Thank you for showing and describing the details of construction of the buildings and work companys. You have taken enjoyment of build skills, and some other builders, you have appreciated their help. I hope when you dismantal ,other modelers will preserve your fantastic work. Thank you again Sir, I book marked to view later on.
I always appreciate folks who make the most of a compact space without jamming too much into a small area. Dave's layout is a fine example of what I mean. Great detail and reasonable scenery with excellent structures. Fine video John! Thanks for this one!
What a privilege to see your beautiful layout before it is gone. Have always loved the V&T since being a young boy in Reno. Log flume is a knockout and spot on for the prototype.
I just watched this 3 years after it was posted but have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this layout. Fine job Sir! That was a masterpiece. I model the mid 30s and I too enjoy building quality structures. This was so well done. 👏 👏
Wow, what a wonderful layout! The Sierra and the Virginia & Truckee are two of my favorite railroads. I have several books on both railroads. I love to see the detail in which they are modeled here. I am so sad that this layout was dismantled.
It's better to dismantle a layout like this while you're still kicking so that you can be sure the parts and pieces go to good homes than to leave it up until you can't use it any more, right?
What a beautiful layout and that log flume is sick! Awesome details on your layout. Absolutely love late 1800- pre trainsition era small steam. Something about it was so cool
I have really enjoyed your layout and hate hearing that it will soon be coming down. I have seen many layouts in the past months. I've seen some that were much larger than yours and some that were much smaller. However, let me say this. Undoubtedly, I enjoyed your layout as much, if not more than all others. I hope one day to have a layout of my own, but until then I'll just admire others. I hope you plan on setting up another someday. God Bless my friend.
I'm not too far from those places of Virginia City Carson and Reno . Thanks for the video P . S . My family lived in Tuolumne My grandpa was a union rep for West Side Lumber . His brother was at one time was the president of WSL . Thank You for the mention .
Very nice good looking layout . The good part is that all this years he was having fun building and operating his layout Let’s keep that as a happy end !!! This video can be used as a historical documentary !! Very nice video 🎯. 🚂
I so enjoyed this video! What a wonderful and beautiful layout! I can't believe it is going to be dismantled! I surely hope it is going to be put on display somewhere else or in some museum!
Your layout and scale buildings looks so real and it takes you back in time. The landscapes is awesome, as well. Thank you for the education sir. I'm glad you you shared this information. Amazing!!!
Thank you for showing your layout. Excellent and inspiring modelling. Beautiful structures. And what a great idea to combine the two railroads! Watched the video already twice.
Really nice you were able to film and preserve the layout. Great details and scratch buildings. Shame it's being dismantled, but good he enjoyed it all these years. Thank you for sharing this.
Glad you enjoyed it - I think you're right about everything you said. In the end, regardless of how much anyone else likes it, the decision is Dave's to make, right? I'm glad I got to see it and document it and glad to call Dave my friend.
For somebody like me, that will never achieve a layout 1/10 this nice in my lifetime, it's a crying shame to know it's being dismantled. Thanks for sharing, I feel like I'm losing an old friend.
Great video of a fantastic railroad. The level of modeling is superb, and it certainly lives up to his self-described "railroad modeler" moniker. Too bad it's being taken down, but it will live on indefinitely in this video. The track plan diagram looks exactly like one drawn up for MR magazine. I looked on their magazine index page, and found the layout was featured in the May 2000 issue of RMC, and the May 2004 issue of MR. We should all find inspiration in building a layout as high a quality and as detailed as the Sierra, Carson, and Truckee!!
I can't even count how many times I've watched this and Jack Burgess's YVRR video. Although I'm modeling a fantasy layout both layouts and a few others are very inspiring.
What an impressive layout! Thank you for filming and sharing. I have actually bookmarked the video for inspiration in my own modeling. What a shame that is was taken apart...
Great layout! Great modeling! And Great storytelling, too! Every layout needs a story, and you make up a good one! Sorry to see it taken down and hope it was set up somewhere else, if possible. I wonder that about everyone's layout, which is why I only build in diorama self-contained boxes which can be connected. Guess I'm just thinking of moving again. All the best! And don't quit!
