Ralph and Rosie... One can't help but fall in love with these two sweethearts, who have spent their time together taking an interest in each others lives and hobbies! Their model railroad is one of a kind! Such attention to detail... and the animation on the railroad is totally amazing! I learned so much, visiting this couple and this wonderful model railroad! Thanks Ralph and Rosie for inviting us!! :D
interesting points ,if anyone else trying to find out how to build a model railroad layout and scenery try Pycanta Model Railroaders Protocol ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my work buddy got cool success with it.
I can only hope Ralph and Rosie's layout is preserved when they're no longer able to work on it anymore. It's seriously impressive and just amazing to look at. Deserves to be in a proper museum someday!
50 years ago, when I was 10 years old, I can still remember when my Grandfather, who was a Union Pacific engineer that operated an NW-2 switch engine in the Ogden rail yards, let me into the cab of the engine and actually drive the train a short distance in the yard and hit the train horn. An experience of a lifetime.
My uncle works for Penn Central. But when he was visiting in town a couple of times he took me down to the union pacific. Train guys or train guys and so they would let him take my brother and myself I’ve been to the cab Locomotive. Typically your nephew not because those were my favorite
I’m just amazed by Ralph he is somebody of a dying generation, he reminds me of my grandfather and father who had skill sets that were able to fabricate and built just about anything. It is wonderful to see this incredible layout that is one year older than me! this was such a neat video.
This is what the new youtube railroaders need to see. High quality and excellent construction and engineering on a model , not just flat gigantic layouts with tons of locomotives.
I think small is better. I suspect it’s possible to put this much detail into a huge mile long railroad but I’ve never seen it. This is a diamond. Flawless and not too big.
Its a work of art. My Dad was a lifetime employee for UP in Omaha HQ, and I worked for UP in college summers '78 & '79 for a special projects surveying crew from Laramie to North Platte, so I got to tour a lot of the RR yards and the old Cheyenne round house. Just beautiful.
Such an amazing layout! It has aged quite well and his attention to detail and automation was too cool. Still can't believe this layout is almost 60 years old.
This is innovation n real sense. The real genuine authentic brains who gave birth to this most expensive hobby. It's not a club but to me it's a University where I would like to be if God gave me a second chance to take rebirth. 🌹🙏❤️👍
What a wonderful layout I've never seen anything like it! This brings out the kid in me, the intrigue & amazement of discovering something fascinating!
AN GREAT LAYOUT A THING OF BEAUTY . I APPRECIATE THE VIDEO AND YOUR TIME THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS VERY INTERESTING AND IMPRESSIVE AND INFORMATIVE. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Ok my jaw is on the ground. Absolutely brilliant. Ralph you are a true craftsman. Old school rules! Thank you for this incredible look at a true old-school masterpiece...
Ralph is a mechanical and electrical genius. Really enjoyed this fantastic layout. I love the old school stuff. Great inspiration and an incredible life led by Ralph and his UP layout. Thank you!
As a 40-something modeler who loves to build the "old school" craftsman models, I hope I live as long as Ralph and have as many years of enjoyment from these classic (and modern) models. Thanks for sharing another inspiring video. I smiled when I saw the SS Ltd Jennings lumber...probably more of those still in boxes than on layouts. Great layout, great video.
I actually had tears in my eyes. My late father was really into this back in the 60’s. This was a refreshing and nice video. You can’t get any better than this when it comes to model railroading. I’m sure I’ll watch this video many, many more times. 😊👍
They are our good friends. I see a lot of them in us, doing things together. Karyn and I also love the same things, I don't recall ever seeing Ralph without Rosie.
If there was a National Railroad Hobbyist Hall of Fame Ralph would be amongst the inaugural class. He is a true renaissance man of modeling and an inspiration to all railroad hobbyists. This is genius level performance of art and engineering.
I just wanted to say that I was smiling the whole time I watched. You two are so lovely! And the layout was AMAZING!! Thank you for making my day better!
Thanks!! We do have fun. We have been chasing the Big Boy locomotive across Wyoming and a beat. But back at it tomorrow for the Golden Spike show part 1.
As he is now mostly into live steam 1/8 scale, he has not changed that layout much in a decade. BUT all these little fun animations.... Can't pick a fave.
I love visiting these kinds of layouts. Built back when the hobby was young, and you had to build your railroad, not just buy it. I've taken to buying old cardstock rolling stock and rehabilitating it and running it. There's just something about the simplicity and ingenuity of model railroading from the 1930s to the 1970s. Very well produced video, thanks for the tour.
WOW! What a picture of that period of time! Not only is it an image of 1968 HO scale model railways, but also capture what the Union Pacific Railroad looked like at the transition from steam power to diesel-electric power is an epic image. The detail of set amazing especially with respect mechanical operation fluidity of that period of time. I could write about them but, Dale, Sir, you are the best at narrating I think they ought to watch this show. The UP, the artwork that is this layout, the man who built it are national treasures and thank you Dale for sharing this with us. Again I say, Wow!
Mike 1958 wow thanks!!! (Blush). One of the things I love about this rail road, and there’s just so many things to love about this rail road, is that the layout and the time period modeled are almost exactly the same!! A model built in 1968 of a shop in 1958 ish. The shop was exactly like this in 1968. Only the locomotives were different. And as Ralph had bee hanging around the roundhouse in 1958 he knew how to model it!
wow very impressed, the details are out this world, well done see we use to play with those toys and build the layouts, today's kids can't get their heads of tablets and cell phones what a shame. Mr. Ralph Ms Rosie thank you for sharing
Thank you to you guys and Ralph! i loved the video. The amount of detail that Ralph has gone too is simply amazing! and the age of it talks bundles to the quality of his work!
THIS was a GREAT video! I discovered it 4 years after you posted it... but better late than never. I hope Ralph is still going strong, but if not, he (through you two) provide me with 17 minutes of joy. Those automated features were jaw dropping to me. Wow. Thanks for this!
