRIEND HOME AS JOY TO WATCHING AND SEE DETAIL PUT INTO HIS AND WIFE LAYOUT
FROM AUSTRALIA
Nice layout. Great tour... Thanks for sharing
so nice. so many kits. I would have thought it the other way around. they look so nice.. great tour
Fantastic layout and great video of it!
Fantastic layout tour , John & Judy's work is spectacular !!! Rob great job on the camera
Cheers Glynn
An excellent video-tour of a fantastic layout Mr Bennett. Maybe because I'm not too familiar with U.S. prototypes or layouts but I noticed a lot of similarities between this layout and your own. Another thing I noticed with John & Judy's set-up: much shorter trains than many American layouts, more akin to British prototype. As someone has already pointed out, these people are certainly ARTISTS - 5000+ trees - just staggering.
Thanks for sharing this lovely creation with us.
All the Best,
Dougie from Scotland.
What an amazing layout, thanks for the tour!
Just beautiful. Love the cab ride. Awesome work. Thanks for the tour, Rob. Happy Thanksgiving! - Drew
Really beautiful layout and great video.
Love the in depth tours
Absolutely beautiful layout. The trains and scenery are outstanding. You did a great job in the video and I thought the camera car footage was great. Great layout based in a wonderful time.
Happy Thanksgiving and thanks for sharing this super layout 👍👍👍😎😎😎
Incredible.
Excellent!
Awesome layout, and great video. Happy Thanksgiving to you and family. 👍❤
Love the layout I'm getting good ideas for my 60 s era LIRR trains which were a deisel fleet of manly Alco C420 high hoods . Them and the R s 1 Rs2s or RS 3 sand S2s ran from 50s to 76then mainline was electrified to M1s until 80s then M3 came into picture .Long Island was loyal to Alco .Then Alco shutdown and the came GP38-2s with bicentennial paint scheme
In 90s they got rid of mainly paror cars and bar cars with new bilevels with the new DE series of genset diesels and genset 500 numbers which were diesels or straight locomotives which were 420series .They also did push pulls with the Fa1s or Fa 3s.The old dashing fan loco on older passenger cars looked the nicest . I'm surprised they changed the orange and grey to blue and yellow on these older locomotives . LIRR should have kept some Alco C420s and Rs 1 2 or 3s around . I'd like to bring in 2 clinchfieldlocos too.
Wonderful layout, and thanks for the tour Rob! Trying to get caught up on my vids this weekend. Just got back from 2 weeks in Illinois. Brrr! Lol! Cheers, Dan
Bellissimo il plastico le costruzioni sono curate nei minimi dettagli
SWEEEEEEEETTTTTTT. I want to purchase some of his buildings.
Hi Rob, another great layout tour. Thanks, I love seeing all these amazing layouts. I'm just wondering when will we get a chance to see trains running on your own layout again? Oh I enjoyed the sounds of the trains running during the tour, not too loud for me!
Another great layout tour....that said it was hard to hear much of the dialog because of the train noise in the background...maybe not so much of the train sound next time. Otherwise keep up the great video work....thanks
Why not balance train sounds and dialog. Do not talk when the train is in the foreground.
I subscribed to follow up more of yours.
Very nice layout and great tour Rob! The backdrop is very nice! What camera do you use? The video and photos are very good!
I really like these vids of yours, and have subscribed. I do think using a tripod might help make the films sharper and less bouncy...
So far I have only seen one road on the whole layout I guess they have little side rail cars to go to Georges' house and around the layout until the roads are put in
Wish they would fix and put Green port turntable back in service .
I wish you would have showed the camera going through the tunnels that would have been nice
What scale is this?
HO scale.
Berea?
Yes- a large train show that is usually the first weekend in October:
www.thegreatbereatrainshow.org/home.html
Berea train show, Berea, Ohio. In southern Cleveland metro area. Every October in multiple buildings at the county fairgrounds.
Great layout, too bad the train is too loud. I gave up and didn't finish the video. It was just to distracting. Sorry.