John when was this video made? I was wondering if the layout is gone already or if he hasn't torn it down yet. So many beautiful scratch build and craftsman structures. It would be a shame to see them thrown away. If this is happening now I'm wondering if he plans on selling them and if so how to contact him if that's an option. This is an amazing layout. Goes to show you don't need a huge layout to have an emaculant one. I wonder if he'd sell the entire thing? This is one of the best layouts I've seen. It's a shame he is or has dismantled it. Great video. Stay well. 👍
SierraRailway I imagine there’s someone out there who would be happy to buy the layout, sans models, to transplant into their own space. I know if I was local, I’d be game for that. Something to consider, especially since garages are pretty easy to access :-)
Bill, It would not be possible to take the layout apart or remove it as a whole. Certain people will have an opportunity to remove any things they want from the layout and then the actual dismantling will begin. Before that I hope to take a few photos for an article in NG&SLG - many of the models on the layout were built using plans that have appeared in that magazine over the years.thank you for the very kind words about my modeling.
As a railway modeller from the UK, I love the character and detail in these US layouts. They are so identifiably American. Superb effort! Such a shame it had to go. Heartbreaking. P.S. I would do the same with those irritating diesel salesmen too. Steam all the way!
My layout is a freelanced bridge route, connecting the Virginia & Truckee with the Central Pacific, circa 1919. If any of the structures or rolling stock becomes available, I would certainly be interested. Thank you for the great video!
I'm pretty sure Dave already found homes for everything. I'm also pretty sure he looks at the comments section from time to time and will chime in if anything still remains!
Sort of makes you wonder... If the Sierra actually HAD built to Jackson and up over the pass beyond, would the Amador Central have then pushed their main line over the ridge from Martell to Jackson and built an interchange? The AC as a through railroad would have presented unique possibilities.
I really appreciate what Dave has done in the space. N gauge would have been so much more but eyesight is a thing that can get the better of you. Shame he's taking it down.
So what was the reason for videoing the lynching going on in the scene after minute 3? Children watch these videos! And shame on you for normalizing murder! 4,700 people died from lynching between 1882 and 1968 with the majority being black and racial related. Infact only 27% if people lynched during that time were white. Of those white people lynched most were lynched by supporting black people or disagreed with lynching in the first place. Your representation of this lynching matches perfectly with the negative ideas of hate in this country. The "boys" who support steam, the tradition belief vs the man who supports dieselisation, the progression of this country. Be conscious of your actions and how they may affect other people. You are not responsible for other people's feelings however you are responsible for your own actions. as a filmmaker I would hope you would have been more aware of what you are posting and question whether or not it was should have been viewed by other people in all age groups. This hobby is shared between grandparents and there grandchildren. We should never be normalizing hate and murder. I hope you edit the video because the modeling is magnificent but over shadowed by a disgusting display of hatred.
I can see your point, but I think you are reading way too much into a completely innocent bit of "steam guys" humor. I can understand how it might seem tone deaf or in bad taste for all the reasons you stated. I can also assure you none of the racism or hatred you ascribe to it went into the creation or the documentation of the scene. If I suspected even a hint of racism I would have excluded it without hesitation. Consider the possibility that it's exactly what it is represented as, and not some cryptic or subliminal message. To your point, however, I'm going to think much more critically about these things for future projects. Thanks for the comment!
@@tsgmultimedia "steam guys" humor? Since when is it funny to lynch someone because they believe in something different than you? I'm a steam guy and seeing that in a model is uncalled for. Especially when you choice to film it and put in out into this world. Normalizing murder is not ok. Killing people because of there beliefs is not ok.
Hollandale Northern & Pacific Railroad Thank you for speaking up about this inappropriate and truly tasteless scene. No amount of "humor" steam humor or otherwise will ever make such displays acceptable. This is not the kind of scene we should be perpetuating in the hobby. And, as a media mechanism to share the hobby with the World, TSG Multimedia made a very poor choice in sharing such a scene on their page. Thankfully, the scene was early in the video and I was able to stop watching early instead of continuing to waste my time. I'm a "steam guy". I've operated a number of real, standard gauge steam locomotives in my life. But even joking about killing a "diesel guy" crosses a line with me and apparently others. Again, thanks for speaking up. The World needs more people like you.
