It's like his yard is its own little world with plains and canyons and a bridge over a dry riverbed and a railroad and rail yard. I love it. And the trains are incredible, truly a work of passion and art.
When I was about 3 to 7 years old there was this old man well old to me being 3 years that lived right across the street for me back in the sixties who had a steam locomotive he had more tracks on the side of his house stacked up but he only had a few tracks set up on the other side of his house with a switch track to go back in the tunnel for storage. He had a water tower train lights 2 cars you could ride in and pile of coal his train was set up like yours where you could put the coal up from under your seat Into the burner from the coal car It was a beautiful blue with a red star in front with little steps on each side In the front to get on the catwalk of course if you were a little tiny man the size of the train. It reminded me of a Western train but it didn't have that big fat smokestack it had to one like yours Unfortunately my mom couldn't afford to take pictures back then as much as she would like to have film was expensive so there's no pictures of it and that's sad because it was just so cool I remember coming home one day after school when I was around 9 a gentleman was putting it in the back of his pickup truck and I said where are you going with the train He sold it to me but at the time being a kid I wasn't really that inquisitive about where he was taking it But I remember being somewhat sad about it wasn't long after that that we moved And it became a memory but watching your video just brought it all flooding back to me Great video and beautiful beautiful beautiful trains I've been to the state fair in New York where they have a couple of old diesel lackawana locomotives On display I have loved trains my whole life and I'm building a railroad Rail rider to ride on Abandoned train tracks Sure wish I had a picture of the train the old guy had when I was a kid It was in Savannah Georgia back In the early sixties.In you're endeavors if you ever could do some research being connected like you are with the Railroad models maybe yall could dig up a picture of the train the old guy had on 61st and bull st Savannah Ga.That would be just the most wonderful thing to see again Thanks again for a wonderful video And bringing back memories of being a kid.
I remember as a young child riding on the SantaFe from Perry OK. To Emporia, KS to visit relatives. Such fun . I also remember riding the Doodle Bug as well.
One of the coolest things I have ever seen! My restoration too 7.2 years,,, so I can definitely understand 16 years. I would have loved to have been a part of it.
Inspirational stuff. I've been building my Northern for a long time (35 yrs) and I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know how much work you have put in. Well done and thanks for sharing.
Beautiful stuff!! Wish I had one of those.. Mike Venezia is a good guy, he let me cut my teeth on a live steam engine back in 2004 at the Strasburg Railroad “The Cagney” Thank you Mike,
I just sometimes when you see each other I guess if I'll give him a high five and stuff like that which is pretty cool and I know you guys are having fun
Bringing the past to the present in magnificent fashion. This is a powerful statement to the future of our nation, individually, determination, responsibility, respect of the past, present and future shared together for all to know it is possible to be and so much more. Thanks for sharing this excellent example of human kind in togetherness. A true living experience well worth caring on!!!!!+!!!!!
Hi Mike, Thanks for Sharing this video. It was great to see you and Marty, as it's been a long time since we have had the pleasure of being at a wonderful steam meet. Beautiful Locomotives, and you should be proud of your accomplishments, to enrich this hobby. As my son Mike and I, ( I'm the Backshop Grunt ) start working on his project, I want to wish you and all who had a wonderful day all the best for the coming years ahead . Run safe, be safe and keep the steam up. Regards, Dave W. member, Finger Lakes Live Steamers.
Thanks very much for your comments and support it is a true labor of love and that was quite The Eclectic group of live Steamers to help us with this video
That is a beautiful group of engines! I’m amazed at the engineering necessary to build such beautiful “models” that operate exactly as their perspective prototypes. I’m also amazed at the creativity and engineering that goes into creating such gorgeous railroads, as well as the accompanying scenery elements! Great video!
