This is by far the best layout I have seen, more words than I can express. I grew up with Lionel trains, my dad probably had eight trains going at once but not at this scale. Railroading is like a serious pass time, my grandfather work for Grand Trunk out of Detroit and my father worked the B&B department for Conrail out of Central station in Detroit, watching this reminds me going with them to work as a kid walking the tracks and the old depots. Great job.
It's always fascinating to see what modifications to one's home we are willing to make for our awesome hobby! That must have been an interesting decision-making process!
Call me crazy but for whatever reason, I loved cruising through water softener flats. Also the railcar side unloading docks with the cushioned bumpers. The little things. Great job, thanks for the video.
My layout that I'm in the process of building is very similar: Through the stairs, behind the water heater, behind the fuse box, over the washer and drier and past a doorway. Many of us don't have ideal spaces but we make do.
They have other hobby staples too like the Backmann Cape Cod House & Water Tower, plus the Atlas Elevated Crossing Guard Shanty and the AHM Signal Tower.
Not too unusual, I belonged to a club in Toronto that had track that passed through a stair case. My current layout is built in a basement that was finished into 3 rooms when I bought the house. I have a track that runs around the whole basement outside walls - my son calls it the grandkids track - and I just made a few holes in the walls between rooms.
I’m sure he already knows that and the train fanatic gene must’ve been passed down the generations cause I got it too, hence the Prox Trains channel. 😄👍
HO...?? It seems bigger than that, well would'nt you know..! A nice train ride it was. Some areas seemed rather "Spooky" though. Taking a ride through the stairs itself. Interesting house do must say..
If you include the man hours by my gramps it might as well be if you’re saying it is but if you know everything was purchased 40 or more years ago and inflation is a thing, it definitely puts a different perspective on it if you don’t include labor. I love the artistry in his layout!
The layout is brilliant, but I guess we never realise how "unstraight" our tracks are until we mount a camera in the cab. BTW I model in N scale and was thinking if this was N scale you could run trains a mile long.
That's always the case, isn't. When I started my current layout, the R&L, I wanted to go up to HO, but realized I didn't have the space, because my six-foot wing was 1 train! Now Im staying with N, because even when I do move into a bigger house, I'll be able to have even longer trains!! *maniacal laughter ensues*
It needs Wild West town, with tiny horses, with even more tiny cowboys on them, with even more tiny still guns a blazin'.....ROB THAT TRAIN BOYS, ROB THAT TRAIN !!!!
This is a GREAT train layout. It was the right thing to do. I hope you all have many, many happy days of railroading ahead. I'm remembering my train trip back in the late 1940's: San Diego to Pittsburg, PA. Great memories. Also reminded of my ride on a friend's narrow gauge RR; down between the trees, over the trestle, around his dad's house, up across the driveway with the crossed arm signal blinking and dinging . . . and then years later he pulled up the tracks and put it all into storage when he moved. Heart breaking.
How cool! If you can, or have the time, a camera view from the conductor's view or behind so we can see the engine(s) would be awesome. I understand the height restrictions.
On any vidio of a layout, it would be nice to know what scale the train is. I will let people know when I get mine fininished. It will American flyer "S Guage" with old and new trains on it.
@michpackfan I will be releasing a documentary on this layout at some point and I will try to answer most of your questions. The model train hobby is a long process to get into and as I continue building my layout I’ll try to release videos that will help people starting out. The comment section isn’t really long enough to explain the process he took.
Sophdog's comment about the dead mouse made me wonder if any Argentina model railroader who models in O, G, or #1 scale has a rodent cage "zoo" on his layout with hamsters that are portrayed as capyberas?
Real trains also have to cross unimportant terrain to get from one important location to another. I hope you planned for any service or replacement that all the mechanical equipment down there may require!
I've never seen a turn out (in real life) like u installed at 2m 44s; ifn u want to step it up a "notch," install a puzzle switch. The last one I have ever seen or operated was at a Cargill elevator.
No space in our house of 83m2 for 9m2 trainset with 9 trains. Worse, my lovely wife makes sure to tell me she lives here too. And that has consequesces. It was OK in the house of 175m2 on a not usable covered balcony. Way too cold in winter, way to hot in summer.
Excellent video... why? No stupid commentary, no fucking aggravating background elevator music/soundtrack. Thank u posting and sharing a POV video of this layout.
I don't know about anyone else, but I got a little vertigo on the approach to the hole in the stairway. Somehow I felt like I was on the train and was gonna tip over to the floor.
Here's how my history went years ago: O doesn't fit in the space very well. Switch to HO. Add way too much stuff. HO doesn't fit in the space very well.
The modern graffiti movement began in the 1960s and 1970s, when political activists and gang members started to use graffiti as a form of expression, The Great Northern Railway, a class 1 railway company existed between 1889-1970 making it unlikely to see graffiti because most graffiti started on subways in the city.
