LOL!

@@hellsfirefreedomtube6984 I know which model you are talking about. I built the Union Pacific Big Boy model from the same series, I believe

@ I just dug the manual out of my box of manuals. It’s an Italian model kit from I don’t know when but the model is a 1/87 scale DB Baureihe 041. The train the kit is based off of is from a series of train built between 1936 to 1941 and ran up till the early 1970’s. I got the kit off eBay back in December but I was in the middle of building another kit at the time and started it shortly after this year

@@hellsfirefreedomtube6984 The one I was thinking of was the REVELL 02171 HO GAUGE DB 4-6-2 BAUREIHE BR 02. I will have to look for the one you built.

@@hellsfirefreedomtube6984 I wasn't sure at first, but sure enough, Revell also sold your kit as well, both DB kits they sold were made by Italeri. www.scalemates.com/kits/italeri-8701-lokomotive-br41--101922

@@survivingworldsteam That’s cool I don’t know Revell had that kit also. I just wanted to build a Train kit for the first time so I went with something cheap. With the kit and the shipping was $40 and some charge. It was a fun build and worth it

@@northernutahlivesteam it is!

They usually are about $2.00-$12.00 each for the older ones like these.

See it run: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z2iog3d_ocZrbNU

Sadly, the cab is off limits to the public.

@bobsgardentrainline4987 no, I have not found them online. I know that it is standard gauge because they ran it into a station in Paris during the 2024 Summer Olympics. The front view of it during that event and the loading gauge in general dialed in the width. This, my initial model, was too small. I took another wack at it and made it as close to 100' scale feet as I could with my construction technique. That made both the openings in the sides and the wheels 7' tall, which seems to agree with the clips from the movie. That also maxes out the height again in terms of the loading gauge. You can see my second model here, and how it compares to a Union Pacific Big Boy at the same scale. Be prepared for some massive overhang, it has 50 square feet of overhang in the back. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q53Glaetgbhpj5I

Yes, I was on the other side of the tree to right of it in your video @0:29, you took off and changed viewpoints just as you were passing over me. You are friends with Thomas, and was standing on the stepstool across the tracks. Your video came out great, considering you had the sun from the wrong angle in the west to video Station 330. Good job.

@@rpellessier it is a neat building, especially the boxcar in back. The body looks like the knock-down wooden boxcars made for the US Army for shipping to Europe, but never sent. They were used for storage on Army and Navy bases for awhile before being sold off, they show up here and there.

@TheBigCrabCake thank you!

No equipment other than a broken boxcar was shown in the two photographs.

While I got it for them, I run it myself on occasion

Yes, you are right. But along with the lights, trains are part of the magic that make up the holiday season. Merry Christmas and Happy Chankah to you and yours.

@@Choochookid7470 yes it is

You are right, it may be gone now. At the same time, there are lots of abandoned downtowns like this in Texas for example that are just left to decay because no one is interested in or wants to pay to demolish it. So, it may still be there. I also noticed that Michael Wright has not updated his Facebook page in some time.

It was a custom paint scheme.

Make sure you have enough clearance on the outside of your curves. ) I was watching the latest trailer, and I think my model should have been 29% longer and taller. If that is correct, that is a 50-foot overhang in the back!

Oh ok I will do that just got to figure out how to make it and how to run it now lol

@@Husky1980 like abandoned tracks in real life, it does have its own fascination and interest.

:D, thank you, and glad you enjoyed the music.

You are probably right, it goes along with another comment below.

@ cool none-the-less.

I bet @SMTMainline could and make it look easy! “We have a runner!”

Thank you

How are you able to determine that?

@survivingworldsteam it's just someone's 4×8 layout. Pretty common looks like grandfather's old postwar transformer with mpc track . Basically if it was a dealership layout it would showcase trains from the same year. Just something they pulled out around Xmas at a hardware store or home.

@ thank you

When the stores stopped carrying Lionel products, most of them just threw them away. That has made the ones that survived rare and highly collectible.

@@survivingworldsteamjunk is junk… Creating fake value for junk because of its scarcity is bordering on fraud…

No, because they are not my photographs. :) I gave the actual photographer full credit, and give a link to his facebook page in the description. I am only presenting and explaining his photographs in my model railroad themed channel. That is another reason why many abandoned photographers do not give the location away, they are basically trespassing, although in this instance I doubt there was anyone to ask from permission anymore.

Really, legit?

To the best of my knowledge, yes.

No idea, the photographer who took it, like most abandoned photographers, never disclosed where it was located.

The reason they didn’t give the location out was so people wouldn’t trash it

@@747jack correct.

@@michaelquinones-lx6ks best guess - store owner died, no one wanted the building, and it was left behind.

@@raysrails2164 thank you

For those who don't know it, there were actually two layouts used on the Addams Family set. The first one was built by Lionel's West Coast rep specifically for the Twilight Zone episode "Night of the Meek" originally aired on December 23, 1960. The layout was placed in storage for a few years and re-emerged as the Gomez' layout in the first season of "The Addams Family." It was later damaged by handling and replaced with a much simpler layout. So yes, the Gomez layout also came from Lionel, just as this one may have.

"The layout for "The Twilight Zone" episode, later used in "The Addams Family" Season One, was constructed by James Stewart and Sandy Oster, both of whom were members of Lionel's San Francisco sales team. Stewart was also responsible for providing layouts for other TV shows based on the West Coast, such as "I Love Lucy" (Source: Classic Toy Trains magazine, March 1993, with Neil Young's layout on the cover)"

@Petemonster62 yes, I agree with you about the store display. My understanding is that the building's roof had caved in by the time these pictures were taken, so the basement has probably been flooded multiple times.

How’ve you been doin mate?

I'm in the preservation and restoration business, some restorations become replicas. Just build a new one.

The track and transformers is all that’s left - if you replaced them you wouldn’t be restoring it, you’d be replacing it.

True

Like everything else sadly, we can't save them all.

As a scrapper who has cut up various locos and rolling stock, that is true.😔