Train Layout Tour - The UP Roundhouse in Ogden Utah with Animated Features

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

Ralph and Rosie... One can't help but fall in love with these two sweethearts, who have spent their time together taking an interest in each others lives and hobbies! Their model railroad is one of a kind! Such attention to detail... and the animation on the railroad is totally amazing! I learned so much, visiting this couple and this wonderful model railroad! Thanks Ralph and Rosie for inviting us!! :D

[@haninraisouni5954]

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[@indecisivewolf5620]

I can only hope Ralph and Rosie's layout is preserved when they're no longer able to work on it anymore. It's seriously impressive and just amazing to look at. Deserves to be in a proper museum someday!

[@powderriver2424]

I’m just amazed by Ralph he is somebody of a dying generation, he reminds me of my grandfather and father who had skill sets that were able to fabricate and built just about anything. It is wonderful to see this incredible layout that is one year older than me! this was such a neat video.

[@adriengadson3544]

This is what the new youtube railroaders need to see. High quality and excellent construction and engineering on a model , not just flat gigantic layouts with tons of locomotives.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I think small is better. I suspect it’s possible to put this much detail into a huge mile long railroad but I’ve never seen it. This is a diamond. Flawless and not too big.

[@ocalicreek]

As a 40-something modeler who loves to build the "old school" craftsman models, I hope I live as long as Ralph and have as many years of enjoyment from these classic (and modern) models. Thanks for sharing another inspiring video. I smiled when I saw the SS Ltd Jennings lumber...probably more of those still in boxes than on layouts. Great layout, great video.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I love this kits. Built a hopper car, 100% wood, looks great, no on e ever guesses its wood. Love SS kits!! I've built Dorothy's house twice.

[@gradycain6399]

Ok my jaw is on the ground. Absolutely brilliant. Ralph you are a true craftsman. Old school rules! Thank you for this incredible look at a true old-school masterpiece...

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are planning a trip to his 7 1/2 inch gauge railroad

[@timdonnelly4771]

Its a work of art. My Dad was a lifetime employee for UP in Omaha HQ, and I worked for UP in college summers '78 & '79 for a special projects surveying crew from Laramie to North Platte, so I got to tour a lot of the RR yards and the old Cheyenne round house. Just beautiful.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Isn’t this a great layout? As you know it’s just like a real roundhouse

[@azmike1]

Ralph is a mechanical and electrical genius. Really enjoyed this fantastic layout. I love the old school stuff. Great inspiration and an incredible life led by Ralph and his UP layout. Thank you!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ralph is AMAZING!!!!!

[@steverodgers8425]

If there was a National Railroad Hobbyist Hall of Fame Ralph would be amongst the inaugural class. He is a true renaissance man of modeling and an inspiration to all railroad hobbyists. This is genius level performance of art and engineering.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Long history of doing the most amazing models!! We need to get a better look at his live steam.

[@bebopsky]

When you think of the time spent to build this, the craftsmanship, the detail, you have to wonder why 13 people gave this video a thumb down?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ralph really has an amazing layout. As soon as the sun comes back we are off the their live steam railroad in the desert.

[@FiferSkipper]

5.3k likes and 113 dislikes, with that kind of ratio, they are usually just 'accidental' dislikes... cheers!

[@eliteproductions7636]

Is this layout open too the public? If so where is it?

[@danbytp]

It's the 13 jealous people.

[@johnkulpowich5260]

Because. Their jealous. Or ignorant

[@Mike-tg7dj]

WOW! What a picture of that period of time! Not only is it an image of 1968 HO scale model railways, but also capture what the Union Pacific Railroad looked like at the transition from steam power to diesel-electric power is an epic image. The detail of set amazing especially with respect mechanical operation fluidity of that period of time. I could write about them but, Dale, Sir, you are the best at narrating I think they ought to watch this show. The UP, the artwork that is this layout, the man who built it are national treasures and thank you Dale for sharing this with us. Again I say, Wow!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Mike 1958 wow thanks!!! (Blush). One of the things I love about this rail road, and there’s just so many things to love about this rail road, is that the layout and the time period modeled are almost exactly the same!! A model built in 1968 of a shop in 1958 ish. The shop was exactly like this in 1968. Only the locomotives were different. And as Ralph had bee hanging around the roundhouse in 1958 he knew how to model it!

[@FJX2000_Productions]

Absolutely AMAZING. I couldn’t help but get giddy at all the little automation details! What a genius! Wish I could see it in person!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

As he is now mostly into live steam 1/8 scale, he has not changed that layout much in a decade. BUT all these little fun animations.... Can't pick a fave.

