Thank you so very much for you program. I am 75 years old and no longer able to have a train layouts do to my health and money really enjoy your program.
@thavvolf91576 жыл бұрын
Eric you must have a very understanding wife to put up with the train shelf’s in your living areas.
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
There is no wife, that's how I get away with that.
@SouthernRailPhotography5 жыл бұрын
@@40belowful Watch Hes New vlog He Has A Girlfriend
@wcmodelrailroad6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the update Eric, Love the engine house and workbench. Having an actual (comfortable) place to work on engines and projects makes a huge difference.
@scottieervin72786 жыл бұрын
Hi Eric, I am watching your trains from Kuwait. No train stores over here that I have found. Glad to be able to watch you and the others in the hobby grow.That is great news about writing for the MAG. Layout looking great. Hope you have a great Open House.
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
Thanks Scottie! I guess somebody should open some train stores over there!
@mitchellhoepner64355 жыл бұрын
Hi eric I'm 12 and you've inspired me to build a model train layout so I will like to say thank you so much for spreading the love of trains
@mathewrufrano78336 жыл бұрын
Loved the cab ride. Great video as usual. Thx.
@tnuctaf31575 жыл бұрын
I remember when that giant bridge was only an idea so nice to see how you and your project has come!
@Cyberjjc5 жыл бұрын
This layout is incredible. I don't know how you do it. Many of those tunnels look great and I love your fleet.
@smeagolplaysgames45176 жыл бұрын
Nice.
@jaysecure6 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric.. good to see a mighty pic of an NZR loco there in your workshop. Couldn't quite make out the number, but looks great. Keep up the good work. From a Kiwi.
@jamesrecon146 жыл бұрын
Me an my lil guy are going to try to make the drive from Fort Benning Ga for the open house. We love watching your videos. Just wanted to tell you that we love your videos and we appreciate them very much. TY!
@NERRP20176 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric my grandpa is subscribed to classic toy train and he has a lot of old Lionel O-27 trains from the 1950’s postwar era.
@talis846 жыл бұрын
Congrats on getting a writing gig with Classic Toy Trains! I had a subscription to them.... must have been 20 years ago.. I even still, I consider them to be *the* hobbyists magazine.
@byates596 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric, it's great to get a video from you bro and the layout is looking awesome as always, love what you have done in the garage too! Bar some unforeseen emergency, I will definitely be attending the open house this year! Last year I was working in Iowa so attending was impossible, but this year I'm in North Carolina and only 4 to 5 hours drive away, so I will almost definitely be there! Anyways thanks for the video bro and have a great one!
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
Bill Yates awesome!
@aidensypolt3 жыл бұрын
@@Ericstrains north carolina is a 10 hour drive from where i live
@tommarriott005 жыл бұрын
Brilliant layout love the videos one day I might get a chance to see it in person
@BigMacksTrains6 жыл бұрын
Most detailed “O” scale layout I have seen. Great job Eric!
@soundwavesuguremashita16085 жыл бұрын
I saw the legacy polar express Berkshire in the line of steam locos on the layout
@leterguyschroeder49196 жыл бұрын
Great video, thanks for the tour
@allegheny486 жыл бұрын
An informative video and well worth the wait. I like what you've done with the garage. I did similar modifications with my last garage. Presently working on a plan for the one I now have. You certainly have made a lot of progress on the layout and I like your storage shelving units. Looking forward to reading your reviews.
@thx1138686 жыл бұрын
Good to see you . I remember when you were working on the metal bridge that you weathered green in the main room. I have been collecting trains and some rolling stock in HO scale. Hope to have a railroad yard soon. No layout just yet. Have a great show in Nov. .
@dianem70806 жыл бұрын
Eric, Thanks for the fun ride. Very relaxing.
@BenjaminGib6 жыл бұрын
Oh my gosh, Eric, it's so great to watch this, as I've been watching since 2012!