Because every time when I see your train videos these train videos look almost like real and it's really awesome how you make those and build those together with your friends from gabriella Rivas from Roslyn heights long island near New York City my dear friend
pam was the only one to not overfire her engine she never popped a safety valve, what gauge 7.25 or 7.5, very nice trains all around and seemed like perfect trackwork
When I was growing up in St John's in Portland Oregon they used to have a parade once a year in St John's and in the parade on the back of a flatbed semi used to be a steam locomotive like yours I don't know whatever happened to it. It might have been something they had out at oaks Park for a while but they soon stopped having some of the little trains out there too don't know whatever happened to them unless they're still stored in oaks Park there are some buildings there that look like they can hold those little trains
Hi from the UK are railway/Road is 10inch gauge full standard gauge locomotives with one USTAC S160 war department the rest are British 9fs and the like but by God they are some beautiful locomotives you have there thank you for sharing
This is such a cool video! Our live steam railroad (Auburn Valley Railroad) has two original Little Engines 4-8-4 Northerns, one of which was one of Martin Lewis' uncompleted prototypes (AVRR 402). These locomotives are still in service today and are based on Union Pacific's FEF-1 Northerns
I did the cylinder machining for these four engines including hundreds of parts over the period of a year. Included were cylinder castings, heads, valve chambers covers, shafts, guide castings, pistons, piston rods, guides, exhaust stands, nozzles, nuts, Liners, expansion links, blocks, crossheads, pins......... I have some clips on my channel.
I wanted to get into the scale but my living is not with support. and the people I knew are long gone, like a doctor from Georgia, then his collection in Chattanooga, railroad museum, I still love this scale of trains, but depression set in when I wanted to be part of this rail and love for the Rock Island,
Calling this video incredible, is an understatement! The scenery, the engines and the sounds , are over the top. That's a lot of steam blowing off. How water do they carry? What is their fuel capacity? Thank you.
First let me say that this is a wonderful video and the locomotives are beyond words - totally amazing!! But if I have one complaint, and it’s a big complaint, why are y’all so frugal, so conservative with the whistle blowing? That’s one of the wonders of steam locomotives-the thrill of listening to that whistle blow! But throughout the whole video we barely get to hear the whistle, and when we do, it’s such an anemic blow.😞 I heard it a few times, but still it seems like y’all are afraid to use the steam whistle. Aside from that, y’all have created a great wonder of the world. Thank you!!
Are the switches setup like spring switches? At 10:35 the train on the left ran through trailing point switch lined incorrectly. That's why I am wondering.
Good eye! Yes all the switches are setup as spring switches through the trailing points. I'll try and post a short video in the next few days that shows the detail of the switch construction.
The locomotives are Little Engines, who made the rolling stock? That passenger consist is amazing and beautifully done, and the freight is the of similar quality. Are the passenger cars' roofs removable? Sorry to be so inquisitive
Thanks for viewing the video. The rolling stock was made by many different builders, some commercial and some private. The passenger car roofs are removable, which you can see on this TH-cam video starting at about midway through: th-cam.com/video/8dhUPBhhMSA/w-d-xo.html
It was 37 degrees Fahrenheit at that time. At daybreak it had been around 30 Fahrenheit, but the temperature warmed quickly and it was a beautiful day.
There was a camera train running it front of the passenger and freight trains. The camera train consisted of a electric (battery) powered diesel engine and a flat car. The videographer was sitting on the flat car with both a tripod mounted Nikon Z6 for HD video and a GoPro mounted on the deck of the flat car. Thanks for asking!
I'm sorry but I have a question... What 1.5" scale means? I mean a scale not is a ratio real/model like 1:8? What is the scale here? what does 1.5 inch represent?
Great question! 1.5" scale refers to the model live steam engine's relationship to the full size locomotive. In this case the live steam models are 1.5 inches for every 12 inches (1 foot) of the full size engine. To get the ratio between the model and full size, divide full size, 12", by the scale size, 1.5". This gives you a scale factor of 8, meaning the live steam models are 1/8th the size of the full-size locomotive. This ratio can also be represented as 1:8. Thanks for your interest!