Thank you so much for sharing this. A real privilege to experience and enjoy.
I'm so glad you documented this layout before Dave took it down. He is a remarkable craftsman. I thoroughly enjoyed the video.
Agreed!
Thank you for showing and describing the details of construction of the buildings and work companys. You have taken enjoyment of build skills, and some other builders, you have appreciated their help. I hope when you dismantal ,other modelers will preserve your fantastic work. Thank you again Sir, I book marked to view later on.
I always appreciate folks who make the most of a compact space without jamming too much into a small area. Dave's layout is a fine example of what I mean. Great detail and reasonable scenery with excellent structures. Fine video John! Thanks for this one!
Well said! Hope to see you at the TSG Train Crew virtual hangout next weekend!
Thank you for this final show. Great layout update. I enjoyed it 100%
Glad you enjoyed it! We had a great time recording that day.
What a privilege to see your beautiful layout before it is gone. Have always loved the V&T since being a young boy in Reno. Log flume is a knockout and spot on for the prototype.
Agreed!
Thank you for showing us your beautiful work.
Dang, layout envy!! What a great show. Hope it goes to a museum, meanwhile, live 100years.
Thanks Paul Venne, Agent D&RG Ry
Great layout, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
I just watched this 3 years after it was posted but have to say I thoroughly enjoyed this layout. Fine job Sir! That was a masterpiece. I model the mid 30s and I too enjoy building quality structures. This was so well done. 👏 👏
Wonderful layout Dave, fantastic work with a lot of passion! Greetings from a V&T fan in Germany!
Meticulous workmanship showcased by superb videography and editing. Head and shoulders above most RUclips videos.....
Wow, what a wonderful layout! The Sierra and the Virginia & Truckee are two of my favorite railroads. I have several books on both railroads. I love to see the detail in which they are modeled here. I am so sad that this layout was dismantled.
It's better to dismantle a layout like this while you're still kicking so that you can be sure the parts and pieces go to good homes than to leave it up until you can't use it any more, right?
A very nice model railroad layout. Thanks for sharing your talent.
Amazing layout and so sad it is gone. You are a fantastic craftsman!!!!!
beautiful work I will miss your layout.
What an amazing loadout. Absolutely beautiful
Fantastic layout!
Beautiful
I agree! This is one of the great layouts in the bay area.
What a beautiful layout and that log flume is sick! Awesome details on your layout. Absolutely love late 1800- pre trainsition era small steam. Something about it was so cool
I have really enjoyed your layout and hate hearing that it will soon be coming down. I have seen many layouts in the past months. I've seen some that were much larger than yours and some that were much smaller. However, let me say this. Undoubtedly, I enjoyed your layout as much, if not more than all others. I hope one day to have a layout of my own, but until then I'll just admire others. I hope you plan on setting up another someday. God Bless my friend.
Great layout Dave! I'm glad you made this video so we can share your fine work. Thanks!
I'm not too far from those places of Virginia City Carson and Reno .
Thanks for the video
P . S .
My family lived in Tuolumne
My grandpa was a union rep for West Side Lumber .
His brother was at one time was the president of WSL .
Thank You for the mention .
Amazing work, so fortunate that you could record his efforts John. Fine work as always. Cheers Rob
Thanks Rob! See you soon on sparky's live show chat.
What a beautiful layout,
It really is!
very nice layout. I enjoyed the tour
A beautiful layout. Love the Hershey's factory. Sorry that the layout is terminal. Thanks so much for showing it.
Very nice good looking layout . The good part is that all this years he was having fun building and operating his layout
Let’s keep that as a happy end !!!
This video can be used as a historical documentary !!
Very nice video 🎯. 🚂
Thanks 👍
I so enjoyed this video! What a wonderful and beautiful layout! I can't believe it is going to be dismantled! I surely hope it is going to be put on display somewhere else or in some museum!
Your layout and scale buildings looks so real and it takes you back in time. The landscapes is awesome, as well. Thank you for the education sir. I'm glad you you shared this information. Amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing - very nice modelling.
Glad you like it!
What an amazing layout. I love the accuracy and scratch builds he has all over the layout.
I really enjoyed your railroad. Thanks for sharing it. I love the areas where it represents.
