I Moved to the East Coast!

[@floppaeditz123]

what a sweet kittie and what a sweet layout!!! 💓💓💓💓💓💓

[@TheBerkshireMainline]

Welcome home!! ***eagle screech***🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@2mnycats]

Michael, what's your cat's name? Best of luck in New England. Keep the video's coming when you have time. I watch them while I'm running trains or working in the house.

[@michaelramsey81]

Thanks! His name is Jack.

[@chasesrailwaylinesrr6447]

Like all the new updates Shame videos won't come out very often, Would like to see more detail about that Williams by (bachmann) locomotive, And I like how on your HO layout you have a old Jupiter on the display track

[@dagryffynhobby]

Woosta! I used to live in Westborough, east from you. Looking forward to seeing what you do with O scale

[@Burlington_Route]

Just saw this pop up after watching the 4-4-0 video. Super excited to see how this goes.

[@davidwhite1864]

Thanks for the update Michael. An O gauge room aswell awesome. You can run live steam on O gauge you know😁 Oh and by the way the carpet actually looks quite like grass. I fitted RC to a new engine I got. Real easy. All I did was follow what you did with the one Terry got for me so thanks for that. A video now and then will be just fine. Dont leave it too long though👍

[@theyettifromcanada3688]

Glad to hear you made it safe! Take good care and I'm sure you'll gonna be okay with whatever life slides your way. I've heard Massachusetts is a very pretty state and I look forward to seeing your videos on some tourist railway,layouts, helicopters or new ways to hunt Smurfs in the near future! Be great man!

[@Terrys-Steam-and-Bricks]

Awesome Michael! Canada’s loss is your native country’s (re)gain. I look forward to your O shenanigans.

[@CaptainCheezmo]

Those LED shop lights are great. I use them in my stock room and previously had them magnetized to the ceiling in my steel storage container. So much light.

[@michaelramsey81]

They are very nice. I do think they might actually be too much light for the camera to comfortably handle - I'm thinking about swapping them for two of the smaller light bars from the O scale room instead.

[@Badeumus]

Welcome to new england from a connectican! Yes we are all assholes but the good type. love ur content

[@ryanthesteamman]

Hey it's all good! At least you having a full time job will mean you'll earn more to spend on trains and such, you moved to a lovely state and you're back! That's all it matters! Best of luck to you in your new location and the future of this channel!!

[@ThatBIGTRAINGuy]

Good to see you got there OK and settling in well. 😊👍

[@BattleshipOrion]

I purposely watched this video to note something from your 2-8-0 conversion to 2-6-2 video: My prototypes are all in my head. As long as it looks right it's prototypical for my railroad. And many scoff at it because of the fact that one engine I have spec'ed out is essentially an ACL-64 locomotive with worse teething trouble than it did set in the 1930's (technologically), the response to the British Mallard, and local (to me as it was built locally) GS-4, and other contemporary steam engines is a 4-8-6 that looks alot like a T1, diesels are few & far between, but those that exist look like a mix between a GP9, GP30, and a DB class 261, with the strongest of freight engines being a 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone, and the average steam engine type being a 2-8-2, or 2-10-0....and if y'all that was crazy, y'all should see the navy. Needless to say I don't care for the "prototype" It made the hobby insufferable, and so I choose to NOT rivet count anymore and have my own locomotives(which is actually how my fictional nation of Tarvala came to be...i wanted a 4-6-0 that was not spec'ed by any makers of the type at all, and now I have the spec's all I need is a sacrifice preferably in HO, 'cuz while I do run N scale, that scale is not to be modified, or weathered (unless from factory), to small, and to young (3rd week of October is when it turns a year old)...also welcome to the east coast. Don't come to Lima, Ohio expecting to see the ol' locomotive works, it's just a gravel lot now, and as such, is a disappointment.

[@michaelramsey81]

I've always modeled mostly fictional locomotives as well. Some of them take inspiration from various prototypes, but none are exact matches.

[@TitanicKid]

First of all, that intro (more like first half of video) was amazing. The views, the music, *cat,* all of it was incredible. The O scale stuff looks really fun. It's been ages since I ran anything on FasTrack and I had forgotten how loud it was. Also it seems some problems never change. Your Williams 4-6-0 throws a traction tire, my 1948 Lionel 671 had one of its nickel rims come loose, same problem just with a different generation of trains. Also when I saw the thumbnail I thought this was an entirely different channel belonging to a friend of mine who I just saw today, so the "Moved to the East Coast" confused me until I realized it was actually you. Your new hairstyle makes you look almost exactly like him lol

[@michaelramsey81]

Thanks so much! Fastrack is definitely loud - I won't be using it for the permanent layout. As for the stylish new look... I just desperately need a haircut, lol.

