I remember when I first found your channel and ther room was empty. It seems you were working on the backdrop application at the time I found you. In the meantime, you have overcome numerous obstacles both personally and on the layout. I sincerely appreciate your channel, your skills, and patience. I especially enjoy your scenery work and application of various techniques, materials and composition. Thank you for the tour!
Mr. Bennett, i made it to the end, and it could have been longer if you ask me, i always enjoy your videos and absolutely love your layout and the details you incorporate in it. I want to visit this in person and experience it in all it's glory, can you tell me when you open up for the layout tours for what I believe is the local N.M.R.A. around Erie, a friend and I would love to plan a trip, we belong to a local club called Clinton Central Model Railroad and I have a home layout, I live in Williamsport PA and my youtube channel is KB-Rail
the layout looks great you look and sound great hope all is well look forward to seeing more form you you have inspired me all these years with my layout
your layout is such an inspiration. you have some of the best scenery I have ever seen. almost to the point that I forget just how fantastic your track and buildings are.
Happy New Year Rob! What a fabulous layout you have created, and it's a great start to the year to show us the complete masterpiece. Been watching from the UK many of your detailed builds, and the super results. Looking forward to many more, hopefully including some running sessions!
Dear Niel, l love how your forest of trees on your hill at 46:30 turned out. When you started it was going to be a big job, I love the style, lots of trees.
Dear Sir, Thank you ever so very much indeed! This was definitely a treat! Cheers from Brazil! I wish you a complete recovery from past health issues, and that they remain in the past! BTW, your voice sounds so much better!
Great Layout. I too made it all the way through. Not in one sitting tho. I am a fulltime firefighter and I am at work and got interupted twice. Love Love Love the Backdrops and how they blend in. Amazing Craftmanship. Happy 2024 and looking forward to more Great Videos. God Bless!!!
I made it through in one go, it is entertaining to see a life like and very well detailed layout that looks so impressive. Glad to see you back and it is great to see that you beat your health issues. It will be interesting to see the expansion plans and how they will add more fun to the operations aswell. Beethe way I did like the NYC GP35 there and maybe in the future it would along a sister unit head a Flexi-train through it? Happy New Year greetings from Sweden!
Tremendous! It was a surprise to me how much of what you showed, I had seen you working on over the years. This stitched it all together nicely for me. Thank you. Happy New Year. Stephen.
That is the best 1.5 hours relating to model railroading that I have spent in recent times which was not spent directly on my layout. Thank you so very much.
I've been following you for few years. I think it was from the time you started working on the pond under the bridge. You obsessively carried on how you want your scenery to be 'vertical' and now that I am building my own layout, I am also OCD about it - thanks a lot lol! Loved the video and was doing just fine until I saw the node boards - my mind blew up! Amazing work. Thank You.
I get that it's difficult to reach over/behind buildings to get to some tracks, but I think it looks a lot better! Adds visual interest, it would look odd if all the buildings were at the "back" of the layout with the tracks in front. Great video and amazing layout
First off, beautiful layout sir !!! Thinking out loud on your Olean branch, here in east central Wisconsin, we actually have a prototypical equivalent to your lack of a wye. The WC ( now CN ) solution is to run double ended power. Train enters N/S main from west turning south (no wye) . Once clear of E/W main it reverses power and heads north into Green Bay. Not an appealing option. My solution for an interesting ops twist would be to pull into Wallace Jct. hopefully need to split train on 2 track yard, spot caboose, run power around, reassemble train and head to Eugene. Option ???
Hi Stephen, what a great layout tour, yes I did watch all of it. I used to watch quite regularly around the time you were doing the Transformer Works, then I think your health issues hit you, and things tailed off a bit. I have to say not having seen progress for a while it is wonderful to see how much your layout has progressed, absolutely wonderful. I'm in the UK, but have a small collection of Pennsy, CNJ and Reading stock which runs on my British outline layout, but it's nice to see the real deal. You guys just have so much more room available than we do over here...................Thanks so much for the update, best wishes and happy modelling Dave.
