LarkSpur Train Shop - Tour & Haul - A New Addition to the Layout!

Me and the family decided to visit LarkSpur Train Shop again and I was excited to see what they had. As it turned out they had several new pieces including two gorgeous steam locomotives and some really interesting buildings. I ended up buying some stuff including an entire circus scene, a Hershey box car and some cork road bed. All great additions to the layout in my books.

[@SB-cd2mx]

the circus is just awesome. Harrison you are my hero !!!

[@dkendrick1916]

Never thought the layout would get a circus. Now you need a circus train smt.

[@dkendrick1916]

@Samuel Olesek you’re right, I was think he should get some cars for it.

[@xxproboyxxdemon6669]

@@dkendrick1916 your profile picture is annoying

[@xxproboyxxdemon6669]

STOP!!

[@Redjintyman]

@@xxproboyxxdemon6669 hey. Stop bullying people now.

[@sergioarroyoguerrero5434]

Circus train and crasher with unstoppable fuel train.

[@rambaral340]

I wish i had a model train shop near me

[@patmckenna6207]

Me to

[@patmckenna6207]

I had one at my old house but we moved in to our new house in 2018

[@bpweatherford]

Me to

[@1jalenhurts412]

Same

[@AlexPadilla20110]

I live near one

[@BlaxlandRidge3]

Scrumptious circus has a nice ring to it

[@mratsfrailfan1894]

I like the shop tour videos

[@thomasmoje5926]

OK I have to visit that shop..Merritville is not too far away from where I live (near Lewiston, N.Y.). Now that the bridge restrictions are eased up I'll have to take a trip to that shop. Looks like a gold mine for model train fans. Enjoy your videos the best model railroading videos on KZbin.

[@sergioarroyoguerrero5434]

Excellent tour in train store. I love 86' boxcars and passengers cars in HO. 🎃 BNSF locomotive in HO. N scale trains. Freight cars and passengers.

[@lotsatrains]

Super great buy on that circus, I would bet the people and animals alone on that display would be way more expensive than that.

[@borailroadfan8964]

Nice haul! Great video SMT!

[@haroldalexis4200]

This is award winning. All that was viewed is a winner! The circus scenery looks like IHC, you got a gem. I wish I had a hobby store like this in my tri- state area. Way to go. 👍🙂

[@robintheslavewr1513]

I love that intermountain cn f unit it's very pretty and I'd bet it runs great

[@chrislef5045]

Wonderful memories with this Lark spur visit! I live in Montreal's West Island but visited Lark Spur many many times when visiting family in Merrickville. They have passed on now, and we have not been in several years. In fact my 'dive' into DCC began there back in 2003, purchasing about 20 decoders to convert non-DCC locs... Great memories.-CL

[@DowneastProductions211]

Awesome video keep up the good work!

[@markushofmann813]

Hello from Germany. My English is so bad, so I use a free program - I hope you can read in English what I mean in German! ;-) In minute 6:45 you can see a fall platform that was used to supply locomotives with coal. Of course, these crash platforms could only be erected where the topography allowed it. In addition, this type of coaling is personnel and material-intensive and originated from the early days of steam locomotive coaling. The coal wagons, which were delivered to the coaling level, had to be unloaded by hand, shoveled into the hunt and then either unloaded by crane over the coal box of the locomotives or poured directly into the tenders using the chutes. The model is manufactured by Pola No. 671 for H0 gauge and No. 216 for N gauge.

[@chrisbraun9984]

The Circus scene is pretty cool!

[@davidztog9011]

Send in the clowns... Harrison, I believe your viewers are most likely steaming with anticipation about the mystery purchase. In addition to that, I hope you didn't pass on the Atlas BNSF. As for the circus, you're going to have to add another layout branching off the Mainline as a circus back in the day was typically held in a field outside of town. And you may want to add a small carnival including a ferris wheel into the mix. Thanks for sharing. 👍 👍 👍

[@Ryanfry262]

I love my Bachman silver series rolling stock. They are lacking detail, but they are very good cars. My cabinet is full of them

[@trainstorm1225]

Nice haul! It’s getting close to that time of year! The best time for trains!

[@dinnerfromthediningcar1080]

That arch bridge is gorgeous!!! And the circus? Wow! What detail...and what a price! Now you have to make room for it on the layout. Good luck with that! And you'll have "the elephant in the room". All that roadbed...FREE?? Can't beat THAT price!! All in all, a great tour video, Harrison.

