You guys should come back! They opened up a knew exhibit called, “The Magic of Scale Model Railroading” I believe.

Wow, that museum has really been updated and is much better than I saw it in1987.

I got hooked in 1968 on a ride on the Keweenaw Central ex Copper Range on its original tracks before the Copper Range was abandoned. My dad said damn that kid loves trains so I got my first lionel for Christmas. Now at 57 I can say I never stopped collecting yeah I've got it really thick in my blood. Good show keep them coming. It's nice that your wife enjoys rail facing with you.

We’ve been to this museum and loved it.

@ToyManTelevision

2 жыл бұрын

Love the whole area too!

I grew up going to the Sacramento Rail Museum, and it holds so many amazing memories for me, it's an awesome place to go

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

An American treasure. The whole of old town as well.

@lucaswalters2181

4 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision absolutely agree, I count myself lucky to have grown up so close to that part of California

I love this museum

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

Us too!!! Amazing!!

THE C.P. HUTHINGTON is my # 1 . Like one of the early toy trains many of us had

@ToyManTelevision

3 жыл бұрын

Odd but super cool. Two drivers! Wow.

It would make my day too go to Sacramento to California State railroad sometime museum sounds great. Keep up the good work toyman

man, Sacramento is such a great place to live. I love living here.

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

It's great W LOVE to visit!

That museum really hasn't changed at all since my childhood. I would love to go back and see it when it opens the new exhibit.

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

The rail fair in 91 waas to rase money for the new part. Never happened. BUT NOW. looking GREAT!!! Should open soon. Looks like the new part is bigger than the old.

Never boring!!!

I went there in August of last year and it was amazing. I knew so much information that a docent and a few other employees even offered me a job there! Too bad I live hundreds of miles away, in Colorado.

@ToyManTelevision

5 жыл бұрын

Just a great place. The national narrow gauge convention is there this year in August

I miss the railroad museum

Thank you for keeping history alive i need to get to some train museums i need to stop lagging behind ive been pretty lazy sense the virus deal but ill be getting back to things hopefully soon thank you for covering this museum sense im not able to be there now

My first "train" was a push along Tootsie Toy freight train. My first electric toy train was an American Flyer tin type O Guage passenger train. At that time I didn't appreciate the historic nature of it. Then my last toy train was a "top of the line" Lionel freight train. Instead of having Lionel on the sides of the tender it had Pennsylvania on it. While the American Flyer only had a headlight, Lionel also had a light in the caboose. It also featured a box car where miniature "5 gallon milk cans" were pushed out on to a platform and a flat car that carried logs. And the logs could be dumped into a tray by remote control.

@ToyManTelevision

5 жыл бұрын

That stuff is FUN. As a kit we would go to Sears where they had a HUGE layout with all that stuff. So fun to watch.

Toured the Musem on 10/13/16, Really amazing to see all the trains, Particularly the X2924. M;y host, Paul, Clement, showed me the hinge between the two sets of driving wheels but I haven't figured out how the pivot between the pre-heater and main boiler which I think must be there. A can't miss if you are in Sacramento and have at least three or 4 hours, preferably longer, to spend. Kids of all ages will realy enjoy the museum. Thanks for the video.

Thanks for the inspiration to go and see the museum. What a great Train Museum. Thanks

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Oops. missed your post. Anyway, THANKS!!

Thank you I'm from the northeast and your videos are great my kids love trains and like the videos keep up the great work ...

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks!!!!! We want to get back out your way this summer. So much to see and do!!!!!!!!!

I have went there many times. I also had film the California State Railroad Museum in June 16th 2019. Our favorite steam locomotive is UP 4466. Also the SP Cab Forward 4294 was the last surviving AC-12 class locomotive too. It is the last surviving Cab Forward locomotive from the Southern Pacific.

@nathancorcoran5347

4 жыл бұрын

The Southern Pacific also had the AC-9.

Im always on the Amtrak + Train every week to the museum / I also enjoy screwing around ‘ At train clubs and lots of them . Ah Some times being random and enjoying a hobby this or Video recording or photography or music ,+ It all add up to value of your time ?!’ Keep it up 👍🏼 cheers 🥂 😊

Always enjoy your videos!

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Blake Thanks!!!! Fun to make too.

I have not been to this museum in a long time, did not know about the second one, Will go up there sometime next year.

A Must visit for everyone. Don't need to be train happy as some of us are. Well, Well done. I am surprised by the quality of your videos. Every Sunday it's a treat to swing by and See what Toy Man had been doing, along, with his Bride The two really enjoy the trip. Brilliant!

