Northern Virginia Model Railroaders - One of the Largest Model Railway Layouts in the United States
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There are many model trains on the stunning model railway layout built by the Northern Virginia Model Railroaders (NVMR). Therefore, in this video we discover as many scenes, buildings, bridges and trains as possible. The video includes three slide shows, numerous cab ride videos, special footage with passing steam locomotives, and offers many views of this impressive HO scale layout.
NVMR is a club of model railroading enthusiasts headquartered in the historic train depot in downtown Vienna, Virginia. The club built and maintains a large and permanent model railroad layout and opens its doors twelve times each year to the public. Visitors depict an actual railroad that existed in North Carolina in the 1950's. That railroad was called the “Western North Carolina Railroad” and every hill, town, building, locomotive, rail car and industry on the model rail layout is modeled after those places and things as they looked in that era. The real-life “Western North Carolina Railroad” was a regional railroad that ran 138 miles from Salisbury to Asheville, passing through Statesville and a handful of other North Carolina towns. Each of these towns are represented on the NVMR's layout.
Digital Command Control (DCC) is used on the model train layout. DCC technology permits independent operation of multiple locomotives. Using DCC, club members can walk around following their respective model trains using a hand-held remote to control their operation. As a result, a high degree of realism can be attained in railroad operations on the model layout. Thanks to DCC, visitors can observe realistic train movements as small switcher engines move cars around Spencer Yard to assemble trains. Each train is then connected to a larger locomotive that then rolls down the mainline track to other rail centers in distant towns, finally arriving in Asheville at the end of the day. At each town, trains will drop off and pick up cars using procedures and following train orders just like the real-life “Western North Carolina Railroad” did back in the 1950's.
Railroad operations on the model train layout are organized to follow a typical day in August 1957 on the “Western North Carolina Railroad”. The rail ops begin in Spencer Yard near Salisbury. The day's operation begins with a crew preparing two diesel locomotives or a steam locomotive to pull a passenger train or freight train 138 miles to Asheville. Along the way, passengers will see railroad operations and a variety of industries supported by the “Western North Carolina Railroad” in the towns of Majolica, Statesville, Clinchcross, Old Fort, Ridgecrest and Swannanoa. The day will end in Asheville, where the crew will spend the night before starting tomorrow's run back to Salisbury.
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 train 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. The NVMR layout's track plan is designed to start railway operations at Salisbury's Spencer Yard. Model trains will wind back and forth on many miles of track, through mountains and tunnels, passing towns with their rail yards and industries, until the trains finally pull into Asheville's yard.
The Northern Virginia Model Railroaders
nvmr.org
Pilentum Television
www.pilentum.org
Video Chapters
00:00 Pilentum Television
00:25 Model Train layout
16:10 Slide Show (1)
17:10 Model Railway Layout
28:00 Slide Show (2)
29:00 Model Railroad Layout
45:25 Slide Show (3)
46:25 Model Rail Layout
Пікірлер: 120
Track Plan and Diary of Model Railroad Operations on www.pilentum.org/northern-virginia-model-railroaders-one-of-the-largest-model-railway-layouts-in-the-united-states
I have been a NVMR member for 7-8 years now. I have never seen the roundhouse interior until I saw this. Well done!
When I clicked on the video, I thought I might watch a few minutes here and there, but once I started watching, I ended up watching the whole thing. Great video on a great layout. Lotsa' fun.
@pilentum
Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
Pilentum never disappoints.
Great opening
One of the best, if not the best layout I’ve seen. Saw for the first time last year when I visited my son and his family in Virginia, and will visit again this year. They may even let me join for the few weeks I’ll be there. Good luck from England.
I can't begin to imagine the amount of time & money it took too build this, it's spectacular!! Greg
Ive been watching these guys since i was 4. its so nostalgic to hear the intro song.
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AWESOME, EXCELLENT and PERFECT!!!!! Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Zo many wonderful layouts being filmed these days for us to enjoy. And also web cam placed on flat cars showing the layouts from another perspective. In this one I like the web cam directly in front of a train moving along at the same speed. That makes it interesting. Thank you for posting.
I went here 2 weeks ago!
Das ist ein wunderschönes Video. Die Anlage ist ein Traum. Wundervoll !!! Brilliant!!!
@pilentum
Жыл бұрын
Danke für das Lob!
The entire world needs to purely have Joy and Love in the there life's to watch perfect model railway'
Great layout, great operations & very good representations of various railroads of the past.
That was fun.
Beautiful machines! Beautiful country, like in reality. And suitable music in the background.👍🚄💺
What it beautiful layout! I love the way you do your videos because it’s hard to believe that these are not real full size trains - you are an amazing videographer
Wow! That is an amazing and now I want to visit them 😊 thanks for sharing!!!
Tolles Video 👍👍👍 Sehr realistischer Fahrbetrieb.Vielen Dank für's zeigen. Viele Grüße TiMu
A wonderful layout!
Це наче художній фільм. Дуже цікаві фрагменти з камери на поїздах, наче справжнім поїздом їдеш, а найцікавіші це перегони по паралельних коліях... Але яке треба мати терпіння щоб відтворити всі ці дрібні деталі...
Woah. This is cinematic masterpiece!
Grandiose et superbement détaillé
Thanks for the Train Ride, Excellent work on this layout.
Great camera work thanks
I do enjoy all your videos Keep on on on...
One of the very best if not the Best Railway channel on KZread😏😊, loving watching your video's, and this layout is absolutely gob smacking gorgeous, the dioramas the running trains it ticks all the boxs😊, Fantastic job great work on the Video 😊 Cheers 🍻🍺🍻🍺KC Cradle Mountain Tasmania Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🤝😎👍
Hello: Excellent model work and good Trains. 💯😃
Fantastic ! Imagine the fun building the diorama. Knowing the human sense of humor, I'll bet each hand in this has hidden something. As far as DCC... it's revolutionized model Railroading. I grew up with 'Plastic Ville' structures, now it's laser-printed. The realism of today makes me wanna be a boy again.
