Absolutely incredible. The effort to build and operate is incredible. Thank you for the video from the United States, coolest thing I have seen in a long time.

Old men playing with toys, I love it.

10 / 10, there was a driver in the cab, so often you just get painted out windows or Ghost Trains. So good you bothered to put train crews in place.

Wow that’s amazing! What great skill he demonstrated hooking up the chains! Love the smoky diesel exhaust .

I was most impressed by the class 20 exhaust ! Most realistic i've personally ever seen.

Oh man, if someone sold these i would totally buy one

Just awesome. The smoke coming out of the engine and sound of the Diesel engine of the rescue crane was superb. The gentleman has a great skill God Bless him

This whole idea is so simple, and so common on prototype railroads. I wish train shows in the States would start doing this! Thanks for the video!!

The challenge is to replicate this at OO level, finally I was well impressed with the clag that was being correctly pulsed out of the class 20s in timing with its engine, good job it was not a cold start up! Well done to Richard and 'his film crew' for this one.

Seen this amazing crane a few times over the years ..its stunning model and engineering .... amazeing to watch in person at the shows....jim

They was so cool, the amount to technology in that crane was amazing. Great job on the building of that and then the operations. Thanks for sharing. Ken

Absolutely brilliant... amazing track work too

That is amazing. I am building a 1950's version of this type of crane for my layout set in the North East. It is the one that was based at Gateshead Greenfields depot. Quality modelling

What a fabulous layout incredibly realistic 👍🏻

That was absolutely great to watch

That was incredible! Thanks for spotting and posting.

That's awesome, excellent to see the step-by-step film as well, thank you

Absolutely amazing demonstration! I love the flashing light effects as well!

Very nicely done crane! Thanks for showing it to us!

Stunning setup 👍

What an amazing layout. The sounds from the models was so realistic too. Thanks Richard..very enjoyable as always.

Impressive to see actual working buffers and chains for coupling. Then that breakdown train was incredible.

So cool! Thanks for sharing!

Superb richard, just incredible to see the crane motorised, thanks for the video.

Thanks for sharing! Beautiful movie.

Fantastic. With the dramatic music, that could be a Channel 5 documentary! And I love those smoking class 20s whistling away.

Well, all I can say is, awsome. Absolutely brilliant, great modelling 😎👍

WoW! Amazing video I absolutely love trains and have my own N-scale train line. And you are its biggest inspirer thank you!.

That was real neat. Thank you for sharing

Another cool video of this layout and the crane rescue.

That crane is way cool. I'd definitely buy one. Thanks for sharing sir.

Absolute amazing peice of model railway equipment

Absolutely Brilliant!!!!!

Fabulous !!!!

Very clever nice bit of modelling

brilliant so life like ,great scene.

Derailed by the hand of god!

Superb! Very very very good video and sound ! Great!

Great video! 👍

Great stuff thanks

So much detail that builders put in to these its amazing. Its like our big world crammed into a little plastic one ❤

Loved this video with the class 20.

Gentlemen, truly an inspiring piece of modeling, very well done. Muse

That must be a huge layout, especially to tour at shows! Looks awesome. Iain

Superb!

Awesome video!

Brilliant !!!!

An excellent video. Hello from the Tracy Mountain Railway in Colorado. ♡ T.E.N.

Great video mate really impressed with that

great stuff amazing to watch a stunning piece of electronics hats of to them what an achievement the talent of these modelers never ceases to amaze me very enjoyable to see all the best al 👌👍👍👍😊

Oh my goodness Richard you’ve gotta have one of those in the collection mate!! 😎 John E

Wow that is sensational!

wow that was fascinating, great to see

Thanks for sharing buddy That’s one Great layout- nice seeing a class 20 chuffing smoke 💨- nice touch Certainly gets the juices flowing 😁👍 Garry

I like how he uses the little hook pole to attach the chains as if he wasn’t involved

OMG !!!!!! This is just Amazing !!!!