[@ellesmerewildwood4858]

And the ingenuity to do it all without computers. Ralph's the Michelangelo of the HO model railroad. What an absolutely magnificent creation.

[@mthomas8327]

What a wonderful layout I've never seen anything like it! This brings out the kid in me, the intrigue & amazement of discovering something fascinating!

[@LTRegulate]

50 years ago, when I was 10 years old, I can still remember when my Grandfather, who was a Union Pacific engineer that operated an NW-2 switch engine in the Ogden rail yards, let me into the cab of the engine and actually drive the train a short distance in the yard and hit the train horn. An experience of a lifetime.

[@ToyManTelevision]

My uncle works for Penn Central. But when he was visiting in town a couple of times he took me down to the union pacific. Train guys or train guys and so they would let him take my brother and myself I’ve been to the cab Locomotive. Typically your nephew not because those were my favorite

[@davidgray1974]

Such an amazing layout! It has aged quite well and his attention to detail and automation was too cool. Still can't believe this layout is almost 60 years old.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? Some of the really old layouts are the best!!

[@struck2soon]

STUNNING! Never get tired of seeing this layout. It may be 'old school', but quality never goes out of date.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It's just amazing!! Love the animations.

[@emeraldvalleywoodworking]

Unbelievable!!! Thanks a bunch, Toyman for bringing us along.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Old School is cool!!

[@jimkammerer8028]

DETAIL AND AUTOMATION JUST FANTASTIC INDEED VERY GOOD LAYOUT. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@luisv7117]

wow very impressed, the details are out this world, well done see we use to play with those toys and build the layouts, today's kids can't get their heads of tablets and cell phones what a shame. Mr. Ralph Ms Rosie thank you for sharing

[@larryschmitt2513]

That was totally Amazing to see, Ralph is such a artisan. Thank you for sharing!

[@jimkammerer8028]

AN GREAT LAYOUT A THING OF BEAUTY . I APPRECIATE THE VIDEO AND YOUR TIME THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS WITH YOUR SUBSCRIBERS VERY INTERESTING AND IMPRESSIVE AND INFORMATIVE. 👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@doltonmurray1625]

Never boring. Oh Karyn, I bet you were drooling over those light switching lanterns. Thanks for another great show.

[@robertswickard2818]

there are modelers and then there are true artists ,I doesn't need to be said which one he is or will ever be , a true work of ART !

[@thegaper1090]

I actually had tears in my eyes. My late father was really into this back in the 60’s. This was a refreshing and nice video. You can’t get any better than this when it comes to model railroading. I’m sure I’ll watch this video many, many more times. 😊👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi. This is one of the best layouts. Glad you like it. Do stay safe.

[@franktuckwell196]

That layout just takes your breath away, it deserves to be managed in a museum when they are no longer around. To lose such amazing excellence would be criminal. If ever anybody wants to know 'How Its Done', then heres you lesson.deep respect.

[@ToyManTelevision]

And most of the features have been working great for 50 years!

[@danielboone3770]

I love this layout. I too love the Big Boy locomotives and animated features as well. And this layout is no exception.

[@ToyManTelevision]

This is so amazing. And the locomotive collection!

[@slam854]

This is truly a "Work of Art" layout. The details are so finely finished and varied it is just mind boggling. When I lived in Santa Barbara I had a HO garden railroad which ran both passenger and freight, steam and early diesel. Blue jays would watch the California Zephyr from the power lines. Must have resembled a snake because they would fly down and kick the lead engine off of the track. Train shop owner I used to buy supplies from invited me to visit a rail enthusiast's home where a 2000 sq. ft. addition was added to the home for his layout. He had many routes all meandering from one end of the layout to the other. Train orders would be written for goods to be picked up and delivered to towns along the branches and main lines. They even had a true Southern Pacific dispatchers office who dictated train movements. It took about a dozen people to run the operation of evening fun. Owner of the layout designed and built high end restaurant kitchens around the world. This is how he let off steam when he was home to re-group. Exquisitely fine as his operating train line was I have to say Ralph and Rosie's layout pushes it over the edge. Thank you for putting together such a wonderful and informative documentation. Fine Work.

[@luisv7117]

Congratulations Mr. Ralph very impressed and perfectly done

[@j.r.a5387]

Im 58 and have been collecting train set pcs since I was a boy but never put it together in fear I might have to move.....but happy to see others made it happen....Thank you for the nice and informative video...

[@ToyManTelevision]

I always had a layout. Until about 1995. Now we have boxes of stuff. And building a layout slowly.