Have you seen our show on the worlds largest backyard railroad? That’s Ralph’s 7 1/2 gauge railroad. Actually Vans railroad. But the one Ralph is helping with. He has 3 locomotives there.
Magnificent layout and me being a UP fan this is extra special for me. Love the coal loading ramp genius scene. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!! - Matt
I used to use tons of Utah Pacific castings and detail parts back in my scratch building days. Good to see he's enjoying his retirement with his layout.
Most of his friends are gone now. Perhaps the best train molders the ever lived. When I look at those scratch built pilot models.... One thing to build a loco from castings, another to build from bar stock!!!
I bought a Big Boy locomotive in 1969 with the money I made over the summer working for my Grandfather in his sand blasting business which he had after retiring from Baldwin Locomotive. He and my Grandmother moved to Florida after retirement from Darby Pa. where I was born and they got a job managing a motel in Hollywood Florida. That ended up being too boring for him so he stated a successful small sand blasting business on the side to make extra cash. He was a firm believer in earning your own money so he started me helping during the summers when my middle brother and I went to visit during the summers. It was my job to keep the sand pot full and run the compressor which I started in 1967 when I was able to lift the 100 pound sand bags when I was 9, I was always strong for my age. He also paid my taxes this I know because when I became disabled the Lady I talked to at Social Security pulled up my records and said, "My goodness, you have been working since 1967!" This was in 2002 after I had a massive pulmonary embolism which was caused by over 25 years of Long haul trucking which disabled me. Yea, yea, I know too much info but I do know about Old School trains and as an aside my Grandfather worked for Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia Pa. I had found a picture one time on the internet and he was as shop manager along with some other Baldwin management standing in front of a 4-4-4-4 T-1 that was about to be delivered to the Pennsylvania RR.
Cool story! There are some guys trying to build one of those locomotives from scratch. I don’t think any survived. What an unusual locomotive. Will cost millions if they pull it off. Cool that you had that job. Good memories of making money and having fun. Hard work but fun.
@@ToyManTelevision No all the T-1's were scrapped PRR was going to save 1 but some busy body in Ohio misunderstood what the PRR wanted so he had the last one scrapped and the T-1 trust is working on building a new one. The S-1 was scrapped and the 2-10-4 Texas types were also completely scrapped without any remaining. It saddens me that none of these great locomotives were saved as museum pieces.
RUclips and their infinite wisdom has derailed me from your communication and channel I am so glad I have found you again I cannot wait see what you and the mrs. have been up to
Incredible work. What a skill set. This layout needs to go to a museum for all to see and remember Ralph and Rosie. It is a brilliant man and an accommodating spouse that built this wonderful piece of history. My husband models UP and stated this work needs to be remembered for all to appreciate. And old school not only works, but got us where we are today with the hobby. Just fabulous.
That’s the problem we are having across the hobby. These great layouts and the builders are dying off. Harry brinks was moved to the UP museum in Cheyenne. But that’s an exception. When Al died we had no idea what to do with his models. And Steve is dismantling his layout and turning it into dioramas. Which we are covering on the channel. No idea what will happen to Ralph’s layout. It should be in a museum. But after trying to find a home for Al’s it’s really hard to find a place.
Randall Hawkinson this was the first really great layout I ever saw. Back when it was mostly new. I was rabid for HO but because of this layout I stated over on my layout. The brass collection is the best HO collection in the world. About 1/3 of his locomotives are made by him and his friends. A big run of these is perhaps 10 locomotives. All but one of his turbines are scratch built.
This is truly a "Work of Art" layout. The details are so finely finished and varied it is just mind boggling. When I lived in Santa Barbara I had a HO garden railroad which ran both passenger and freight, steam and early diesel. Blue jays would watch the California Zephyr from the power lines. Must have resembled a snake because they would fly down and kick the lead engine off of the track. Train shop owner I used to buy supplies from invited me to visit a rail enthusiast's home where a 2000 sq. ft. addition was added to the home for his layout. He had many routes all meandering from one end of the layout to the other. Train orders would be written for goods to be picked up and delivered to towns along the branches and main lines. They even had a true Southern Pacific dispatchers office who dictated train movements. It took about a dozen people to run the operation of evening fun. Owner of the layout designed and built high end restaurant kitchens around the world. This is how he let off steam when he was home to re-group. Exquisitely fine as his operating train line was I have to say Ralph and Rosie's layout pushes it over the edge. Thank you for putting together such a wonderful and informative documentation. Fine Work.
Fantastic layout! Loved the skill it took to automate the crane car, pile driver, coaling operations and other features. It demonstrates the wonder and fascination of model railroading!
That layout just takes your breath away, it deserves to be managed in a museum when they are no longer around. To lose such amazing excellence would be criminal. If ever anybody wants to know 'How Its Done', then heres you lesson.deep respect.
Not many of these, "Old World Craftsman" left with us. Wonderful work. Nothing wrong with, "Old School". Look in the mirror, you and I by our years marked could be considered "Old School". I came to the "Craftsman stage" in my life a little old in life. I watched this piece with a young lady this morning that boards with us. She was stunned by the level of detail. Seeing our trains she had no idea just how small this HO is. She really enjoyed it. Of course she comes from "Old World Stock", a young Amish/Old Order person in the world, teaching. She was stunned when I put an HO steamer in her hands and pointed to the O gauge on the layout and compared the sizes. It is amazing to watch our world of railroading through the eyes of a person not normally not exposed to it. Well done, you guys. Greg and Jeanne.
The lights in the lanterns cant be seen with the naked eye!!!!! Sort of looks like a glossy area on a wire. Think how small a switch lantern is in HO. OR a Dietz lantern. And there is a light bulb in there!!! And the wires go up the switch stand!!! The tube of the stand is about .020 and yet not only do the wires go up through it, the whole lamp can be fished up from below!!