I don't know how or why you would consider this to be disposable income it was a business for me and it relied upon skills that may be a lot of people don't have it's not like we went out and paid people to do all this work the amount of work put into this by those of us who built them could never be recovered financially
This shows what hard work and dedication can do. These are HAND MADE by people with skills that took many years to develop and refine. Now that there are pattern to reproduce these machines, it also can be a business, built on the hard work. Those hours will never get repaid, except in the hours and years of enjoyment sharing them through operating them. If they did use "disposable income" so what, they must have worked to earn enough over those 16 years to do it. I wanted to make it but one myself, but was unable to, yet instead of firing off pot shots at them I'll thank them for sharing it with us.
It's too bad you can't make a movie about this that the littlest teenager that could I think I can I think I can I think I can from gabriella Rivas from Roslyn heights long island near New York City my dear friend and I hope you make more of ugly skin locomotives cuz they're really look nice the old-fashioned 20 the old-fashioned trains from all over the world I bet you will love to make a steam locomotive for the trains from South America from Santiago Chile my dear friend
Here in Dayton Ohio at Carillon Park there is a railroad club that runs these trains I've been there in person and I'm sorry it looks so ridiculous to see grown men sitting on dinky little steam engines.
The art of machinists such as these guys is dying out, mainly because it is not being taught in schools (that I know of)! Unless men such as these take it upon themselves to show the intricacies of what is involved in building high pressure boilers, steel wheels, knuckles, bearings, screws and nuts and bolts etc. we won't see anymore steam locomotives in the future!
The trains are Beautiful, but they could have gotten a better narrator. You can tell he's reading from cue cards by the way he keeps pausing in the middle of the sentences. Other than that the video was awesome.
It's like his yard is its own little world with plains and canyons and a bridge over a dry riverbed and a railroad and rail yard. I love it. And the trains are incredible, truly a work of passion and art.
Beautiful machines! What a cool hobby! Thank You 👍
When I was about 3 to 7 years old there was this old man well old to me being 3 years that lived right across the street for me back in the sixties who had a steam locomotive he had more tracks on the side of his house stacked up but he only had a few tracks set up on the other side of his house with a switch track to go back in the tunnel for storage. He had a water tower train lights 2 cars you could ride in and pile of coal his train was set up like yours where you could put the coal up from under your seat Into the burner from the coal car It was a beautiful blue with a red star in front with little steps on each side In the front to get on the catwalk of course if you were a little tiny man the size of the train. It reminded me of a Western train but it didn't have that big fat smokestack it had to one like yours Unfortunately my mom couldn't afford to take pictures back then as much as she would like to have film was expensive so there's no pictures of it and that's sad because it was just so cool I remember coming home one day after school when I was around 9 a gentleman was putting it in the back of his pickup truck and I said where are you going with the train He sold it to me but at the time being a kid I wasn't really that inquisitive about where he was taking it But I remember being somewhat sad about it wasn't long after that that we moved And it became a memory but watching your video just brought it all flooding back to me Great video and beautiful beautiful beautiful trains I've been to the state fair in New York where they have a couple of old diesel lackawana locomotives On display I have loved trains my whole life and I'm building a railroad Rail rider to ride on Abandoned train tracks Sure wish I had a picture of the train the old guy had when I was a kid It was in Savannah Georgia back In the early sixties.In you're endeavors if you ever could do some research being connected like you are with the Railroad models maybe yall could dig up a picture of the train the old guy had on 61st and bull st Savannah Ga.That would be just the most wonderful thing to see again Thanks again for a wonderful video And bringing back memories of being a kid.
Absolutely the finest steam locomotives on the planet in my opinion! Poetry in motion!
Thank you for sharing a great video.
glad to see everyone is enjoying this video
Magnificent engines in every way. The railroad has the smoothest and best track of any live steam layout I've seen.
Thanks 🤠 and enjoy your Day Cheers 🍻🍻🤠✊✊
This video certainly captures the feel of real steam railroading! Those Little Engines Alcos are very impressive.
The engineers all look so happy!