[@FiferSkipper]

That is a true gem of a layout! The level of detail and automation is just incredible! Thanks for the video tour.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just an amazing layout

[@1corycar]

THIS was a GREAT video! I discovered it 4 years after you posted it... but better late than never. I hope Ralph is still going strong, but if not, he (through you two) provide me with 17 minutes of joy. Those automated features were jaw dropping to me. Wow. Thanks for this!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Have you seen our show on the worlds largest backyard railroad? That’s Ralph’s 7 1/2 gauge railroad. Actually Vans railroad. But the one Ralph is helping with. He has 3 locomotives there.

[@jimkammerer8028]

JUST AN AWESOME GOOD JOB A TRUE CRAFTSMAN AND I APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR TIME HAVE A GOOD DAY. A VERY GOOD LOOKING LAYOUT. JUST AWESOME NICE WORK

[@donaldparlettjr3295]

What a layout. Love the old school magnet action. I'll bet you this layout made several railroad magazines over the years.

[@thecurtray]

you seem so nice it makes me glad i served my nation for people like you who i have never meet.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a great nation. Even Utah. Thanks for whatever you did!

[@kenshores9900]

How did I miss this video? You have so many contacts in the model railroad community. Really enjoyed the R&R Ry. Ralph is truly a truly gifted person. Waiting for the next episode.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Did you see the show on his brass locomotives?

[@ToyManTelevision]

Scratch built and prototype brass locomotives with Ralph and Rosie.

[@kenshores9900]

@@ToyManTelevision I thought I had. He was has a hugh collecton of UP HO loco's I recall that.(very nich collection I might add)

[@daviemaclean61]

Fantastic layout in every respect. You guys have the best days out!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Looking for more. Went to Steves yesterday to see the village of Knowhere. WOW!!!!!!!! Put it on the Facebook page as I can't share stills here. (I guess)

[@beltfed4624]

What an incredible display, I would love to run my Spectrum 3-truck Climax on that layout, just to see it running on a piece of art like this. Amazingly done, I would spend hours closely studying all the tiny little details.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Small layout. But it shows size is not important. Every square inch is amazing!!!

[@sarjim4381]

I used to use tons of Utah Pacific castings and detail parts back in my scratch building days. Good to see he's enjoying his retirement with his layout.

[@Andy-Gibb]

Absolutely awesome work. Well done 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? Ralph.... king of modeling.

[@denisehunt6540]

Incredible work. What a skill set. This layout needs to go to a museum for all to see and remember Ralph and Rosie. It is a brilliant man and an accommodating spouse that built this wonderful piece of history. My husband models UP and stated this work needs to be remembered for all to appreciate. And old school not only works, but got us where we are today with the hobby. Just fabulous.

[@ToyManTelevision]

That’s the problem we are having across the hobby. These great layouts and the builders are dying off. Harry brinks was moved to the UP museum in Cheyenne. But that’s an exception. When Al died we had no idea what to do with his models. And Steve is dismantling his layout and turning it into dioramas. Which we are covering on the channel. No idea what will happen to Ralph’s layout. It should be in a museum. But after trying to find a home for Al’s it’s really hard to find a place.

[@kerridillon3120]

This is amazing!! Ralph & Rosie are to be treasured for sharing this with us! Thanks a million Toyman!

[@ToyManTelevision]

They are our good friends. I see a lot of them in us, doing things together. Karyn and I also love the same things, I don't recall ever seeing Ralph without Rosie.

[@connorgreenwood480]

Ok cool

[@bennettdickmann1602]

The layout is amazing. Impressive to say the least. Excellent production quality.

[@ToyManTelevision]

This is the same Ralph who shot much of the video that we showed of you went to 50 on the worlds largest 7 1/2 inch gauge private railroad last week

[@lord_scrubington]

eyyyy. It's this guy. I forgot about this channel until I accidental ran across it on a playlist. Now I remember how brilliant this Channel is.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!! Keep watching then you won’t loose us again!

[@thomasbarr7812]

Meticulous attention to detail, a true craftsman!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Have you seen this weeks show? The small steam locomotive and the 844 are Ralph’s locomotives. Same guy that built this.

[@nicholascarbone3753]

Fantastic layout! Loved the skill it took to automate the crane car, pile driver, coaling operations and other features. It demonstrates the wonder and fascination of model railroading!

[@ToyManTelevision]

AND all that stuff runs on this amazing layout!! A lot of coolness in pne place!

