Really enjoyed your points about the tracks! You make a lot of sense , thanks for the advice.

Glad to see a young person interested.

Amazing ..... ogauge trains and armored vehicles, a great combination 👍

The Narration is Lovely Trains Running Prefectly Slow well Done.

Awesome layout & collection

Man, I really like this video. Good job!👌🚉

Great video Johnny. I have added you on to my viewing videos. I enjoyed your tour layout including the Landscaping. Try taking a aerial view of your layout. It was very informative and I like your sharing of how you did everything. I also watched your video on the York train show. Looking forward to your next video. You are very smart and you break everything down so that we can understand how to do things. You have a great personality and your enthusiasm for the hobby comes through when you are sharing your videos. I also follow the guys that you named in your video. Great group of guys who share their passion for the hobby. Thanks again for sharing your layout with us.

You have a really fun and thoughtful layout! Thanks for sharing!

Very nice,thank you.

Solid layout! I really love the yard. Thanks for sharing.

Funny about the ww2 reenactor. My father was ww2 German renactor for 42+ before passing away. Model railroader since age of 12.he passed at age 75. My love for both hobbies comes from him. Great to see you enjoy this type history.

Love it when Did your Homework Keep on Modeling.

Beautiful layout thanks for sharing!

THANKS for sharing! Enjoyed the video!!!

Excellent video. Well narrated. Really enjoyed it!!!!

That's some amazing footage you took. Makes for just as amazing of pictures!!!!

You have A great Looking Layout.you gonna Enlarge the Layout Anytime.

24:10 So cool I love The detail Keep up the good world

Love your layout Johnny and nice work on this video! The narrative and imagery were well done. Now I need to create my own “removable scenery” pieces. It was great to get an overview of the whole setup!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

That’s so much Chris!!! Like I said you were a big inspiration for why I did mine and I can’t thank you enough for the help, can’t wait to see a video on your removal scenery~!!

Great layout! Nice tour!

Great layout and video.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!!

You guys with newer layout can take advantage of things that we learned from the old days to do better. So much of the electronics that they had in the old days have been obsolete for decades. Even an HO scale when I had turnouts going to Industries I did not switch cars I just fired up my trains and ran and since Old Gage switches are $100 plus I just have four ovals of ever-increasing radii so I can run larger locomotive if I get them. Nice layout.

Wow! I'm impressed, great job!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!!

Nice job...both, the layout and the video!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!!

Enjoying your videos... A modern day tourist train railroad is also my operating plan ...

I love gup and tanks i feel good I’m not the only one that watches gup

Great job! You kept my attention with good explanations and your scenery looks good. Nice layout!

I really enjoy your videos.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, I’m so glad you like them~!!

Great tour of your layout, which is very nice. Nice collection of tanks. Thanks for sharing. Dave

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I’ve gotta start painting those tanks and make a military train~!

Great job Johnny! Keep up the good work,the layout is awesome! Yeah,I think a switch tower too but you know what...... it's up to you, good luck.

Looks incredible!

This was a great video from start to finish. You managed to take a small layout and make it look like a large layout. It's always nice to watch another modeler present their layout. This allows another to pick up ideas to improve theirs. Great Work!!!!!

Very beautiful layout

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!!

@mslickstrains

3 жыл бұрын

@@Audamus great video too nice editing

This was a masterclass in how layout overviews should be done, I didn’t even realize that it was 25 minutes long. I enjoyed all the different segments and explanations of what you were going for, wishes for the future. It was also very inspiring, I have been working on my new layout that I had to put on hold due to the price of lumber right now. I have been going back and forth on my Main Street layout and seeing your Main Street gave me some ideas that will work better with the limited space. I’ve rambled enough, awesome video, be safe and happy railroading!

Awesome layout, great editing, terrific all around my friend

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, glad ya enjoyed the video~!!

Absolutely fantastic work and plenty of options for operations. Well done and keep up the good work.