Very nice! Those backdrops make me homesick for my native Pennsylvania. Yes, the first thing I noticed was the long reach at the yard, and I wondered if there was a lift-out access😀.
Wow… This must have been one of the, if not the longest video I have ever watched till the very end. 😳 Thank you sir, for showing me all the beautiful and fine details of your very impressive layout. I just sat down in watched in awe, even if I don’t own a model railroad or anything close to it… I applaud you for the Bob Ross-like enthusiastic tranquility you managed to uphold during the entire video. I found it entertaining, informative and your layout in some places almost perfectly realistic. Thank you! 👏🏻🙏🏻☺️
Great to have the latest tour Rob. I've been a subscriber for many years and never tire from watching your videos. The layout is absolutely superb and is the work of a true artist, and I'm not kidding! Hugely inspiring for me! Take care. Tim. London, U.K.
I’ve followed your channel on and off for many years…back dating was a spot on decision! Your layout and craftsmanship and attention to detail delights my heart. Lake City and Sharon are my favorite scenes. Thank you for your channel and look forward to more in the future.
An hour and forty minutes of my time very well spent. I really like what you have done with your space. And, I like how it was presented. You're pretty good at this video stuff!
Really nice tour, thanks for sharing. Having lived in Pittsburgh for 30 years, and now retired to western New York, I am familiar with some your locations. Am surprised Salamanca didn't get chosen for a location. Some of the blending of scenery to backdrop is really some of the best I have seen. I am curious to know: who made your backdrops?
Hello Stephen, the green steam loco in the roundhouse looks to me like an bavarian state railway S3/6 Pacific. In my eyes one of the most beautifull Pacific type locomotives.
BINGO! We have a winner. That is exactl;y what it is. It is a Roco DCC/Sound KayBay S3/6. I have a bunch of European stuff- mostly KayBay and Swiss (SBB). Some DB.
Hi there Mr Bennett. My name is John & I really enjoyed ur layout tour for 2024. U really showed me a lot that u have done theses last few years. I remember the very first video u did of ur basement model railroad, yes it's a big area but one thing I will say is that u have put a lot of hard work into making this a great layout for year's to come with more added to it as u go along. Good luck with it all & keep ur fan's ( cos I'm one of them) updated with new stuff.
I'm 16 minutes into the video and I've got a suggestion for the lack of a wye at Wallace Jct. - two, actually. The first is to put a "temporary" weight restriction on the Wallace - Eugene line, forcing a rerouting over the southern route (no change in ops, but new reason for why). The second is to run the Olean train into Wallace caboose / shoving platform first, then just switch directions and head to Eugene the short way. Branch-bound trains pull to Wallace than shove up the branch. In both cases, it can be presumed that just up the branch the train uses a runaround move to get the engine on the correct end for the rest of its run. You could also do this on stage at Wallace, but off-stage adds a bit of interest to the move. Back to the video.........
Thank you for this incredibly informative video and tour of your beautiful layout. I know this took a great deal of time to produce. I greatly appreciated your detailed explanations of products used and operation strategies, including your “mistakes”. Now retired I hope to get back into the hobby after being away from it for too many years. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and craftsmanship and I look forward to watching all of your videos.
I try to follow your progress but honestly don't get to see every video. I do recall your initial videos where you talked about the overhead lighting and recall asking and you explaining what lights you went with. But, WOW, the layout looks so realistic. I'll have to hunt back through your videos on weathering. I really admire your work on this. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Rob, What a pleasure to see the layout again in all its glory. I have watched since the beginning, so I have been along for the ride for all these years. It is still a work of art, and hi-fidelity workmanship. Keep on doing what you do best.
