Fantastic layout Nick! and the Lion chief engine that you are running fits it to a tee. What else would be great , if you had an old N gauge engine / set laying around you could put that on your layout with figures on it (i.e., a "train " ride for kids and adults to sit on), and you could incorporate a small bridge for the train ride to pass on. Very nicely done, Merry Christmas / Happy holidays and Happy New Year!
I ** AM ** THE GUY FROM PITTSBURGH ON RUclips & AM FROM PITTSBURGH & WORKED AT KENNYWOOD & SPENT MANY HAPPY HOURS THERE EVERY YEAR. YOU NEED A NOAHS ARK & MAYBE A GULF OIL RACEWAY & AT LEAST ONE SIGN SAYING YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE THIS RIDE. GREAT JOB !
Oh wow awesome!! I decided to print Noah’s ark into the background. It’s a little tough to see behind the thunderbolt but I did show it for a brief moment. Love the ideas….especially the gulf sign and the must be tall enough signs for the roller coasters! I’ll do that thank you!! -Nick
@@PghTrainFanatic I love your train videos. If I ever get a house I will go engage I wish Lionel Eddie and gauge trains I love Lionel trains but they’re just too damn big for a small place. When I was a little child I did not have Lynell I had American Flyer and a little Marklin set from Germany. I seem to recall that American Flyer were a lot cheaper.
@@PghTrainFanatic I was a small baby of 2 we lived in an apartment building that is no longer there. Was on Parkview Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh had huge oak banisters going down 64 spiral staircase are used to ride them down each floor when I was older but I crawled out of my crib one day went to the back door my mother and the maid were working somewhere in in the huge apartment lived in and on the back of the apartment building where these metal balconies with spiral steps so I crawled down all six flights of steps across the lawn up the wooden stairs, Cross the road that is not a very long frontage Road and sat in the middle of the tracks waiting for the Pennsylvania railroad freight train to come by and I was making choo-choo noises so my mother and the maid said well they look for me in the crib and absolutely panicked where did I go what happened to me and suddenly they realized that even at the age of 2 that I loved the sound of trains. So they ran downstairs and literally caught me within about 30 seconds of this gigantically long Pennsylvania freight train barreling down the track the engineer blowing his whistle frantically and they said the book in the engineer space place of sheer whore that he was going to run over a little baby and they snatch me from the track and I giggle room lap the whole time saying that it was thinking you I guess that it was so wonderful depends where you’re railroad but a whole freight train in my tracks they were my dragon because I get to see the trains every day out of the crib when they put me on the balcony And the smoke was coming out and it was amazing I can still remember it but my mother said we never let him do that again we kept an eye on them from them on but I consider myself to be the youngest real fan in Pittsburgh who almost got run over by a train at the age of two I’ve always loved trains and here in Martinez some college we have Amtrak and freight trains running all the time Go down and watch them but I have yet to catch an entire freight train for my RUclips channel that I always seem to miss the beginning
@@georgesenda1952 Lionel trains do require at least something this size like a 8’x5’ to enjoy them. S gauge is a great scale to be honest there’s just not as much offered with it
Know if you have room but at Kennywood I was the guy who sold people the oars and the time on the rowboat in the lagoon which was if memory serves me right in front of the merry-go-round so maybe somewhere you can put a tiny lagoon with a tiny couple of row boats and a little dock. Also midway ball came the game is my favorite was the trying to get the metal fish that it look on their back and if you caught the mammal fish that were running around in this little circular water trough you got prices I will go to Kennywood early in the morning on the street car and not leave till they closed and my parents and my sister all knew during the summer time I spent a lot of time at Kennywood and wandering around downtown and the southside watching the steel being made in the steel mills which are now long gone. Maybe you could put a local Pittsburgh street car on the railroad tracks because that’s what took you to Kennywood before they replaced everything with bunches and if you take your took the street car all over you had to take a street car cause the buses couldn’t go up the steep hill to Mt Oliver. There are wonderful videos on RUclips showing the former street car track and where the cars went all over Pittsburgh and their book showing many many pictures of Street card I love riding street cars and I think it was a huge mistake for allowing GM and Goodyear & to get rid of streetcars in favor of horrible boring buses. People know this but at one time you could take a Street choir from Pittsburgh almost to Chicago by changing cars your various cities there were huge street car routes all over the country
I know I Can't wait too! The layout size is approx 8x5’ the front corners are rounded so it’s not huge but just big enough to pack some fun into it! Thanks!!
Nick! This is AMAZING! OK, I had to come back and edit this because YOU HAVE THE TURTLES! As an FYI (though I'm sure you're aware), it's the very last, full sized version, of this ride (known originally as the "Tumble Bug") in the world!