[@dafolker6210]

What a layout. Truely amazing.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ran into Ralph at the convention. We are still planning a trip to the live steam railroad in the west desert. And I would love to show a few more of his HO models.

[@jonathandball]

What a fantastic model railroad. Really enjoyed this. Thanks guys.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I wonder if it’s on the NMRA tour in July.

[@jonathandball]

@@ToyManTelevision It doesn't appear so, if I'm reading the following link correctly, under "Here are the PDF descriptions of the tours"...www.nmra2019slc.org/layout-tours/

[@mikewest3108]

Amazing. True love for his screwing around. So talented.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Most of his friends are gone now. Perhaps the best train molders the ever lived. When I look at those scratch built pilot models.... One thing to build a loco from castings, another to build from bar stock!!!

[@mikewest3108]

Absolutely. Hope more people carry on his craft.

[@fanatichighdesertrailroader]

A small area, boy! what a person can do with it .Excellent . Can't wait for "the live steam" show. I am also into the live steam hobby and have a home track that I run on. Next week I play at a home that has a spring meet. What fun that will be . Great video Dale as always keep up the good work.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Sounds like fun!! Take pictures!

[@radioguy1620]

I forgot how beautiful a layout can be if lit properly, very calming scene, nicely done video and congrats to the builder

[@ToyManTelevision]

This is one of the great great layouts mostly because of the amazing working features. When Ralph opens up that 200 ton crane it’s amazing. Little servo motors inside or just amazing all with rubber belts

[@TrainsandDioramas]

Just discovered this and have to say that this made my day! This truly shows that old is gold! The automation and the animation is outstanding and that coal discharge and cable ramp is going right in my wish list!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I bought one of the old tyco dumps. That’s what Ralph used. But there it sits. So many models!

[@brentnicol6391]

I am speechless. It looks amazing when the lights go out in the room.

[@ToyManTelevision]

We are looking at his live steam in a few weeks. Like 3 weeks.

[@randallhawkinson4727]

Wow! What a talent. What an inspiration! Amazing stuff to even consider implementing on our own layouts. Thanks for the visit!

[@joshuatichota5046]

I have to do N scale right now but seeing what that gentleman did with HO scale just really brought back memories of when my dad was alive (unfortunately he died when I was just 26), when I was a kid he and I and my oldest brother would go to a place in Moreno Valley California and get stuff for his HO scale train, I loved playing with it. We had a shed in the back yard that had it all in there. I wish I had been able to keep my uncle's HO set that he gave me but unfortunately having it moved around at different times actually damaged it. And I didn't have the finances to improve it or fix the engine he gave me at the time, so now I just am going to do N scale with my small room. But thank y'all for the video, it brought back memories of one thing my oldest brother, my dad, and I did.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Joshua Tichota hi. Sorry for your loss but what gifts your father gave you. Nothing wrong with n scale!!!! It’s just a scale. A train is a train. Imagination is imagination. We have seen great n scale railroads. Really great ones. It all depends on what you want to do. If you like modern diesel is great. If you like longer trains and don’t have 2000 sq ft it’s great. But if you like super detailed models over operating (me) you will even find Ho too small. But if you have n and want a great layout no problem! None!!

[@vincentfontana7915]

What a great layout and attention to detail don't think it gets any better than that. Currently I'm completely rebuilding my O gauge set one last time I have a really bad back so before I get to old to move I'll have a beautiful set to play with. Nothing like being hooked on trains.

[@weekendrailroader]

I love visiting these kinds of layouts. Built back when the hobby was young, and you had to build your railroad, not just buy it. I've taken to buying old cardstock rolling stock and rehabilitating it and running it. There's just something about the simplicity and ingenuity of model railroading from the 1930s to the 1970s. Very well produced video, thanks for the tour.

[@rimodeler7963]

Excellent video and very nicely narrated. Ralph has done a spectacular job and has created a beautiful model railroad. I truly appreciate all of the effort he has gone through over the years to build this showpiece. Two thumbs up and 5 stars for this masterpiece!! Superb job, Ralph, and thank you for allowing us to enjoy your gorgeous work. Thanks, also, to Toy Man Television for taking this video and sharing with us on KZbin. Very much appreciated!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

This railroad inspired me years ago to build a better layout. Some people inspire us to do our best.

[@farmerdave7965]

I visited Ralph's layout many years ago and loved the animation.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Has not changed much in 50 years. Part of what makes it so good!!!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I love the animation!! I also love the look on Ralph and Rosie's faces, when they see how much we enjoyed seeing what they have created! :D

[@ToyManTelevision]

YES!!!!! Love visiting them.