Fantastic layout great scenery that building in the background behind Parker Industries @1:12 is the US Munitions plant called Chamberlin in Scranton, Pa
This is one of the best layouts I've seen where the scenery is not only great, but it blends seemlessly into the backdrop & you gotta really look to see where it happens! NICE! Also, love that your tunnels look like the were needed due to the terrain, so the realism is superb! :-)
I have watched pretty much ALL your videos hope u are in good health thank you for your videos ps hows stanley doing ? Happy new year to u and your family
Mr Stephen Bennett I really enjoyed the images of your railroad layout . They really are amazings and very beautiful, I congratulate you, sir. Perhaps a simple note, I would have liked to have seen more figures of workers or people co-acting with his railroad. Very well prepared. Greetings from Chile. I will wait for more videos.
The great thing about your layout Rob is that you can run modern equipment on your layout as well as is with no changing anything thats how suburb your layout is remarkable
Thanks for the updated layout tour. And thanks for selecting the do not show adds in the middle of the presentation. I delete model RR content with Screw Tube adds placed in the middle of the presentation.
Fantastic layout, really enjoyed seeing it in its entirety, thanks for taking us on a tour. It's like taking a tour of something a mad scientist would build in his basement. Well done. It's a master piece. It took me an entire pot of coffe and breakfast😊.
Great to have you back in action Rob. As always your modeling is superb and thank you for weathering. Couple of notes: Steel coils (the doughnut looking things) are almost always carried upright like a wheel and blocked in place. Mr. Parker's scratch built concrete plant next to you Parker Industries, the conveyor would move sand and stone up to the batch plant. The cement (powder) would be pneumatically conveyed either from a truck or railcar into the concrete plant. Thanks for your careful posting another great video.
Excellent video rob, I made it to the end and hung on every word. I have always loved your layout and videos. Would love to see the extension, maybe it could be done on shelves with just a single line and a little scenery. Happy new year and I hope those health issues are in the past now. all the best Anthony Shipman.
Good morning sir. Watched the whole thing in one go. Of course the no adds interruption made it even more enjoyable. Been following since the first board was cut but wasn't a registered RUclipsr. Good to see you back looking healthy and sounding strong. Best wishes to you and your family through out the coming year👍💪 Missed your whit too 😆
Rob. Wow, I did make it to the end. You're no Ferris Bueller, or maybe you are, but I did appreciate it. Good to know that Steve is still willing and able to run 'toy' trains as well as the real ones, with you. It was great seeing the whole layout and hear your delightful ramblings once again. You got me and a load of other folks through the various lock-downs and other events of recent years, and it was great seeing the details of those various landscape interventions once again. Who can forget your experiments with various European textures and fills, and even a teddy-bear's inards? Your decision to take the layout back in time by a generation having spent a wad of time building the restaurant at Lake City before it re-emerged as a station once again, and all that business with the underpass, and then your shenanigans with the entrance gate. The epic building of the coal dock, and the completion of the Westinghouse manufactory. Oh boy! The hours you devoted to creating the insides of some of those buildings, which it was good to see are still there. But I'm rambling too, now. Have a great and healthy 2024 and continue having fun with your railway, ahem, railroad. I really hope you do manage to extend into the crew room, it's always fun seeing you take on a new project.
Apparently I watched this once before as it appears that I up'ed the thumbs...what the hell...I'll watch it again. (It's one of the perks of getting old...the memory sometimes makes everything seem brand new 😛) I do have a question you'll never answer and that is, where did you get that map? I am relatively familiar with N. Pennsylvania but I don't recognize any of those towns. Is that a map from 1849? 😁
I was actually looking for a recent layout tour video just two weeks ago. And here it is! I thought we were only about half way in when it was over! Wow, time goes fast when you enjoy yourself. 🙂
I haven't seen a video from you in a bit..hope you are doing good w/ your health.... Not sure if I asked you where did you buy your background ?? it's awesome... I'm putting my buildings and going to redo my track in my closet through and making some changes around plus slidings, and storage tracks, great layout, joe
What a wonderful video - watched the whole thing from beginning to end in awe ! Thank you taking the time to produce this - I will certainly watch this again.