[@Brianrockrailfan]

great video 👍

[@dbtech7914]

Thanks for sharing, great deals on houses and that circus. That hotel looks like a Howard Johnson's. You can never have too many Hershey box cars!

[@erikthetrainfan7768]

That circus is really neat

[@lackawannarailfan5206]

Great video! Today I went to a train store and bought an Accurail boxcar kit!

[@d.cthehobbyist2252]

Nice score on the circus

[@robby062]

It’s funny you mention the train station that was turned into a model restaurant. That’s the Atlas Roadside Inn, which shares tooling with their Suburban Station Kit.

[@MMRails]

I made sure to play this video on the tv so that my wife could watch along side me. I was like “oooh look, they have the Rapido LRC’s in stock.” Hint hint, wink wink. Thanks for the tour! You always do a great job advertising for Jeff. He should give you more than free cork. ;) Hint hint wink wink. Haha. I’ll be going for sure during his annual no tax sale.

[@marksinthehouse1968]

We had stores like this in the U.K. all closing down and all now mostly online ,there is nothing like going into a model shop and looking around many times I’ve gone in and said I just get a coach or wagon and come out with a locomotive ,dvd and more than one coach I have a nice Amtrak streamliner from athern and a BNSI loco from Bachman. ,take care 👍🏻😊

[@johnramirez5996]

Now you need what we call the lock and key to go with your show. The key to open a show has always been the merry go round. The lock is the Ferris wheel. The lock closes the show. It's the first lights to shut off. The merry go round hits its music and spins to open the day. Have you ever looked at the mechanical carnival models? They are amazing! I would love to build my own. I've never seen a model of the gravitron or starship 2000. Both same just starship is bigger. Trailer mounted a version of what most pilots and astronauts have to endure to become what they are? 65 mph at 3 1/2 g's of force. I was the man in the center at 1 time in my life. Man did i put on a show in there! Floating in the air walking the walls. Not a life choice. Just helping him get started. Teaching new people how to set the rides up. Maintenance the machines and tearing them down and packing them up. Was my younger years. Didn't really have a direction a goal or even a future. I liked building machines and cars trucks. The best was I got to see more of the world and meet the people. Seen places i couldn't afford to go. Places most can't dream about going cuz they can't afford to bearly go to carnival let alone go to an island inside the 🇺🇸. Lucky i met someone who owned a carnival.

[@OttawaModelRailFan]

Great video! Looks like you got some good stuff! I cant wait to see the other item you got!

[@SMTMainline]

It's something different alright!

[@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi5399]

Awesome Hairston I love meet you someday in Canada 🇨🇦 your awesome buddy I love your trains video collection

[@dazbry7612]

Awesome circus man haha

[@TRRailfan]

I wish I could go to that place. It looks like a great store.

[@SMTMainline]

If ever you're in Canada, near Ottawa I would highly recommend visiting them.

[@DoubleSpikeProductions]

Yes! Those are massive HO scale 86ft Autoparts Boxcars. Quite cool pieces of rollingstock. They were able to become so long due to the light weight of the autoparts being shipped. Some are being replaced by just containers I believe. But those boxcars are quite common between Detroit and Kansas City. Atleast thats the only line Ive seen them on.

[@robertknight4672]

That model power building kit that said Luigi's Trattoria is neat. In Stoughton Massachusetts we actually have the restaurant called Mario's Trattoria.

[@randallellison6421]

Nice tour of the hobby shop SMT! Those 86' auto parts boxcars are most likely Walthers products judging by the coupler setup. Athearn also made these cars back in the blue box days, however while the car itself is quite good the coupler setup had quite a bit of binding as they were a piece that shared the mounting holes with the truck. Cool circus module too! Take care!

[@Trainman777]

Today has been a good day since SMT uploaded. Nice video.

[@SMTMainline]

Hahah, thank you!

[@CentralJerseyRailfan]

Those 86ft auto parts boxcars are a recent release from Tangent Scale Models. Outstanding company who makes some of the finest rolling stock available

[@SMTMainline]

Very interesting.

[@patmckenna6207]

Hi SMT I always wanted to meet you in real life also your trains are so cool

[@Killer-Of-Night]

At 2:09, those large boxcars are 86ft Auto parts Boxcars, as their name suggest, they carried Auto Parts. Not sure if they are used much anymore.

[@josephmurrill3644]

BlacknRed81 those 86ft boxcars are still around, they are used mostly in the Midwest area for example......Michigan. You won’t see them hardly at all in the western part of the USA.

[@Killer-Of-Night]

@@josephmurrill3644 Explains why I never seen them.

