Building the "O" Scale Bridge to Knowair

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I can't believe how much this railroad has grown, just in the 2 and a half years that I've been hanging around! That bridge is a work of art!! I love to just stand and look at all of the cool little villages and railroad tracks.. It's just like being transported to another place and time. I feel like I'm really there.. standing on a bridge, sweeping a porch on one of the hotels... listening to the sounds and voices of all the railroad workers around me. So realistic!! Watching the shay go past on the track... Man! I swear I can see and smell smoke.... OH! Wait!!! It was smoke!!! There goes Don!! Seems his brass model shay has burned out another light! LOL!! So... It really was unintentional smoke! No worries. All part of the fun, every Sunday with the O Scale Guys!

[@FougarouBe]

Wow ! This bridge is a masterpiece of craftsmanship ! Steve is a genius !!! Thank you ! :)

[@ToyManTelevision]

Such a fun bridge. When he told us all his plans we were ready to have him locked up. NO WAY. It will never work. But Steve being Steve just built it and said, see, it works.

[@washingtontrains2593]

people like Steve are 1 in 10,000. he is a craftsman. What a beautiful layout! I fear my talent level is limited to opening a box. Someone has to keep the manufacturers in business. Good show.

[@ToyManTelevision]

On Sunday, Steve blows everyones mind Again!!!!

[@jeanneuzarhudson8207]

First-up: Between rains we have "some sun" out here in the great "flat lands" of California, Sackoftomatoes. Y'all come! No but seriously, folks. Steve is not only a talented craftsman, he just does a "number" on his scratch building. His whimsy in what he decides to build is great. Great episode. As always, stay in good health and carry-on with this pursuit of, "screwing around". Greg and Jeanne

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love to get out of the snow!!! But into a flood...... But up threre at some point!!

[@crystalrock18]

DANG, THAT DUDE IS KOOL......................just like you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This mans imagination is just beyond amazing!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check out next weeks show on some of steves models!!

[@skeetermctavish5386]

Im absolutely amazed. Mind boggling!

[@muss1951]

that bridge is absolutely incredible, by far the coolest tall timbered trestle I have seen in my 55 years of modeling

[@kevinyoung9557]

Now that's a craftsman. Stunning!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yup. And to think he’s torn it down and started over on most of the layout. But once more it’s looking amazing.

[@fanatichighdesertrailroader]

His bridge gives a new meaning to "some assembly required". A very impressive piece of work.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Reminds me of those wood puzzle boxes.

[@ggsumner1947]

Steve is an amazing individual with so much talent and vision. I never get enough of his railroad, and am looking forward to next Sunday. Please keep screwing around over there.

[@ToyManTelevision]

This week is amazing!!! Steve is so good at what he does.

[@trishstefanuk5619]

Steve is a true artist, can't get enough of his lay out. Great video the coffee was nice and hot. P.S. we moved to Belize from Canada so not to deal with the white stuff and I brought my trains. Another Steve

[@ToyManTelevision]

Belize!!! Wow, that's getting out of the snow!! I've always liked saying "Belize". Good name!!

[@rayhuggins5013]

Steve is an amazing gentleman. I can't imagine how much time he has invested in this project. Thanks so much for doing this and all the rest of your videos!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Next week Steves iron legged water tank and coaling tower with a sand tank on the side!!!! WOW!!!!!

[@TheCrewChief374]

Steve is making America great again, with his seven foot tall bridge to Nowhere! 😁

[@pbyfr]

I'm always impressive by Steve's layout. Sure, the details level is very high, but he made these details on a big layout. It's like what I would take years to make, Steve would finish it in one or two weeks.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Fast and good....

[@justindampier9017]

John Allen would be impressed!

[@canyonpast]

Truly amazing. The two things I must say. Just awesome and thank you for all you do for the hobby.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sad that both the bridge and town are gone. But at least I was able to get them on video

[@jeeromonster]

wow!!!! what an incredible layout!

[@ToyManTelevision]

More on Sunday!

[@tjorgensen2007]

My home town, Fort Morgan, Colorado was 58 degrees yesterday. But last week it was below 0. Yes I am ready for winter to be gone and warm weather to move in..

[@ToyManTelevision]

Spring arrived here a few minutes ago. We are heading out because I'm sure it's just passing through. But it's like 55 out there!! And clear!

[@PeterCPRail8748]

Fantastic craftsmanship and planning to get it done and fit togther like that . He is an artist for sure.

[@joellekarma]

That is the most amazing narrow gauge Layout I have ever seen.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Next week will BLOW YOUR MIND. Same railroad. BUt the COOList water tank and coaling tower!!!!

[@joellekarma]

cool I am building my first On30 layout it is a 6' X 4' layout that I will fit with other On30 layouts that are similar in size.. I enjoy this size so much

[@ToyManTelevision]

On30 is GREAT!!!! Need to get back on the Accidental Railroad.

[@joellekarma]

YES! ya do :P

[@gearedsteam12]

Toy man and lady Just want to tell you I enjoy your channel immensely, its very much appreciated.