Definitely have enjoyed watching you build your layout (been subscribed since you started working on Eugene yard) and you definitely resparked my interest in the hobby enough to where I am planning a layout of my own. Thank you for all the great content and inspiration and can’t wait for what you have planned next
Thanks so much for sharing the electronics and the items that are under the layout. It’s my favorite part of the hobby and not nearly enough people share this part of the hobby.
Thanks! I run kinda whatever I feel like- it started mostly as PRR and NYC, but has grown to Reading, DL&W, Erie, NKP...I do want to get some LV units. CNJ hasn't been a major itch, but why not?? (Love the Tangerine Baby Faces!) I just like all the older Eastern RR's. If I could get some P&WV H20-44's I would!
The reason I ask, I'm from Bethlehem, PA. I always wanted to build an HO scale layout and your layout has inspired me. I see you've made some changes. My condolences to the loss of your Friend.
The locomotives on my English layout are a Wainwright C Class, an M7 tank locomotive and a T9, all fitted with DCC Sound cards. All three plus several other locomotives from the wartime Southern Railway.
That's an amazing layout Rob. Thank you for the tour. You guys in the States are so lucky to be able to use your basements for layouts. The backdrop blends into the scenery beautifully, and your detailed modelling is helping to reignite my interest in my own layout again. You have HO, Pennsy in the basement; I have N scale, modern day trains in the shed! You wouldn't think I could get so much interest as your layout is so different to mine. But I have to tell you : If I was ever back in the States again, I would love to do Ops on your layout. Just a little switching at Sharon would keep me happy for hours! Thanks again.
I remember when I first found your channel and ther room was empty. It seems you were working on the backdrop application at the time I found you. In the meantime, you have overcome numerous obstacles both personally and on the layout. I sincerely appreciate your channel, your skills, and patience. I especially enjoy your scenery work and application of various techniques, materials and composition. Thank you for the tour!
Mr. Bennett, i made it to the end, and it could have been longer if you ask me, i always enjoy your videos and absolutely love your layout and the details you incorporate in it. I want to visit this in person and experience it in all it's glory, can you tell me when you open up for the layout tours for what I believe is the local N.M.R.A. around Erie, a friend and I would love to plan a trip, we belong to a local club called Clinton Central Model Railroad and I have a home layout, I live in Williamsport PA and my youtube channel is KB-Rail
Thanks for not allowing ads in your videos, I'm like you, and find it extremely annoying.
the layout looks great you look and sound great hope all is well look forward to seeing more form you you have inspired me all these years with my layout
Thank you for the awesome tour of your masterpiece layout! Happy New Year. Cheers ~ Boomer. 👍😁
Love your layout! I do miss the crossing gates in Lake City! Appreciate the commercial free programming!
your layout is such an inspiration. you have some of the best scenery I have ever seen. almost to the point that I forget just how fantastic your track and buildings are.
This is a superb layout. The design, backdrop, weathering and detail is 10 outta 10.
Simply amazing!
One of the best layouts I've ever seen, especially in your blending of backdrops and scenery. Thanks very much for posting!
I really enjoyed your layout tour, you went into great detail explaining it all. How many years did this take building it? Do you run DCC/Sound?
Happy New Year Rob! What a fabulous layout you have created, and it's a great start to the year to show us the complete masterpiece.
Been watching from the UK many of your detailed builds, and the super results. Looking forward to many more, hopefully including some running sessions!
Dear Niel, l love how your forest of trees on your hill at 46:30 turned out. When you started it was going to be a big job, I love the style, lots of trees.
Thanks for this, Rob, good to see ya buddy. Doing better and back at it, eh?
Love the long views of your beautiful railroad.
Happy New Year, 2024
Dear Sir,
Thank you ever so very much indeed! This was definitely a treat!
Cheers from Brazil!