What did we have back in the sixties that was that small, were they called "grain of wheat" size? That is amazing. I appreciated HO and even N scale more so because I can hardly feel them in my hands, now-a-days. Amazing work.
Just discovered this and have to say that this made my day! This truly shows that old is gold! The automation and the animation is outstanding and that coal discharge and cable ramp is going right in my wish list!
One of the best ever. And his friends. To see those scratch built models!! To think of the brass locomotives these guys built the pilot models for!! ALL Overland models and many others.
@@ToyManTelevision It doesn't appear so, if I'm reading the following link correctly, under "Here are the PDF descriptions of the tours"...www.nmra2019slc.org/layout-tours/
What a wonderful video!!!! Your friend Ralph and Rosie have a absolutely amazing layout!! Its so amazing to see all the automated features Ralph has built!! The attention to detail in his automated pieces is remarkable, much better than what I've seen out on the market right now!
A small area, boy! what a person can do with it .Excellent . Can't wait for "the live steam" show. I am also into the live steam hobby and have a home track that I run on. Next week I play at a home that has a spring meet. What fun that will be . Great video Dale as always keep up the good work.
OMG. I'm two years late to this video. It was freaking awesome! Ralph is amazing and so was your commentary. I have now subscribed and look forward to more great videos.
CEEJAI KING thanks!! We are still trying to get out to see the live steam railroad! We did go out there one time but we missed everybody darn it. But it’s a great place! So this summer for sure, as soon as they start running out there. Actually they probably already are! Anyway good news Ralphs railroad looks just the same and is still running perfectly
Im 58 and have been collecting train set pcs since I was a boy but never put it together in fear I might have to move.....but happy to see others made it happen....Thank you for the nice and informative video...
Looking for more. Went to Steves yesterday to see the village of Knowhere. WOW!!!!!!!! Put it on the Facebook page as I can't share stills here. (I guess)
I guess my first comments didn't stick. Thank you for sharing Ralph and Rosie's layout. Very cool layout and automations. I hope to make the 2019 convention in Utah and see these great layouts.
We need to get ours ready!!!!!!! What a bash!! And the whole year too. May is the 150th birthday of the UP and they hope to have the BIG BOY HERE. And then a few months later, the NMRA. WOW!!!!!!
Greetings from England. Your delivery is supurb and not at all boring. In fact you make the subjects come alive. I've recently retired after working for 50-years in the UK film & TV industry (editing plus occasional acting) and have found you to keep meself awake. Keep it up! Best wishes, Al.
Good Morning!!!! I too am retired from a similar situation. However voicing bears and doing sound design is not always the easiest way make a buck, so I took up teaching as well. A full and interesting life. Yet I've never worked harder than making these shows!! Trying to put up 2 and sometimes 3 per week, and not screwing the thing up is a bit overwhelming at times. As well as needing plenty of time for "screwing around" (cocking about) However more fun than I've ever had. And now I've found Karyn, and we make a great team. Much funner when you are with someone you love.
Good Afternoon Ralph & Karyn (it's 4:30pm over here), Seems we may have had parallel careers in the movie industry and had a ball doing it. Friends told me I should take up teaching, to pass on The Knowledge, upon retirement but to do that I'd need a Masters Degree (at £9,000 a year in University fees) as 50-years in the trade isn't deemed good enough by the academics. So I'm drifting around trying to figure out what I really want to do with the rest of my time. There's none of the films I've appeared in (due to copyright restrictions) on my Tube Channel but my kids tell me I'm infamous for my role as a screaming creature in MTV's promo, "Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy." My advice if you watch it is don't turn the lights off! Ah, the joys of latex make-up specialFX birthed near naked, dripping with sugar slime, screaming at a little old lady and getting paid to do it! Deep joy. Your short films are great and presented in such a way as they aren't at all boring. So much energy there, great, keep it up! Best wishes - Al xx
I'm still drinking coffee here. Which is not odd, I drink it all day, however this is my morning coffee. I was lucky with my university, I paid the first semester hoping I could get a teaching assistantship if I could get past the gate keepers. And it worked. Just. Anyway, I only paid that first semester. I love making horror films. I once turned the sound of an angry kitty into the voice of a demonic woman with bad teeth. And voiced the voice of"the house" for The Fall of the House of Usher. Thats some fun stuff. Been killed in several bad films, funnest was Don't Go in the Woods (Alone). Intended to be satire but most audiences never picked up on that. I came up with the sound of "sad birds" for the forest. If we spot Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy well give it a look.
I think I may have got your name wrong, if so tell me ... I'm old you know. "Aphex Twin" set me off on a long road of horror films and being horribly murdered; I once cleared a whole dining bus in 30-seconds having just come out of make-up slit from neck down to belly, covered in blood and gore. Other actors complained I'd put them off their food. I was very skinny back then (not any more!) and Make-upFX guys saw my body as a blank canvas to do their best. I learned a lot during that time and had a ball doing it. Last 'infected' bloke to die in "28 Days Later", was a Mummy priest sliced up by Brendon Fraser on "The Mummy" and stabbed to death on "Cradle of Fear." Once asked by a journalist what attracted me to horror I gave him a two word answer - the money. I did a few films on your side of the Atlantic too, same questions with same answer except the States has better weather and professionalism. Must run, just handed a steaming mug of coffee, with the promise food from a grandson studying film production over here. He's French you know but no one's perfect ...
