In the early seventies my brother and I would set up his O gauge train set. We would set it up in my parents bedroom during the holidays and they were very tolerant to have to tiptoe around it. The sights, sounds and smells of those trains is still with me. As far as childhood memories, I didn't see how any video game could compare.

I have owned O gauge Lionels since the early 60’s. Bought the trains I have now in the 80’s. Haven’t put them up in years, I had no idea about any of the new technology. I have a lot to learn now.

Boy, a LOT has changed since I last ran my O gauge Lionels, in the 1980's!

I really like your layout and watching your Saturday train runnings

Awesome and a huge layout!

Enjoy all the videos from Mr. Muffins. Wish I could have seen a tutorial like this when I was first getting into the hobby. Happy New Year and thanks for all you do for this wonderful hobby.

Nice overview of the basics!

Wonderful layout.

Great video!

Interesting and nice information! I run mostly LionChief and LionChief plus on my layout. I don’t live to far from you it’s only about a 15 minute drive to your building. I always love to see your layout and get ideas!

Excellent content! I really needed a primer for these trains and this filled the bill. Thanks!

Brilliant educational video, thank you so much! Great layout!!!!!

Excellent! Thanks again!

Great video

1000th thumbs up from me! Love the trains. Had the O Gauge Lionel sets with the 3 old three bar track as a kid. Building our giant train track/world was our favorite holiday thing to do. Hoping to give me little kids the same experience and this video helped update me. Thanks!

Awesome video ! Great job !

Excellent presentation !!!

Beautiful layout! Great lesson. Thank you!

this is my favorite scale! They are tuff and survived my childhood!

I like the old tubular track.

Very informative and easy to understand! Thank you.

COOL, GOOD INFO.

Wow thank you for this!!! So much information.

Very nice video, looking forward to more.

I have the Battery Operated Lionel Polar Express under my tree. I have Lionchief on my Christmas Village table. Being 68 I like lionel and my old American Flyers. This is a very informative video.

great info! learned a lot

Wow, I love your set up. I wish I could do something like this. I'm getting ready to retire in a few years and I don't have the space for a nice setup until I relocate but I've always loved trains and I'm just starting to take this hobby more seriously now.

My father had O gauge layout when I was a kid, the atlas track is what I remember him having, he old three rail style is the only kind of rails I have ever seen besides the atlas my Father had, I still have the Lionel I think "z" transformer.

Thku for telling the story of all things toy trains. Enjoyed it much.

Wow, the video I’ve been looking for…very helpful

This very helpful. I have an old O gage train set with 3 engines. I played with them when I was a child between 1948 and 1952. The set has been boxed in the storage building for around 50 years. I plan on putting it together and need lots of advice. I hope you continue telling about the O scale sets. Thank you.

I learn alot watching 👀 your videos so thank you so very much

Great video.Very Informative. Thanks for making it.🙂👍👏😎

Just now getting in train's I bought my first set and a week later I am buy another one lol I love working on them and cleaning them up

This great video warrants and like and sub! Thanks for posting!

Great the video👍

I've been out of the loop since 2014. So much has changed in just 9 years.

OUTSTANDING INFO COMMENTARY. All aboard. 🐢🚂🐢🚂🐢🚂

It's amazing how the technology has improved since my Hornby Intercity 125. I think I was born in the wrong era. Thanks for a great video. Best wishes from London.

Great video! Thanks for sharing, and I just subscribed to your channel tonight!

This was great... can use all of the info you wanna show!

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Thanks for sharing.🛤🚦

I am a dinosaur! All this bluetooth/apps etc is new to me! Thanks for explaining it all!

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this is really helpful i have a bunch of old track and i've been searching for similar looking stuff i had no idea that lionel discontinued it and upgraded it i thought that plastic base was for a different gauge. is the plastic base track compatible with the old 3 prong track if you compensate for the height difference? thanks for sharing

O scale i love them

I'm curious about that MTH C&O locomotive that you fired up with the iPad, that horn was incredible. What locomotive is that, and is the horn stock?

Thanks for this great video! I grew up always wanting Lionel trains, but was far too poor to have them. Now 45 years later things are much different. I’m into all things vintage and plan to seek vintage track and trains, but should I get started with a new starter train set and buy vintage trains down the road?

Finally!!! Finally some good f****** guide.... Thank you very much....

My husbands aunt passed away a few months ago. We uncovered the massive Lionel train sets they had as children. my father in law who is now 80 said to just get rid of it, throw it in the dumpster. I do resell on EBay but trains are not my niche at all. I know nothing about them but I couldn’t let them end up in the dumpster. I plan on listing them super cheap so someone else can enjoy them

With the lionel app blue tooth can you still run multiple engines at the same time?

Hey Mr. Muffin. I'm looking into purchasing a digital system for the 1st time. I have several gauges. N, HO, O. Can you use the same digital system you buy for different gauges? Also I have a lot of vintage trains. How do you know which would be DCC compatible? Obviously the older ones won't be. But I have Loco's I bought in 2007. Thx. Very new to this.