I wish you a complete recovery from past health issues, and that they remain in the past!
BTW, your voice sounds so much better!
Great Layout. I too made it all the way through. Not in one sitting tho. I am a fulltime firefighter and I am at work and got interupted twice. Love Love Love the Backdrops and how they blend in. Amazing Craftmanship. Happy 2024 and looking forward to more Great Videos. God Bless!!!
Amazing layout! What a feast for the eyes! Tremendous amount of work but you have one of the nicest layouts in the country.
I am a firm believer in the * Less Is More * adage : So; unreal in concept; detail and execution ... ! 🤙✊️👊💫💥
I made it through in one go, it is entertaining to see a life like and very well detailed layout that looks so impressive. Glad to see you back and it is great to see that you beat your health issues. It will be interesting to see the expansion plans and how they will add more fun to the operations aswell. Beethe way I did like the NYC GP35 there and maybe in the future it would along a sister unit head a Flexi-train through it? Happy New Year greetings from Sweden!
Right there at the end of the staging Cleveland sign there’s a town Franklin. That’s where I was born back in 1949 April 23rd
Hey, early Happy Birthday!
Tremendous! It was a surprise to me how much of what you showed, I had seen you working on over the years. This stitched it all together nicely for me. Thank you. Happy New Year. Stephen.
Thanks Mr Bennett it's a great layout one of the best layouts on RUclips your work inspired my layout Northeast corridor from NYC to shore points nj
Rob! You're back! You look like you're doing so much better! Love this layout. Hope I can visit one day.
Looking good man! Nice to see you back in action
One of the best looking layouts I have ever seen. You are definitely a master modeler. Thank you for sharing this with all of us.
"Neiger" supply company. What a store name
LOL, I hear ya. It is still there- HW Neiger Milling in Lake City, PA. Right across the CSX from the All Aboard Dinor (yes, with an "O").
That is the best 1.5 hours relating to model railroading that I have spent in recent times which was not spent directly on my layout. Thank you so very much.
I've been following you for few years. I think it was from the time you started working on the pond under the bridge. You obsessively carried on how you want your scenery to be 'vertical' and now that I am building my own layout, I am also OCD about it - thanks a lot lol! Loved the video and was doing just fine until I saw the node boards - my mind blew up! Amazing work. Thank You.
I get that it's difficult to reach over/behind buildings to get to some tracks, but I think it looks a lot better! Adds visual interest, it would look odd if all the buildings were at the "back" of the layout with the tracks in front. Great video and amazing layout
Thank you for all your wonderful videos…God bless!
First off, beautiful layout sir !!! Thinking out loud on your Olean branch, here in east central Wisconsin, we actually have a prototypical equivalent to your lack of a wye. The WC ( now CN ) solution is to run double ended power. Train enters N/S main from west turning south (no wye) . Once clear of E/W main it reverses power and heads north into Green Bay. Not an appealing option. My solution for an interesting ops twist would be to pull into Wallace Jct. hopefully need to split train on 2 track yard, spot caboose, run power around, reassemble train and head to Eugene. Option ???
Excellent detail work, but what I enjoy the most is that you look much better!
Hi Stephen, what a great layout tour, yes I did watch all of it. I used to watch quite regularly around the time you were doing the Transformer Works, then I think your health issues hit you, and things tailed off a bit. I have to say not having seen progress for a while it is wonderful to see how much your layout has progressed, absolutely wonderful. I'm in the UK, but have a small collection of Pennsy, CNJ and Reading stock which runs on my British outline layout, but it's nice to see the real deal. You guys just have so much more room available than we do over here...................Thanks so much for the update, best wishes and happy modelling Dave.
Very nice! Those backdrops make me homesick for my native Pennsylvania. Yes, the first thing I noticed was the long reach at the yard, and I wondered if there was a lift-out access😀.