Thank you very much! If you know anyone else who might like it, feel free to share the link!
Hey u built a beauty, nice details , nice area to model, thanx
Simply Gorgeous, so sad to hear it’s been taken down!
This is an amazing layout. Thank you so much for sharing. Sad to hear you are dismantling the layout.
Great high quality video. Extremely well done and a most excellent subject matter, masterfully created. Thanks for sharing this.
Very nice layout nice work
Thank you for showing your layout. Excellent and inspiring modelling. Beautiful structures. And what a great idea to combine the two railroads! Watched the video already twice.
Glad you enjoyed it! Please share it with your friends as well!
Oh man what a great layout, thanks for giving us a tour of your layout
Always love your videos Dave and your modeling. Going to miss the layout.
It's fortunate that Dave wanted to have the layout documented before dismantling it!
Really nice you were able to film and preserve the layout. Great details and scratch buildings. Shame it's being dismantled, but good he enjoyed it all these years. Thank you for sharing this.
Glad you enjoyed it - I think you're right about everything you said. In the end, regardless of how much anyone else likes it, the decision is Dave's to make, right? I'm glad I got to see it and document it and glad to call Dave my friend.
Fantastic layout! Great narration. That was really interesting.
Awesome layout, great concept, I would have loved to have seen it!
Great layout 👍🏻
Very cool looking layout.
I think so too!
For somebody like me, that will never achieve a layout 1/10 this nice in my lifetime, it's a crying shame to know it's being dismantled. Thanks for sharing, I feel like I'm losing an old friend.
Great video of a fantastic railroad. The level of modeling is superb, and it certainly lives up to his self-described "railroad modeler" moniker. Too bad it's being taken down, but it will live on indefinitely in this video. The track plan diagram looks exactly like one drawn up for MR magazine. I looked on their magazine index page, and found the layout was featured in the May 2000 issue of RMC, and the May 2004 issue of MR. We should all find inspiration in building a layout as high a quality and as detailed as the Sierra, Carson, and Truckee!!
Really like flum , when I logged in sierras remember flums for water well built
I can't even count how many times I've watched this and Jack Burgess's YVRR video. Although I'm modeling a fantasy layout both layouts and a few others are very inspiring.
What an impressive layout! Thank you for filming and sharing. I have actually bookmarked the video for inspiration in my own modeling. What a shame that is was taken apart...
Awesome! Thank you!
Great layout! Great modeling! And Great storytelling, too! Every layout needs a story, and you make up a good one! Sorry to see it taken down and hope it was set up somewhere else, if possible. I wonder that about everyone's layout, which is why I only build in diorama self-contained boxes which can be connected. Guess I'm just thinking of moving again. All the best! And don't quit!
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Love this layout. Especially the Leaping Frog Brewery. Thanks for sharing. Heartbroken to hear it’s was to be dismantled.
4:51 brilliant build
That's a well designed track plan.
John when was this video made? I was wondering if the layout is gone already or if he hasn't torn it down yet. So many beautiful scratch build and craftsman structures. It would be a shame to see them thrown away. If this is happening now I'm wondering if he plans on selling them and if so how to contact him if that's an option. This is an amazing layout. Goes to show you don't need a huge layout to have an emaculant one. I wonder if he'd sell the entire thing? This is one of the best layouts I've seen. It's a shame he is or has dismantled it. Great video. Stay well. 👍
SierraRailway I imagine there’s someone out there who would be happy to buy the layout, sans models, to transplant into their own space. I know if I was local, I’d be game for that. Something to consider, especially since garages are pretty easy to access :-)
Bill, It would not be possible to take the layout apart or remove it as a whole. Certain people will have an opportunity to remove any things they want from the layout and then the actual dismantling will begin. Before that I hope to take a few photos for an article in NG&SLG - many of the models on the layout were built using plans that have appeared in that magazine over the years.thank you for the very kind words about my modeling.
Very well done
Thank you very much!
wonderful!! Great job. If I may ask, who made andwhere did you get the rail laying crew from? Thanks.
As a railway modeller from the UK, I love the character and detail in these US layouts. They are so identifiably American. Superb effort! Such a shame it had to go. Heartbreaking. P.S. I would do the same with those irritating diesel salesmen too. Steam all the way!
