AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT ! I was a part of a midwest club that had a modular-O layout, nowhere near this size. It takes a TON of planning, packing, unpacking, setup and running HOURS to pull something like this off. Sad part: you are exhausted by the time the public comes in!
One of the cars ready to drag looks like a Plymouth Super Bird. Incredibly awesome layout. Drool, drool. The long, sweeping curves of track add such realism. Also the tracks seem so solidly anchored; so straight and true. Beyond nice; what a great way to spend many, many hours. Some folks have such creative imaginations! And time - and money!
A terrific layout indeed. Tons of unique imagination. And the diecast collection is by far the biggest I've seen. Lots of older and hard to find pieces. Well done ! 👍👍👍
Impressive layout and array of trains! The guys really put a lot of effort into this one. Nick thanks for taking the time to show the entire layout. The roundhouse with all of the Big Boy locomotives was awesome to see! See you at the Greenberg Show next weekend!
What can I say!! That was AWESOME!! How incredible is that! Adjectives cannot describe how incredible that is. The creativity and details are astounding. Outstanding video to say the least. Thank you for recording this and sharing it! Tom
That's not a steel train at 4:15. Those are slag pots. They're pretty much only used in the vicinity of a blast furnace and are shoved off to a disposal area where the slag is dumped off into slag pits.
My brother and I grew up next to the park but I moved away long before Kennywood started its Christmas Lights event. I need to come home during Christmas to see this in person. I am a member of the Houston Tinplate Operators Society (HTOS) and need to share this with the other members. I am an American Flyer collector and operator, and HTOS has a small AF layout. The club meets twice a week, Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons at its storefront in Memorial City Mall.
This detail is really amazing, well thought out scenes/ and love the long straight-a-ways... I have a Q. What company sells the automobiles for O scale 1:48 that I see here? There's a great many variety of models here, from 50's 60's up to todays models. I've had a hard time finding that 1/48 - O scale, see a lot of other scales but not 1:48. Guess I need to look harder.
Most of the vehicles on the layout are 1/43 or 1/50, but the few 1/48 vehicles we do have on the layout are mostly from Menards (and very inexpensive, too!)
We use two Lionel ZW-L transformers for a little redundancy and to have more available power, but just one ZW-L can handle this layout as long as we are not running with too many smoke units and incandescent bulbs in passenger cars.
They always have impressive layouts, but it's unfortunate that they're not too pleasant to deal with. Inquired about joining and was basically brushed aside with some hodge podge answers with clearly no interest in new people joining.
@@keithm5224 then you can state you're not taking new members, not "well you have to hang around us, and we have to get to know you, then if we're Ok with you, we'll consider letting you join. You'll have to build your own section for displaying and you're not guaranteed to be able to run your train". It played out like a scene in "Mean Girls".
@@TheDarkPhoenix23 Then they didn’t say they don’t want new members. That’s how it was when I joined 10 years ago. I haven’t been active recently but I know that many new people have joined, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re hesitant to accept new people. You have to remember that this is an independent social club separate from any other model train organization and if they don’t like you why would the let you in. Everyone builds a module, that’s how it is. And of course you’re not guaranteed to be able to run a train if there’s 20 members and 4 tracks
@@keithm5224 i didn't say they didn't want new members. I said when i inquired, it was basically put to me to kiss butt with the hopes of acceptance and a green light to join. As far as being independent, isn't the point to enjoy the hobby without the sometimes oppressive rules from a structured organization? Also, yeah everyone has to build as module and that's great but not if you're allowing consistent track time to the same people. Everyone should get a turn and it should rotate. Best part is, i had little to no desire to run my stuff as i can do that at home. What I did want was to enjoy other enthusiasts, and get ideas and tips on building and wiring displays. So all that riggermerall directed towards me for nothing.
@@TheDarkPhoenix23 Actually you said they have “clearly no interest in people joining”. Obviously this conversation isn’t going to go anywhere further. I’m sorry you feel that you were ostracized
wow
Extremely impressive....
Great video! Thanks for sharing
That is big!
Fantastic!
Oh man! Insane! Thanks for sharing!
It's an amazing experience to be at kennywood, run some trains and make friends. I suggest you come see the layout
Enough track for a football plus the end end zones.
HOLY SH!T 😮
AMAZING ACHIEVEMENT ! I was a part of a midwest club that had a modular-O layout, nowhere near this size. It takes a TON of planning, packing, unpacking, setup and running HOURS to pull something like this off. Sad part: you are exhausted by the time the public comes in!
True, but we consider this a good kind of exhaustion. ;) This layout took a little over 437 man hours by 9 people over a 12 day period to set up.
@@ahummellH
The hobo union approves of this video, and will be hopping trains at a layout near you.....❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊
BRAVO… THANK YOU!
WOW! That's one big modular layout. Thanks for the walk around Nick!
Kennywood was always a blast
Glad I grew up in greenfield
Really impressive- thanks for sharing and also enjoyed your commentary which was really funny…
Impressive! 👍👍
I didnt know kennywood did this
Read the side of the school bus at 6:07.
Nice video. 👍
Whoa! What an amazing layout. Super impressive. Thanks for taking us along. Very professional production.