I was ate the premier of 28 Days Later at Sundance. I was working for Sundance at the time. Doing video for legal purposes. Fun film!!!! Interesting way they made the empty streets scenes. Something like 100 DV cameras. Roll from every angle at dawn for a few minutes. Then traffic happens and your done until the next day. Im Dale Angell
Right? Did you see the show on the world’s largest privately owned backyard railroad? That’s the one we spoke of here. Ralph and friends Railroad. ruclips.net/video/Zf8S-RKSd2A/видео.html
Wow, at the risk of losing my mancard that had tears rolling down my cheeks, your layout is amazing. I have seen a lot of layouts, beautiful in there own right but this is another level I have never seen. Ralph, Sir, You are a master. Thank you for letting the world see this. The animation is exquisite, along with everything else., but I think it was the animation and the rememberance of my grandfathers love for all things train that put us together while I watched this video. His love for trains is buried in me , and in my heart I can see him reacting to the experience of this layout. I have saved this to favourites so that I can revisit this wonderful set and marvel at what you've created and inso doing spend some time with my wonderful Grandfather and hear him once again explain, with passion and excitement all the workings and goings on as the trains work through their course. If there is a train set in Heaven, this would be it's reflection. That you Rosie for allowing Ralph to give to the world in this way, thank you Ralph for the curiosity, skill, time and money that made this real, and thank you Toy man for bringing this to my eyes. Thank You. May God Bless you all.
Ralph and Rosie figured something out, I suspect well before saying the I do's. Love what each other does as much as you love each other. Theirs has been a very full life. Ralph's "day job" was as a very successful musician with the Utah Symphony. But as with most successful and happy people the line between his vocation and avocation was so blurred you could not see where the musical artist left of and the miniaturist began. These days Ralph is usually found in his basement machine shop fabricating parts for his 1/8 scale live steam locomotives. We need to get back there to show you his stable of HUGE masterpieces.
Absolutely amazing layout with some of the finest detail I have EVER seen! Wow Ralph. You have such an eye for detail and great patience to put all this in your layout.
Ralph and Rosie... One can't help but fall in love with these two sweethearts, who have spent their time together taking an interest in each others lives and hobbies! Their model railroad is one of a kind! Such attention to detail... and the animation on the railroad is totally amazing! I learned so much, visiting this couple and this wonderful model railroad! Thanks Ralph and Rosie for inviting us!! :D
interesting points ,if anyone else trying to find out how to build a model railroad layout and scenery try Pycanta Model Railroaders Protocol ( search on google ) ? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my work buddy got cool success with it.
I can only hope Ralph and Rosie's layout is preserved when they're no longer able to work on it anymore. It's seriously impressive and just amazing to look at. Deserves to be in a proper museum someday!
When you think of the time spent to build this, the craftsmanship, the detail, you have to wonder why 13 people gave this video a thumb down?
Ralph really has an amazing layout. As soon as the sun comes back we are off the their live steam railroad in the desert.
5.3k likes and 113 dislikes, with that kind of ratio, they are usually just 'accidental' dislikes... cheers!
Is this layout open too the public? If so where is it?
It's the 13 jealous people.
Because. Their jealous. Or ignorant
50 years ago, when I was 10 years old, I can still remember when my Grandfather, who was a Union Pacific engineer that operated an NW-2 switch engine in the Ogden rail yards, let me into the cab of the engine and actually drive the train a short distance in the yard and hit the train horn. An experience of a lifetime.
My uncle works for Penn Central. But when he was visiting in town a couple of times he took me down to the union pacific. Train guys or train guys and so they would let him take my brother and myself I’ve been to the cab Locomotive. Typically your nephew not because those were my favorite
I’m just amazed by Ralph he is somebody of a dying generation, he reminds me of my grandfather and father who had skill sets that were able to fabricate and built just about anything. It is wonderful to see this incredible layout that is one year older than me! this was such a neat video.
This is what the new youtube railroaders need to see. High quality and excellent construction and engineering on a model , not just flat gigantic layouts with tons of locomotives.
I think small is better. I suspect it’s possible to put this much detail into a huge mile long railroad but I’ve never seen it. This is a diamond. Flawless and not too big.
Its a work of art. My Dad was a lifetime employee for UP in Omaha HQ, and I worked for UP in college summers '78 & '79 for a special projects surveying crew from Laramie to North Platte, so I got to tour a lot of the RR yards and the old Cheyenne round house. Just beautiful.
Isn’t this a great layout? As you know it’s just like a real roundhouse
Such an amazing layout! It has aged quite well and his attention to detail and automation was too cool. Still can't believe this layout is almost 60 years old.
Right? Some of the really old layouts are the best!!
This is innovation n real sense. The real genuine authentic brains who gave birth to this most expensive hobby. It's not a club but to me it's a University where I would like to be if God gave me a second chance to take rebirth. 🌹🙏❤️👍
there are modelers and then there are true artists ,I doesn't need to be said which one he is or will ever be , a true work of ART !
What a wonderful layout I've never seen anything like it! This brings out the kid in me, the intrigue & amazement of discovering something fascinating!
AN GREAT LAYOUT A THING OF BEAUTY . I APPRECIATE THE VIDEO AND YOUR TIME THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS VERY INTERESTING AND IMPRESSIVE AND INFORMATIVE. 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Never boring. Oh Karyn, I bet you were drooling over those light switching lanterns. Thanks for another great show.
And the ingenuity to do it all without computers. Ralph's the Michelangelo of the HO model railroad. What an absolutely magnificent creation.
Ok my jaw is on the ground. Absolutely brilliant. Ralph you are a true craftsman. Old school rules! Thank you for this incredible look at a true old-school masterpiece...
We are planning a trip to his 7 1/2 inch gauge railroad
Ralph is a mechanical and electrical genius. Really enjoyed this fantastic layout. I love the old school stuff. Great inspiration and an incredible life led by Ralph and his UP layout. Thank you!
Ralph is AMAZING!!!!!
That was totally Amazing to see, Ralph is such a artisan. Thank you for sharing!
As a 40-something modeler who loves to build the "old school" craftsman models, I hope I live as long as Ralph and have as many years of enjoyment from these classic (and modern) models. Thanks for sharing another inspiring video. I smiled when I saw the SS Ltd Jennings lumber...probably more of those still in boxes than on layouts. Great layout, great video.