I just stumbled across your page and layout. Well done video and nice tour.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I hope you enjoyed~!!

It's nice to see younger guys into train. There will always be trained nuts as we are called. Regular people cannot understand. Some people trains are approaching 100 years old. All of our train will outlive us and they will be enjoyed by other people until they die and they will be sold again. All of the owners of my standard gauge trains are dead. Unless everything is brand-new you have someone who died trains on your layout.

This is now my favorite episode for you Johnny. Great narrative moving through your topics and talking about why you did this and that. Great shots of your engines and just really informative from all aspects. Well done sir!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!! This video was a pain in the butt at times but extremely fun to do~! Glad ya enjoyed it!

I love the night scenes. I have just a few lights in buildings.I am inspired to do more. Your layout is top notch!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve slowly caught myself doing more and more night run sessions now that these spot lights have come in, thank you so much~!!

@railchief74

2 жыл бұрын

@@Audamus I love your layout man. I’m a sucker for fastrack

Absolutely a great tour of your layout and achievements.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!!

Pretty awesome train layout for a small space ,,,,i cant beleive those scale steam engines run on 060 curves,,,,thanks for sharing this great video ,,,,,Ken,,,,,still cant get over the 060 curves

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you much and haha yes you can get away with a lot with 0-60~!!

Great job on the video, the layout is excellent.

Your layout is well planned on, you have designed it very good, it was well executed and made to interest the people who are watching your operation. Your layout and your locomotives are. very impressive. great job Johnny.👌👍😊

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind words~!!

I just came across your Channel, Johnny. I try to sub every Model Railroader I come across on KZread. You are a great narrator. Keep up the Great work. Thanks, Russ from Oregon.

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Didn’t realize you were in the Chicagoland area as well! Chicagoland hobbies is definitely one of the best for rolling stock and especially buildings. Greg’s a great guy. Love seeing the layout in full!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Chicagoland is my go to hobby shop and you really can’t compete with the prices there. Loved the pre owned section there~! Thanks for watching and I’m glad ya enjoyed~!

Your layout is well thought out. It looks really nice. Good job!

Very good and smooth production! Love the layout! It’s nice to see other collectors make an amazing layout in a smaller space!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, it was a pain in the butt to edit but it was fun~! And I’m a firm believer that regardless of how small a layout is, if you put enough work into it you can have limitless levels of fun with it~!!

Great to see People under 70 building layouts.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Keeping the hobby alive and strong for future generations~!!

Great video! I love the lighting for the night shots, you have a good eye for it. It's so great to see younger people getting into the hobby. My vote is for a switch tower.

Love the layout.... Really love just how you narrative, and broke it all down.. I am into HO Scale. I have been into model railroading for about 1 year... I'm still deciding if I should go dcc or just stay with dc... look forward to seeing more videos from you.

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind words, speaking from an O scale perspective I’ve loved doing command control and I can’t go back. It offers so much and really let’s you feel like you’re at the controls of the engine~

Very nicely done. I Need to get some buildings. Just havent found what I would like.

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

Finding the right building can be difficult but when you do it can really bring the whole scene together~

Great video

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!!

Awesome job

Nice job! good explanation of your buildings and techniques. And no Blah Blah droning along. Kept my interest. Your small station looks like an old Wabash Station which, as we know was absorbed into the N&W in 1964.

Johnny, your video is tremendous. I really loved your narrative of a absolutely gorgeous layout. As I have always said every model railroad has a story, you have told yours with perfection. Great trains you have a wonderful collection nice to see them running so well. Hope we meet again. It was a pleasure to meet you.

You have a great layout for such a small space. Wonderful narrative over a week done video- I really enjoyed this.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it~!!

Awesome layout tour!!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks~!

@rwchannel8832

3 жыл бұрын

You’re always welcome man! ;)

Those two KZreadrs oh nice guys

Great video, it’s nice to see a different style of recording. The music is great and the shots are also. Perfect for calming people down, and talking about trains.