Wow, love those four engines. They are absolutely darling.. thank you
I remember as a young child riding on the SantaFe from Perry OK. To Emporia, KS to visit relatives. Such fun . I also remember riding the Doodle Bug as well.
One of the coolest things I have ever seen! My restoration too 7.2 years,,, so I can definitely understand 16 years. I would have loved to have been a part of it.
What a magnificent little world.!!!!!
Hard to even comprehend the history, labor, devotion and love represented here! Props and thanks for sharing ❤❤❤❤❤
Inspirational stuff. I've been building my Northern for a long time (35 yrs) and I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. I know how much work you have put in. Well done and thanks for sharing.
Awesome film with these Little Engines locos
Full steam ahead , Mike and Team . Greetings from Germany
That's the best little train I've ever seen ,when you get close it becomes a work of art ,well done 😉
06:06 what a lovely whistle.
That is my 5 chime cb&q whistle
Beautiful stuff!! Wish I had one of those.. Mike Venezia is a good guy, he let me cut my teeth on a live steam engine back in 2004 at the Strasburg Railroad “The Cagney” Thank you Mike,
I just sometimes when you see each other I guess if I'll give him a high five and stuff like that which is pretty cool and I know you guys are having fun
Art in its purist form. Thanks for bringing them to life. Excellent work
Beyond magnificent
Absolutely love the steam trains!.
THE BEST WE HAVE SEEN !! I HOPE THIS MEETING IS REPEATED MORE TIMES !! THE GREAT STEAM ENGINEERS !! THANK YOU FOR THE POST !!!
Magnificent trains
one day y'all should do a video of a really long train and have all 4 locomotives pulling the train together
Bringing the past to the present in magnificent fashion. This is a powerful statement to the future of our nation, individually, determination, responsibility, respect of the past, present and future shared together for all to know it is possible to be and so much more. Thanks for sharing this excellent example of human kind in togetherness. A true living experience well worth caring on!!!!!+!!!!!
Hi Mike, Thanks for Sharing this video. It was great to see you and Marty, as it's been a long time since we have had the pleasure of being at a wonderful steam meet. Beautiful Locomotives, and you should be proud of your accomplishments, to enrich this hobby. As my son Mike and I, ( I'm the Backshop Grunt ) start working on his project, I want to wish you and all who had a wonderful day all the best for the coming years ahead . Run safe, be safe and keep the steam up. Regards, Dave W. member, Finger Lakes Live Steamers.
Thanks very much for your comments and support it is a true labor of love and that was quite The Eclectic group of live Steamers to help us with this video
Your welcome Mike, hope you have a great year. Dave W
Thank you for sharing this amazing video. Wonderful workmanship .
That is a beautiful group of engines! I’m amazed at the engineering necessary to build such beautiful “models” that operate exactly as their perspective prototypes. I’m also amazed at the creativity and engineering that goes into creating such gorgeous railroads, as well as the accompanying scenery elements!
Great video!
yea the names for the little areas was very apt and cute
These guys all have the same expression. Id be smiling ear to ear.
37 degrees is tee shirt weather in Maine!
Because every time when I see your train videos these train videos look almost like real and it's really awesome how you make those and build those together with your friends from gabriella Rivas from Roslyn heights long island near New York City my dear friend
Outstanding and beautiful equipment...!
Super cool
They have a heck of a lot of 💰 just on the railroad track and the train bridges alone.I'ed bet a man got millions of dollars in that outfit.
Wow! Congratulations! Wonderful! Have to visit you!!! Best regards from Germany! Stefan
If I ever become half as good of a machinist as Pam, I'd consider that a great accomplishment.
I really like the Lackawanna 4-8-4 and the DL&W 4-6-4
What a fantastic accomplishment congratulations to You all !!!
real nice video the engines are great works of craftmanship that are made to run, well done all
The soot on your face says it all! 🙂
Beautiful work on the engines and cars, they sound healthy and look prototypical. Very well produced video, it was enjoyable. Thank you for sharing.
mighty fine. great sounding whistle. well done track work.
pam was the only one to not overfire her engine she never popped a safety valve, what gauge 7.25 or 7.5, very nice trains all around and seemed like perfect trackwork
Great Mike!