One of the cars ready to drag looks like a Plymouth Super Bird. Incredibly awesome layout. Drool, drool. The long, sweeping curves of track add such realism. Also the tracks seem so solidly anchored; so straight and true. Beyond nice; what a great way to spend many, many hours. Some folks have such creative imaginations! And time - and money!
That’s incredible
This is absolutely INSANE!!! I love it. Thank you.
A terrific layout indeed. Tons of unique imagination. And the diecast collection is by far the biggest I've seen. Lots of older and hard to find pieces. Well done ! 👍👍👍
AWESOME, EXCELLENT and PERFECT!!!!! Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Thanks for the great coverage of the Pittsburgh Independent Hi-railers model railroad train layout at Kennywood. This was an awesome video!
amazing
Impressive layout and array of trains! The guys really put a lot of effort into this one. Nick thanks for taking the time to show the entire layout. The roundhouse with all of the Big Boy locomotives was awesome to see! See you at the Greenberg Show next weekend!
What can I say!! That was AWESOME!! How incredible is that! Adjectives cannot describe how incredible that is. The creativity and details are astounding. Outstanding video to say the least. Thank you for recording this and sharing it! Tom
Gotta be at least a few hundred dollars worth of trains in this video :)
This layout is awesome. N Scale is what I’m doing. The one fire station looks like Station 51 from Emergency.
Wonderful thank you
That is more than impressive im thinking about doing that when i build my layout
That's not a steel train at 4:15. Those are slag pots. They're pretty much only used in the vicinity of a blast furnace and are shoved off to a disposal area where the slag is dumped off into slag pits.
My brother and I grew up next to the park but I moved away long before Kennywood started its Christmas Lights event. I need to come home during Christmas to see this in person. I am a member of the Houston Tinplate Operators Society (HTOS) and need to share this with the other members. I am an American Flyer collector and operator, and HTOS has a small AF layout. The club meets twice a week, Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons at its storefront in Memorial City Mall.
It’s very impressive layout. Them kennywood train cars are rare and hard to find. Brady’s train house has a few of them.
How many square miles is that?
Wow!!!
You should of showcased the garage with the Mach 5 and Mater and the McDonald’s
CLEANING it would be a full time job !!
This detail is really amazing, well thought out scenes/ and love the long straight-a-ways... I have a Q. What company sells the automobiles for O scale 1:48 that I see here? There's a great many variety of models here, from 50's 60's up to todays models. I've had a hard time finding that 1/48 - O scale, see a lot of other scales but not 1:48. Guess I need to look harder.
Most of the vehicles on the layout are 1/43 or 1/50, but the few 1/48 vehicles we do have on the layout are mostly from Menards (and very inexpensive, too!)
I would have enjoyed doing this but never had the space or money to get into it.
WOW ITS THE LARGEST.
Awesome cool neat crazy
Limited limited vocabulary you have
Wondering if one transformer push all tracks ???
We use two Lionel ZW-L transformers for a little redundancy and to have more available power, but just one ZW-L can handle this layout as long as we are not running with too many smoke units and incandescent bulbs in passenger cars.
Unfortunately many people are saying people who promote 3 rail model rail roads are promoting a false sense of reality.
Who’s saying that
@@keithm52242 rail scale modelers... But thanks for asking...
@@dwightbernheimer331 it’s not that serious
@@keithm5224 Don't tell a 2rail scale modeler That... LOL thanks for getting back to me...👍
@@dwightbernheimer331 I just did
I saw you there sorry I did not say hi
They always have impressive layouts, but it's unfortunate that they're not too pleasant to deal with. Inquired about joining and was basically brushed aside with some hodge podge answers with clearly no interest in new people joining.
Well when you have a four track layout and 20 members there’s not much more room for anyone else
@@keithm5224 then you can state you're not taking new members, not "well you have to hang around us, and we have to get to know you, then if we're Ok with you, we'll consider letting you join. You'll have to build your own section for displaying and you're not guaranteed to be able to run your train". It played out like a scene in "Mean Girls".
@@TheDarkPhoenix23 Then they didn’t say they don’t want new members. That’s how it was when I joined 10 years ago. I haven’t been active recently but I know that many new people have joined, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re hesitant to accept new people. You have to remember that this is an independent social club separate from any other model train organization and if they don’t like you why would the let you in. Everyone builds a module, that’s how it is. And of course you’re not guaranteed to be able to run a train if there’s 20 members and 4 tracks
@@keithm5224 i didn't say they didn't want new members. I said when i inquired, it was basically put to me to kiss butt with the hopes of acceptance and a green light to join. As far as being independent, isn't the point to enjoy the hobby without the sometimes oppressive rules from a structured organization? Also, yeah everyone has to build as module and that's great but not if you're allowing consistent track time to the same people. Everyone should get a turn and it should rotate. Best part is, i had little to no desire to run my stuff as i can do that at home. What I did want was to enjoy other enthusiasts, and get ideas and tips on building and wiring displays. So all that riggermerall directed towards me for nothing.
@@TheDarkPhoenix23 Actually you said they have “clearly no interest in people joining”. Obviously this conversation isn’t going to go anywhere further. I’m sorry you feel that you were ostracized
Very impressive!!!!