[@alexadler1335]

Very cool I bet you got that intermountin locomotive.

[@davidwilliams5850]

Awesome!

[@wyattleo2335]

Hi I Like your videos i’m coming to larkspur line because I like your videos!

[@SMTMainline]

That's awesome, I love that store.

[@cwf081166]

Great trip! I would love to see a more detailed video upload about the people, animals, attractions inside the circus, your plans for the circus on you're layout and maybe a future circus train.(diesel, stream, electric)

[@Jonathan-Adames-402]

nice train show love it mAN

[@Petemonster62]

SMT - The restaurant building was made by Atlas; it was a modification of the Atlas depot. The Hershey car is actually an ice-cooled refrigerator car; it has the ice hatches at each corner of the roof & hinged doors instead of sliding doors.

[@heyitshenry1383]

Cool!

[@channeldeleted2586]

Nice

[@shipbuilding1000]

The large high-profile boxcars you saw are 86' high cubes, used for hauling auto parts.

[@warbabyproductions]

The 2-8-2 mikado is a mantua chasis I believe cpr Royal hudson is either a bowser or vintage 4-6-4 chasis

[@SMTMainline]

I see

[@mercuryoak2]

Id say your correct . I have 2 mantua boilers and they look just like them but to fit a chassis on a Pacific it don't work too well I tried to anyway. But I want to build 2 mikados and then i have a chassis for a Pacific i know where im getting the boiler for that its at my loco flea market if its still there .

[@mercuryoak2]

Oh I knew you were going to get something this is awesome. I wish the hobby shop i went to had a consignment section. But i plan on going to the flea market I want to see if there is something there for me lol like ez track for a train around the tree is what im looking for. Awesome purchases Harrison. rock on! 6:44 thats what's it for moving coal. Looks to be for ship yard like when titanic era steam ships

[@sergioarroyoguerrero5434]

The RMS Titanic is a 3800 m in the Atlantic Ocean. Sinked the April 15th of 1912. Crashed with a iceberg. 1500 passengers died. 700 saved.

[@mercuryoak2]

@@sergioarroyoguerrero5434 ok ??? And

[@garysprandel1817]

Coal dock bit seems to be part of the Walthers steel mill set and the " converted train station " looks to be the old Atlas Howard Johnson restaurant kit. Not surprised you didn't know what it was as HoJo was well on it's way to oblivion when I was your age or younger ( for reference I just turned 59 last month) and is essentially extinct. Also further confirmation of the boxcars as 86 foot auto parts cars. They used to be common as dirt passing through my home town here in Chicago's northwest suburbs heading back and forth from the GM plant up in Janesville WI until the plant shutdown 10 12 years ago.

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks for all the information

[@garysprandel1817]

@@SMTMainline not a problem. What's the point of accumulating a head full of seemingly useless information if you don't share it😸

[@sonic23233]

If you ever visit Pittsburgh go see the the Lionel layout at the Carnegie science center

[@Alco244]

That BC Rail unit is a Alco C-425. Fun fact: The real 802 is still running on the Delaware Lackawanna in Scranton, PA as their 2452!

[@thiruraj3866]

That thumbnail is fresh

[@SMTMainline]

Thx

[@JoseAntonio-xc3ju]

Parabéns pelo circo !...Abraços!

[@cnwproductions]

I used to see a lot of those 85’ box cars up in Illinois near Chicago

[@briansearles4473]

I don't Know where this shop is, but some of their prices seem really steep? Their used building section had a few interesting items though. Congrats on the cork deal.

[@importednascar]

You should've gotten the Conrail boxcar! Oh well!

[@mitchellhoepner6435]

WELL FOLKS

[@liam.m.f4593]

SMT if you really want to see a BIG train store, you should check out the Scale Model Supplies in Saint Paul, MN. They have a huge stock of new and used trains, in various scales.

[@SMTMainline]

Sounds like a great store!

[@liam.m.f4593]

@@SMTMainline it is a great store but the location is on one of the more troublesome streets, so if you go there, just be aware of your surroundings.

[@milwaukeemodeler1029]

Those very large box cars are auto parts cars. They were used in the mid 70’s for the huge auto industry.

[@SMTMainline]

Very interesting.