Thank you!! Yeah def will be sharing this many more times especially once scenery is done and all the figures are placed. It’s going to be allot of fun!
I’m getting ready to do a layout in N scale. It will contain my vision of Kennywood Park. I already have a Ferris wheel, carousel, benches, trees and some people. the park will merge into a zoo., Then a circus, then a traditional town, a farm, a lake and the north pole on a third level complete with Santa.
Great job! You really captured many of the fun rides from Kennywood. I'm looking forward to seeing it come to life even more. I know you're tight on space, but if you could find a way to model the upper parking lot with the sky lift ride down to the park that would be a nice addition.
Wow, this is awesome! I went to Kennywood to ride the Steel Curtain when it first open. I visit Pittsburgh for every Steelers opening day. Knoebels is beautiful too. Also, can you tell me how can I purchase the smaller roller coaster that you have up front?
I've been commenting on theme park videos that we need more theme parks in towns and cities in the world. There's not enough so the one's there are get cluttered.
Too bad you don't have enough room to put the Raging Rapids in and one of my favorite rides. I'm glad that you got one of my favorite rides in the only one left in the world that is still working the Noah's Ark. I wonder if you get enough room to put in the Pittsburgh Plunge and or the whip
I just love spending other people’s money HAHA. Check out the posting by Sean’s Train Depot on the OGR For Sale forum “Post Layout Renovation Sale” that has a foot bridge that you might be able to use on your new layout. Possibly a bit bigger than you want, but it might work.
{sarcasm} What? No Thomas The Tank Engine? {/sarcasm} I would just suggest maybe a picnic pavilion, a small orange cat, and some old railroad cars on the floor of the room to the right side of the table. (old Union RR car shops)
Replace the wood in the hopper car with a giant mound of cheese fries. You made me so hungry. My first memory of Kenneywood I went and saw Pinky Lee at Kennywood in 1956 when I was poor and my mother said he made me cry and she claimed I got my lisp from pinky weird turns out that I have an overbite when I used to have upper teeth list but even though I have no teeth I still have a lisp. so I don’t wear the lisp came from. How do you still have this whistle it comes out of my teeth from time to time I don’t know how because there’s no keys for the whistle to go through anymore I am 71 now but I love Kennywood and I am going to finally go back to Kennywood in Pittsburgh next year when I pay off all my debt and see my sister and my relatives and get them to take me to Kennywood. Kennywood is now over 100 years old a Spanish company bought them and sadly local thugs caused the closure in the park a while ago at the district attorney put restrictions on them opening and they may have metal detectors now which is very sad Kennywood was always a place for fun and I do follow Pittsburgh news and my Steelers pirates and penguins & fire Mike Tomlin.
Very nice!
Thank you! Cheers! 🍻
NICE LAYOUT
I agree, I know nothing about Kennywood, but this looks interesting.
I'm glad you like it!
Yeahhh! Kennywood Park! I lost a pair of glasses on the Thunderbolt. Thanks for keeping the spirit of Kennywood Park alive. It's a Pittsburgh icon.
I first thought you modified Lego coasters! They look amazing!
Glad you like them! The roller coaster are actual wooden coasters from coasterdynamix. Thank you!
Looking great Nick! 👏😊
Glad you think so! Thanks! 👍🏼
Fantastic layout Nick! and the Lion chief engine that you are running fits it to a tee. What else would be great , if you had an old N gauge engine / set laying around you could put that on your layout with figures on it (i.e., a "train " ride for kids and adults to sit on), and you could incorporate a small bridge for the train ride to pass on. Very nicely done, Merry Christmas / Happy holidays and Happy New Year!
Sweet!
Oh yeah!
good vid nice layout thanks lee
I appreciate it Lee!😊
This looks really cool!
Thank you!
I ** AM ** THE GUY FROM PITTSBURGH ON RUclips & AM FROM PITTSBURGH & WORKED AT KENNYWOOD & SPENT MANY HAPPY HOURS THERE EVERY YEAR.
YOU NEED A NOAHS ARK & MAYBE A GULF OIL RACEWAY & AT LEAST ONE SIGN SAYING YOU MUST BE THIS TALL TO RIDE THIS RIDE.
GREAT JOB !
Oh wow awesome!! I decided to print Noah’s ark into the background. It’s a little tough to see behind the thunderbolt but I did show it for a brief moment. Love the ideas….especially the gulf sign and the must be tall enough signs for the roller coasters! I’ll do that thank you!! -Nick
@@PghTrainFanatic I love your train videos.