Wow… This must have been one of the, if not the longest video I have ever watched till the very end. 😳
Thank you sir, for showing me all the beautiful and fine details of your very impressive layout. I just sat down in watched in awe, even if I don’t own a model railroad or anything close to it…
I applaud you for the Bob Ross-like enthusiastic tranquility you managed to uphold during the entire video. I found it entertaining, informative and your layout in some places almost perfectly realistic.
Thank you! 👏🏻🙏🏻☺️
Great to have the latest tour Rob. I've been a subscriber for many years and never tire from watching your videos. The layout is absolutely superb and is the work of a true artist, and I'm not kidding! Hugely inspiring for me! Take care. Tim. London, U.K.
great video.. what happened to Mr. Bear?
Nice JOB, BEST I've seen on some scores............hey..what program do you use to write over the video, LIKE the red squares and circles???
I’ve followed your channel on and off for many years…back dating was a spot on decision! Your layout and craftsmanship and attention to detail delights my heart. Lake City and Sharon are my favorite scenes. Thank you for your channel and look forward to more in the future.
An hour and forty minutes of my time very well spent. I really like what you have done with your space. And, I like how it was presented. You're pretty good at this video stuff!
Really nice tour, thanks for sharing. Having lived in Pittsburgh for 30 years, and now retired to western New York, I am familiar with some your locations. Am surprised Salamanca didn't get chosen for a location. Some of the blending of scenery to backdrop is really some of the best I have seen. I am curious to know: who made your backdrops?
Hello Stephen, the green steam loco in the roundhouse looks to me like an bavarian state railway S3/6 Pacific. In my eyes one of the most beautifull Pacific type locomotives.
BINGO! We have a winner. That is exactl;y what it is. It is a Roco DCC/Sound KayBay S3/6. I have a bunch of European stuff- mostly KayBay and Swiss (SBB). Some DB.
Hi there Mr Bennett. My name is John & I really enjoyed ur layout tour for 2024. U really showed me a lot that u have done theses last few years. I remember the very first video u did of ur basement model railroad, yes it's a big area but one thing I will say is that u have put a lot of hard work into making this a great layout for year's to come with more added to it as u go along. Good luck with it all & keep ur fan's ( cos I'm one of them) updated with new stuff.
Awesome layout!! Great schematic. Job well done. Love the backdrops and scenery! Thanks for sharing.
I'm 16 minutes into the video and I've got a suggestion for the lack of a wye at Wallace Jct. - two, actually. The first is to put a "temporary" weight restriction on the Wallace - Eugene line, forcing a rerouting over the southern route (no change in ops, but new reason for why). The second is to run the Olean train into Wallace caboose / shoving platform first, then just switch directions and head to Eugene the short way. Branch-bound trains pull to Wallace than shove up the branch. In both cases, it can be presumed that just up the branch the train uses a runaround move to get the engine on the correct end for the rest of its run. You could also do this on stage at Wallace, but off-stage adds a bit of interest to the move.
Back to the video.........
Thank you for this incredibly informative video and tour of your beautiful layout. I know this took a great deal of time to produce. I greatly appreciated your detailed explanations of products used and operation strategies, including your “mistakes”. Now retired I hope to get back into the hobby after being away from it for too many years. Thank you again for sharing your knowledge and craftsmanship and I look forward to watching all of your videos.
Great video of a fantastic looking layout! One question, where did you get the industrial photo backdrop in Eugene yard? Thanks!
I try to follow your progress but honestly don't get to see every video. I do recall your initial videos where you talked about the overhead lighting and recall asking and you explaining what lights you went with. But, WOW, the layout looks so realistic. I'll have to hunt back through your videos on weathering. I really admire your work on this. Thank you for sharing!!!!
Fantastic layout! Don't see too much in depth stuff of southern NY and northern PA, the area I also model.
Rob, What a pleasure to see the layout again in all its glory. I have watched since the beginning, so I have been along for the ride for all these years. It is still a work of art, and hi-fidelity workmanship. Keep on doing what you do best.