This is by far the best layout I have seen, more words than I can express.
I grew up with Lionel trains, my dad probably had eight trains going at once but not at this scale.
Railroading is like a serious pass time, my grandfather work for Grand Trunk out of Detroit and my father worked the B&B department for Conrail out of Central station in Detroit, watching this reminds me going with them to work as a kid walking the tracks and the old depots. Great job.
It's always fascinating to see what modifications to one's home we are willing to make for our awesome hobby! That must have been an interesting decision-making process!
That it was, interesting, through the stairs itself..
Now THATS Love for the hobby.!!
It was a large workshop ware house basement (not a private home).
I remember my father knocking out two bricks in a wall so as to do a loop under the stairs
I bet the wife still doesn’t know about it 😮😅
I bet the wife still doesn’t know about it 😮😅😊
I love the hole in the staircase, that is dedication to your railway! 💜
what an amazing layout. Pretty expensive also, but definitely worth it.
Nicely done, great scenery and details on the layout,,thanks for sharing,,😊
Just when I'm really into it, a bunch of giants appear and snap me back to reality.
😂😂😂
The in cab view was a terrific idea!👍👏👏
Call me crazy but for whatever reason, I loved cruising through water softener flats. Also the railcar side unloading docks with the cushioned bumpers. The little things. Great job, thanks for the video.
My favorite was the plastic tunnel under the laundry hook- ups
What a nice layout! and using all of the space in great, I wish so much I had some space to do that as well. Nice done.
I wish we had that much space in our homes in the UK... excellent layout
English houses are made miserably small and cramped. It's an English tradition !
My layout that I'm in the process of building is very similar: Through the stairs, behind the water heater, behind the fuse box, over the washer and drier and past a doorway. Many of us don't have ideal spaces but we make do.
Sometimes it’s the “making it work” ideas that truly make a layout unique!!!
That is an extraordinary set.
Love the camera on the train and a very nice track.
Cab view videos are my favorites... Great use of extra space... Ii wonder what my wife would say if I did that with my o scale track?!
There's a one way to find out...
Glad to see I am not the only one still using Altlas switches, except I painted my green to help them blend in.
They have other hobby staples too like the Backmann Cape Cod House & Water Tower, plus the Atlas Elevated Crossing Guard Shanty and the AHM Signal Tower.
Not too unusual, I belonged to a club in Toronto that had track that passed through a stair case. My current layout is built in a basement that was finished into 3 rooms when I bought the house. I have a track that runs around the whole basement outside walls - my son calls it the grandkids track - and I just made a few holes in the walls between rooms.
I just came across this video .... Subscribed 😊
Cool, love the fact it travels through the staircase lol 😁👍🏻🇬🇧
and up the toilet too thru the stools
Your wife must be a very patient angel😊 Great video I am inthe final planning stage of my layout hope to start construction in about a mounth.
SERIOUS dedication there
The only thing i don't see, is a hobo camp...❤❤❤😊😊😊😊
Thank you for showing…….excellent stuff
Very nice setup!
Boys like to play no matter their age. 😅
A really good video. Thanks for sharing it. 😊👍
It’s wild how the eyes adjust to the scale, and the stairs appear looking like the Rocky Mountains 😂
Great video. You are definitely a fanatic 😊
I’m sure he already knows that and the train fanatic gene must’ve been passed down the generations cause I got it too, hence the Prox Trains channel. 😄👍
Very impressive !
HO...??
It seems bigger than that, well would'nt you know..!
A nice train ride it was.
Some areas seemed rather "Spooky" though.
Taking a ride through the stairs itself.
Interesting house do must say..
Yes, Ho scale model trains!
Sweet layout...
This has to be a club layout. It’s huge!
Not a club, but the first Prox model railroad that is built and finished.
This is really cool to watch.
I half expected to see like, a dead mouse, in one of the far corners.
Making great use of the space allowed.
Superb 😊 love from the 🇬🇧
Safe to say, they don’t have any cats.
Amazing! Mucho $$$$ in this!
Really cool layout.
Huge layout.
That has to be at least $100K in model railroad. Holy Hell. That's club class. Great cab ride. Fastest 4:32 of my life.
If you include the man hours by my gramps it might as well be if you’re saying it is but if you know everything was purchased 40 or more years ago and inflation is a thing, it definitely puts a different perspective on it if you don’t include labor. I love the artistry in his layout!
Your Gramps is a hell of a guy!@@proxtrains
Sooper interesting! Thanks. 🙂
😮 beautiful 😍 awesome 🤩
The layout is brilliant, but I guess we never realise how "unstraight" our tracks are until we mount a camera in the cab. BTW I model in N scale and was thinking if this was N scale you could run trains a mile long.