If I ever get a house I will go engage I wish Lionel Eddie and gauge trains I love Lionel trains but they’re just too damn big for a small place.
When I was a little child I did not have Lynell I had American Flyer and a little Marklin set from Germany.
I seem to recall that American Flyer were a lot cheaper.
@@PghTrainFanatic I was a small baby of 2 we lived in an apartment building that is no longer there.
Was on Parkview Avenue in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh had huge oak banisters going down 64 spiral staircase are used to ride them down each floor when I was older but I crawled out of my crib one day went to the back door my mother and the maid were working somewhere in in the huge apartment lived in and on the back of the apartment building where these metal balconies with spiral steps so I crawled down all six flights of steps across the lawn up the wooden stairs, Cross the road that is not a very long frontage Road and sat in the middle of the tracks waiting for the Pennsylvania railroad freight train to come by and I was making choo-choo noises so my mother and the maid said well they look for me in the crib and absolutely panicked where did I go what happened to me and suddenly they realized that even at the age of 2 that I loved the sound of trains.
So they ran downstairs and literally caught me within about 30 seconds of this gigantically long Pennsylvania freight train barreling down the track the engineer blowing his whistle frantically and they said the book in the engineer space place of sheer whore that he was going to run over a little baby and they snatch me from the track and I giggle room lap the whole time saying that it was thinking you I guess that it was so wonderful depends where you’re railroad but a whole freight train in my tracks they were my dragon because I get to see the trains every day out of the crib when they put me on the balcony And the smoke was coming out and it was amazing I can still remember it but my mother said we never let him do that again we kept an eye on them from them on but I consider myself to be the youngest real fan in Pittsburgh who almost got run over by a train at the age of two I’ve always loved trains and here in Martinez some college we have Amtrak and freight trains running all the time Go down and watch them but I have yet to catch an entire freight train for my RUclips channel that I always seem to miss the beginning
@@georgesenda1952 Lionel trains do require at least something this size like a 8’x5’ to enjoy them. S gauge is a great scale to be honest there’s just not as much offered with it
Know if you have room but at Kennywood I was the guy who sold people the oars and the time on the rowboat in the lagoon which was if memory serves me right in front of the merry-go-round so maybe somewhere you can put a tiny lagoon with a tiny couple of row boats and a little dock.
Also midway ball came the game is my favorite was the trying to get the metal fish that it look on their back and if you caught the mammal fish that were running around in this little circular water trough you got prices I will go to Kennywood early in the morning on the street car and not leave till they closed and my parents and my sister all knew during the summer time I spent a lot of time at Kennywood and wandering around downtown and the southside watching the steel being made in the steel mills which are now long gone.
Maybe you could put a local Pittsburgh street car on the railroad tracks because that’s what took you to Kennywood before they replaced everything with bunches and if you take your took the street car all over you had to take a street car cause the buses couldn’t go up the steep hill to Mt Oliver.
There are wonderful videos on RUclips showing the former street car track and where the cars went all over Pittsburgh and their book showing many many pictures of Street card I love riding street cars and I think it was a huge mistake for allowing GM and Goodyear & to get rid of streetcars in favor of horrible boring buses.
People know this but at one time you could take a Street choir from Pittsburgh almost to Chicago by changing cars your various cities there were huge street car routes all over the country
Nick, you're just a BIG kid (with a beard)! You can tell by the tone in your voice how excited and proud you are of this special layout. Well done!
LOL you may have hit the nail on the head with that comment! 😂 thank you very much!
Wow incredible video and awesome layout keep up the great content
I appreciate it! Thank you very much!
Looks great Nick 👍🏻👍🏻 I’m glad you were able to get it done. The backdrops look fantastic and very realistic
Thanks so much Ron! 😊. It’s coming along nicely!
That is EXCELLENT Nick! You've packed a lot of fun into a small space. Can't wait to see it when all the people and details are in place!!
I know I Can't wait too! The layout size is approx 8x5’ the front corners are rounded so it’s not huge but just big enough to pack some fun into it! Thanks!!
This is awesome, I love carnival/theme park based layouts and O scale is a great scale to make them in.
Look super good I love seeing video of Kennywood I am planning ride the haunted mansion
That’s fun! Thank you!
@@PghTrainFanatic you welcome
@@PghTrainFanatic I heard it's a lot of fun
WOW. Fantastic job. I’ve been working on my own amusement park but yours is amazing
Oh Cool, thanks so much! Been working on this one and acquiring all the rides over the past year or so
Awesome Nick I have many memories at Kenny wood from me as a kid to tacking my kids and to taking grandkids well done 👍
Wow Nick, that is so cool!! And I’m sure you had as much fun creating it as it is to watch your video. Looking forward to progress updates!