That was amazing :)

As the saying goes VERY INTERESTING

Oh wow.. I like how the smoke comes outa the engine towards the end !

Very nice....!

This is a much more complex track-layout than existed at the real "Apethorn Junction" which was a few miles from where I live, and which once afforded a rail link between the now-defunct "Woodhead" Manchester-Sheffield main line and routes to Stockport and Liverpool that have also largely disappeared from the British railway network.

Great video that is certainly something you don't see on a layout at a show

Waouh, encore une excellente vidéo avec un travail impressionnant. Un très grand merci pour ce magnifique partage. Bien sûr je ne minimise pas le travail des modélistes, mais quasiment tout le monde l'a fait et ils ont oublié votre travail de montage. Wow, another great video with awesome work. A big thank you for this wonderful sharing. Of course I do not minimize the work of modelers, but almost everyone has done but they forget your editing work. Ve, alia bonega video kun bonega laboro. Grandan dankon pro ĉi tiu mirinda interŝanĝo. Kompreneble mi ne minimumigas la laboron de modelistoj, sed preskaŭ ĉiuj faris sed ili forgesas vian redaktan verkon.

Awesome.

Very impressive layout and working crane and the footage is great too. I already saw this on Cottesmore's channel (with you in the background!) but it's well worth watching end to end again. With advances in 1/72 - 1/76 scale RC machines I think it's just a matter of time until we see something similar in OO - NOT from me I hasten to add! ;-)

Very good

Brilliant

That is actually the coolest shit ever.

Awesome 👌 🆒️ video 📹.

Very good ;)

Wow fantastic I'm trying to do this on a 3.5 inch gauge rail crane and finding it difficult couldn't imagine doing it on a scale so small

Awesome

wonderful video, Greetings from France.

awesome

Nice 😎

I call “the derail train” the breakdown train

That's pretty awesome!! Worth having an o gauge layout just for that! Maybe something under the board could derail the train instead of reaching across to do it by hand too ☺

Very interesting indeed i personally like the maintenance dep aspect and am incorporating a lot of it in my layout in the future ... I wish it could be done in oo but I think that would be a challenge due to space in smaller gauge cranes certainly out of my personal ability but maybe someone will have a go

It's good to see the breakdown cranes in action. Great video.

That is absolutely fantastic.. I would love to see a video on how the inner workings work and or the building of this lovely crane... Does such a video exist?

That class 20 with the smoke looks the part

SUPERB

that is so very clever what a great video

V nice. Who makes your semaphore signals BTW ie are they kit built. Cheers

absolutely amazing !! ...however this isn't a first for o gauge ..there is a few about pluss there is a steam crain with working flywheels motion ect ..its amazing watching these working models picking up items of rolling stock ect

He should have invented a bunch of little people to do the removal and repositioning instead of using that little hook

Awesome video , I had a crane bought from overseas . Last month I lost it completely to fire ....

Wow! How did you exactly make the crane automatic powered?

Lovely O scale layout without the third rail and over sized wheel flanges.

Dave I'm sure Dave EJ & Richard DP will enjoy it. Nice one

Hi Richard, that was a very interesting video, certainly something different. Cheers Greg

Amazing. Thanks for a brilliant video Richard. Are you coming to the Manchester show? PS> I bet you've not finished the station roof yet have you.

Impressive stuff indeed. A lot of effort, just to get a pie and a pint in peace.🍺🥞

I’d never leave, I’d have to sleep there and keep an eye on the town lol.

Now, that's cool right there, I don't care WHO you are!

Cmon bro! You should have played the breakdown theme from thomas and friends in one of the first episodes!

Amazing video! Can I get any information from that digital breakdown crane? I will buy same in the future! :) Thanks!

It would've been smashing if it was made for Lionel sets. But still smashing on the rails

I'd have preferred this without the epic music, as the visuals were epic enough on their own and the music masks some of the model sound. But still a great video -- really enjoyed it!

ice layout, i prefer the HO scale but i live in italy ;-) the OO is not so common here, but really great layout