Very informative for those just getting into the "hobby" of electric trains like myself. Can you use MTH track with a Lionel conventional transformer ? And is it better to buy the Lionel train (without the "set" Fastrack) seperatly and then mate it with the MTH ? Fantastic layout...you must have an understanding wife.

Great video...Unfortunately if there was only O gauge I couldn't model because it'd really limit me because of the room I have . I love HO for that reason . N is too small to work on for me with some physical issues I have ..So , I have a disused bedroom with a fairly substantial layout in DCC and Sound via Athearn , Intermountain , BLI and Bachmann and analog stuff mostly Bachmann via HO and something I can work on . O Gauge though is fantastic...This vid was fun to watch..

Where did the 027 gauge fit in? That's what I had as a kid? Thanks!

Thanks for the info, im interested in seeing a vidio of a lionmaster challenger or any lionmaster product in action on conventional and then legacy to see power and sound differences as im running in conventional on my garden layout and would like to purchase one.

Personally wish they'd bring back O-27 tubular track and switches. Makes a neat old-fashioned layout, the track is easier to modify than the scale stuff, and you can have a more complicated layout in a smaller space.

Good stuff - I use K-Line shadow rail, I used to buy it at a K-Line Super Store, in your hometown. Indianapolis, Do your remember these guys? • Cheers from The Detroit & Mackinac Railway 🚂

I bought the Lionel Polar Express Ready to run version, and I want to know if you could use it with the O-Gauge version?

Do you know where I can get Lionel Orange FasTrack? Or know of any websites to look on to find the trak and Halloween O gauge train cars?

So cool! What ever happened to those cool big ol Lionel two handle transformers we had as kids? Kinda wish iphones would stay out of the model train world, even though the technology is amazing...

Mr. M. , did you have to program the Lionelengines to cooperate with the app. ?

Steve who does all your carpentery Benchwork ?athose display shelves under the Layout arewonderful!

You overlooked S gauge, the Size between O and HO.

Man just wish I had the money

All of the train equipment, including the engines, are at least 70 years old. Any suggestions on getting started? Even the transformer/power house is old.

I See there is More than 3 Styles of O scale wow.

Hello, I am looking for a train set for my grandchildren (10 & 12) and I. They come over every weekend and I thought it would be a fun project. I am 100% new to model trains. Here is what I am looking for, please point me in the correct direction. Looking for: *To spend $1000 or less (little leeway, I want the best I can afford) * O Scale *Something with low maintenance (I am not a tinkerer) *A tried and true work horse that won’t break down with reasonable use. *Metal wheels on cars, no plastic stuff. Looking for something to last. *Starter kit but if a company don’t offer what I am looking for in a set, please give me a company for what I would need. *Durable low maintenance track (plan to have 4x8 set up) **Knowing what you know about trains, what set would you buy for your grandchildren?

Back in the '60s I had a track called super o is that one that you have that maybe was called something else?

Would like to come visit your shop soon heard a lot of good things about u an how you maybe able to help my friend an I get ours track up an running

Did you intentionally skip S gauge or just forgot to mention it???... Just sayin'... Good stuff thanks for posting. Just happened to come upon this video.

Who knew Neil Young was a model train buff?

Will Ross Switches work with Atlas track? I've heard Ross switches are the most reliable

Menards sells that track regular tubular track

What is Lionel 2021vol. 2 Shipping date DOES ANY BODY HAVE A CLUE?

How about information on prewar systems .....1934--42 ?

That piece is O27 gauge. There was one larger then the monsters you ran out side.

So can you use O gauge as a garden train?

I'm have volt problems lol I just expanded my main layout to 6x16 with one loop down so far and a 4 track staging yard 2 legacy diesel's dubble headed and 3 mth diesel's triple headed under load the lionel 180wat brick is only giving 16.5v. Plus the other section ain't even built yet that's going to be 6x10 🤷‍♂️

What does the "O" stand for?

What was the track before it was sectional

Is oo gauge not used in usa

You forgot Z Gauge

S?

I Have o Gauge train's

I thought marklin invented o gauge

Never liked the third rail...why does o gauge not have a 2 rail track

Something tells me you skipped S gauge on purpose LOL

Only "four" gauges of model trains? Really? Really? Several of my associatges and myself we model in "Finescale S," the BEST scale, the "craftsman's scale," and the best ratio, or 1:64. You didn't even mention this? Apologies, if they may be forthcoming, MIGHT be accepted. I don't even consider Lionel "O: scale trains to be a "gauge." That is just 'toy triains,' like American Flyer. How can you seriously consider Lionel 3-rail track to be any scale model at all? I don't see any prototype train running on track that has three rails, using 15" high rail, or about 325 pound rail in a five foot gauge!. Come on, folks, track is a model too. Let's get the track accurate, and cease from defining where a gauge is an actual "gauge" according to the results of some popularity contest!. You will hardly find better modelers than those who seriously pursue "Finescale S." Now Proto-48 -- there is something that deserves mention and recognition. But Lionel? when all you have to do is get out your checkbook, and reminisce from when you were five years old at Christmas time? That's nostalgia, not serious model railroading.

I wish someone would of interviewed lionel cowen on camera what a dam shame.

Great video!

Great video!