I love this kits. Built a hopper car, 100% wood, looks great, no on e ever guesses its wood. Love SS kits!! I've built Dorothy's house twice.
I actually had tears in my eyes. My late father was really into this back in the 60’s. This was a refreshing and nice video. You can’t get any better than this when it comes to model railroading. I’m sure I’ll watch this video many, many more times. 😊👍
Hi. This is one of the best layouts. Glad you like it. Do stay safe.
DETAIL AND AUTOMATION JUST FANTASTIC INDEED VERY GOOD LAYOUT. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
you seem so nice it makes me glad i served my nation for people like you who i have never meet.
It’s a great nation. Even Utah. Thanks for whatever you did!
That was a fantastic layout! Thank you! It reminded me of the Lionel layouts with all the working "gizmos".
This is amazing!! Ralph & Rosie are to be treasured for sharing this with us! Thanks a million Toyman!
They are our good friends. I see a lot of them in us, doing things together. Karyn and I also love the same things, I don't recall ever seeing Ralph without Rosie.
Ok cool
If there was a National Railroad Hobbyist Hall of Fame Ralph would be amongst the inaugural class.
He is a true renaissance man of modeling and an inspiration to all railroad hobbyists.
This is genius level performance of art and engineering.
Long history of doing the most amazing models!! We need to get a better look at his live steam.
Wow! What a talent. What an inspiration! Amazing stuff to even consider implementing on our own layouts. Thanks for the visit!
I love this layout. I too love the Big Boy locomotives and animated features as well. And this layout is no exception.
This is so amazing. And the locomotive collection!
STUNNING! Never get tired of seeing this layout. It may be 'old school', but quality never goes out of date.
It's just amazing!! Love the animations.
Most of us just do what we can. Some of us do what they want. Respect!
I just wanted to say that I was smiling the whole time I watched. You two are so lovely! And the layout was AMAZING!!
Thank you for making my day better!
Thanks!! We do have fun. We have been chasing the Big Boy locomotive across Wyoming and a beat. But back at it tomorrow for the Golden Spike show part 1.
Great layout! nice to see how well the old stuff can be modernized and make it work so well. thanks!
And so much still old!! Great to see that what could be done in 1968.
Absolutely AMAZING. I couldn’t help but get giddy at all the little automation details! What a genius! Wish I could see it in person!!
As he is now mostly into live steam 1/8 scale, he has not changed that layout much in a decade. BUT all these little fun animations.... Can't pick a fave.
Fantastic layout, the automation is amazing
One of the best we have ever seen!
Hats off to you Ralph. Spectacular creation sir. 👍
A treasure.
I love visiting these kinds of layouts. Built back when the hobby was young, and you had to build your railroad, not just buy it. I've taken to buying old cardstock rolling stock and rehabilitating it and running it. There's just something about the simplicity and ingenuity of model railroading from the 1930s to the 1970s. Very well produced video, thanks for the tour.
WOW! What a picture of that period of time! Not only is it an image of 1968 HO scale model railways, but also capture what the Union Pacific Railroad looked like at the transition from steam power to diesel-electric power is an epic image. The detail of set amazing especially with respect mechanical operation fluidity of that period of time. I could write about them but, Dale, Sir, you are the best at narrating I think they ought to watch this show. The UP, the artwork that is this layout, the man who built it are national treasures and thank you Dale for sharing this with us. Again I say, Wow!
Mike 1958 wow thanks!!! (Blush). One of the things I love about this rail road, and there’s just so many things to love about this rail road, is that the layout and the time period modeled are almost exactly the same!! A model built in 1968 of a shop in 1958 ish. The shop was exactly like this in 1968. Only the locomotives were different. And as Ralph had bee hanging around the roundhouse in 1958 he knew how to model it!
wow very impressed, the details are out this world, well done see we use to play with those toys and build the layouts, today's kids can't get their heads of tablets and cell phones what a shame. Mr. Ralph Ms Rosie thank you for sharing
Congratulations Mr. Ralph very impressed and perfectly done
Thank you to you guys and Ralph! i loved the video. The amount of detail that Ralph has gone too is simply amazing! and the age of it talks bundles to the quality of his work!
We need to go see his live steam railroad. He and Van..
This is sooo cool!This is so priceless and way worth it. Thank you for sharing this great video.
Historic layout. Soon to be 50!!
Has to be the coolest layout ever.Could watch it all day.Thank you for the video.
So glad that this came up in my recommendations, what a wonderful layout, pure magic.
It’s a treasure. Wow!!!
THIS was a GREAT video! I discovered it 4 years after you posted it... but better late than never. I hope Ralph is still going strong, but if not, he (through you two) provide me with 17 minutes of joy. Those automated features were jaw dropping to me. Wow. Thanks for this!
Have you seen our show on the worlds largest backyard railroad? That’s Ralph’s 7 1/2 gauge railroad. Actually Vans railroad. But the one Ralph is helping with. He has 3 locomotives there.
JUST AN AWESOME GOOD JOB A TRUE CRAFTSMAN AND I APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR TIME HAVE A GOOD DAY. A VERY GOOD LOOKING LAYOUT. JUST AWESOME NICE WORK
Magnificent layout and me being a UP fan this is extra special for me. Love the coal loading ramp genius scene. Thanks for bringing this to my attention!! - Matt
Still trying to figure out how the bit where the coal dumbs works. Must be magnetic but ......
Ralph and Rose are so nice and you see few woman interested in model trains.
Yup! They are awesome. And Ralph is one of the best modelers! His scratch built brass locomotives are so amazing
WOW - Totally blown away with this amazing railroad, truly brilliant.
I used to use tons of Utah Pacific castings and detail parts back in my scratch building days. Good to see he's enjoying his retirement with his layout.