[@giancarlozarlengo1096]

Love this layout! The Bigboys & Roundhouse are Classic!

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s sooooo amazing. And built when the roundhouse was in operation. No steam, but tribunes

[@macandrewes]

Magnificent. I could spend days in Ralph's "world"... I had a small layout when I was a kid that my dad built for me (I helped a bit!). It eventually had three lines and a switching yard with roundhouse, a raised trestle line with a couple of bridges, and some paper mache mountains my uncle made me. I played with it literally every day for years. I miss it! In the summer of 1973, when I was 8, the whole family took a trip out to western Canada where we boarded a Canadian Pacific passenger train (complete with observation car!) to take us from Banff down into Vancouver. My absolute coolest memory from childhood is getting the opportunity to sit up front with the engineer and actually change speeds and sound the horn! TOTALLY against the rules of course, but the engineer was a friend of my dad's father who was close to retirement at the time (and, I suppose, didn't care!). He stopped the train in the middle of nowhere and I was escorted up to the cabin of a gigantic F7, where I was "assistant engineer" for a few hours. I was in AWE! To this day, the F7 is by far and away my favourite type of locomotive. Anyway thank you for your wonderful videos. They are a welcome escape from this crazy world of ours. Subscribed!

[@ToyManTelevision]

I have a somewhat similar story. Vaguely similar I guess. My uncle worked for Penn Central in Chicago and when he would visit you could take my brother and I down to the union pacific and train guys being trained guys they would allow him to take us up into the locomotives! Most often some sort of F unit probably an F9. Because those were just everywhere at that time. He did get us into an RDC once and even got us a ride on it. Anyway fond memories right?

[@macandrewes]

@@ToyManTelevision A cool story as well! Weren't we lucky? Now that I think about it, the unit I rode in must have been an F9 too, given the time, 1973. They really were everywhere! I still like the look of them better than the road switchers. Fond, fond memories indeed. I look forward to enjoying more of your videos. Thanks!

[@ToyManTelevision]

@@macandrewes The only way to tell the difference between a seven and a nine is my counting the number of grills on the side! 07 has four and a nine has five. And that’s about it visually. There’s also two little square thing so I don’t know what they are on the side of an F7 but other than that they’re identical

[@macandrewes]

@@ToyManTelevision You've inspired me to go down that rabbit hole and research what differences there were on the inside, for there MUST have been some significant ones. If I find out anything interesting I'll lyk! Cheers.

[@D-M-W]

This is innovation n real sense. The real genuine authentic brains who gave birth to this most expensive hobby. It's not a club but to me it's a University where I would like to be if God gave me a second chance to take rebirth. 🌹🙏❤️👍

[@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913]

Greetings from England. Your delivery is supurb and not at all boring. In fact you make the subjects come alive. I've recently retired after working for 50-years in the UK film & TV industry (editing plus occasional acting) and have found you to keep meself awake. Keep it up! Best wishes, Al.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Good Morning!!!! I too am retired from a similar situation. However voicing bears and doing sound design is not always the easiest way make a buck, so I took up teaching as well. A full and interesting life. Yet I've never worked harder than making these shows!! Trying to put up 2 and sometimes 3 per week, and not screwing the thing up is a bit overwhelming at times. As well as needing plenty of time for "screwing around" (cocking about) However more fun than I've ever had. And now I've found Karyn, and we make a great team. Much funner when you are with someone you love.

[@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913]

Good Afternoon Ralph & Karyn (it's 4:30pm over here), Seems we may have had parallel careers in the movie industry and had a ball doing it. Friends told me I should take up teaching, to pass on The Knowledge, upon retirement but to do that I'd need a Masters Degree (at £9,000 a year in University fees) as 50-years in the trade isn't deemed good enough by the academics. So I'm drifting around trying to figure out what I really want to do with the rest of my time. There's none of the films I've appeared in (due to copyright restrictions) on my Tube Channel but my kids tell me I'm infamous for my role as a screaming creature in MTV's promo, "Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy." My advice if you watch it is don't turn the lights off! Ah, the joys of latex make-up specialFX birthed near naked, dripping with sugar slime, screaming at a little old lady and getting paid to do it! Deep joy. Your short films are great and presented in such a way as they aren't at all boring. So much energy there, great, keep it up! Best wishes - Al xx

[@ToyManTelevision]

I'm still drinking coffee here. Which is not odd, I drink it all day, however this is my morning coffee. I was lucky with my university, I paid the first semester hoping I could get a teaching assistantship if I could get past the gate keepers. And it worked. Just. Anyway, I only paid that first semester. I love making horror films. I once turned the sound of an angry kitty into the voice of a demonic woman with bad teeth. And voiced the voice of"the house" for The Fall of the House of Usher. Thats some fun stuff. Been killed in several bad films, funnest was Don't Go in the Woods (Alone). Intended to be satire but most audiences never picked up on that. I came up with the sound of "sad birds" for the forest. If we spot Aphex Twin - Come To Daddy well give it a look.