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@warriorstar25176 жыл бұрын
Looking good, Eric! I wish I could be at the open house, but it would be too expensive to travel from Portland, Maine to Piedmont.
@jacktherailfan32646 жыл бұрын
I just started saving my money for a brand new legacy engine, probably a diesel about the size of a SD70ACe, but maybe a small steamer like that beautiful H-10. I am hoping to raise the money in at least a year and a half. I am at about $230 so far, so I think I can do it! Wish me luck Eric!
@BenjaminGib6 жыл бұрын
Whoa great run through at end, I bet the layout looks amazing with a night look too with all your awesome buildings and lights.
@ravenhawk69106 жыл бұрын
Glad to see you back in action! I'll be there for the open house for sure!
@StateCollegeCONELRAD6 жыл бұрын
Nice! It's great to see yet another update! I've been watching since late 2012 or early 2013 (can't exactly remember) once I was really into model railroading. Unfortunately, my work and KZfaq videos about Meteorology and Radio have kind of pushed me out of the hobby due to a lack of time and funding, but I love your videos and work so much!
@mercury75906 жыл бұрын
Good to see you got the diesel depot completed! Well done.
@michaelmohrmann6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the mighty fine train ride, I thoroughly enjoyed it! :-)
@mattyboy35766 жыл бұрын
nice
@aloofdefloof6 жыл бұрын
nice
@trigger7966 жыл бұрын
Nice
@SturtevantRails5 жыл бұрын
nice
@TweetsieRailroader6 жыл бұрын
YOU'VE GOT WESTERN MARYLAND #6?! I rode on her back in 2012!
@WilliamCreator576 жыл бұрын
That's great Eric.
@zacharymarshall26625 жыл бұрын
Quite happy nobody said anything about 69. 👏👏👏👏
@joeg64825 жыл бұрын
Great video as always Eric. I enjoy ALL of them. I have every issue of Classic Toy Trains since the premier issue. I am looking forward to reading your reviews. Congrats and you are going to an excellent addition to the magazine.
@engineerpat52906 жыл бұрын
Love the Updates Eric! Great Work!!!
@SRRC2456 жыл бұрын
Those berks look amazing!
@vincentvanpaepeghem48446 жыл бұрын
Great video Eric. Your layout is looking great
@TmanTheTrainman6 жыл бұрын
Nice update Eric!!!
@skaokers5 жыл бұрын
It's been at least 4 years since I visited this channel, I vaguely remember the man behind it, Eric. Today, I sat down, and pretended I was 9 again.
@Ericstrains5 жыл бұрын
Right on. Thanks!
@Mcnibbus5 жыл бұрын
I have the same 2819 Pennsylvania consolidation featured on ur work bench it was the first train in my collection
@pinchy086 жыл бұрын
I have to admit. I’ve been seeing your reviews over and over again. There amazing. However I’m more and HO and N scale model railroader. I also suggest you get the O gauge 2-8-8 Mikado Southern Railway 4501 by MTH. It’s still available at Legacy station for your choice of train shopping. Being a resident of Jacksonville FL we don’t have as many brick and mortar Hobby shops. Also being a resident of JAX I’m on the Georgia Border. I haven’t been to Atlanta yet. It’s an extremely long drive away. My favorite reviews are the Lionel vision line big boy 4014, the MTH Big Boy 4014, the Lionel Legacy UP #844, the N&W Pocahontas set with 611, and the NKP #765. As you mentioned Rich Melvin, his voice on the 765 and 844, I think Riches voice was on 844 because since she did an excursion for the LCCA, he was the engineer of 844 along with manager Ed Dickens. But only for that excursion.
@terryrunyon27936 жыл бұрын
Your a very talented guy. Your layout is amazing!
@yellowfoxentertainment82765 жыл бұрын
How the best way to get the details on your railway
@williamfowler1976 жыл бұрын
Very nice!
@hilfskreuzer-33656 жыл бұрын
Excellent video Eric
@SturtevantRails6 жыл бұрын
YES FINALLY
@Steven_Williams6 жыл бұрын
Diesel House looks great!