Fantastic layout great scenery that building in the background behind Parker Industries @1:12 is the US Munitions plant called Chamberlin in Scranton, Pa
Really excellent layout... 👍 Now make a video of running trains, awesome Stephen..... 😮😮
Awesome walk-through. Always enjoy your videos and I appreciate the no ads. Thanks.
This is one of the best layouts I've seen where the scenery is not only great, but it blends seemlessly into the backdrop & you gotta really look to see where it happens! NICE! Also, love that your tunnels look like the were needed due to the terrain, so the realism is superb! :-)
I have watched pretty much ALL your videos hope u are in good health thank you for your videos ps hows stanley doing ? Happy new year to u and your family
That is an amazing layout! So detailed and well put together! Hats off to you!
Mr Stephen Bennett I really enjoyed the images of your railroad layout . They really are amazings and very beautiful, I congratulate you, sir. Perhaps a simple note, I would have liked to have seen more figures of workers or people co-acting with his railroad. Very well prepared. Greetings from Chile. I will wait for more videos.
It’s lovely to see steam locomotives being used on an American layout.
Simply (?) amazing. So much accomplished in so little time in such detailed. WOW.
Just gotta know, have you been working out on the trampoline?
Working OUT? Not sure what that means... 🙂
The great thing about your layout Rob is that you can run modern equipment on your layout as well as is with no changing anything thats how suburb your layout is remarkable
A great HO layout. Great work, thanks again. Mike HO from Australia
Have a great new year~ Your layout is really cool~~
Thanks for the updated layout tour. And thanks for selecting the do not show adds in the middle of the presentation. I delete model RR content with Screw Tube adds placed in the middle of the presentation.
Your layout is a three dimensional work of art!!!
Fantastic layout, really enjoyed seeing it in its entirety, thanks for taking us on a tour. It's like taking a tour of something a mad scientist would build in his basement. Well done. It's a master piece. It took me an entire pot of coffe and breakfast😊.
I enjoyed your tour. I would like to see your engines, closeup and detailed.
Great to have you back in action Rob. As always your modeling is superb and thank you for weathering. Couple of notes: Steel coils (the doughnut looking things) are almost always carried upright like a wheel and blocked in place. Mr. Parker's scratch built concrete plant next to you Parker Industries, the conveyor would move sand and stone up to the batch plant. The cement (powder) would be pneumatically conveyed either from a truck or railcar into the concrete plant. Thanks for your careful posting another great video.
I watched it all you did a amazing job perfectly detailed it's what you love enjoy it to the fullest
jaw dropping skill! What a great work!
amazing layout, thank you so much for sharing it with us
Thank Rob for the layout update! Looking good my friend!
Nice. Some amazing bursts of detail there.
THANK YOU FOR THE SUPER DETAILED VIDEO ON THE VERY SUPER DETAIL LAYOUT
Excellent video rob, I made it to the end and hung on every word. I have always loved your layout and videos. Would love to see the extension, maybe it could be done on shelves with just a single line and a little scenery.
Happy new year and I hope those health issues are in the past now. all the best Anthony Shipman.
Good morning sir. Watched the whole thing in one go. Of course the no adds interruption made it even more enjoyable. Been following since the first board was cut but wasn't a registered RUclipsr. Good to see you back looking healthy and sounding strong. Best wishes to you and your family through out the coming year👍💪 Missed your whit too 😆
Rob. Wow, I did make it to the end. You're no Ferris Bueller, or maybe you are, but I did appreciate it. Good to know that Steve is still willing and able to run 'toy' trains as well as the real ones, with you.
