World's Largest Department 56 - Lionel Train Christmas Railroad? Terry Schramm's 1500 Sq Ft. Display
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- Over 400 Lionel Locomotives, Over 2,000 Lionel train cars, 578 Department 56 Snow Village scenes complete with all the figures and accessories for each scene!!
Terry Schramm has been collecting trains and other collectibles his whole life and has amassed this vast collection and built this massive 1500 square foot Christmas display. It is so immense that he needs to have it up and work on it all year round. All of the collection is in mint condition, most looking like it has never been played with or even run very much. Some VERY rare items that date back as far as 1910.
The display is open to the public most years in mid-November as part of the Color Country Model Railroad Open House.
FUN GAME!! For adults and kids..
Can you spot:
1. Graceland
2. The Budwiser Clydesdale Wagon
3. The ski resort with aerial tram, skiers, and sleigh riders.
4. The Tajmahal
5. Mc Donalds with Golden Arches
6. The Rio Grande Challenger
7. The Pioneer Zypher
8. The Union Pacific M 10,000
9. The California Zypher (there are several)
10 The Southen Pacific Daylight collection
Bonus! The Griswald's Christmas home complete with Uncle Ed's motor home..."That there's an RV!" (much harder to spot... look for the house with the wild Christmas lights)
I'm 80 and I'm impressed. Imagine what effect this must have on a child! My best Christmas memory was when I got my first Lionel train set 70 years ago. I've enjoyed model trains my whole life. I'm not longer an active modeler but still have many locomotives, mostly HO brass, two-rail O scale and On3. I display some of these at Christmas time. It's a great connection to my youth.
Super!! I too have been collecting all my life. And I’m building yet another model railroad. A lifetime of fun.
Do you think if you were 81, you wouldn't be impressed?
Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for taking us on your adventure
Hi Detroit. Now that we are at normal 2.0 beta we feel good about traveling. Now.. flint!! Greenfield Village. The bubble cars on Detroit.
Super Cool!
Amazing.
Thanks for the link @Grow & Clip Bonsai for Seniors ! 🐦💙
What an amazing train collection and display
Just amazing 🤩
Thanks you two just love watching your videos. Thanks alot
Hi Frank. And thank you!
Simply awesome. As a retired electrician and train nut (as well as my wife and I having Dept 56 and Lemax bldgs), I can't imagine the wiring that went into something like this. Thanks, and have a Merry Christmas!
That is awesome! When did see stuff like this. Wow. Like you say.. just the wiring.
This layout is stunning, there is a lot packed into that space. What a wonderful trip back to simpler times.
Back on the mid 60s I remember the big Christmas toy display at Sears, the trains always attracted attention. Sadly around 1970 our Sears stopped doing that. Of course our local hobby shop kept the Christmas train displays going till they closed in the 2000s.
Hey people support your local hobby shops! With out your support they wither away and are gone not to be seen again!
Hi again. Yup it all evolves. I miss the old store displays. And my favorite hobby shops. But the hear and now doesn’t suck. So we go to the hobby shops often. And love our hobbies. And visit layouts. It’s glorious fun.
Unbelievable!! I think that sums it up.
I think so too!
I have no words to explain how amazing your layout is, unbelievable, and Merry Christmas,
It’s jaw dropping.
Thank You. Merry Christmas to you & your family. Terry
Wow. Good night from Bangkok
Wow. Say hi to a monk for me.
Thx again
Iam putting up a old style x mas .old style lights .old train . just going to relive a 1960s style ..... great fun
Wow what a wounderfull layout and collection...
Glad you enjoyed it. More coming
Looks like he has everything Lionel ever made! There's a small fortune there. Gracias🚂🚂
You are right! And just the challengers. He has every road name offered! The wrecking cranes. About 20 of them. Every year and variation made.
My God, that Christmas layout is stunning, spectacular, staggering, superb, that's it, I just don't have the words!
Thanks for bringing us along!
Thanks again for watching!!
Thank you so much for sharing your adventures. Always look forward to seeing what you find next.
More to come!
He’s my grandfather in law. So awesome to see. His train collection is absolutely amazing. I remember 9 years ago when I first met him and Peggy seeing his collection was amazing.
The best EVER.
Awesome display hope you guys had a good thanks giving thanks for sharing.
Thank you! You too!
Oh my gosh! What an amazing Christmas layout! Especially the collection on the shelves! I love that!
