One of the most Picturesque and Largest Model Railroad Layouts in the U.S. - Cab Ride Layout Tour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2022
- One gets the impression that model railroading in the United States leads to either very small train dioramas or to extremely large model railroad layouts. There is nothing in between - either very tiny timesaver switching layouts or hugely large MRR layouts that allow endless hours of operating sessions. However, in this video we discover one of these large, but lovingly built and weathered model train layouts that is operated by the Northern Virginia Model Railroaders (NVMR).
The Northern Virginia Model Railroaders (NVMR) is a club of model railroading enthusiasts headquartered in the historic train depot in downtown Vienna, Virginia. More than a hundred members use and maintain this large permanent HO scale layout inside the depot. The club is over 70 years old and has been at this location for more than 40 years. The railroad is open to the public twelve times a year, with members-only meetings and ops sessions also occurring weekly and monthly, respectively.
The beautiful HO scale layout depicts the Southern Railway from Spencer, North Carolina, to Asheville, North Carolina. While not every town on the line is present, many real locations are represented on the model rail layout. Many structures and details were kitbashed or scratch built by members. Much of the track is hand-laid, with an estimated 250,000 ties placed and spiked. While the model railway layout is permanent, maintenance and improvement is an ongoing effort. Thus, recent layout updates include a new computerized turnout control system and 3D printed structures.
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This is not just a model railroad layout. This is life.
Watching a new Pilentum episode is a great way to spend a Saturday night...
It is
Best Saturday night ever, watching a cab ride through a beautiful railroad countryside.
True that
Is Saturday night a good time to release new videos? I've honestly never thought about when I release new videos. Whenever I finish the video production, I upload my videos.
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I was a member of this club in the 1980's and miss it very much. This is a great video to see how much it's advanced along with some changes that have been done since then. Nice work! I hope you'll post some more like this of operating sessions.
We had a long & fun day at the club filming for it :)
An amazing layout!
Obviously the life-long pursuit of a passion for model railroading that I imagine all began long ago with a dad giving his son a Lionel train set for Christmas.
Interesting layout, especially love the spline roadbed construction that’s visible on several occasions whilst the train runs through parts of the layout’s helix.
Very cool and very impressive! The “Railroad to the Light Fixtures”.
An impressive layout and a great place for really tiny people to live!
Fascinating set up and layout. The audio and video was really done well. Loved the train track sound.
Thank you so much for the fun cab ride, Pilentum team.
There is no Pilentum Team! Pilentum is still a one-man business, see www.pilentum.org/pilentum-model-trains
@@pilentum
Well Thank you anyway.
This is one awesome layout. You outdone yourself again.
Wonderful ride to experience.
Outstanding!!! Nicely done
Pilentum, great video. Train layout is excellent!
Nice trackwork! The best I've seen. And excellent scenery.
Fantastic! Thank you for the ride.
Great video & great layout which is impressive.
A source of inspiration. Thank you.
Impresionante el tamaño de esta Maqueta. Muchas gracias por compartir!!
Very smooth running
Been watching this and it must of taken ages to build just seems to go on for ever
vous avez un magnifique réseau très bien fait ,bien détaillé et bien décoré 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I am just blown away by the size of this layout. Rather curious of the statistics like how long it took to build....etc.
Fantastic work guys.
☝🏾what he said
Superbe! Very cool! Thank You! Stéph.
Great view of a massive layout.
I would certainly be concerned about a model derailing on one those high areas!😳
...also maintenance at this high areas is very exhausting.
I was as fascinated by those long hidden sections as I was the exposed.
The thing for me, maybe because I worked in a major city, and had this view many days..was that the underground section, looks exactly like what you would find in a major city. The underside of overpasses, of freeway interchanges.
I bet, with very little work, something could be done to make those linkages more realistic.
Wow! What an extraordinary feat of engineering.
I love the Memorial Hand Sanitizer Monument Dedication there. It stands a testament to time.
That's absolutely impressive and brilliant.
Great job!!
An amazing amount of trackage for a somewhat limited space. Seems to be "under construction" and quite a bit of detail left unfinished. There is almost as much time "underground" as in the layout. Major PLUS - Penn State Train.
I knew someone would appreciate it :)
Fantastic!
Very nice.
Wow so impressive.
Gracias por el video. Asombroso.
Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
I see you had the old SEABOARD AIR LINE Doodlebug in your video. I rode on that from Lakeland, FL to Ft. Myers, FL in Feb. 1970. Of course it had been painted SCL black by that time and renumbered to 4900. It was pulling a coach and a sleeper which were taken off the West Coast Champion in Lakeland. It only had one powered truck so it was probably maxed out with those two cars! The route it took has been torn up from just south of Lakeland to Arcadia, FL, but you can still get to Ft. Myers (at least freight can) by rail. The Ft. Myers depot was (and still is) a beautiful Spanish stucco style edifice with a tile roof and is now a museum. The tracks were located on the south side of the depot and you would wye in from the mainline which was about a quarter mile to the east. You can still see evidence of that wye today (2022). A nice memory of a simpler time. Great video!👍
Wow! Need more
There will be more... next week!
very, very nice !
Автор, спасибо за замечательное видео!
Super model! Mersi Pilentum!
5:12 Holy cow a gauntlet track in HO scale that is awesome
ALL LAYOUTS ARE A LABOR OF LOVE AND NEVER DONE ALWAYS FIDDLE WITH IT IN SOME MANNER VERY NICE INDEED THANK YOU JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA NORFOLK SOUTHERN RULES MY RAILS 👌
The long ride suggests this is quite a big layout. Lots of levels, too, to confirm that feeling. Very impressive!
While the wooden structure, the wiring, the pipes could be interesting for the railroad modeller, they might ruin the illusion, otherwise so well constructed - where the layout is finished -, for the common viewer.
Thinking, also, the season could be autumn (lots of burnt or dying, if not already dead, vegetation); and the tracks might now lie in what appears as nearly deserted territory. If that is in accordance with the builders' intentions, kudos to them!
réseau extraordinaire
Watching Pilentum is also great for quitting time.
1:58 I love that replica "GIANT ELECTRIC PLUG".
That's a long Railroad ♐️👍
Just getting in trains, just had twins and never had any as a child. Want to give them this whole room.. Love every single thing about this video. Amazing scenery, insane build. Way over my head on where to try and start.. What scale is this by the way. Its what i want!!
Interesting track plan for a mid-sized space: 20' by 60'. (I followed the path to the club site. There the photo tour showed much more of what I would want for a major layout.)
Since it was built well before DCC, there is no 'walk-around' and follow your train. (From what I could see.)
It would be very interesting to see a new layout in the space using N scale and DCC. You would be able to have all of the towns and not have so much hidden track work that is currently needed to 'set up' the next scene. Hidden staging yards, absolutely. Scale miles of hidden track just to get from one end of the room to the other, no.
The layout was converted to DCC some 25 years ago. It can handle both duplex and wifi throttles, and operators are required to follow their trains, to pay attention to signals and to choose routes in the double track sections. It takes advantage of the height of the room so has at least six levels. Seven if you include a representation of another railroad that connects with it (a train on that railroad is visible passing under about halfway through.
Fabulous layout. I do wonder what happens if something derails in areas that look totally inaccessible
Every bit is reachable, sometimes by stepladder.
Now I know what an ant's perspective would look like if they had trains. This has ASMR vibes to it too!
What a great ride!
Is this the same club that was on King Street in Alexandria next to the rail yard 50 years ago? My how time has flown.
It is. They moved out to Vienna about 1980. In the Spenser freight yard there is a model of the original building. Lift the roof and inside is a model of the original layout. If you watch the really long video there is a quick shot of it.
Clarence Guenther, club member
Beautiful sceneries, but: it's stacked so high, how are people to enjoy all of this, other than by video's like this?
17:09 ... check the head dissapearing ... lol
ive been here!
Excellent video...what type of camera set up do you have?
How long is this Lay out it seems miles long. A lot of scenery and looks real when you are in the cab very nice well done
Track Plan NVMR:
www.pilentum.org/northern-virginia-model-railroaders-cab-ride-layout-tour
wow!!
Fine layout......maybe edit out the portions behind the scenery/on the helixes?
***ing Hell,so nice.
Greetings from Radeberg,the Beertown in Saxonia.
Not my Gauge an not my Theme,but very nice and big Layout.
Is this in Vienna VA? a couple blocks off Maple Ave near the VA Train station? I've been there a few times for Christmas shows. The layout I've seen is quite vertical but you can observe it from only one walkway. I'd visit it if it were open to the public. (Live near Falls Church, not far away)
Please, get the link on my website = www.pilentum.org/northern-virginia-model-railroaders-one-of-the-largest-model-railway-layouts-in-the-united-states
C’est magnifique et où se trouve cette realisation
製作中が一番楽しい時間。
What is the theme of this layout? PA in transition era is my guess? I like the original box car handles on the wall, those are really cool. I would have mounted them on pine boards painted box car red to give them an authentic presentation. But that is a nice piece of RR history.
Its name, the Western North Carolina, locates it between Spencer Yard on the Southern main line and Asheville. Transition era, roughly 1955. And the video doesn't show the nine staging tracks on the bottom level, nor the numerous storage tracks.
How and why did they bend those wood struts for the support?