[@ToyManTelevision]

THANKS!!!! We have so much fun with it too.

[@silkcustoms520]

I have modeled every Scale from N to g scale Model Railroads. If I started all Over I would go with O Scale hands Down !!

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s great. On30 is affordable. But we tend to On3. But all great.

[@mikewest3108]

I subscribed about three weeks ago and am very happy I did. None of what I have seen so far has disappointed me. I really love seeing the incredible railroad setups. You and your wife seem to have a lot of fun screwing around. See you next time!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi and WELCOME!! Let us know if you know of something we should see. Next week is AMAZING.

[@mikewest3108]

I will. :-)

[@DanielMccoydinotrainman]

What you said about seeing a giant head out the window train car reminded me of The Addams Family. I always lock the Munsters better than The Addams Family but whenever Gomez was playing with his trains it was a lot of fun. I hope Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette has a good future ahead of it. It and Classic Trains are the train magazines I find myself buying the most off the rack.

[@ToyManTelevision]

The Gazette will be fine. Bob is just getting a bit too old. In his 80s!

[@TrainLordJC]

Magnificent layout, astounding talent, I have enjoyed watching your videos for the past year. Most enjoyable from Aussie land.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!!! Have always loved the land down under. Thought about moving there in 1970. But... Glad you like the show!!! Do share with friends.

[@jonheller2307]

As always very high production values, and a great topic. Thanks!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!! Sunday will blow your mind!!

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

The video reminds me of Half Moon Bridge, and pictures I have seen of narrow gauge railroads in western South Dakota in the 1800's. I have an article from the C&NW magazine that has fascinating pictures that make me wish I had a time machine to go back and see it.

[@ToyManTelevision]

THe village is AMAZING. The bridge now goes to Knowhere.

[@anthonyshepard9606]

I don't love too many things, but I love your screwing around video keep it up.🚂🚂🚂

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sundays show will blow your mind!!

[@ByrdMann2010]

This layout would be a great candidate for a POV cab ride video, not one with a lot of cuts but figure out a route that could run a while and just let it go! Would really love to see that. With all the detail both front and back it would really look like a true trip.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Have you seen "Honey I shrunk my Perspective?" Not a cab ride but inside the train!

[@ByrdMann2010]

I have seen it and it's quite nicely done. I'd like to see something a bit longer, however, with less interruption or jumps and particularly on this layout if possible. The level of detail on this layout would lead to one feeling like they're actually riding on the train.

[@daviemaclean61]

Wow, just wow! An amazing layout just got even more amazing. I would have fallen through it while trying to put it up!

[@gleanerk]

Awesome man. Thanks for showing

[@ToyManTelevision]

Fun!!

[@PatrickMondor]

Another great video screwing around!

[@ToyManTelevision]

True!!

[@paweuek.]

Impressive layout! Fantastic video, as usual ;) Looking forward to next week's show!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Shooting some added footage today. Looking GOOD!!

[@stikibunn]

It's such a great layout. It's strange to me because here in Australia everything is flat. We'd never have an exciting and dynamic railroad like that. I absolutely love 30 inch guage railways. I worked on a rl one that's near here.

[@ToyManTelevision]

There is that one big rock.....

[@upsd402]

Nice layout, love the detail, and the bridges. Great video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

More on Sunday...

[@jadenstookey7676]

wonderful, I'd love to see it sometime!!! it seems like lots of it is getting done!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check with Steve. Sure he'd love to show it off.

[@brianstraight9333]

Man, I got sweaty palms seeing that poor little train weeble wobble its way across the trestle. Steve must have nerves of steel, I get scared just picking up my equipment.

[@ToyManTelevision]

30 inch always looks like its about to fall over anyway. 7 feet up and it looks like a potential disaster.

[@brianstraight9333]

Toy Man Television I seem to remember that there were thoughts about opening the layout for the narrow gauge convention in 2017. Is this true? I have just caught the o scale bug and would love to see an A+ layout in person!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Don't think so. Defiantly for the NMRA in 2019 but that's a way off. We SHOULD have a layout then too.

[@brianstraight9333]

would that happen to be the 1/20.3 layout?

[@datahound2u]

That was amazing!

[@MrBlue-ib7oi]

i agree!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Next week we look at the village at the base of the bridge. WOW!!

[@jonnybeck6723]

...and the bridge wobbles just enough!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ill bet a bet less than a real one.

[@MustangsTrainsMowers]

And I don't know where, Nowhere is. I remember as a teenager building a bridge over one end of my Queen size bed with Erector set pieces as I had a ton of Erector set parts. Not a single Lionel train passed over it though. I sold all my Erector sets to start my lawn service 25 years ago. And I highly regret selling it.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Buy a new one! Really, get on eBay. Have some fun with it. Steve is spelling it Knowhere. Just built the depot, so needed a sign. And the lake is Lake Inferior.