Me too!!
sick as I've been all week That's definitely put a nice warm spot in my life Thank you for posting definitely love what they've done
Oh gee!! Hope you are doing well. Stay warm.
Wow oh boy trains ! 😀
Toys!!!!
epic big collection of trains damn cool thats so sick im going that place soon many trains wagons everything
Do come.
Hey it's Terry! I was part of the club before for a couple of years before I moved to Salt Lake City.
How are you doing? Terry
Terry's layout has to be my personal favorite of your videos. It really brings home the spirit of Christmas..It's therapeutic to watch.
When I was working & I had a bad day I would come home & turn this on & pull up a chair & just sit for a while to unwind. Cheap therapy. Terry
@@terryschramm4757 Thanks for your reply Terry!.......Great job & awesome collection you have. Yeah , I've been pulling up your two videos often & have been watching them while having a cup of coffee. It does put you at peace......Have a Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year!
Amazing
Yup!! Thanks 🙏
What a magnificent collection of trains and department 56 thanks for sharing 👍👍
Glad you enjoyed it. Amazing collection. Just amazing.
My mom collected dept 56. Maybe 100 pieces. I collect some Lionel. I'm totally flabbergasted at this. Love it.
Amazing right?
I remember watching this episode last year. Is already s gone by? Crazy fast.
Thanks for all your awesome content.
We visited last year too. It’s grown! Wow.
that is SO COOL! that's awesome! (most importantly thanks for sharing this!!) Love it! Reminds me of when my I would bug my dad to get his Lionel trains out to run! He had two lionel trains and two O27 gauge trains( the all metal ones) one was a freight train and the other a passenger train! You guys just made my Christmas! This is so cool! can't wait to watch your other episodes!
Thanks!! Almost 800 videos there! Er.. here.
It's not a hobby, it's an obsession! Wow he has got to have one of the most coolest display anywhere! And to think that he has that many locomotives, cars, and villages, I wonder how he doesn't buy something that he don't already have. He must be keeping his eyes out for anything that says "new release". That layout is definitely beautiful.
Thank you for taking us along on another road trip.
Yup. Every year department 56 releases like 4 or 5 new structures and each has 4 or 5 accessories like cars and figures. And he buys everything. About $3,000 to $4,000 every year. And the last 56 are still in boxes. No place to add them to the display.
I have a complete inventory on the trains & village pieces. I always check it before I buy anything. The early years of the Snow Village they made up to 4 different variations of some pieces. Changing colors or adding/subtracting something. Terry
Beautiful display. My layout is close to 200 square feet and it’s always a balance between displaying department 56 and Lionel trains.
Cool!!
Thanks for your great channel. It’s always a great time seeing the interesting places you take us to.
Thanks so much. And thanks again for watching. ❤
VERY NICE INDEED THANK YOU BOTH JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA 👌 😀 👍
Hi Jim. Thanks right back. Stay warm there!!
Need to make a road trip would be nice to see the train layouts
Every mid November
WOW would love to see that in person. Thank you for this great adventure in Utah. Can't wait to see the other ones.
GOD BLESS 🚂💖🚂💖🚂💖
Well if you can ever get there. Every November. Mid November. Saint George Utah. Not far from Los Vegas.
Is this display open to the public?
@@ResidentOfTheAbyss
Sounded like it was from the reply I got on best time of year to go see it.
@@ResidentOfTheAbyss Yes. With Reservations. Terry
@@terryschramm4757
Hello Terry, and thank you for the reply.
How would I go about making reservations with you?
I showed this video to my mother, and she went crazy with excitement!
She goes down to St. George quite often.
Never boring. Imagine if Terry did manage to buy a bigger house, could you imagine packaging all that up? Christmas is way too commercialized for my liking. Can’t wait to see the rest of the videos!
Editing now. Should be great.
Thanks for this video a great show for sure and it was so much better when I was a kid and you kind of bring those memories back with some of these video thank you for sharing. 🙂Thomas over at The Model Hobbyist
Hi again. Thanks again.
Just wonderful. Thank you what fantastic layout. Great job videoing
Hi again. Thanks. I use a selfie stick to teach the hard places!!’ And Karyn gets the good stuff cause I’m always screwing around with crazy stuff. So perfect partnership.
So many questions
How does he keep it clean?
How much power does it take?
How do you get to the center sections?
How many people does it take to maintain?