What awesome railroad modeling! Kudos Mr and Mrs Gochnour!
So very cool!! Amazing Ralph!
beautiful layout, a true labour of love.
One of the most amazing layouts. AND most of it is 50 years old!!!
Amazing. True love for his screwing around. So talented.
Most of his friends are gone now. Perhaps the best train molders the ever lived. When I look at those scratch built pilot models.... One thing to build a loco from castings, another to build from bar stock!!!
Absolutely. Hope more people carry on his craft.
I bought a Big Boy locomotive in 1969 with the money I made over the summer working for my Grandfather in his sand blasting business which he had after retiring from Baldwin Locomotive. He and my Grandmother moved to Florida after retirement from Darby Pa. where I was born and they got a job managing a motel in Hollywood Florida. That ended up being too boring for him so he stated a successful small sand blasting business on the side to make extra cash. He was a firm believer in earning your own money so he started me helping during the summers when my middle brother and I went to visit during the summers. It was my job to keep the sand pot full and run the compressor which I started in 1967 when I was able to lift the 100 pound sand bags when I was 9, I was always strong for my age. He also paid my taxes this I know because when I became disabled the Lady I talked to at Social Security pulled up my records and said, "My goodness, you have been working since 1967!" This was in 2002 after I had a massive pulmonary embolism which was caused by over 25 years of Long haul trucking which disabled me. Yea, yea, I know too much info but I do know about Old School trains and as an aside my Grandfather worked for Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia Pa. I had found a picture one time on the internet and he was as shop manager along with some other Baldwin management standing in front of a 4-4-4-4 T-1 that was about to be delivered to the Pennsylvania RR.
Cool story! There are some guys trying to build one of those locomotives from scratch. I don’t think any survived. What an unusual locomotive. Will cost millions if they pull it off. Cool that you had that job. Good memories of making money and having fun. Hard work but fun.
@@ToyManTelevision No all the T-1's were scrapped PRR was going to save 1 but some busy body in Ohio misunderstood what the PRR wanted so he had the last one scrapped and the T-1 trust is working on building a new one. The S-1 was scrapped and the 2-10-4 Texas types were also completely scrapped without any remaining. It saddens me that none of these great locomotives were saved as museum pieces.
Go Ralph and Rosie RR! Live and love 100 years. Thanks, Paul Venne, Agent D&RG Ry.
I visited Ralph's layout many years ago and loved the animation.
Has not changed much in 50 years. Part of what makes it so good!!!
I love the animation!! I also love the look on Ralph and Rosie's faces, when they see how much we enjoyed seeing what they have created! :D
YES!!!!! Love visiting them.
Good old Ogden Utah. Some of my favorite memories are going to the Hostler's model train festival there with my dad and brother.
It’s always been one of the best shows!!! We NEVER miss it.
Love this old school layout... my first inspiration for model railroading was John Allen ... so I have a love for the old school 😁❤
This is my kind of layout. However as I get older simple is better. A lot better
Love the detail
And still working after 50 years!
Unbelievable!!! Thanks a bunch, Toyman for bringing us along.
Old School is cool!!
RUclips and their infinite wisdom has derailed me from your communication and channel I am so glad I have found you again I cannot wait see what you and the mrs. have been up to
The old man has the amazing skills and ideas...
Incredible work. What a skill set. This layout needs to go to a museum for all to see and remember Ralph and Rosie. It is a brilliant man and an accommodating spouse that built this wonderful piece of history. My husband models UP and stated this work needs to be remembered for all to appreciate. And old school not only works, but got us where we are today with the hobby. Just fabulous.
That’s the problem we are having across the hobby. These great layouts and the builders are dying off. Harry brinks was moved to the UP museum in Cheyenne. But that’s an exception. When Al died we had no idea what to do with his models. And Steve is dismantling his layout and turning it into dioramas. Which we are covering on the channel. No idea what will happen to Ralph’s layout. It should be in a museum. But after trying to find a home for Al’s it’s really hard to find a place.
Lovely layout! Wonderfull, great, terrific... and more! Wow! Great video!
WOW! Here's to old school! Great visit. Very inspirational. Thanks y'all.
Randall Hawkinson this was the first really great layout I ever saw. Back when it was mostly new. I was rabid for HO but because of this layout I stated over on my layout. The brass collection is the best HO collection in the world. About 1/3 of his locomotives are made by him and his friends. A big run of these is perhaps 10 locomotives. All but one of his turbines are scratch built.
This is truly a "Work of Art" layout. The details are so finely finished and varied it is just mind boggling.
When I lived in Santa Barbara I had a HO garden railroad which ran both passenger and freight, steam and early diesel. Blue jays would watch the California Zephyr from the power lines. Must have resembled a snake because they would fly down and kick the lead engine off of the track.
Train shop owner I used to buy supplies from invited me to visit a rail enthusiast's home where a 2000 sq. ft. addition was added to the home for his layout. He had many routes all meandering from one end of the layout to the other. Train orders would be written for goods to be picked up and delivered to towns along the branches and main lines. They even had a true Southern Pacific dispatchers office who dictated train movements. It took about a dozen people to run the operation of evening fun.
Owner of the layout designed and built high end restaurant kitchens around the world. This is how he let off steam when he was home to re-group. Exquisitely fine as his operating train line was I have to say Ralph and Rosie's layout pushes it over the edge.
Thank you for putting together such a wonderful and informative documentation. Fine Work.
Fantastic layout! Loved the skill it took to automate the crane car, pile driver, coaling operations and other features. It demonstrates the wonder and fascination of model railroading!
AND all that stuff runs on this amazing layout!! A lot of coolness in pne place!
Thank you for uploading, and Mr. Ralph you are a kid like us..God bless you sir, incredible detail I love it love it love it
Ralph is the best. Really. As good as a modeler gets.