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

So glad you enjoyed it~!! It’s nice to hear that people are enjoying my take on train videos, thanks so much for taking the time to watch my video~!!

@gxtrainyt9526

2 жыл бұрын

@@Audamus no problem bro, feels like everyone else I watch I have to keep skipping forward 20 seconds because it’s so boring. Where as with your style, it’s very to the point, and I appreciate that.

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

@@gxtrainyt9526 I totally understand where you’re coming from. That’s something I noticed too before I started making videos. It’s hard to stay engaged when you’re watching the person drone off and meander around the point. That’s why I started making my own content in this style so it makes it easier for folks to watch. Thanks again and I appreciate the kind words~

Awesome, i used to collect o gauge, moved on to all original lionel standard gauge collecting

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome, lots of awesome trains in standard gauge~!!

Great layout tour Johnny!! I love the transitional scenery and the different scenes on the layout!! Also love the WWII scenes as well!! Cant wait for the 265 video!!!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!! And yes I’m super glad to finally have 265 back again~!

Great overview man!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank youuuu~!

i love what you did with the ballast on your fastrack. looks awesome & gave me some great ideas!

I absolutely love this! Your stories for each and every inch of this layout is awesome! I definitely cannot wait to rip up my annoying track plan and making look more realistic and more fun with two loops and switching. Well done and I can’t wait to see the layout progress forward with more stories!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much dude~!! Haha it was a hard video to make but it was fun to share the process, can’t wait to see what you have planned for your layout~!

Great looking layout !! Looks like a lot of fun to run trains on great video too!!

I like Mike's train house Wheel tracks with the solid Rail and Road bed. Never any problems but I would not take them apart over and over. I bought a circle of 042 and I did not know that they had cheapen them out by not having solid rail anymore and the seller asked if I wanted to send it back as I said no I'll use it. I also used it for an outside layout and I had no trouble in Florida. Of course it doesn't snow in Florida but I know a guy who has a outside layout up north and he uses a Mike's train house rotary snow plow around his layout and it really works. The real tracks Looks Like HO Scale Track like Atlas but with a third rail. I went through all of that crap with the cork Road bed and the ballasting and the glue and the expense and never again

Outstanding collection john.merry Xmas

Love your video and the story behind it.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!! It was definitely a trip down memory lane~!

Nice small layout

Girls und panzer? Incredibly based hell yeah

That’s nice!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!!!

Great layout, beautifully done and I enjoyed your narration which explains so much about the layout. I also have the Lionel WP GP7 - a great loco. Keep posting these videos they are awesome.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

The GP7 is a looker for sure! I love the WP paint scheme, glad you enjoyed~!!

Great video!

Love this video 👍

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!

Wonderful railroad layout! Really enjoyed your railroads back story and how you detailed the layouts development. Very nicely done!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, I’m glad you enjoyed it~!!

Looks really good I doing one I lost interest in it but see yours I get back on it I really like your town I like it so Farr you be cool and have a good day nice watching your trains go buy way cool bro ..I got to work on my now bye bye

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~

@paulconroy1055

3 жыл бұрын

Looks good a lot of thought put into your first layout.Keep up the good work and spread the word about this hobby a labor of love.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

@@paulconroy1055 thank you so much, I love this hobby and I don’t plan to stop anytime soon~!!

Awesome layout tour johnnie! You have a really nice setup going. I’m also really big on WWII history, both the pacific and european theaters. I also like civil war history as well. It’s good to hear that the S3 is back home finally, i’m sure you’ve been itching to run her again. As always keep up the great work!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Always love it when different passions and interests can combine, and yes Im loving ever second of it~!! Thank you so much~!

@JLCmike4014

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely a good time when you can combine interests into a common area. Always a pleasure watching your videos. I’m looking forward to the next one.