[@alstokesveteranfilmmaker913]

I think I may have got your name wrong, if so tell me ... I'm old you know. "Aphex Twin" set me off on a long road of horror films and being horribly murdered; I once cleared a whole dining bus in 30-seconds having just come out of make-up slit from neck down to belly, covered in blood and gore. Other actors complained I'd put them off their food. I was very skinny back then (not any more!) and Make-upFX guys saw my body as a blank canvas to do their best. I learned a lot during that time and had a ball doing it. Last 'infected' bloke to die in "28 Days Later", was a Mummy priest sliced up by Brendon Fraser on "The Mummy" and stabbed to death on "Cradle of Fear." Once asked by a journalist what attracted me to horror I gave him a two word answer - the money. I did a few films on your side of the Atlantic too, same questions with same answer except the States has better weather and professionalism. Must run, just handed a steaming mug of coffee, with the promise food from a grandson studying film production over here. He's French you know but no one's perfect ...

[@ToyManTelevision]

I was ate the premier of 28 Days Later at Sundance. I was working for Sundance at the time. Doing video for legal purposes. Fun film!!!! Interesting way they made the empty streets scenes. Something like 100 DV cameras. Roll from every angle at dawn for a few minutes. Then traffic happens and your done until the next day. Im Dale Angell

[@4dads823]

Keep coming back to this video, so inspiring

[@chronus1015]

Absolutely a skilled modeler!!! I'm so impressed and only hope as a newcomer to this hobby that my layout (N Scale) will look almost as impressive. Dang!!!!!

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

I am a newcomer as well! I've always loved trains... But watching these experienced model railroaders makes me feel like I am just beginning kindergarten.. and they are graduating Harvard! LOL! But ... we all begin somewhere! The main thing is... Just have some fun! Ask questions.. be observant.. and get creative!! Every model railroad that we visit, has it's own unique style! I am even attempting my first tree... in 20th scale!! Wish me luck!! :P

[@ToyManTelevision]

The key is wanting to and then doing. The best modelers I know model almost every day. And for hours every day because they LOVE it. We are sort of like that with the channel. We work on it almost every day. And for many hours!! Because it's massive screwing around.

[@gerrydave7586]

Very cool layout! I know how much work and planning goes into that. Years of it!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Just the pile driver represents about 5 months work. Multiply that by all that railroad! And all those trains and features

[@AlanShirtsink]

Amazing. The best layout I’ve seen

[@ToyManTelevision]

The best. And all 1960s technology.

[@randallhawkinson4727]

WOW! Here's to old school! Great visit. Very inspirational. Thanks y'all.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Randall Hawkinson this was the first really great layout I ever saw. Back when it was mostly new. I was rabid for HO but because of this layout I stated over on my layout. The brass collection is the best HO collection in the world. About 1/3 of his locomotives are made by him and his friends. A big run of these is perhaps 10 locomotives. All but one of his turbines are scratch built.

[@jeanneuzarhudson8207]

Not many of these, "Old World Craftsman" left with us. Wonderful work. Nothing wrong with, "Old School". Look in the mirror, you and I by our years marked could be considered "Old School". I came to the "Craftsman stage" in my life a little old in life. I watched this piece with a young lady this morning that boards with us. She was stunned by the level of detail. Seeing our trains she had no idea just how small this HO is. She really enjoyed it. Of course she comes from "Old World Stock", a young Amish/Old Order person in the world, teaching. She was stunned when I put an HO steamer in her hands and pointed to the O gauge on the layout and compared the sizes. It is amazing to watch our world of railroading through the eyes of a person not normally not exposed to it. Well done, you guys. Greg and Jeanne.

[@ToyManTelevision]

The lights in the lanterns cant be seen with the naked eye!!!!! Sort of looks like a glossy area on a wire. Think how small a switch lantern is in HO. OR a Dietz lantern. And there is a light bulb in there!!! And the wires go up the switch stand!!! The tube of the stand is about .020 and yet not only do the wires go up through it, the whole lamp can be fished up from below!!