[@BMMEC6000]

Welcome home, Michael! I hope I get to meet you someday, now that you’re in my neck of the woods!

[@Trainhead23]

glad to know that there is another train fan in the area

[@michaelphilo3525]

It was fun watching your O-scale train. What is the diameter of that track circle?

[@michaelramsey81]

It's O72 (six foot diameter).

[@modelrailfan37]

I really like the new set-up for the HO layout! It looks so old-time with the wooden walls behind it which really fits the theme well (since it’s a heritage line!) I do think the break in the backdrop due to the window looks a little odd, but there isn’t much you can do about that since wrapping the backdrop round the window wouldn’t work I’m guessing 😂. Looking forward to seeing the O Scale Layout!!! Also, are you still building your N Scale layout? I saw you post about it on the Facebook group ages ago but haven’t seen anything since

[@michaelramsey81]

Glad you like the setup! Yes, the N scale layout is still in the works. It's not the top priority right now though.

[@modelrailfan37]

@@michaelramsey81 cool! Can’t wait to see more!!

[@seaboard544]

@@michaelramsey81do u have any articulated engines, several companies make them

[@TheTransportationFanfromCA]

1:40 wow a Ferromex ACE up north. What’s next CN ACE in Mexico?

[@michaelramsey81]

I was surprised to see that too, lol. That clip was actually filmed in Washington on the first day of the trip.

[@TheTransportationFanfromCA]

@@michaelramsey81 I love the paint scheme they choose for thier roster

[@trainboy7812]

Or even bug boy in asia 0.000000000000000000000000001 % chance of that happening

[@trainboy7812]

Big

[@VintageRenewed]

Not sure why but for some reason I thought you were gonna build both the o gauge layout and also a new ho layout

[@trainboy7812]

Did u fix the shay because the display track is now occupied by a old Bachmann 4-4-0

[@michaelramsey81]

I have not fixed the Shay yet. It'll happen at some point. Too many projects going on right now. Right now it's still packed up from the move.

[@canadaw.e6461]

oooh! i cant wait to see the new layout! but, i do have two questions! do you have any plans to expand the original HO scale layout? am just a bit curious :3 and the other is do you plan to have a place to crawl into the middle of the O scale layout, or will there be a lifting section? since i figure you probably would need either of them to get into the middle-

[@michaelramsey81]

1. The HO layout will probably stay as-is for a while, but I have toyed with the idea of adding a logging branch line along the wall, perhaps over the couches. Maybe eventually. 2. The O scale layout will have a hinged gate for access to the middle, similar to my old Red Oak HO layout.

[@canadaw.e6461]

@@michaelramsey81 1: interesting! well, whenever you end up doing this, if ever, ill be here to watch it! 2: makes sense! if you end up having it be like a life bridge, you could hide it decently well into the scenery!

[@trainboy7812]

You did say in the last video you might make a n scale layout how’s that going

[@michaelramsey81]

@@trainboy7812 Still in a half-built state, and has been for months. Not a top priority right now, but I'll get to it eventually.

[@trainboy7812]

Oh but can I you make a community post about it

[@trainboy7812]

You

[@trainboy7812]

Now u can compare 22 with Strasburg 89

[@michaelramsey81]

I've actually sold 22 to a friend of mine, who is working on turning it into a model of a Pere Marquette 2-6-0. I might still try to build a model of 89, but I'll probably start with an IHC Mogul this time.

[@trainboy7812]

Oh crap we need lore😊

[@trainboy7812]

Whoops

[@trainboy7812]

W&SC was in desperate times due to the snow storm in Baltimore sales went down so the ceo Michael purchased a empty plot of land in Massachusetts pulled up the rails and transported the engines on CSX freight line. It really was a sight to be held for the people fortunate enough to see it. Then the W&SC was meant with a delema. Ether cut corners or sell one of their engines. The CEO chose to sell engine number 22. Next restoration for the shay is now starting and a narrow gauge railway is in production.

[@trainboy7812]

I mean the fires in Canada

[@dwiggy3153]

Welcome Home to the pothole state

[@michaelramsey81]

Thanks! I'm definitely glad I sold my Mustang before moving here - it would not have appreciated the potholes. I bought a 2006 Camry instead, which handles them much better.