It was great seeing the whole layout and hear your delightful ramblings once again. You got me and a load of other folks through the various lock-downs and other events of recent years, and it was great seeing the details of those various landscape interventions once again. Who can forget your experiments with various European textures and fills, and even a teddy-bear's inards? Your decision to take the layout back in time by a generation having spent a wad of time building the restaurant at Lake City before it re-emerged as a station once again, and all that business with the underpass, and then your shenanigans with the entrance gate. The epic building of the coal dock, and the completion of the Westinghouse manufactory. Oh boy! The hours you devoted to creating the insides of some of those buildings, which it was good to see are still there. But I'm rambling too, now.
Have a great and healthy 2024 and continue having fun with your railway, ahem, railroad. I really hope you do manage to extend into the crew room, it's always fun seeing you take on a new project.
Apparently I watched this once before as it appears that I up'ed the thumbs...what the hell...I'll watch it again. (It's one of the perks of getting old...the memory sometimes makes everything seem brand new 😛) I do have a question you'll never answer and that is, where did you get that map? I am relatively familiar with N. Pennsylvania but I don't recognize any of those towns. Is that a map from 1849? 😁
Beautiful layout! Always enjoy your videos !! Look forward to the next.
Would love to have fun operating your layout but I currently live far away
I was actually looking for a recent layout tour video just two weeks ago. And here it is! I thought we were only about half way in when it was over! Wow, time goes fast when you enjoy yourself. 🙂
I haven't seen a video from you in a bit..hope you are doing good w/ your health.... Not sure if I asked you where did you buy your background ?? it's awesome... I'm putting my buildings and going to redo my track in my closet through and making some changes around plus slidings, and storage tracks, great layout, joe
Thanks for letting me know ☺️
Survived the full pull, fun to have you share your thoughts and progress.
Looks great as always!
nice layout our on the layout lots of cool things thanks lee
Oustanding great job backdrops are fantastic
What a wonderful video - watched the whole thing from beginning to end in awe ! Thank you taking the time to produce this - I will certainly watch this again.
always a pleasure to view and review your layout : it is so nice, so realistic, one of the best on you tube
Definitely have enjoyed watching you build your layout (been subscribed since you started working on Eugene yard) and you definitely resparked my interest in the hobby enough to where I am planning a layout of my own. Thank you for all the great content and inspiration and can’t wait for what you have planned next
What a layout!
wow man, looking really good. Happy new year hope all is well
Fantastic Layout well done Sir. You have a Heat pump?
This is awesome and looks like a lot of fun to operate. The interior detail is beautiful.
Great layout, I really enjoyed the tour. (all 1:38:39 of it)
Thanks so much for sharing the electronics and the items that are under the layout.
It’s my favorite part of the hobby and not nearly enough people share this part of the hobby.
I LOVE THIS!!! And Happy New Year!!! Question. I see you run NY Central and Pennsylvania. Do you also run Central NJ and Lehigh Valley?
Thanks! I run kinda whatever I feel like- it started mostly as PRR and NYC, but has grown to Reading, DL&W, Erie, NKP...I do want to get some LV units. CNJ hasn't been a major itch, but why not?? (Love the Tangerine Baby Faces!) I just like all the older Eastern RR's. If I could get some P&WV H20-44's I would!
The reason I ask, I'm from Bethlehem, PA. I always wanted to build an HO scale layout and your layout has inspired me. I see you've made some changes. My condolences to the loss of your Friend.
amazing, well done 👍🍀💯
Amazing. Very nicely done.
The locomotives on my English layout are a Wainwright C Class, an M7 tank locomotive and a T9, all fitted with DCC Sound cards. All three plus several other locomotives from the wartime Southern Railway.
That's an amazing layout Rob. Thank you for the tour. You guys in the States are so lucky to be able to use your basements for layouts. The backdrop blends into the scenery beautifully, and your detailed modelling is helping to reignite my interest in my own layout again. You have HO, Pennsy in the basement; I have N scale, modern day trains in the shed! You wouldn't think I could get so much interest as your layout is so different to mine. But I have to tell you : If I was ever back in the States again, I would love to do Ops on your layout. Just a little switching at Sharon would keep me happy for hours! Thanks again.