Steve you are so right. We filmed it but there were so many amazing cars there, we decided to focus on those. It is an amazing exhibit. That museum has so much to offer. Thanks for making our viewers aware of that neat exhibit.
@@Lovenesters Oh that's quite understandable. The museum is a wonderful place, and there's a lot of great cars there. I personally like the Badger, and the '54 Nash next to the layout (Fluted metal window trim, curb feelers, you just don't see that stuff anymore!) I maintain that layout, it's come a long way in the three years I've been with the museum. When I started, locomotives were making awful squealing and grinding noises, and they were newer locomotives too. I was told the antique Lionel stuff would "Never run again" Now it all does. Antique accessories work like a treat, and improvements keep coming. I think the well running pieces of 1940s and 1950s engineering alongside the classic cars is a perfect juxtaposition of quality engineering from a time when people took more pride in their work.
Steve - your comments have got me thinking - we filmed a train exhibit in Sparta and have plans to do some adventures that are focused just on trains. We might have to do a video in the future on the best train exhibits in Wisconsin - it would be a great chance to show off this exhibit . Thanks for sparking the idea!
@@Lovenesters I ended up resigning from that museum. The museum itself has a lot of potential, but Eva Braun, uh, I mean, the curator, just got unbearable. Cutback after cutback, yet somehow she still expected me to keep the trains running after dumping thousand of dollars of my own money into that layout without so much as a thank you. I'm sorry, but a couple hours a month is simply unrealistic to keep any sort of maintenance schedule up. But, I moved on to something bigger and better. Drive up Hartford's Main Street anytime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and you'll see it. Once upon a time stores put operating trains in the windows, and department stores all had functioning train layouts. Downtown Hartford, that's not 'once upon a time', it's becoming a new yearly thing. Unlike the museum, it doesn't cost anything to go up and down the street enjoying classic trains running, and the stores hosting these trains, all on loan out of my collection, actually appreciate the attention they bring.
No mention of the Lionel 1949 showroom layout replica?
Steve you are so right. We filmed it but there were so many amazing cars there, we decided to focus on those. It is an amazing exhibit. That museum has so much to offer. Thanks for making our viewers aware of that neat exhibit.
@@Lovenesters Oh that's quite understandable. The museum is a wonderful place, and there's a lot of great cars there. I personally like the Badger, and the '54 Nash next to the layout (Fluted metal window trim, curb feelers, you just don't see that stuff anymore!) I maintain that layout, it's come a long way in the three years I've been with the museum. When I started, locomotives were making awful squealing and grinding noises, and they were newer locomotives too. I was told the antique Lionel stuff would "Never run again" Now it all does. Antique accessories work like a treat, and improvements keep coming. I think the well running pieces of 1940s and 1950s engineering alongside the classic cars is a perfect juxtaposition of quality engineering from a time when people took more pride in their work.
Steve - your comments have got me thinking - we filmed a train exhibit in Sparta and have plans to do some adventures that are focused just on trains. We might have to do a video in the future on the best train exhibits in Wisconsin - it would be a great chance to show off this exhibit . Thanks for sparking the idea!
@@Lovenesters I ended up resigning from that museum. The museum itself has a lot of potential, but Eva Braun, uh, I mean, the curator, just got unbearable. Cutback after cutback, yet somehow she still expected me to keep the trains running after dumping thousand of dollars of my own money into that layout without so much as a thank you. I'm sorry, but a couple hours a month is simply unrealistic to keep any sort of maintenance schedule up. But, I moved on to something bigger and better. Drive up Hartford's Main Street anytime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, and you'll see it. Once upon a time stores put operating trains in the windows, and department stores all had functioning train layouts. Downtown Hartford, that's not 'once upon a time', it's becoming a new yearly thing. Unlike the museum, it doesn't cost anything to go up and down the street enjoying classic trains running, and the stores hosting these trains, all on loan out of my collection, actually appreciate the attention they bring.