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

Hi. that truly is a great museum is it not? I love the bay area in general and Sacramento is right on my list at least the old Town part. The rrest of it. is a little boring.

I have been wanting to go there now really badly, if I could go there I would.

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Mr goat Do go!! It great.

On bucket list to go see. Thanks for the brief tour

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Peter CPRail8748 Do go! Really great place.

That museum is beautiful, and I don't use that word often.

Thanks for the info

I have one of the original Central Pacific Railroad spikes from 1860 and it was hand forged in Sacramento California

What a fantastic museum! Myself and my ol Lady are gonna have to take a bike ride out there to visit that museum. Thank you for sharing this! Fantastic looking video also, as professional as anything out there.

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

They are adding a huge new area at long last. Started it in 91!!!

I rode the Amtrak to go there it was pretty fun there. My favorite is the train going out of the tunnel. I going to go there soon again

@ToyManTelevision

3 жыл бұрын

Back in full business. Yea!

Ok I might would go to California to see this

@mikewilson7812

4 жыл бұрын

Been there several times. Got to talk with a docent who worked the mail car, Chicago to NY, back the next night, sorting mail as they went. The dining car is fully set with the actual dinnerware used. Very luxurious.

@tomedgar4375

4 жыл бұрын

Jerred Boshears Take disposable shoes for stepping over all the homeless and their droppings. Politics is turning this state into an S hole. This is an awesome museum.

The Central Pacific faced unimaginable challenges. It was more than just the locomotives that were shipped around Cape Horn to California. I believe every length of rail, and perhaps every track spike, had to make the journey by sea around the Horn. It's surprising the Company stayed solvent long enough to reach Promontory Summit.

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

Steve stribel with the o scale railroad we cover so often lives in a house made from an old silo cast from cement. The cement was milled in the UK and shipped around the horn to the Bay Area, up the river to Sacramento and over the transcontinental railroad to Ogden and by wagon to Salt Lake City. Amazing time. We need to get out your way. Love the place.

Nice. We have a great train museum near Montreal, Canada.

@ToyManTelevision

3 жыл бұрын

Love to see it post Covid!

I like your theme. "Screwing around."

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Pinchie08 As long as you are screwing around it's all good. I think going to the moon was screwing around. Just very high level screwing around.

Been there pretty cool place.

Love what you do, Thank you for posting!

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+mrtowed THANKS!!!!

Go to Durango Co. it is always an amazing trip and the museum is amazing

excellent video. Thanks

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Mr. Good Totally fun. Love that place. Next week, a castle. Not trains, but A CASTLE in Napa. Wow!

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

On our bucket list for sure.

You guys should've gone outside to see the actual operating steam locomotives, they have some really nice trains! Great video btw!!

Just outside the Museum, is the Sacramento Southern Railroad where you get to ride behind the Granite Rock Company number #10. A beautifully restored 1942 0-6-0 Porter tank engine steam locomotive that hauled rock and gravel in quarries around Hollister California. She was restored in 1997 and rebuilt again in 2015, and runs every weekend from March-September as well as the Christmas season. It's a nice scenic ride along the Sacramento River, and riding the train is a great start to a visit at the Museum.

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris9017 Not running the day we were shooting. When we got there we saw the train come in, but only running weekends. DARN.

@Chris9017

8 жыл бұрын

That's unfortunate because it's a really nice ride, and Granite Rock #10 hauling the tourist trains in Old Sacramento really brings more to the story on how Railroading was like during the California Gold Rush.

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Chris9017 Good reason to go back!

The CP Huntington is the basis for many miniature amusement park and zoo locomotives. they were not steam engines, rather they mimicked them. I loved trains because of one of those mimicks at my local zoo.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Love the little loco. Bet it didn't work well with 2 drivers.

Amazing museum...I like the natural settings and motion simulation in the railcars! :) Jack

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

Hi Jack Karyn and I are here in Arizona that really is a fun museum there in Sacramento. Beautiful setting on the river smart well thought out museum.

@coolrides

8 жыл бұрын

+Toy Man Television I saw the flash flooding on the border of Utah and Arizona...stay safe! :) Jack

I went there today and it was fun and I know you I saw you today

@ToyManTelevision

5 жыл бұрын

Have they opened the new part?

You have got to visit Cass, WV! Home of the Cass Scenic Railroad which was voted the #3 train ride in the United States!

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

At some point!!!!!