[@jonnykelly556]

That bridge is incredible! I bet the engineers and the passengers in those little trains are sweatin' bullets and crapping bricks as they trundle across it. As it happens, I was wondering if you could put me in touch with a friend of yours that you mentioned in a previous video about Steve's layout who scratch builds locomotives. I'm an O-scale 3-railer, and there's a few "oddball" locomotives I would love to add to my collection.

[@ashevilletrainman6989]

Best layout everb

[@ToyManTelevision]

Check this weeks too!!

[@ashevilletrainman6989]

Toy Man Television will do

[@bigeddie1231]

that is awesome thank you for sharing

[@ToyManTelevision]

More this week...

[@GreatBasinCarShops]

There's a prototype for it - the Salt Lake & Los Angeles had a station called Nada (Spanish for "nothing"), and there is a place in Colorado called No Name.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love that sort of thing!! There is a place here in Utah called Tubar. Siding on the Rio Grande. Back in the day it had no name, but the guy who had the saloon (tent) put a sign by the siding "To Bar" with an arrow. Name sort of stuck.

[@tom7601]

The bridge looks like a snake! A real work of art...

[@ToyManTelevision]

Wood snake. With brass pins.

[@duframe2008]

It would be fun to join you and your wife on an adventure. You two are very entertaining. I've seen you travel to Steve's place many times. Where is he located and does he give tours of his railroad? I would love to visit it sometime.

[@ToyManTelevision]

HI! We are all in Salt Lake City. Except when Karyn and I are off screwing around with stuff. Steve is here also, and The National NMRA Convention is here in one year. AND the Big Boy should be here in May. So we expect tens of thousands here. Steve doesn't open the railroad often. But it will be on the NMRA tour in Aug 2019.

[@LeoStarrenburg]

Any info on the diesel @ 01:30 ? Oh and a BIG 'Thank You' for showing us all these goodies !!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Steve built it out of a re gauged Athern loco. Not sure the prototype, but mostly scratch from plastic.

[@LeoStarrenburg]

OK, thank you

[@IkmalFauzan]

awesome!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Amazing!!!!!!!

[@jaylisonbee2568]

Is Steve going to have an open house anything in the near future? I have one or two family members who would love to see this in person!Good stuff!

[@ToyManTelevision]

At some point. No idea when. I'll ask.

[@ocalicreek]

Add a space and Nowhere becomes Now Here! As in, it feels like Spring is Now Here in California...heh heh. Hang in there and keep playing with trains.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Stay dry!! I was stuck in my house for 3 days in the flood in Ojai in 2006. 10 years...

[@danielramsey1959]

I swear I'm buying an aircraft hangar when i decide to build a layout!

[@ToyManTelevision]

With no stairs!! We are so sad Steve feels he can’t stay in the house. Knowhere is now gone and the bridge goes next. I hate seeing this layout going away we are following the disassembly on the channel.

[@hackenbeckproductions2683]

2:12, I found a Sodor Fuel Tanker. Probably Bachmann. But great video too!! Is it the Bridge to Knowair, or the Bridge to Nowhere? I'm getting confused. Plus, that guy is amazing!! Do you have any tips for me on how to build a good looking O-Gauge layout Toy Man Television? I need info since I'm building mine and my father's O-Gauge layout after all the house projects we're doing.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I am planning a show right away on how to design the layout. Some of my favorite ideas for track plans. I’ve started on my app but it’s not moving along very fast. It’s sort of like me just not moving fast but moving! Steve like spelling my name of the town Knowhere. When he first started on that bridge I said but it doesn’t go anywhere it’s Steve legendary bridge to nowhere! Well the name just stuck.

[@VeteranMilitiaMan]

Does steve have a channel?

[@tjorgensen2007]

Would like to have a train that would start from my computer room and go through the walls around the basement and wind it self upstairs through the living room, kitchen, bathrooms, and the bedrooms before heading back to my computer room to start the run again...that will be awesome...but not for my wife though.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Watch "John Goldfarb Please Go Home". old movie. Palace with trains EVERYWHERE.

[@ellnoskitties3908]

Come visit beautiful, sunny Arizona, where it is 77 degrees today at 2 PM as I write this

[@ToyManTelevision]

Planning on it!!! But by the time we get there it will be 125.

[@guitargatekeeper]

:)

[@krromas1966]

the bridge to nowhere is the bridge from somewhere

[@ToyManTelevision]

Bridges are, by definition, over the top.

[@b3877896]

or . . . over-rated?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just over the top...

[@kirknitz8152]

Or Now Here.....

[@ryank6931]

Hi my name is Ryan I live in Reno Nevada and I am very sad to say that due to rain and flooding the Nevada state railroad museum in Carson City was flooded

[@ToyManTelevision]

CRAP. What was damaged????

[@ryank6931]

😢😥 very sad

[@ryank6931]

The annex the depot the museum some equipment some passenger cars some wood is rotting on the railroad track due to water damage very sad

[@ToyManTelevision]

We need to get back there. Hope it's minor.

[@shaunlindheimer2186]

Steve needs a bigger home..

[@ToyManTelevision]

Add the 3rd floor......