Looking forward to seeing this come along
Nick! This is AMAZING! OK, I had to come back and edit this because YOU HAVE THE TURTLES! As an FYI (though I'm sure you're aware), it's the very last, full sized version, of this ride (known originally as the "Tumble Bug") in the world!
Well Done , Nick. I did not know those things existed for O-scale. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
Thanks & Happy new year!
I approve of this immensely well done!
Hahaha thanks so much!
Wow fantastic
Dude, this is an ultra cool small layout. Hope you show updates to this showing progress🤞🏽
Thank you!! Yeah def will be sharing this many more times especially once scenery is done and all the figures are placed. It’s going to be allot of fun!
Gonna be SICK
Very cool!
Nice replica of Kennywood, really awesome!!
Great job, that looks so cool, that backdrop looks great you did a great job editing that.
Your videos always make me smile. You're so talented.
@@CatherineMizerany that’s so kind! Thank you! ☺️
I’m getting ready to do a layout in N scale. It will contain my vision of Kennywood Park. I already have a Ferris wheel, carousel, benches, trees and some people. the park will merge into a zoo., Then a circus, then a traditional town, a farm, a lake and the north pole on a third level complete with Santa.
Nice addition I really like the way you made the Kenny wood arrow on the one ride
Great job! You really captured many of the fun rides from Kennywood. I'm looking forward to seeing it come to life even more. I know you're tight on space, but if you could find a way to model the upper parking lot with the sky lift ride down to the park that would be a nice addition.
My father lived in and grew up in Duquesne Pennsylvania which is a suburb of Pittsburgh my father and I went to Kennywood park I love the layout.
Amazing layout Nick. You are amazing!
Sweet
To be really Kennywood, you need to have the Whip!
This is so cool Nick! Love it!
Sweet. Amazing job. Would love to see you expand a bit to squeeze in the Log Jammer for nostalgia sake.
Wow just seeing the beginning of this video is amazing to see good job on that nick hope you had a merry christmas my friend
Nick I am from Pittsburgh but I live near Orlando sure do enjoy your channel and I hope to get my trains running again love the kennywood video
The old Idora park here in Youngstown ohio was the sister park to Kennywood..
I remember riding the old kennywood railroad back in 2012 and so on till they removed it sadly
Wow, this is awesome! I went to Kennywood to ride the Steel Curtain when it first open. I visit Pittsburgh for every Steelers opening day. Knoebels is beautiful too. Also, can you tell me how can I purchase the smaller roller coaster that you have up front?
Very cool, I have a question will you be at the greensburg train show in January are you getting a table?
I've been commenting on theme park videos that we need more theme parks in towns and cities in the world. There's not enough so the one's there are get cluttered.
Too bad you don't have enough room to put the Raging Rapids in and one of my favorite rides. I'm glad that you got one of my favorite rides in the only one left in the world that is still working the Noah's Ark. I wonder if you get enough room to put in the Pittsburgh Plunge and or the whip
I just love spending other people’s money HAHA. Check out the posting by Sean’s Train Depot on the OGR For Sale forum “Post Layout Renovation Sale” that has a foot bridge that you might be able to use on your new layout. Possibly a bit bigger than you want, but it might work.
You can NOT install a pedestrian bridge over the tracks. Disability Act forbids it. You need Handicap access. LOL
{sarcasm} What? No Thomas The Tank Engine? {/sarcasm} I would just suggest maybe a picnic pavilion, a small orange cat, and some old railroad cars on the floor of the room to the right side of the table. (old Union RR car shops)
lol actually I have Thomas and the passenger cars 😂
Replace the wood in the hopper car with a giant mound of cheese fries. You made me so hungry. My first memory of Kenneywood I went and saw Pinky Lee at Kennywood in 1956 when I was poor and my mother said he made me cry and she claimed I got my lisp from pinky weird turns out that I have an overbite when I used to have upper teeth list but even though I have no teeth I still have a lisp. so I don’t wear the lisp came from. How do you still have this whistle it comes out of my teeth from time to time I don’t know how because there’s no keys for the whistle to go through anymore I am 71 now but I love Kennywood and I am going to finally go back to Kennywood in Pittsburgh next year when I pay off all my debt and see my sister and my relatives and get them to take me to Kennywood.
Kennywood is now over 100 years old a Spanish company bought them and sadly local thugs caused the closure in the park a while ago at the district attorney put restrictions on them opening and they may have metal detectors now which is very sad Kennywood was always a place for fun and I do follow Pittsburgh news and my Steelers pirates and penguins & fire Mike Tomlin.