The Pacific Coast Caboose also ran on a narrow gauge shortline near where I live(30 mins north in San Luis Obispo, CA) known as the Pacific Coast Railway. This shortline had another Railroad competing with it(Standard Gauge) Known as the Santa Maria Valley Railway/Road which is still in operation today(I'm going to a BBQ at their new Transload facility tomorrow).

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

COOL. I used to drive up there for the weekend. Just for fun. Didn't know about the trains!!

I like the video

Nice video. Sometime you'll have to go visit Railtown in Jamestown, CA. It's where the Sierra Railway met up with the lumber railroads. It's the train that used to be used in movies. Very cool place. Another incredible sight are all the trestles of the Camas Prairie Railroad South of Lewiston, ID.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Shot some video there like 25 years ago. Great place!!! We need to get back with the high def camera!

@Golden_Spike

7 жыл бұрын

They gave us a great tour of the roundhouse. They were in the process of restoring one of their steam engines when we were there. It had been fired up earlier that day and still had a bit of pressure, so they let my blow the whistle. It was a soft wailing sound instead of the usual strong note. Unfortunately the valve stuck open and we got to hear the whistle blow for the rest of our tour of the roundhouse and turntable. I'll be at the Hostler's train show in Ogden. We usually go on Friday night, or Sunday. I have a small N scale layout, and always enjoy seeing the layouts.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

We'll be there!!!

A lot of kids got into model railroading with the Ives, Lionel, and Marx tinplate lines...

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Thomas Coughran I was an American Flyer kid.

Fun fact, the C. P Huntington is the engine The Little Engine That Could is based on

Glad you liked our "little" museum. When I was there many moons ago one could not get into the cab on the Cab Forward. One question do they still show the history of the railroad movie?

@jimmyhook4852

6 жыл бұрын

"moons" are you a Brony by any chance?

@seanurbik2689

4 жыл бұрын

@@jimmyhook4852 sounds like it.

@Nathanator-6688

3 жыл бұрын

@Dave Tucker Yes, they still do

Been watching your vids for some time now. Just subbed to you. Say, you going to ever make it to Florida for some adventures? Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Dan

1:48 That's the locomotive that formed the basis of the Chance Rides locomotives.

@ToyManTelevision

5 жыл бұрын

YUP!!!! Love them...

I use a music library called smart sound and effects from Sound Ideas. I use this at the studio, so I have rights and use them in the shows. I have music rights to a bunch of other music, but never sure if I can use them on KZread, so I stay away. Anyway, smart sound is great.

Would you show us your personal trains you have. That would be a good show too! I 'm enjoying your vedio's!!!!

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+ScottyRockTrains Did you see this weeks show? Thanks for the idea.

@gleanerk

8 жыл бұрын

+Toy Man Television u r welcome !!! You have a very nice collection from what we've seen. Thanks for showing us your toys! Can we come over n play too ? Lol

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

Many more to come too.

if you ever come to canada you should go to the canadian railway museum aka exporail, the largest train museum in canada, it is very impressive!

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+TheBrantfordRailfan Hope to!!

@thebrantfordrailfan

8 жыл бұрын

Toy Man Television you would be very impressed, it has the locomotive that pulled the royal train in 1939 as well as an lner a4 pacific and a dozen more steam locomotives, with one of them (cnr 713, a 2-6-0) you can actually go in the cab and move the throttle and all the other controls.

The other benefit of cab forward locomotives was that the engine crew had way better visibility!

You do really fine work. Are you in the broadcast/production biz?

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

Have been. Forever. Sort of retired these days. Sort of.... Did you see Garagemahal, Garage studios and Grizzly Adams, the 3 g s? Sort of explains it. Sort of....

Wait.. it’s 2020 LETS HOPE THAT THE EXPANSION OPENS THIS THIS YEAR!!!

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

Soon. We hope!

*The 4-2-4 Chase at the California State RxR Museum* was originally built for an estate railway, only to have the original purchaser unable to pay; the Big Four snapped it up for commuter duty in Sacramento, but it was best suited for track inspection due to the limited pulling effort available from two drivers. Eventually I'd like to see the 2-4-0 Baldwin 6/22C SerNo 3689 polished up, given two cosmetically-restored Westinghouse air pumps, and repainted in a maroon-and-gold scheme consistent with her last duties on the V&T (matching "21" on the sandbox sides and the flanks of the present cab, "Virginia & Truckee." on the tender sides) - a full running restoration would probably require the services of O'Connor Engineering and the Dixie Boiler Works for a new alloy-steel boiler and matching CNC-ported cylinders and valves, as the stock lap-jointed iron won't stand more than 50 PSI.