@Chessie19856 жыл бұрын
Great update Eric!!!
@anthonyshepard96066 жыл бұрын
Love the front mounted camera. Was that on a flatbed or something else? Love your videos. 🐢🚂🐢🚂🐢🚂
@AponeTheSergeant6 жыл бұрын
10:44 good to see a picture of a NZ steam engine in your workshop!
@hlatreche15436 жыл бұрын
Wonderfull video
@luvindemtrains6 жыл бұрын
Eric, Great and admirable amount of work on and around the layout. Also congratulations on your classic toy trains endeavor and yes it's a great publication. I'm assuming from the video that you no longer use your garage for parking cars. I patiently await the video of how you do your roads. I plan to be at your open house. As always, thanks for what you do for our hobby.
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I've never used my garage for cars. It's too valuable to me as a work or storage space.
@luvindemtrains6 жыл бұрын
Me either and unlike you I don't even have a basement.
@FerroequinologistofColorado6 жыл бұрын
Great to see another video keep it up Eric’s Trains
@Subparanon6 жыл бұрын
11:32 Oh god lol. I took one look and heard it like it was in the room "steam and fire, I'm the Pennsylvania Flyer!"
@3dartistguy6 жыл бұрын
awesome!
@cornjobb6 жыл бұрын
the name of your channel made me think you had trouble going to the bathroom. i'm glad to see that isn't the case. nice setup
@earnieb53186 жыл бұрын
Eric...the scenery on walls...decals, wallpaper, hand painted?...very nice! Was it added after the layout, before the layout, during...maybe work in process of both?...
@trs-no8lm6 жыл бұрын
A night view will look all some
@mamanbear15 жыл бұрын
Impressive
@moregltfirephotography48576 жыл бұрын
That was awesome you should do a night run and turn the train lights on also I am sad to say I will not make it to the open house since I live in Pennsylvania but wish I could will try to get down there someday
@file1man5 жыл бұрын
most of my mth engines are protosound(10), proto 1(20) a few proto 2 engines (4), some (10) lionel prewar conventional & (8) k-line engines. Tranformers- have 1 mth z4000 with 1 tiu & dcs remote, 1 old zw, 1 new (from 2008) lionel zw, 1 lionel legacy command system. Am I correct that I cant run conventional pre war engines without this double throw toggle switch because, at 18 volts they fly off the track? Finding it very hard to make the lionel & mth transformers to work together. very few videos go into detail. My track plan( atlas track) has a main circle, 2nd circle, 4 sidings to park passenger cars, 18 parking tracks for my steam engines. Have power feeds every 5 feet. Seems like a double throw toggle is the only way to run so many different era engines run the layout? I'll try to do some videos so you & others can critique my setup, but I'm very overwhelmed. Using a separate transformer & separate track to run prewar conventional & proto 1 mth engines defeats the purpose of having so many parking tracks ( my parking tracks were so I did not need to lift the often very heavy engines every time I run a diff engine.) Suggestions please
@Porschedude86 жыл бұрын
Fantastic! 👍
@railfanjackson45315 жыл бұрын
Did you hear that Lionel is re-releasing the Vision Line Challenger?
@Lv-sl3rm6 жыл бұрын
I'll pay you money for that Lehigh Valley geep Eric. XD Seriously though good video as always.
@digitalgridmusic17686 жыл бұрын
I have that exact same C & O Tin Poster on my Wall in my Train room!
@JonatanGronoset6 жыл бұрын
Hi Eric, nice stuff. I saw Bachmann has released a lovely little 0-6-0 tender engine for On30, maybe something for your narrow gauge track in the Colorado room?
@williamrichardson23286 жыл бұрын
Love keeping up with your work. Your videos reignited that spark I had as a kid when my dad built me a train set. Just curious, have you ever considered running one of the locomotives that run off of real steam or coal? I think it would be a really neat challange.