What does the wiring underneath look like?
Why am I not in his line of work?
Swiffer's, canned air, Qtips ,paint brushes work really well removing dust. Some friends who work for the St George Power Dept. calculated I was using 4,000 watts of power; I have since been converting to Led's. I maintain it myself. It's getting harder each year. I never show the wiring to anybody. I'm a retired Sexton.
@@terryschramm4757 You're a saint! Thanks for the tips.
Holy Cow!!! 😳
Merry Christmas everyone!
With the lights out it almost looked like drone footage. The Diner and the 65 Mustang on the showroom floor had to be my favorites. Spectacular Xmas layout!
Glad you enjoyed it
@@ToyManTelevision This beautiful layout with the sensory delight of all the modelling is the polar opposite of the big sprawling G layout. What struck me most about the big G layout was how stark and undeveloped it was. Just a huge blank canvas with nearly unlimited room that cried out for modelling. Here there is more detail than the eye can take in.
@@garyjones9023 this room is past packed. Floor to ceiling. About 100’ of wall with shelves. And hundreds of buildings. And 60 that rotate out onto the layout. And about 10 new ones added each year.
@@ToyManTelevision 165' of wall, 10 to 14 rows of shelves all the way around, over 2,000 foot of shelving. Terry
@@terryschramm4757 wow. More than I thought. Wow!!!!!!!
I like the way Lionel trains look much more like toys than HO gauge models.
Yup. Toy or model. Both wonderful. Totally different
You can never be too old, to be the kid drooling in a candy store...
Grand comes to mind.
Another great collection I was never into Lionel trains but they sure we're still near I thought I never understood the third rail either on Lionel trains
Watch a week from Tuesday. I’ll explain the center rail. Logical.
I've been doing themes with my Christmas trains the past three Christmas', this year, my theme with my trains is going to be an all passenger train Christmas
We just have a Ward Kimball train. Different one each time. Well there are only three.. Olomana, Chloe, and Emma Nevada. Anyway one or the other goes around the tree.
Even though I've outgrown Lionel trains, I have to admit I am really impressed with the colorful Lionel setup. It's spectacular! I was especially impressed with the night scene. It's just mind boggling!!! I wonder who will inherit this huge Lionel train collection when Mr. Schramm kicks the bucket. 🪣🦵 I can't think of the appropriate word to describe this masterpiece. I guess there isn't a single word to describe it. I'll just say it's astonishing! Thanks, for taking us along to see this masterpiece! 👏😁
He’s going to let his wife handle that. She wants him to start selling. He’s still buying. I get it. I can’t sell anything.
My first train set to go under the Christmas tree.
Mine too!❤
All of us POST WAR BABIES, grew up with REAL Christmas surroundings, like those of the Bing Crosby Christmas movies. I grew up in Cleveland, the setting for "A Christmas Story" and have stood in front of the very same department store window, and dreuled over the very same Daisy BB gun display as the child character (Highbies department store). I was told the same excuse for my not having a Daisy, (You'll put an eye out).
Sometime around 1965 or so things started changing. Now, Christmas is very different, It can't stay the same for ever. OH WELL. ;-)
Memories. Beautiful memories. 😊. In the end it’s all any of us will ever have. And that’s enough. More than enough. And tomorrow we will get some more.
I think Iam in heaven model railroad
@@trainspottersforlife9182 totally agree. Amazing collection
At one time and my dear Gloria had a nice Christmas layout moved to a smaller place and she wasn't willing to set it up so we sold it to a good home it was HO.
Our city use to have a Lionel layout of the city of Nashville in the 1950s. It had to be from that era because it was at least ten years old when I would go to the Children's Museum in the 1960s to see it. I wonder what happened to the layout.
Oh those lost layouts. I always wondered.
These are a few of my favorite things!!!
Vintage Christmas,
Vintage Trains and
1st generation Ford Mustang!
FYI Santa, I do have a Chimney!
Ditto.
I'm not the biggest fan of 3 rail O, but I was thoroughly impressed with the Lionel museum at the Wonderful World of Trains in Ogden in case you ever want to do a feature of those guys
Been wanting to.
The Marx Canadian Pacific set is from the late 1930s, Marx didn't even exist in 1915. Spectacular collection tho, thanks for showing it off.