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+B. C. Schmerker Love to see them run again. I'm a bit more concerned with the "Bowker" #21 as she is just left out in the shed and has see no improvements in decades. And the poor "Reno" 11 left to die in Arizona.

You should visit the Pacific Southwest Railway Museum in Campo CA, they have got alot of interesting equipment and are currently restoring a steam engine there!

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Heard about it, never been there. Looks like a road trip for sure!!!

History of a train

I subscribed and I clicked the bell.

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

COOL Welcome!!

I built a Lego version of that cab forward locomotive very kool

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Cool!!

That thumbnail engine I thought was a toy. But it was full size! Woa! An amazing looking museum all and all. I'd love to go there. That cab forward engine reminds me of a proposed design for a quintuplex engine. Pity that never got off the ground, still I guess the problems with the triplex engines didn't inspire anyone to go larger. Do any of your videos include triplex locomotives?

@ToyManTelevision

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. Love to see a real one! Have only seen models. Sort of an eastern locomotive. Sadly we don’t get out there very much. Really like to

@warlordsquerk5338

5 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision Fair enough. Hmm... maybe I should add some triplex locos to my model collection :)

I really wish the State Government here would help the Australian Railway Historical Society out and let them build a museum like that. There's a huge empty workshop right near their messy, unsafe museum that they've wanted to convert into a museum for decades and it would be great to make something like that.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

If governments spent even .0001% of their budget on history it would be great. I love museums. (PS I thought you were in the UK Oops)

l live in Sacramento

"Maybe about the year 2020" 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Do any of the steamers run ?? Or are they just static display ?? Great video found this on KZread great job

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

HI!!!! WELCOME on board!! Only one runs, not in the video..... A 1930 UP loco. THe new museum will be all "newer" locos, and I think several will run. Opening SOON!!

Hey you should check out Portland's Railroad museum! They have some famous trains, including SP 4449, otherwise known as the Daylight!

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

We really NEED to get up there. Never seen it in spite of LOVING Portland!!

@owenmeschter9888

7 жыл бұрын

Portland is awesome. Just in case you watched it, we are NOT like the show. The museum is incredible. You should visit soon, because ORHF is about to sell one of their rare diesel locomotives, and you should see it before it's too late!! SP 4449 is an amazing sight to see, and you really need to see her for yourself. The museum is also planning on putting in a turntable!!

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Never saw the show I guess. Applied for a job there years ago. As A kid we went often as I had a great Uncle near there. Smoky industrial place. But I loved it!! These days it's just cool with hints of the "old Portland" around.

@owenmeschter9888

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah true!

Quick question what's the name of the music playing when we see the cab-forward? I swear I can remember that from some old VHS tape about trains I had when I was younger.

@redbuzzardbass

8 жыл бұрын

+t4mercustomz Not sure of that one but I know I recognize the orchestral piece toward the beginning, I'm thinking it's from Apollo 13.

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

Hi guys. The music I use is from our library called smart sound. I buy rights to all of these things to use at the studio and so use them in the show as well. I have something like 1000 pieces of music available and perhaps 25,000 sound effects for use in toy man videos

the children's book The Little Engine That Could is also like the Huntington engine I wonder if that's where they got the idea for the train for the book

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

"Bicycle" locomotive. Great idea in 1870. Or not.... Few made.

No spoiler alerts 😂

"America's greatest railroad museum" California population:+1

@ToyManTelevision

3 жыл бұрын

We really love coming to this museum and we’re dying to see the new one

technically its a 4-2-4T Since the tender is all on one frame

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Love it one way or the other Used in CB Demille's Union Pacific. Which it was not so back lit all the time!!!!

Wait a minute?! Wasn't the California Railroad Museum the main filming location for PBS's "Great Scenic Railway Journeys" TV Show featuring host David Holt?

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

Yup! Do check first thing tomorrow morning, tomorrow’s video is back at the museum, but they may force me to take it down. So make sure you get on it early just in case I’m forced to take it down by the museum. I’m giving away some of their secrets!

@jamieolberding7731

4 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision If the California Railroad Museum makes you take it down tell them they have no right?

@tomedgar4375

4 жыл бұрын

Toy Man Television Is there a link to that video?

what all does your soundtrack consist of?

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+montana fay Smart sound music and some sound effects from my "collection" I have about 200K sounds!

Southern Pacific 2467 actually I think is in operating condition! Or used to I think...

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

It may just need its federal inspection.

🇺🇸🚂👍😊

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

Back at CSRM in a few weeks.