[@milwaukeemodeler1029]

Indeed they were. Some of the largest cars to ever run in America and I think Canada aswell

[@ReadingAreaRailfan]

I Forgot about Canadian dollars 🤣 in the US those hoppers with the FRED only retail for about $40

[@off-roaderak_4768]

The two camper in the back at the right angle they look like a passager car

[@joesask857]

NICE

[@Staples-vt5li]

I've been there before great store I don't live far

[@rouell5630]

I will honestly buy that BNSF train thats in the thumbnail

[@fanofblueshockey107]

By the way why now made some Lionel ho trains can work on Bachmann tracks and that includes the polar express as well

[@artroberttucker4218]

You could add a train spurr track to the Circus with sleeper cars baggage diner & coaches & stock cars for the animals Lions Tigers & 🐘 elephants

[@SMTMainline]

Not a bad idea!

[@WTafterburner]

Lmao I went to despatch junction today too lol!!!! Nice haul SMT!

[@SMTMainline]

I feel like I've heard of that store before. Hope you had a good time there

[@jamandsteamtram5514]

oh boy

[@JBofBrisbane]

6:10 that "station converted to a restaurant" is actually a kit of a Howard Johnson's restaurant. Not sure who made them.

[@mercuryoak2]

There is a station in Palmer Massachusetts thats called The Steaming Tender it was a new haven railroad/boston and maine type station

[@delawarebeachboy]

Atlas made them

[@shipbuilding1000]

Yes, it was an Atlas kit. The club I belonged to as a kid had one on their layout

[@MarceloBenoit-trenes]

I want several Rapido RDC´s but they are expensive and I must purchase other items before them... but they are on my list!

[@SMTMainline]

Yeah, that's the thing about Rapido - Great products but they ain't cheap.

[@justkaleb28]

Hi smt I think I am your biggest fan lol at least I hope

[@justkaleb28]

Did he see this comment is that why he highlighted it

[@justkaleb28]

Nvm something was just wrong with my end of KZbin

[@SMTMainline]

Thank you!

[@myvideosetc.8271]

8:50 Roco has a whole series of "Circus Krone" rolling stock.

[@basementsans858]

And I wish I had tons of trains

[@mybrainmeatshurt]

4:38 Those are kits from a company called Branchline. Putting their kits together takes time and patience but the detail is great. I think they shifted away from rolling stock kits and switched to structures and scenery.

[@SMTMainline]

They looked nice, I just don't recall seeing those boxes. Good to know what they're about.

[@off-roaderak_4768]

The Varny circus train goes with it.

[@CSXrailfan814]

I want to bet that thing thats getting its own video is that intermountain CN f unit.

[@MattKonsol]

That is amazing bro! I don’t know what to say!

[@SMTMainline]

Thanks!

[@MattKonsol]

@@SMTMainline Anytime sir

[@natestrains1166]

I think it might be the BNSF GP38-2, since he put it in the thumbnail. Or maybe one of those Intermountain F-Units.

[@SMTMainline]

Or something completely different~

[@alcopower5710]

Really thought you would be picking up the coal loading dock but very nice haul nonetheless. 👍

[@MichiganRailfan_]

Those big boxcars are 86 foot auto part boxcars we have a lot of them in Detroit

[@SMTMainline]

Interesting

[@RailRoadRex439]

Well I know where I’m going if I ever make a trip to Canada

[@theunowhoknocks]

Hey SMT, have you ever seen a CF7?

[@fairportrails107]

I have ex atsf

[@Taggart00]

6:48 loooks like a coal staithe

[@henkherta1vanzitteren50]

Beautiful train chop Is this in your place,Greeting from the Netherlands

[@safetran50]

The boxcars are 86’ auto parts rail car.

[@Bikeguychicago1]

at 3:53 oh no the awvr unstoppable (because the number is 777)

[@bryanwhat2268]

yeah circus train

[@the_autism_express]

2:08 Those are highcube vans

[@bpcXD]

3:53 the true 777

[@theoldbayrailfan]

The Box cars are 40 foot box cars

[@PoconoMountaineer405]

SMT, what type of train controller do you recommend for me my old tyco one broke (HO scale)

[@minecraftertracey01]

so thats funny u showed the soo unit as cp475 just dropped soo 4412 in my tows yard

[@timothydemarco3525]

Who is the music by at the end of the video Harrison?

[@pipedreammachines7380]

Notification squad

[@elleryparsons5766]

Here a thing to Remember to All M. Railroaders. Go to A Trainshop Garanteeing you Are leavin a train shop with something one Way or Another trust me it’s true.

[@evanstraintubeyt6950]

What track do u use on ur ho layout? I want to get out of modeling with Bachmann

[@mistermadmachine6311]

🤔where are you actually putting the circus

[@andybrown7311]

smokey joe was here