Southern Pacific Rocklin Sub HO Scale Model Railroad Layout Tour with Daylight Dave Houston

[@adventureseeker9800]

Burbank Junction was/is a greet spot! I live about 5 minutes from there. As a kid, I loved watching the S.P. run locals across the S.P. Burbank branch across the San Fernando Valley along Chandler Blvd. Those days are looooong gone.

[@robertdarby7197]

I got the chance to operate on this layout in February! Beautifully done layout!

[@littlebitseaton2925]

Gorgeous layout and super scenery.

[@railrunner01]

Thank you very much for posting the track plan. It really helps supporting the description of the operations. Very few videos do that.

[@Death_From_Below]

Loved your comment "It's my railroad so deal with it. " Beautiful layout, thank you for sharing.

[@IndustrialParrot2816]

i was about to say the same thing

[@BlackWolfessUSCM]

I lov seeing freelnce prototyp lyouts and oners who ply by the "My Lyout My Rules" mntra. Awesome.

[@ed2245]

Great layout. Thanks for sharing

[@bobmartin3018]

Beautiful layout Dave

[@TheMonDon1721]

I loved this layout

[@rollinwithunclepete824]

I always figure that's the owner's empire so I can deal with it, Dave! Great looking layout and thanks to TGS for posting it.

[@em-pinmanspandemoniumpinba4193]

S.P. all the way! Be Specific, Southern Pacific. Super layout! The transition era of the 1950's is a great era to model for sure!

[@kennethmccann6402]

What a beautiful train layout and I know train routes very well.

[@gunsaway1]

Beautiful

[@noelwilson224]

We met Dave H.and his wife years ago on a SVGRS open house tour at our home in Rio Linda, Ca. About time he finely got his trains out and running. The layout build is really looking great. Very Nice Ho layout, Dave.

[@johnmcwade1]

Gorgeous! Super realistic, best painted backdrops EVER, just very cool 😎. Thanks for the tour!

[@FourMaxK1]

Very nice!!

[@kentcourtney5535]

Superb layout! I love my Daylight Sales steam sound CDs. Steam sound CDs form a background to most of my operating sessions even though I have upgraded to DCC sound. I let the CDs play at low volume in the background and people have said that I have the best sounding DCC sound they’ve heard. I think it is really the CDs playing in the background that adds to the effect. Thank you for your contributions to model railroading! I think Tsunami DCC sound is the best, too.

[@markfrench8892]

Artois!! Love it. I worked the industries at Artois when I worked for the Cal Northern. I'm glad to see that someone has modeled it. Great layout. Thanks for sharing.

[@prsearls]

Beautiful railroad and it must be loads of fun to operate. I've been an SP fan and modeler since 1965. I'm out of model railroading now but still have all my HO brass (mostly Westside) locomotives and several test-run only SP O-scale (two rail) steam and diesel models in their boxes.

[@bobmartin3018]

Great looking layout Dave

[@1stArizonaSub]

Hello from the Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia. Lovely layout. Beautiful scenery and backdrops. Nice trains too. I hope my layout can reach this caliber one day.

[@tsgmultimedia]

Greetings, and thanks for checking out the layout tour!

[@LordRusty5]

I love the "Layout Tours" video series, John. And I love the guys who believe in having fun with their trains! That's what the hobby needs more of ... fun, just fun! I don't have an operational layout, or a free-lanced layout ... I have a "fun-lanced" layout! "Deal with it" ... that cracked me up. Right on, Dave! Nice layout, and an even better attitude!

[@whisper31999]

WOW! Great work. I would love to see my trains rolling thru your scenes.

[@franswah100]

fantastic job on the naration and the layout!

[@TrainLordJC]

Excellent layout tour, well filmed and edited. Lucky guy to have such great help especially the awesome scenic painting. Thanks for sharing.

[@eal8645]

One great train show. Very professionally done. Enjoyed every minute of the video. Hoping for more.

[@tsgmultimedia]

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[@theubaum]

Incredible pike! So nice to see trains operating at scale speeds! The perfect icing to a great model railroad cake!