Fantastic machines!!
When I was growing up in St John's in Portland Oregon they used to have a parade once a year in St John's and in the parade on the back of a flatbed semi used to be a steam locomotive like yours I don't know whatever happened to it. It might have been something they had out at oaks Park for a while but they soon stopped having some of the little trains out there too don't know whatever happened to them unless they're still stored in oaks Park there are some buildings there that look like they can hold those little trains
Next 16 years a set of all the major engines
Hi from the UK are railway/Road is 10inch gauge full standard gauge locomotives with one USTAC S160 war department the rest are British 9fs and the like but by God they are some beautiful locomotives you have there thank you for sharing
Incredible.
This is such a cool video! Our live steam railroad (Auburn Valley Railroad) has two original Little Engines 4-8-4 Northerns, one of which was one of Martin Lewis' uncompleted prototypes (AVRR 402). These locomotives are still in service today and are based on Union Pacific's FEF-1 Northerns
Beautiful! And jealous!! More side shots of the engines and their wheels and rods would have been great. What's next? 1:4, or larger?
Very Impressive
Would like to see some of the manufacturing process, casting, machining, and assembly.
Great idea for a video - let me see what we can do.
These engines are a work of art, congratulations!
I did the cylinder machining for these four engines including hundreds of parts over the period of a year. Included were cylinder castings, heads, valve chambers covers, shafts, guide castings, pistons, piston rods, guides, exhaust stands, nozzles, nuts,
Liners, expansion links, blocks, crossheads, pins.........
I have some clips on my channel.
I had no idea this existed. Wow
I wanted to get into the scale but my living is not with support. and the people I knew are long gone, like a doctor from Georgia, then his collection in Chattanooga, railroad museum, I still love this scale of trains, but depression set in when I wanted to be part of this rail and love for the Rock Island,
Calling this video incredible, is an understatement! The scenery, the engines and the sounds , are over the top. That's a lot of steam blowing off. How water do they carry? What is their fuel capacity? Thank you.
Good morning from SE Louisiana 24 Sep 21.
Im new to the hobby these look amazing, i am curious to know what is the scaling method to size a loco? any help would be great thankyou
You should build a big boy version
Bad Ass!
Wow emejing for in the world
Mielenkiintoista katsottavaa, upeeta.
Few sandwiches away from bigger trains nice
Cool
I don't care what scale it's in: you show me a 4-8-4, I'll give you a like!
First let me say that this is a wonderful video and the locomotives are beyond words - totally amazing!! But if I have one complaint, and it’s a big complaint, why are y’all so frugal, so conservative with the whistle blowing? That’s one of the wonders of steam locomotives-the thrill of listening to that whistle blow! But throughout the whole video we barely get to hear the whistle, and when we do, it’s such an anemic blow.😞 I heard it a few times, but still it seems like y’all are afraid to use the steam whistle.
Aside from that, y’all have created a great wonder of the world. Thank you!!
Are the switches setup like spring switches? At 10:35 the train on the left ran through trailing point switch lined incorrectly. That's why I am wondering.
Good eye! Yes all the switches are setup as spring switches through the trailing points. I'll try and post a short video in the next few days that shows the detail of the switch construction.
@@inaccordcommunications6138 good deal. Be an interesting video to watch. Great to see Greg too. Haven't seen him since Owosso.
The locomotives are Little Engines, who made the rolling stock? That passenger consist is amazing and beautifully done, and the freight is the of similar quality. Are the passenger cars' roofs removable? Sorry to be so inquisitive
Thanks for viewing the video. The rolling stock was made by many different builders, some commercial and some private. The passenger car roofs are removable, which you can see on this TH-cam video starting at about midway through: th-cam.com/video/8dhUPBhhMSA/w-d-xo.html
Son I need sum money!! Cuz I want one of theez like a Amtrak or a fast chinese joint!!