Great looking layout Audamus I enjoyed watching it all. You actually gave me a few possible ideas to maybe experiment with with my layout and channel. Great layout! Love the Berks....

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it and that you were able to get a few ideas from my layout~!! Thanks for checking out my video~

Great video! Thanks for the shoutouts!! In terms of the back, I'd add the switch tower. Would make sense with the yard.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Of course dude and thanks for the help! I’ll mark one in favour of the switch tower~

Very nice layout. Your choice turned out so cool. My layout is O gauge as well. Very nice video and explanations. Thanks for sharing.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!! I’m glad to hear your railroad empire is coming out awesome!! Glad you enjoyed~!!

Hey man you could never see too many trains real or toy.

Nice layout tour!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!!

Nice video

I really liked the video!! cool layout, I really like your yard! the mountains in the corners make really nice camera shots.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, the corner scenes are my favourite~!!

Great video, I know your layout has progressed since you bade this but I think your use of scale and semi-scale items is inspirational. Really well done!!!

Your layout looks really good especially for its size you did a really good job!

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!!

Great video! Glad I was able to help. Keep up the great work.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for the help and I’m glad ya liked it~!!

Neat layout! I’m currently having the plans on making an HO layout.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

That’s awesome~!! Can’t wait to see how it turns out~!!

Nice job. yeah I used to do "movable scenery" on one of my last layouts (in Z scale) and I could change out scenes, hills, etc and store in a container. I agree track is always an issue, so I don't mess around and tend to go with good trusted brands. I will also paint and weather my track before or during the installation process, then clean it up afterwards, its tricky to paint and weather track after you are trying to run trains. Good thing about 0 Scale is you can do a lot finer detail than the smaller scales, now that there is a lot of 0n30 as well, you can potentially run dual gauge even in such a small space (you could do a raised mining loop).

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Movable scenery is awesome and helps me to get nicer shots on the layout and have the freedom to change it up later on. If I was smart I would have held off on scenery and finish the other work first but I’m impatient so here we are 😅 Cool idea with the narrow gauge line, I’ll have to consider that~

No one who was the Model Railroader in the 1970s would believe that there would be so many three rail O gauge layout 50 years later. Of course today's old gauge layout is not like a 1950s one it is more like a HO scale but twice as large. It would be nice if it was not cursed with the third-rail but that's the way it is

Lionel made super 0 track and go 36 so you could use Atlas track plans. They did the same for Fast Track. I have one of my uncle's old train books on building a layout and it was $2 back when an issue of Model Railroader with $0.35.

Great layout and great video! I actually built the Black River Junction in HO and I still love it. I am dabbling in O now and building a 12x12 layout, so I appreciate all the time you took to think it through, I am taking my time on it as well. Best of luck!

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome~!! I'd love to try to make a modified version of Black River Junction in O scale with two loops and the yard extension sometime in the future~ I wish you the best of luck on constructing your layout~!!

good vid

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you~!

This is probably my 7th or 8th time watching, lol.

Engines bouncing on the main is very prototypical lol

Awesome overview Johnny. I never thought it was small from the videos. What is the overall size. It looks huge in your videos. Keep up t,he good work. Absolutely fantastic. Oh and still digging the hair.

@Audamus

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much~!! I’m surprised I let not saying the layout size slip through my fingers in post production. My layout is 6x10 feet, a step up from the humble 4x8 but nothing too crazy. Thank you again and we’ll see where the hair takes me 😂😂

Please do show us how to do your temp scenery, it’s a cleaver idea I’d like to see more on.

@Audamus

2 жыл бұрын

A big layout overhaul is coming in the near future, I'll try to make a tutorial during that video~

Always Remember A Layout Is Never Done.

What an awesome video. Great job man! I really like your layout plan. I am getting back into model railroading again after many years so I am starting fresh. If you don't mind me asking, how big is your overall layout? I would be very interested in using a lot of your layout for inspiration in building mine. Thanks again for the great video!