It was made from 1938 thru 1942. You can tell by the couplers. The Lionel 1910 set was from 1915 thru 1917. I gave Dale a lot of info orally & like all of us seniors some of it gets mixed up. Terry
Yup. Oops. I was getting stuff off the audio track. And I was filming Marx but we were talking about Lionel. Oops.
I personally never liked the three rails of Lionel. The nice feature of Lionel is how smoothly they run on the tracks. My brother and I had an American Flyer.
Hi Kevin. Watch a week from Tuesday. We will explain why the third rail and why they run so well.
Ps. It’s AC.
I guess insurance for all of this might be difficult to obtain. I assume Mr Schramm will donate the railroad to a museum. The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago would likely be interested in accepting the railroad as part of their holiday Christmas display.
A complicated issue. We know of so many collections and model railroads where the future is so very uncertain. Museums rarely have room and interest. The expense and other problems. Almost all. I mean like 99.9% are parted out. Sad.
Why is it that Lionel and O scale in general run the trains at super speeds? Scale speeds would make the layout of anyone's more realistic.
O just wait until the estate sale I would assume that the family would sale it but hopefully they won’t
I THINK IT would be awesome IF somehow you mounted a Gopro or some other small camera to the front of a train and toured through the layout so we could see what it looks like from the street view!!! Just a thought. Even if you just ask him If there might be way to do it. He may think it's a cool idea also...
Any way thanks for sharing this video I look forward to seeing all the Christmas layouts you share out here every year... You kids keep having fun and be blessed in Jesus name... BBE...
Hi. We have the camera. And the cars. But a lot of people don’t want us to. Mostly because we are part of an open house and we would screw the whole thing up.
Well it would appear that ERIC SEAGAL has a major competitor and by the looks of it all he puts MR SEAGAL to shame HAVE A NICE DAY!!!!!
Hi. Sort of apples and bananas. No matter. Eric is more of a “hi rail” MTH scale modeler. But this has got to be one of the worlds best Lionel department 56 collections. .
This is incredible and what a celebration of Christmas. But I never understood why Lionel trains are run at what must be 150 scale miles per hour. Every other size of model railroad is run at a normal speed scale-wise, Lionel, full blast or nothing.
Most Lionel guys never get past being 12 years old. Sometimes that's a blessing. Terry
I thought it was just my
MOTHER BEING CRUEL
by leaving the empty ornament box in the mix to remind you as a kid what happens when you screw around with the glass ornament bulbs and break them ,,,,
GLAD I'M NOT ALONE SEEING THAT EMPTY LITTLE BOX OF THE BROKEN ORNAMENT YEAR AFTER YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes indeed. Sad. Yet good memories. Not all good memories are about something good.
The monetary value tied up in the trains and structures is mind-boggling! This guy must be a millionaire! Look at that! Trains from floor to ceiling! On the subject of Christmas, I don’t celebrate any longer. I got divorced in Christmas, ‘91. That was the straw that broke the camels back. I left all the family Christmas ornaments with the Ex and never put up another tree, myself. My family all died during November and December and with the divorce the holidays lost all personal significant meaning. Now, Thanksgiving is a Turkey dinner and Christmas is just a quiet day at home. Memories come and go, and that’s all.
Sorry to hear all that. I hope you find peace and happiness no matter how that comes. Anyway your right. This collection is worth a fortune.
@@ToyManTelevision I went thru a divorce in 1980. I ended up finding a wonderful woman who I will be celebrating our 41st anniversary with next week. Terry
I have seen this on almost every 3 rails Lionel layout I've ever seen and that is that when the trains are operated, they run them at what would be almost supersonic speeds, Why? This one is no different! Impressive Inventory, however!!!
Yup. Toy train guys like to go fast!!
Dale: What about that BN Zephyr? Way cool. No that doesn’t sum it up. Christmas meant Lionel trains.
Hi again ken. Yup. UP M10000. Pioneer zephyr. BN California Zephyr. D and RGW zephyr. City of San Francisco. And so on…
@@ToyManTelevision Saw that also. Was it in metal or plastic?
@@kenshores9900 pioneer plastic. City of San Francisco also plastic. The rest metal.
Foist
Jesus tapdancing Christ!
Well.. he was really into soft shoe.. what ever happened to soft shoe?
Big but boring.
Well it depends on what you like I guess. We don’t find it anywhere close to boring. Amazing comes to mind.
Lionel are garnage 👎👎👎👎👎
Naw. They are what they are. Fun. Toys.