Best video ever; the moving shots are fantastic.
The detail is extraordinary!
This is spell binding and fantastic 👍😊 what a talent. Gr8 video.
Really well done video, truly enjoyed!
Excellent video
Brilliant.
Great layout, thank you for sharing.
Great job putting this together for the club. We had a long & fun day of filming :)
Beautiful layout
Simply the Best
Автор, браво! Красивые макеты железной дороги!
I like your train layout it would be interesting to see the helixes as the trains move through them.
great video Amazing layout 👍
I really liked it good job.
Very nice lay out, very good rolling stoks models and quantity
Watching that WNC 404 backing down through the three way turnout at about 2:34 speaks volumes about the skill with which the trackwork was done, and the maintenance standards applied to the steamers. Doing that in reverse with tender wheels leading, not a sprung set of pilot wheels, is difficult in 1:1 scale at museum railroads. Almost unheard of in 1:87 scale.
Formidable réseau ! Bravo !
What a spectacular layout! Awesome video. 👏
Great layout, feels very real. Thanks for the tour...
Semplicemente meraviglioso... 😲😲😲😍😍😍
This is about a 2 to 2 1/2 hour drive East from where I live here in West Virginia
Very nice music and video. Thank you
43:30 Looks like a steam diesel hybrid.
@smollsaladhonestmistakes9493
11 ай бұрын
Does anybody know what model this is?
So what's that thing on the flat car? It's looks like a generator's turbine and some electronic transformers...
Nice, thanks for sharing. Have you visited The Model Railroad Club, Inc. in Union, NJ?
love it.
Schönes Video aber teilweise schon in anderen Videos auf diesem Kanal zu sehen
Very nice layout and detail!
I hd no idea this was in Vienna. I live about 15-20 minutes away.
Truly fantastic opening scene.
This setup is so realistic so detailed I want it please thank you 🙏
Génial !
That looks like the roundhouse at Spencer Shops or for the non Southern railway fans this is NCTM.
@michaelscavera7099
Жыл бұрын
"Non-Southern." Well bless your little heart. I love how you frontier people have people have a way with words.
c est magnifique BRAVO !!!
je préfère une caméra mise sur l'avant d'un train et on pourrais voir toute la maquette
A long standing club layout in Vienna, VA. Good coverage of the track and scenery. On board cam adds a perspective that can't be seen by the observer or operator.
Nice.
Nice layout.
Hermosa maqueta
thank you video~!
Roundhouse parking done correctly. Nose in first.
Superbe vidéo. 😃🤗🚂
Mersi Pilentum !Super model!
Good layout
amazing trainz
Fab
Impresionante
Very beautiful layout. Where is this located at and are visitors able to view this? Joe H. Toledo, Ohio.
WOW! I have never seen ANYTHING as grand as this. Your "crew" knocked it out of the park. I was mesmerized. My wife kept calling me. I never answered. She had to see why. I grew up in the 50's. You are on point, "IKE" sign sealed it. My only question....what is the current sq ftage of this layout.
Sweet
Its amazing diorama..kapan yo iso gawe koyo iki?? Ngimpi aeeee🥺🥺🥺
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11:53 Is that a brass ACE 3000 ?
Boa noite Tudo bem Parece real de tão bonito. Belo trabalho . Aqui temos a Frateschi que tem ótima qualidade. Sempre procura fabricar vagoes e locomotivas visando a nossa lendária FEPASA ( Ferrovias Paulista SA.) PARABÉNS!!!!!
@pilentum
Жыл бұрын
Tenho o prazer de apresentar uma maquete brasileira com trens da Frateschi. Escreva-me um e-mail, então talvez possamos produzir um vídeo.
SUPER ..SUPER OKÉ !!! BRAVÓ !!!
37/56i like this train❤️
😍
Awesome railroad... not sure what scale you're modeling but NTL! I've modelled in both HO & N Scale over the years. What I've always noticed is the lack of the railcars "clackity -clack" ... The locomotive sounds are superior but after the engine, its nothing exciting. I know there's a dcc sound system that provides the "clickity -clack" sound 🍺 t I don't think too many people bother with that...t
Who made that HO scale model of the computer controlled steam locomotive that we tried to make in 1985 the ace 3000? We would’ve kept in close if the oil prices didn’t drop, we would’ve had steam come back all over again.
Excellent filming footage with both trains running side by side - not very common
I'm wondering what the two chessie system locomotives are I've never seen them are. They stor baught or scratch.God bless you all.
At 14:30, our little mixed freight has the cars in reverse order from the whole first part of the video - then at 15:30 it's back to the original setup again.
Pilentum always has pilentum to show.
❤️🇬🇷
Is this open to go and see in person and if where at.?
@ThatGamePlayer
29 күн бұрын
The layout is in Vienna, Virginia and it is open to visitors (usually) once a month. There’s a schedule for open houses on the club’s website (just search up “Northern Virginia Model Railroaders” into Google and you should be able to find it). Edit: there’s also a link to the club’s website in the description of this video.
Strange consist
Is this model railroad open to the public? I'd like to see it in person.
@pilentum
Ай бұрын
Yes, see description.
Great layout, however it is ABSOLUTELY NOT one of the largest model rr's in the USA by any stretch of the imagination.
Please, name of music!! ❤
Does the streetcar get power from the overhead line?
@pilentum
Жыл бұрын
Yes!
@bobesposito7235
Жыл бұрын
@@pilentum Cool. By the way, I enjoy your O-gauge videos (and some HO too).