That layout just takes your breath away, it deserves to be managed in a museum when they are no longer around. To lose such amazing excellence would be criminal. If ever anybody wants to know 'How Its Done', then heres you lesson.deep respect.
And most of the features have been working great for 50 years!
You guys are GREAT! Luv you, Luv the banter and Luv the matching t-shirts...
Keep 'em coming, and
cheers
Thanks!!!! Many more coming
Not many of these, "Old World Craftsman" left with us. Wonderful work. Nothing wrong with, "Old School". Look in the mirror, you and I by our years marked could be considered
"Old School". I came to the "Craftsman stage" in my life a little old in life. I watched this piece with a young lady this morning that boards with us. She was stunned by the level of detail. Seeing our trains she had no idea just how small this HO is. She really enjoyed it. Of course she comes from "Old World Stock", a young Amish/Old Order person in the world, teaching. She was stunned when I put an HO steamer in her hands and pointed to the O gauge on the layout and compared the sizes. It is amazing to watch our world of railroading through the eyes of a person not normally not exposed to it. Well done, you guys. Greg and Jeanne.
The lights in the lanterns cant be seen with the naked eye!!!!! Sort of looks like a glossy area on a wire. Think how small a switch lantern is in HO. OR a Dietz lantern. And there is a light bulb in there!!! And the wires go up the switch stand!!! The tube of the stand is about .020 and yet not only do the wires go up through it, the whole lamp can be fished up from below!!
What did we have back in the sixties that was that small, were they called "grain of wheat" size? That is amazing. I appreciated HO and even N scale more so because I can hardly feel them in my hands, now-a-days. Amazing work.
Just discovered this and have to say that this made my day! This truly shows that old is gold! The automation and the animation is outstanding and that coal discharge and cable ramp is going right in my wish list!
I bought one of the old tyco dumps. That’s what Ralph used. But there it sits. So many models!
Truly a master model railroader.
One of the best ever. And his friends. To see those scratch built models!! To think of the brass locomotives these guys built the pilot models for!! ALL Overland models and many others.
Amazing love it! Can't wait till you can get out to that 1/8 scale RR and shoot some video of them running the live steam trains!
I helped lay the first mile of track one summer along time ago. On hands and knees. WORK!!!!
What a layout. Love the old school magnet action. I'll bet you this layout made several railroad magazines over the years.
What a fantastic model railroad. Really enjoyed this. Thanks guys.
I wonder if it’s on the NMRA tour in July.
@@ToyManTelevision It doesn't appear so, if I'm reading the following link correctly, under "Here are the PDF descriptions of the tours"...www.nmra2019slc.org/layout-tours/
This is one of the coolest layouts I have ever seen thank you for so much for posting it I really enjoyed watching it.
Fun to compare this week’s show to Ralph’s layout and see where each structure came from.
What a wonderful video!!!! Your friend Ralph and Rosie have a absolutely amazing layout!! Its so amazing to see all the automated features Ralph has built!! The attention to detail in his automated pieces is remarkable, much better than what I've seen out on the market right now!
Very nice tiny details in this layout. I really appreciate that kind of detail.
This is one of the great layouts.
A small area, boy! what a person can do with it .Excellent . Can't wait for "the live steam" show. I am also into the live steam hobby and have a home track that I run on. Next week I play at a home that has a spring meet. What fun that will be . Great video Dale as always keep up the good work.
Sounds like fun!! Take pictures!
OMG. I'm two years late to this video. It was freaking awesome! Ralph is amazing and so was your commentary. I have now subscribed and look forward to more great videos.
CEEJAI KING thanks!! We are still trying to get out to see the live steam railroad! We did go out there one time but we missed everybody darn it. But it’s a great place! So this summer for sure, as soon as they start running out there. Actually they probably already are! Anyway good news Ralphs railroad looks just the same and is still running perfectly
That is a true gem of a layout! The level of detail and automation is just incredible! Thanks for the video tour.
Just an amazing layout
Im 58 and have been collecting train set pcs since I was a boy but never put it together in fear I might have to move.....but happy to see others made it happen....Thank you for the nice and informative video...
I always had a layout. Until about 1995. Now we have boxes of stuff. And building a layout slowly.
Fantastic layout in every respect. You guys have the best days out!
Looking for more. Went to Steves yesterday to see the village of Knowhere. WOW!!!!!!!! Put it on the Facebook page as I can't share stills here. (I guess)
Love this layout! The Bigboys & Roundhouse are Classic!
It’s sooooo amazing. And built when the roundhouse was in operation. No steam, but tribunes
eyyyy. It's this guy. I forgot about this channel until I accidental ran across it on a playlist. Now I remember how brilliant this Channel is.
Thanks!! Keep watching then you won’t loose us again!
I guess my first comments didn't stick. Thank you for sharing Ralph and Rosie's layout. Very cool layout and automations. I hope to make the 2019 convention in Utah and see these great layouts.
We need to get ours ready!!!!!!! What a bash!! And the whole year too. May is the 150th birthday of the UP and they hope to have the BIG BOY HERE. And then a few months later, the NMRA. WOW!!!!!!
I love layouts that don't need the train running to be interesting.
And still this one runs great too. I love the two automated trains. The mine tram and trolley
Very, very, very excellent layout. One of the best. I'd say in the top 10 of details and animation on a layout that I've seen.
50 years old and amazing. And omg. The trains!!!!! I’ll bet Ralph has built about 150 brass locomotives. Mostly UP.
HI Ralph and Rosie / Like this classic layout and the operating coal mine.
• Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂
Nice right? One of Americas best, yet very small. Shows what can be done in limited space. About 10 x 18 feet.
haha Also from Michigan Northern up in Cadillac MIchigan - Home of the Shay ! Great Class B there !!
The set-up is truly amazing! And your video is extremely well done as well--the commentary, the variety of settings, the music. Really outstanding.
Amazing layout! Very well done!