Why didn't you show the Carolwood Pacific railroad Lilly Belle?

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Pinchie08 It was gone. The Disney's own it and take it around.

What about Amtrak F40PHR unit 281???

What's the name of the song played showing the cab forward steam locomotive?

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Pinchie08 It's from my music, Smart Sound. I buy all this music from them.

@pinchy08

8 жыл бұрын

+Toy Man Television smart sound. Is that the name of the song? Most of it is played on a harmonica. I've looked everywhere on the Internet. I keep typing in "smart song train song" they don't know what I'm talking about. This song was heard on the first lots and lots of trains video in 1998.

Is the C. P. Huntington standard gauge or narrow gauge? Because I can't tell.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Standard. Most trains were, even back then.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Can be seen in CB De Mille's Union Pacific, a GREAT locomotive, THe Bolker, also at Sacramento, as running in the film. BUT C.P. Huntington is being dragged about on a wagon.

Boys and there towns

i think its more of southern pacific railroad museum

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

Cp which is to say sp. and Virginia and Truckee. Here and Carson. 3 v and t locos here and 4 there just over the mountains

What’s the music at 11:53?

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

That’s the end of the show at some other point?

IRM makes CRM look like a dog and pony show you really need to hit IRM in Union IL it will blow your mind!

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

We were there. Have a show somewhere on that. Here on the channel. Huge. We were there all day and saw less than half. Really want to get back.

at mark 9:45 what is the song i know be for that was the maple leaf rag

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

It's by Robert Band. Americana

wasn't CP #1 the ghost train from Ghostbusters 2?

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

ZooTycoonLord hummm not sure. However it’s modeled a lot AND there is a 2/3 size version for amusement parks with a glass engine. So they May have used one of those?

What is the title of of the song at 1:48, if anyone knows please tell me know

@ToyManTelevision

8 жыл бұрын

+Tyler Brown I use a music library called Smart Sound. Been buying titles for over 10 years. Cool part is I can rearrange the bars and sometimes the instruments to really alter it up. And make the length come out exactly right.

@ConcordeStudios20

7 жыл бұрын

You can buy it on Smart Sound it's called Riding the Rails by Country Jamboree

Wasent this place in the great senic railway journeys series?

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

Yup!

It's 2018 now and they added a bullet train

@ToyManTelevision

6 жыл бұрын

Who added a bullet train? Love to see that

@RyansColoradoRailProductions

5 жыл бұрын

It’s a proof of concept at the museum.

Tom Sefton exhibit 7:54

What songs did you use?

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Richard Band. From Smart Sound. I use all Smart Sound. www.smartsound.com/

there is one other difference between Dans Eureka and this loco ... the Eureka is 4 foot 8 inch standard gauge

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

The Sonoma and the Eureka are almost identical. Both 3 foot gauge. Minor differences. Even the same paint and pin stripes

@brianberthold3118

4 жыл бұрын

@@ToyManTelevision ok then it must be a different Dan - out of Elgin IL has made 2 locos and the Lincoln train car if its the same guy those are standard guage locos i seen him testing one at Fox Valley Trolley museum in South Elgin IL

Does this museum run any of their trains by any chance?

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Yes!!! They have a line down the river for about 2 miles. Then they run around and pull back with the loco back first. Steam on the weekends. WOW. Missed it when we were there.

@gravitrax6478

7 жыл бұрын

Man! I should check this out. I would love to someday build my own railroad. I have an idea of a steam locomotive (custom class as well) that I would love to build someday.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

I'm going to put a a show on a design that can fit in any house!! ANY!! I hit o this plan back in like 76. Even in HO can fit into a mobile home. ( I did that) In N you can have a huge railroad the even looks fine in the living room.

@gravitrax6478

7 жыл бұрын

Nice. I'm also thinking on also building a 15" gauge railroad someday, and(If I get enough money) eventually evolving into a standard gauge railroad.

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Did you see the show in the 15" in Sonoma?

You forgot southern pacific 2467

The V&T No. 21's name is pronounced Bow- ker please. Thank you.

its 2020 now, is it open???

@ToyManTelevision

4 жыл бұрын

CSX_gaming hi. Nope. We were there about 6 months ago. Not sure where the project is now.

Dinastija

If you ever get a chance come to Iowa to the Midwest Central Railroad in Mt. Pleasant just visit mcrr.org for more information

@ToyManTelevision

7 жыл бұрын

Love the name. Karyn has lived in Mt Pleasant. (Utah) Called Hub City because it's right in the dead center of Utah.