Hey Pilentum, I dare you run this whole train set with a train with 1001 cars long, just like Snowpiercer.
Wouldn’t it just block the mainline? 🤔
More please
Wow
Cab view is nice but would be good to see other views to appreciate it all
I still have a lot of video footage of this great model railroad layout. I will publish it in the next weeks.
What an achievement: but in order to make use of the height of the room, the 'cab-driver' needs to see a trmenedous amount of sub-structure. Nevertheless, there are moments of beauty, enabled by all those 'behind-the-scenes' structures. By the way, has anyone lost a pen? At 18:25 you'll find a big green biro lying beside the track. It's HUGE!
What sharp eyes you have? I didn't see the pen when I was cutting the video...
@@pilentum Not bad for a seventy-year-old, eh?! Great clip, though.
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I wonder, does that futuristic and somewhat retouched looking train on the preview image actually exist? I couldn't find it.
That was the Aerotrain from 1955. Turned out not to be practical
As noted the Aerotrain. A failed concept in cost savings in passenger service by GM to adapt some of the components from GM's bus building to trains. Locomotive was effectively an SW1500 switcher in a fancy dress with a lead power truck and a single rear idler non power wheel. The two axel coaches rode like a truck so it failed. Always on the lookout for inexpensive ways to keep the rolling, working museum the Rock Island called their Chicago commuter service Rock Island not only put their Jet Rocket Aerotrain into commuter service they picked up the remaining ( IIRC) 3 trainsets on the cheap and put those into commuter service. Rock Island pulled them from service late 60s IIRC and two of the trainsets were donated to museums one in St.Louis MO. and the other in Green Bay WI. The other set ( or sets) went to scrap though pretty much until the end of the Rock Island in 80 a couple of the Aerotrain coaches could be seen from the Dan Ryan Expressway at the "Rocket House" engine facilities near old Comisky Park.
A belated thank you for responding 🎉
Too many tunnels. Nice layout, but would like to see more buildings. I guess if I saw the entire video, I would've enjoyed it more.
what camera was used in this video
Amazed at the number of STOP signals are being run through.
Combien de kilomètres de voies ?
Anybody notice the green pencil to the left at 20:32
I wish I were alive when there were sleek emd f7s and streamliners and the high amount of passenger railroads here in America now places besides afew parts are the same old desile Red white and blue trains
What gauge is this railroad? 0 or G perhaps?
Its HO. Also, in response to other comments, only two of the stations, including the western terminus, are not visible from the spectator area. And none of the wiring.
Is that hand laid track? It looks really good. I would edit out the 'tunnel" footage.
The track visitors see is all handlaid.
Представляю, сколько сил и средств на это было затрачено...
What is the average cost for a layout that size
$250 at least
An amazing feat of massive carpentry work, scenery, backdrop and weathering. Too bad the cab ride betrays a bit too many 2d buildings 😉. And the mirror gloss shiny tracks are slightly... disturbing.
Turn off the middle ceiling light - leave the others on to eliminate shiny rails. Just put black cardboard in the neon filter screen
thumbnail train where?
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12:00 - Ron Jeremy head :-))))))) ?
All the rail networks in the tunnel system is off tap
what scale is that?
HO scale = 1/87
Muy lindo pero abria que hacer primero una vista de afuera
What is the name of the thumbnail train? thanks.
Aerotrain
I see plywood.
Add more cameras
More points of view the video
The interior room lighting (low quality acoustic ceiling) is not as well thought out and designed compared to German & Austria train layouts. This to me is most distracting flaw on this RR layout, but I hit Liked on the video anyway
too many dark scary spots
Entiendo que podria haber tenido un tendido de cables mejor ordenado, mas presentable que brinde una mejor vista a toda la obra.
Da la impresion de que han hechoun trabajo poco vistoso y muy descuidado en cuanto a la imagen que transmite,lTraten de mejorar en la arquitectura y el diseño para que resulte mas ingenieril. y de buena calidad en detalles-
Hay que tener en cuenta que la maqueta tiene muchos años. El mantenimiento de la maqueta corre a cargo de una asociación. Y casi todos los clubes se quejan de que cada vez hay menos socios.
L' AMBIENTAZIONE NON E' ADEGUATA A GUASTA TUTTA LA MINESTRA
Учитывая состояние проводки, просто удивительно, что это макет до сих пор не сгорел.
Not much of what I would call picturesque. It would be more interesting if the camera was on the last car instead of the front.
Not that impressive, looks like its only half finished. Too much hidden and not a sausage moving on the other tracks
nul les tunnels je veut des vrai tunnels
I cheated, I doubled the speed.
You’ve gone this far. Finish the job. Get rid of the noise and add the sound of a real train.