I would love to be able to run or own one of them Trans I have loved Trans my how life I have N / H / G scale Trans my favorite is steam engine's
How much horsepower can those locomotives haul?
Does anyone know where this is located?
The track is in central Texas
how many people can they hall at one time ?
I'm not sure that's ever been tested, but probably 20 or so.
How much rupees the engines
37 degrees celsees or ferenhite
It was 37 degrees Fahrenheit at that time. At daybreak it had been around 30 Fahrenheit, but the temperature warmed quickly and it was a beautiful day.
What was the camera mounted on?
There was a camera train running it front of the passenger and freight trains. The camera train consisted of a electric (battery) powered diesel engine and a flat car. The videographer was sitting on the flat car with both a tripod mounted Nikon Z6 for HD video and a GoPro mounted on the deck of the flat car. Thanks for asking!
I'm sorry but I have a question... What 1.5" scale means? I mean a scale not is a ratio real/model like 1:8? What is the scale here? what does 1.5 inch represent?
Great question! 1.5" scale refers to the model live steam engine's relationship to the full size locomotive. In this case the live steam models are 1.5 inches for every 12 inches (1 foot) of the full size engine. To get the ratio between the model and full size, divide full size, 12", by the scale size, 1.5". This gives you a scale factor of 8, meaning the live steam models are 1/8th the size of the full-size locomotive. This ratio can also be represented as 1:8. Thanks for your interest!
@@inaccordcommunications6138 Thanks for the replay and great video ;)
Must be nice to have disposable income..
They don't waste money on snowmobiles, airplanes etc. And money gets money.
I don't know how or why you would consider this to be disposable income it was a business for me and it relied upon skills that may be a lot of people don't have it's not like we went out and paid people to do all this work the amount of work put into this by those of us who built them could never be recovered financially
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This shows what hard work and dedication can do. These are HAND MADE by people with skills that took many years to develop and refine. Now that there are pattern to reproduce these machines, it also can be a business, built on the hard work. Those hours will never get repaid, except in the hours and years of enjoyment sharing them through operating them. If they did use "disposable income" so what, they must have worked to earn enough over those 16 years to do it. I wanted to make it but one myself, but was unable to, yet instead of firing off pot shots at them I'll thank them for sharing it with us.
Remember kids...NEVER wash your locomotive in very hot water. It shrinks them every time.
Where to people get the money to do this?
Pick it off trees
@@rodneycody8746 Thanks!
It's too bad you can't make a movie about this that the littlest teenager that could I think I can I think I can I think I can from gabriella Rivas from Roslyn heights long island near New York City my dear friend and I hope you make more of ugly skin locomotives cuz they're really look nice the old-fashioned 20 the old-fashioned trains from all over the world I bet you will love to make a steam locomotive for the trains from South America from Santiago Chile my dear friend
Poor camera work. We don't want to look at 4 guys the whole video. Sorry, should of did this video different.
0:25 😅
@2:35 Video tape? Haha you are not aging yourself are you? don't worry, i say the same thing when using a digital camera.
Steamers ya
Making food but come on
more of the engineers view n less interview pls.
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on video edits that will be just what you are looking suggesting.
Here in Dayton Ohio at Carillon Park there is a railroad club that runs these trains I've been there in person and I'm sorry it looks so ridiculous to see grown men sitting on dinky little steam engines.
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I would let one engine get grimy for realism.
The art of machinists such as these guys is dying out, mainly because it is not being taught in schools (that I know of)! Unless men such as these take it upon themselves to show the intricacies of what is involved in building high pressure boilers, steel wheels, knuckles, bearings, screws and nuts and bolts etc. we won't see anymore steam locomotives in the future!
The trains are Beautiful, but they could have gotten a better narrator. You can tell he's reading from cue cards by the way he keeps pausing in the middle of the sentences. Other than that the video was awesome.
Sorry no I was not reading from cue cards I was actually doing this on the Fly