That's always the case, isn't. When I started my current layout, the R&L, I wanted to go up to HO, but realized I didn't have the space, because my six-foot wing was 1 train! Now Im staying with N, because even when I do move into a bigger house, I'll be able to have even longer trains!! *maniacal laughter ensues*
Amazing video
Thanks for posting. Sheldon Cooper (from TBBT) would love this! 🛤 👀 ❤
I had a friend whose O-scale layout went through the staircase.
Very nice! ❤❤❤
That was fun! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
It needs Wild West town, with tiny horses, with even more tiny cowboys on them, with even more tiny still guns a blazin'.....ROB THAT TRAIN BOYS, ROB THAT TRAIN !!!!
Reminds me of going into Penn Station standing in the front of M-1 metroliner on the LIRR-
A legendary land of GIANTS !
That was so cool!
Like to have seen what his wife said when she saw the hole
That is so cool.
Cool...👍
Amazing
Wow !
Nice!
This is a GREAT train layout. It was the right thing to do. I hope you all have many, many happy days of railroading ahead. I'm remembering my train trip back in the late 1940's: San Diego to Pittsburg, PA. Great memories. Also reminded of my ride on a friend's narrow gauge RR; down between the trees, over the trestle, around his dad's house, up across the driveway with the crossed arm signal blinking and dinging . . . and then years later he pulled up the tracks and put it all into storage when he moved. Heart breaking.
I just posted the full version of the 24 minute mainline cab ride for anyone who is interested.
How cool! If you can, or have the time, a camera view from the conductor's view or behind so we can see the engine(s) would be awesome. I understand the height restrictions.
@@sywtf4 very fair request.
Awsome
"Hey honey I need to cut into the staircase"
Question: What brand/model of CAMERA was used?
Polaroid Cube 2
Très bien
On any vidio of a layout, it would be nice to know what scale the train is. I will let people know when I get mine fininished. It will American flyer "S Guage" with old and new trains on it.
This is Ho gauge track in this video :)
Thats the best set up I've ever seen. What is the square footage and the amount of time to get it like this. I'm just starting out
@michpackfan I will be releasing a documentary on this layout at some point and I will try to answer most of your questions. The model train hobby is a long process to get into and as I continue building my layout I’ll try to release videos that will help people starting out. The comment section isn’t really long enough to explain the process he took.
Sophdog's comment about the dead mouse made me wonder if any Argentina model railroader who models in O, G, or #1 scale has a rodent cage "zoo" on his layout with hamsters that are portrayed as capyberas?
Real trains also have to cross unimportant terrain to get from one important location to another.
I hope you planned for any service or replacement that all the mechanical equipment down there may require!
I've never seen a turn out (in real life) like u installed at 2m 44s; ifn u want to step it up a "notch," install a puzzle switch. The last one I have ever seen or operated was at a Cargill elevator.
No space in our house of 83m2 for 9m2 trainset with 9 trains. Worse, my lovely wife makes sure to tell me she lives here too. And that has consequesces.
It was OK in the house of 175m2 on a not usable covered balcony. Way too cold in winter, way to hot in summer.
Is the camera car being pushed by hand or by a locomotive?
Are there white target boards on signals in real life?
What is the camera (model) you used ? I'd like to know because I want to do the same . Many Thanks .
The layout of the tracks must have taken a lot of planning and math.
Great video but I wish the people in the room would have shut up while you were recording it. I wanted to hear the track sounds, not people yakking!
What scale is this?
Excellent video... why? No stupid commentary, no fucking aggravating background elevator music/soundtrack. Thank u posting and sharing a POV video of this layout.
Yeah, the only aggravating thing is your comment with the profanity
@@Tom-jx9te Poor baby, go cry to your mommy.
@@Tom-jx9te You don't get out much, do you? LOL
@ Great job ruining a peaceful video with no stupid commentary, with your idiotic commentary!
For a time there i though i was watching Land of the Giants
I don't know about anyone else, but I got a little vertigo on the approach to the hole in the stairway. Somehow I felt like I was on the train and was gonna tip over to the floor.
You can call it "CP Stair".
Somehow, I don't think the wife would let me make holes in the staircase.
Here's how my history went years ago: O doesn't fit in the space very well. Switch to HO. Add way too much stuff. HO doesn't fit in the space very well.
Your boxcars don’t have any graffiti.
The modern graffiti movement began in the 1960s and 1970s, when political activists and gang members started to use graffiti as a form of expression, The Great Northern Railway, a class 1 railway company existed between 1889-1970 making it unlikely to see graffiti because most graffiti started on subways in the city.
What No Cats 🤔
NO.
😳😳😳😳😳❤❤❤🎉
OK
What scale is this?