@diamonddog2576 жыл бұрын
'' I hope you never have to move '' ...- and btw; ... what two engines would you use for a 'Gomez Addams ' ??
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
I will eventually be moving and I'll have to take down the layout at that time. Probably sometimes in the next 3-5 years.
@roylopresti67735 жыл бұрын
Eric ,love your layouts ! I have smoke units in my trains as well, do your air purifier's really pull all that smoke smell out of your layout space?
@nayastellini26106 жыл бұрын
I wanna see that Southern berk in action!
@Jamersonde6 жыл бұрын
Would love to check out your layout at the layout tour, but I live in Indiana. Maybe someday, I'll be in the area and can check it out, if possible.
@ldever36 жыл бұрын
Enjoyed it.
@loganfeeley31796 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric can you do showcase of the of your new trains when you get them thanks.
@trainfan066 жыл бұрын
Are you going to York in october this year
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@Train1155 жыл бұрын
Please do a video on the Lionel vision line H7 class 2-8-8-2
@theblocksmith6454 жыл бұрын
Nice
@benlahrman41493 жыл бұрын
Is the Norfolk Southern Diesel shop based of any particular Norfolk Southern terminal? such as Inmann Yard or Roanoke?
@ashtonmorrison6422 жыл бұрын
It’s funny that the number 69 is a meme now
@trainlover99436 жыл бұрын
Nice video!
@mikeg46116 жыл бұрын
Great video, I always am amazed at your layout. Was looking to expand my layout with an elevated section, Do you have to back your trains down from your elevated section?
@MPT_Productions6 жыл бұрын
Love Big Six!
@stuartlang99685 жыл бұрын
Can you run two separate powered diesel engines together?
@tedmax755 жыл бұрын
Are you using Atlas O gauge tracks?
@anthonyboey99316 жыл бұрын
Great work so far. I have a few building that would great on your layout if you interested in them. I just no longer have room to store them. I would love for them to go to a good home-----Anthony Boey
@MPT_Productions6 жыл бұрын
LOL 3 berks 123 right there. LOL love them
@firetruck25726 жыл бұрын
Eric you should do the Santa Fe 2-10-10-2 steam locomotive
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
Sure. You buy one for me, I'll do it. :)
@nickbarman41456 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric!
@ussjohnston16 жыл бұрын
I would really like to come to the open house
@rjc72895 жыл бұрын
Do the air purification systems do anything for reducing and/or eliminating the ozone odor the trains give off?
@Ericstrains5 жыл бұрын
Modern trains don't really give off an ozone odor like the older ones do. I'm not sure if they will help with it or not...heck some air purifiers actually ADD ozone. I guess you'd have to look at the specs for the specific air purifier.
@blakemorris89476 жыл бұрын
Hi Eric, I was wondering if you, in the future, are going to incorporate lionels new IRV2 system into your layout?
@COKid026 жыл бұрын
Hey Eric, great video. Could you tell me about your brink portals and retaining walls. Did you make them or are they from a company? Thanks. JMAC
@Ericstrains6 жыл бұрын
I get them from Scenic Express.
@Ghost_riley4145 жыл бұрын
You should get Polar Express train for Christmas video.
@adamlang74806 жыл бұрын
Why don't you do many running sessions?
@parkerpresley58006 жыл бұрын
Veranda! Any chamce you cpuld run the new s3 with your hiawtha set?
@gabe30226 жыл бұрын
love the vids!!!!!!!
@connormogan27166 жыл бұрын
Scenery tutorial?
@Polak-dd7ds6 жыл бұрын
I'm planning on purchasing a 400e for Christmas. Which one do you think I should get?
@ctskifreaks6 жыл бұрын
Which New Haven set is that specifically?
@kevinhershberger24826 жыл бұрын
When r u gonna review the sp Christmas gs-4
@erichill12306 жыл бұрын
are you going to build a rip track for your rail cars to get fix