One of Americas BEST modelers.
Greetings from England.
Your delivery is supurb and not at all boring. In fact you make the subjects come alive. I've recently retired after working for 50-years in the UK film & TV industry (editing plus occasional acting) and have found you to keep meself awake. Keep it up!
Best wishes, Al.
Good Morning!!!! I too am retired from a similar situation. However voicing bears and doing sound design is not always the easiest way make a buck, so I took up teaching as well. A full and interesting life. Yet I've never worked harder than making these shows!! Trying to put up 2 and sometimes 3 per week, and not screwing the thing up is a bit overwhelming at times. As well as needing plenty of time for "screwing around" (cocking about) However more fun than I've ever had. And now I've found Karyn, and we make a great team. Much funner when you are with someone you love.
Good Afternoon Ralph & Karyn (it's 4:30pm over here),
Seems we may have had parallel careers in the movie industry and had a ball doing it. Friends told me I should take up teaching, to pass on The Knowledge, upon retirement but to do that I'd need a Masters Degree (at £9,000 a year in University fees) as 50-years in the trade isn't deemed good enough by the academics. So I'm drifting around trying to figure out what I really want to do with the rest of my time.
There's none of the films I've appeared in (due to copyright restrictions) on my Tube Channel but my kids tell me I'm infamous for my role as a screaming creature in MTV's promo, "Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy." My advice if you watch it is don't turn the lights off! Ah, the joys of latex make-up specialFX birthed near naked, dripping with sugar slime, screaming at a little old lady and getting paid to do it! Deep joy.
Your short films are great and presented in such a way as they aren't at all boring. So much energy there, great, keep it up! Best wishes - Al xx
I'm still drinking coffee here. Which is not odd, I drink it all day, however this is my morning coffee. I was lucky with my university, I paid the first semester hoping I could get a teaching assistantship if I could get past the gate keepers. And it worked. Just. Anyway, I only paid that first semester. I love making horror films. I once turned the sound of an angry kitty into the voice of a demonic woman with bad teeth. And voiced the voice of"the house" for The Fall of the House of Usher. Thats some fun stuff. Been killed in several bad films, funnest was Don't Go in the Woods (Alone). Intended to be satire but most audiences never picked up on that. I came up with the sound of "sad birds" for the forest. If we spot Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy well give it a look.
I think I may have got your name wrong, if so tell me ... I'm old you know.
"Aphex Twin" set me off on a long road of horror films and being horribly murdered; I once cleared a whole dining bus in 30-seconds having just come out of make-up slit from neck down to belly, covered in blood and gore. Other actors complained I'd put them off their food. I was very skinny back then (not any more!) and Make-upFX guys saw my body as a blank canvas to do their best. I learned a lot during that time and had a ball doing it. Last 'infected' bloke to die in "28 Days Later", was a Mummy priest sliced up by Brendon Fraser on "The Mummy" and stabbed to death on "Cradle of Fear." Once asked by a journalist what attracted me to horror I gave him a two word answer - the money. I did a few films on your side of the Atlantic too, same questions with same answer except the States has better weather and professionalism.
Must run, just handed a steaming mug of coffee, with the promise food from a grandson studying film production over here. He's French you know but no one's perfect ...
I was ate the premier of 28 Days Later at Sundance. I was working for Sundance at the time. Doing video for legal purposes. Fun film!!!! Interesting way they made the empty streets scenes. Something like 100 DV cameras. Roll from every angle at dawn for a few minutes. Then traffic happens and your done until the next day. Im Dale Angell
The best lay out ever!! 1968 he's amazing. This is my favourite layout to watch.
Right? Did you see the show on the world’s largest privately owned backyard railroad? That’s the one we spoke of here. Ralph and friends Railroad. ruclips.net/video/Zf8S-RKSd2A/видео.html
Keep coming back to this video, so inspiring
wow. This man, Ralph is a lovely genius.
Fantastic tour! Thanks again.
Great job guys!!! Awesome layout, I could only dream to have such a set up
Yes im just catching up with this video, but its coolest of cools, enjoyed it big time, gotta get ready for work,have a good day
Ralphs is a great layout!!
Wow, at the risk of losing my mancard that had tears rolling down my cheeks, your layout is amazing. I have seen a lot of layouts, beautiful in there own right but this is another level I have never seen. Ralph, Sir, You are a master. Thank you for letting the world see this. The animation is exquisite, along with everything else., but I think it was the animation and the rememberance of my grandfathers love for all things train that put us together while I watched this video. His love for trains is buried in me , and in my heart I can see him reacting to the experience of this layout. I have saved this to favourites so that I can revisit this wonderful set and marvel at what you've created and inso doing spend some time with my wonderful Grandfather and hear him once again explain, with passion and excitement all the workings and goings on as the trains work through their course. If there is a train set in Heaven, this would be it's reflection. That you Rosie for allowing Ralph to give to the world in this way, thank you Ralph for the curiosity, skill, time and money that made this real, and thank you Toy man for bringing this to my eyes. Thank You. May God Bless you all.
Ralph and Rosie figured something out, I suspect well before saying the I do's. Love what each other does as much as you love each other. Theirs has been a very full life. Ralph's "day job" was as a very successful musician with the Utah Symphony. But as with most successful and happy people the line between his vocation and avocation was so blurred you could not see where the musical artist left of and the miniaturist began. These days Ralph is usually found in his basement machine shop fabricating parts for his 1/8 scale live steam locomotives. We need to get back there to show you his stable of HUGE masterpieces.
One of the best layouts yet, thanks for sharing.
Love it!! 30 years ago when I first saw it I went home and tore into my own HO.
Absolutely amazing layout with some of the finest detail I have EVER seen! Wow Ralph. You have such an eye for detail and great patience to put all this in your layout.
Amazing right?
Amazing to see all the working parts. Love the bigger loco's too
And mostly works so well!!!