[@J3scribe]

Gorgeous layout. Very impressive craftsmanship!

[@n-scaleunionpacificevansto6569]

Fabulous layout, John! Thanks for sharing it with us. ...Roy

[@jolliemark6294]

Beautiful layout, nise and simple I'm sure it's fun to run on....thanks for sharing it with us....Jack 😀

[@gunnyusmc4957]

Very nice my compliments sir

[@michaelhjerpe7763]

Beautiful and breathtaking! Thanks for sharing!

[@JoeG-firehousewhiskey]

very nice how he has the compeer and signals set up

[@JDsHouseofHobbies]

I love his attitude, "It's my layout. Deal with it." That is the way I look at it. I don't have the room to model most of the WP, so I model the Tidewater Southern, which means that the CZ will be detouring through Turlock!

[@biggiefitz6275]

What an awesome layout!

[@northwestfugitive3403]

You are the man!

[@tomebert7584]

the Rocklin sub vid.....came out great John. Dave the railroad looks great.

[@donaldmoore8920]

Awesome layout

[@danielboone3770]

Fantastico layout! I LOVE it!

[@normbenjamin]

Great job hope mine turns out 1/2 as nice.

[@LarryWGrant-dw6jo]

Two thumbs up John! Great layout and well-produced video. Top notch stuff!

[@TouchoftheBrushModelWeathering]

Beautiful layout! Great work John! Museum quality for sure. - Joey

[@marcusfinlayson9857]

I have a 484 southern pacific daylight it’s my dream locomotive

[@prsearls]

Me too, the Westside HO and an O-scale PSC model, both factory painted. The Daylight is my favorite steam locomotive.

[@SGTGhost]

oh my, Layout looks amazing. Love the Layout Tour John

[@markhayes6407]

Once you hear soundtraxx decoders everything else is no comparison. great layout

[@bnsfnscale]

Awesome layout, Thanks for sharing....Remco

[@TheBobservations]

Excellent. I would suggest you crew your engines to top it off for realism. Thanks.

[@hdspringer2561]

first, fantastic layout 🙏👍. John you made another awesome video🎬. 👏👏

[@codyseybold7977]

Idk if Dave will see this because of how long ago this video was filmed. But my dad grew up in north Hollywood in the 60s. When I was born in the 90s I went to school out in the valley and saw the old burbank line and used to get my HO trains from Roundhouse in North Hollywood and Trainshack in burbank on Hollywood Way. Where is your layout located?

[@IMRROcom]

Hello, Dave. If I remember correctly you sat with me and the Wife at Desert ops 2018 in Arizona and chatted up a storm.

[@markfrench8892]

Something I forgot to mention about the town of Artois was that it's was settled by German immigrants and was originally named Germantown. When the United States got involved in WW I they decided to change the name of the town to Artois to show they patriotism. Why they chose a French name its not lnown, but they did. And now you know the rest of the story.

[@nathandelay]

Cool

[@sonysnapper]

Ok, I really want to know how you do the train recognition

[@sparky107107]

you think about it ,, dcc is just the same as dc .. they did blocks to run trains ,, yet dcc we do blocks with circuit breakers , and for signals just to see where they are

[@Foxbodypartytime]

Why do the daylight coaches have shared trucks?

[@dabulphilly]

This wasn’t just built for me it was built for 12 ppl classy guy

[@BritanniaPacific]

An observation car on the rear of the freight train, that’s one for the books.

[@Eserchie]

Business car, for railroad or shipping execs. Actually pretty common on hotshot freights in the 50s

[@michaeldeckert6023]

@@Eserchie My father was an executive officer with Southern Pacific. And yes that's the way they traveled. There 3 bedrooms, on board a porter and chef . There was a dining room that sat 10. Oddly enough and understandably the engineer and conductor on board didn't like having that car attached to their train. Big speedometer was in the back window.

[@WasatchGarandMan]

*Dont forget to wave*

[@SharkyCartelRailroad]

those decoders sound like chickens