I would have liked to have run my trains on this
Great layout and wonderful buildings. I'm just starting on my first layout and was wondering where you got the logs shown in the lumber yard.
My layout is a freelanced bridge route, connecting the Virginia & Truckee with the Central Pacific, circa 1919. If any of the structures or rolling stock becomes available, I would certainly be interested. Thank you for the great video!
I'm pretty sure Dave already found homes for everything. I'm also pretty sure he looks at the comments section from time to time and will chime in if anything still remains!
Great Layout Dave, do they still make the machines in the machine shop? Nicest tour I've seen in a while. God Bless Ya Dave
Sort of makes you wonder... If the Sierra actually HAD built to Jackson and up over the pass beyond, would the Amador Central have then pushed their main line over the ridge from Martell to Jackson and built an interchange? The AC as a through railroad would have presented unique possibilities.
I would also be interested in buying any part or buildings that may be for sale.
Bill Volner
I saw ten stall engine round house being torn down in the 1980's in Carson City. The city was to cheap to buy it and restore it.
I really appreciate what Dave has done in the space. N gauge would have been so much more but eyesight is a thing that can get the better of you. Shame he's taking it down.
They say all good things come to an end! This is a great little layout that provided decades of enjoyment.
what a shame he is dismantling that layout. so much detail, age, history.
Hey man it's his layout! :))
Traffic better be careful. Malfunctioning railroad crossing at minute 12:21
Nice work sorry you have to take it down
Dean Connery ......
That's jumping frog not leaping frog
You lost me at the lynching. 😥
That was hilarious. Have you no sense of humor?
@@tsgmultimedia
Not about things like that. Lynching never has been, and never will be, a laughing matter.
Iove the video,but hate those annoying advertisement..........
That makes two of us! I hope I can turn the ads off some day!
So what was the reason for videoing the lynching going on in the scene after minute 3? Children watch these videos! And shame on you for normalizing murder! 4,700 people died from lynching between 1882 and 1968 with the majority being black and racial related. Infact only 27% if people lynched during that time were white. Of those white people lynched most were lynched by supporting black people or disagreed with lynching in the first place. Your representation of this lynching matches perfectly with the negative ideas of hate in this country. The "boys" who support steam, the tradition belief vs the man who supports dieselisation, the progression of this country. Be conscious of your actions and how they may affect other people. You are not responsible for other people's feelings however you are responsible for your own actions. as a filmmaker I would hope you would have been more aware of what you are posting and question whether or not it was should have been viewed by other people in all age groups. This hobby is shared between grandparents and there grandchildren. We should never be normalizing hate and murder. I hope you edit the video because the modeling is magnificent but over shadowed by a disgusting display of hatred.
I can see your point, but I think you are reading way too much into a completely innocent bit of "steam guys" humor.
I can understand how it might seem tone deaf or in bad taste for all the reasons you stated. I can also assure you none of the racism or hatred you ascribe to it went into the creation or the documentation of the scene.
If I suspected even a hint of racism I would have excluded it without hesitation. Consider the possibility that it's exactly what it is represented as, and not some cryptic or subliminal message.
To your point, however, I'm going to think much more critically about these things for future projects. Thanks for the comment!
@@tsgmultimedia "steam guys" humor? Since when is it funny to lynch someone because they believe in something different than you? I'm a steam guy and seeing that in a model is uncalled for. Especially when you choice to film it and put in out into this world. Normalizing murder is not ok. Killing people because of there beliefs is not ok.
Hollandale Northern & Pacific Railroad
Thank you for speaking up about this inappropriate and truly tasteless scene. No amount of "humor" steam humor or otherwise will ever make such displays acceptable. This is not the kind of scene we should be perpetuating in the hobby. And, as a media mechanism to share the hobby with the World, TSG Multimedia made a very poor choice in sharing such a scene on their page. Thankfully, the scene was early in the video and I was able to stop watching early instead of continuing to waste my time. I'm a "steam guy". I've operated a number of real, standard gauge steam locomotives in my life. But even joking about killing a "diesel guy" crosses a line with me and apparently others. Again, thanks for speaking up. The World needs more people like you.