[@jeanneuzarhudson8207]

What did we have back in the sixties that was that small, were they called "grain of wheat" size? That is amazing. I appreciated HO and even N scale more so because I can hardly feel them in my hands, now-a-days. Amazing work.

[@dizguy89]

What a wonderful video!!!! Your friend Ralph and Rosie have a absolutely amazing layout!! Its so amazing to see all the automated features Ralph has built!! The attention to detail in his automated pieces is remarkable, much better than what I've seen out on the market right now!

[@kevinyoung9557]

Every now and then I come back to this video, Incredible!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? Not sure which is better, the layout or the trains. The 12 or so scratch built brass locomotives, the collection of rare early brass engines or the “crown” brass models.

[@nostology]

The best lay out ever!! 1968 he's amazing. This is my favourite layout to watch.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Right? Did you see the show on the world’s largest privately owned backyard railroad? That’s the one we spoke of here. Ralph and friends Railroad. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJebhGCIgLiXaKM

[@kwman69r]

All I can say is ......I wish I was related to Ralph so he'd leave me his layout an Trains ! I have never seen anything like this anywhere. My Dad had tons of HO stuff but was killed in a car accident when I was 7 an Mom wouldn't let me have his collection. I stayed mad for months! I wish had his talents as I;'d love to animate cranes an overhead cranes. Just getting started in the hobby an look forward to trying to figure this stuff out. Unfortunately I have no one near me to share this with so I'll rely on KZbin videos to help accomplish something amazing like this ! Best railroad an video I've ever seen. You really out did yourself !!!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Hi! Yeah isn’t that layout sometime! Ralph and his friends are getting the other rail road ready and we’re heading out there in a few weeks. It’s a live steam rail road out in the desert. He doesn’t do anything with that indoor HO anymore except play with it. Not really changing it at all anymore but for years he worked on those details little animations and details

[@yellowstonethepony7769]

l'm a Union Pacific fan myself. l love the layout and all the bells and whistles on it!

[@ToyManTelevision]

UP history this Sunday. Park City Branch! Ghost rails..

[@yellowstonethepony7769]

Toy Man Television I live in the Dutch. So l can't visit it.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love Amsterdam. Used to stay with some people there. Met a man, G. Perlee. Made street organs in his home. WOW. Almost bought one. Love to shot a story, I hear his family is still doing that!

[@yellowstonethepony7769]

Toy Man Television Well. I live not even near Amsterdam. haha!

[@ToyManTelevision]

Where do you live?

[@gunnyusmc8412]

Yes im just catching up with this video, but its coolest of cools, enjoyed it big time, gotta get ready for work,have a good day

[@ToyManTelevision]

Ralphs is a great layout!!

[@jswaggart01]

So glad that this came up in my recommendations, what a wonderful layout, pure magic.

[@ToyManTelevision]

It’s a treasure. Wow!!!

[@stevenspaziani9159]

That coaling tower has to be one of the coolest things I have ever seen on a model RR. You are the master of master model railroaders.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Isn’t it? I grew up looking at it. Amazing structure. But some homeless people were living in it and burned it down. Damn.

[@brianwinkle8785]

Hats off to you Ralph. Spectacular creation sir. 👍

[@ToyManTelevision]

A treasure.

[@TheAreotrain]

Truly a master model railroader.

[@ToyManTelevision]

One of the best ever. And his friends. To see those scratch built models!! To think of the brass locomotives these guys built the pilot models for!! ALL Overland models and many others.

[@denimcowboy501]

This is like a dream. Magnificent. Do you know if anyone has ever built a historic layout of the trains on the west side of Manhattan in NYC from like 1900 to 1950? My dad told me of roundhouses and trains everywhere. He used to hop freights and travel across the country. Your video here made me think and wonder if anyone did the same for Manhattan's rails. The IRT Power House used to have coal cars that came in on barges and went down to the bottom of the Power House and unloaded deed underground. The coal would go up by conveyor belts to be burned. Thank you, Hoss

[@ToyManTelevision]

Don’t know of such a layout but I’ll bet it was built. Maybe no longer around or??? But New York, can’t imagine it hasn’t been done.

[@themodelhobbyist]

I wish I had gotten into trains when I was young and still able to work now that I'm disabled there is just no real way for me to get started into the hobby at 51 just getting back into the model car hobby it not really feasible for me. Thanks for sharing all that I'm finding and watching on your channel. 🙂Thomas over at The Model Hobbyist

[@thecondog_07]

I can never stop watching this video it will never get old

[@ToyManTelevision]

That is truly one of the most amazing rail roads with one of the most amazing fleets of locomotives ever assembled

[@RicOshayed1]

What awesome railroad modeling! Kudos Mr and Mrs Gochnour!

[@ToyManTelevision]

So very cool!! Amazing Ralph!

[@pinchy08]

The coolest HO layout ever! Operating switch and crossing lights. This layout is one of a kind. Even though most of this HO stuff is kinda old.

[@Silvieson]

Thank you to you guys and Ralph! i loved the video. The amount of detail that Ralph has gone too is simply amazing! and the age of it talks bundles to the quality of his work!

[@ToyManTelevision]

We need to go see his live steam railroad. He and Van..

[@dadfk52]

Has to be the coolest layout ever.Could watch it all day.Thank you for the video.

[@toddbogatzki4616]

I enjoyed the video its so cool to see all the details and different trains the time and passion that went to making that table it a true art of work

[@ToyManTelevision]

This is soooo amazing. But the trains are even better!

[@johnpandolfino8663]

Incredible.......your the man Ralph

[@ToyManTelevision]

Totally amazing and 50 years old!!

[@davecheney8501]

Love this old school layout... my first inspiration for model railroading was John Allen ... so I have a love for the old school 😁❤

[@ToyManTelevision]

This is my kind of layout. However as I get older simple is better. A lot better

[@aimokaki4706]

Most of us just do what we can. Some of us do what they want. Respect!

[@MrMHancock]

One of the best layouts yet, thanks for sharing.

[@ToyManTelevision]

Love it!! 30 years ago when I first saw it I went home and tore into my own HO.

[@justawitness4963]

Very nice tiny details in this layout. I really appreciate that kind of detail.

[@ToyManTelevision]

This is one of the great layouts.

[@TheCondoInRedondo]

You do such a fine job of narration.... very professional. You're as good as Huell Howser.

[@ToyManTelevision]

I see myself as more of a Captan Kangaroo. Or Mr Greenjeans. With a hint of Buffalo Bill Bob.

[@XvXMONSTERXvX]

his layout is defiantly top tier and if he ever sells im first one there not many people skills like that left where they bring attention to detail such as the magnetic couplers or the animated shove to put in the gondola just awesome stuff

[@1885dr]

Wow ,I'm breathless. What an amazing master craftsman. I am a machinist by trade, and he has the best work I've ever seen. I hope some day I have half the skill he has . I hope it gets put in Museum someday for prosperity. Thanks so much for sharing

[@ToyManTelevision]

Thanks!! Ralph really has the best collection and layout. And now live steam!!!

[@kytrucking67]

Ralph has an incredible layout. Beautfiul

[@ToyManTelevision]

Did you watch the show on his brass locomotives? WOW!!!!!!! There is a card in the video to take you there.

[@kytrucking67]

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[@CeeJai_K]

OMG. I'm two years late to this video. It was freaking awesome! Ralph is amazing and so was your commentary. I have now subscribed and look forward to more great videos.

[@ToyManTelevision]

CEEJAI KING thanks!! We are still trying to get out to see the live steam railroad! We did go out there one time but we missed everybody darn it. But it’s a great place! So this summer for sure, as soon as they start running out there. Actually they probably already are! Anyway good news Ralphs railroad looks just the same and is still running perfectly

[@pcluvvw7129]

The details and the animation are very cool.

[@normbeers]

The set-up is truly amazing! And your video is extremely well done as well--the commentary, the variety of settings, the music. Really outstanding.

[@louisgurske8179]

Thank you so much. However it is so sad, that when us old guys pass on, what will become of all of this an others. Most of the young kids of today don't seem to have the time for this. I feel that most of these layouts and collections will be broke up are just trashed because they are old and dusty. Some of the bigger clubs will most likely last a little longer. Again thank you so much for filming all these items. All of them not just the trains. Lou

[@ToyManTelevision]

Yes, it's a worry. Sacramento is setting up a few of the great old layouts there, but they can't do much. One reason I feel obsessed with getting them on video. Most will be gone in a few years. Sad but true.

[@louisgurske8179]

Yes, please keep up your great work for as long as you can.

[@karynfelix-the-Cat]

That is about all any of us can do.. Keep up our great work, as long as we can.... But... We do it for us..to enhance the enjoyment and quality of our lives...and hope that someone in the younger groups are watching, and want to to do something creative too. I discovered something, after settling my parents estate.. Our only true possessions are memories. We make memories, and leave a few, after we are gone. So.. Go out and create some great memories! Do something fun! Share your interests..Do it with the people who are important to you.. I think that's about all there is to it.. Thanks for watching and commenting! :D