your channel is so underrated keep up the great work

I always liked toy trains, especially ones that are old and really beat up. They show the love and attention they were given.

There is a guy in Riverview Michigan that has a basement full of Lionel train sets with a HUGE train layout that has familiar Detroit and Downriver Building sites in the train layout. There are even pink colored Lionel train sets designed for girls, keeping them interested in model railroading. The home owner is a hourly worker from the Ford Rouge Steel Division, and opens his home during the Christmas for FREE. It's an AWESOME train layout display and model train collection - among other collections nestled in his huge basement. Well worth the trip to Riverview Michigan.

I love this layout! It is massive and like all good layouts it is still a work in progress, but the multi-tiered approach, the green "grass mats", the buildings and signals and structure placed without the need to make the layers feel "real"... Its all super nostalgic and just feels so right for these trains. Thank you for the find and sharing it with us!

Thank you for sharing this. I have loved model trains all my life. This fellow's basement is a little slice of Heaven for me.

Every time I see something THIS massive, First thing comes to mind is keeping all this dust free and clean OMG. Great stuff, thanks for posting. Happy Holidays...

I have only watched 5 minutes. Absolutely wonderful.

WOW just wow...i have never seen a collection like this. Incredible.

Thank you for this video of this person's trains running and trains on shelf display. I did have lionel H guage, but a small collection, now lost. Started a layout of H ? guage ,but change of $$ jobs, in storage somewhere. But my severe thanks for many collectors like you, we have the chance to bring back our kid train days.

He has an amazing collection. I like that he treats his collection as a museum curator would with labels and arranged in an order.

This is so cool!!!! Ran across it by accident after I posted a train video. So beautiful! Would LOVE to visit. My husband will be awestruck when I show him this. Thanks!!!!

Amazing place and collection. Thank you for the tour and sharing.

Very nice collection. Thanks for sharing. Love the Ives Prosperity Special.

I sure appreciate seeing this, thanks so much. Happy trails.

Very nice collection. Love seeing complete collections with the original owner. Such a good history teacher. This is for model enthusiast watching. I have been watching a KZfaq channel called "Locker Nuts" for one reason. MODELS. It is a couple that buys storage lockers at auctions and resale on the internet. He recently bought a locker for ONE DOLLAR. They opened the door and it was full from floor to ceiling with plastic totes full of model trains, cars, boats and airplanes of all gauges. The original owner worked for the original Apple corp. He passed away and the family had OTHER storage units to deal with and let this one go to auction. There are multiples of a lot of the models UNOPENED in their original boxes. He has done several shows unboxing and showing what they got. They are still doing shows because there is a ton of stuff. Rough estimate.... around $300,000.00 Yes...... the models are for sale. It's not just models. He has towns, airports, harbors, people, construction equipment......mind blowing the amount of stuff in this one locker.

Hello from the UK. That is a really fascinating video and you really capture the love and enthusiasm of this old man for his model railway. Quite amazing to see the older stock, especially that which was owned by his father and he has so carefully kept it running in such wonderful order.

This stuff is epic. Go back and get his personal stories. Like you were antiques road show. He is the limited edition collectors item for me. His flea market stories and other vague but specialized old stories of the visits he's made way back to other tracks. His stories are gold. We can always get info about the dates his collection represents. Great 1st visit... well worth going back. Bring his favorite whiskey and be like Joe Rogan pull his stories out.

WOW! I love it!

Great video I am just now getting into the hobby of real locomotives and model railroad I am trying to soak up as much knowledge as possible about anything and everything that involves model trains or real trains the good thing is I've already narrowed it down to what my favorites are and what I want to collect

Fantastic collection. I even saw one or two items that I have in my collection. I really hope the owner has made provision to preserve this collection, perhaps a museum.

Nice collection, and Love the fact you ran the train at speed where most people run them slow.

Such a cool layout and collection. I have a big closet of trains, magazines, and more❤❤ the part when you guys mentioned keeping the boxes REALLY inspired me, so I have about 11 boxes left for my train. By the way, I’m 12

Even though I'm not into tinplate, it does my heart good to see someone with a setup they truly love. Great layout and video!

Absolutely beautiful collection, remarkable indeed I wish you were my neighbor LOL!!! Happy Holidays too U!!!

BEAUTIFUL I ALSO LOVE MODEL TRAINS

Great to see all these trains, original and unrestored, nice to see it's still an ongoing build, Mick Thailand

throughout your lifetime (what 70 times around the sun) the only thing any of us are going to be left with are the memories, so make them as good as you can,

All I can say is”Wow”

Nice camera work.

Stunning. Cheers.

Great video Thanks for sharing suc h a nice collection in a great space. "Happy Rails". GMan

I love Trains

Have you ever thought about installing MTH.s DCS system. That way your trains would all run at the same speed. No more speeding up and slowing down.

Fantastic ! great Video of a Awesome collection!

Nice upload, great find/work and thanks also to the collector/builder etc. for sharing, from the UK.

Wow!

Great Dude! Thanks

Amazing!!! I loved it.

MY BROTHER WM. E. TONEY visited this place a short time before he passed. Bill was from St. Joseph, Mo. He owned one of the largest layouts for years in Missouri.

Amazing!!! ❤🚅

Too good. Thanks for sharing 🙏

An amazing collection, everybody could visit it?

Fantastic, thanks

So that's where they all are!!

7:18 The Yellow rain is the train General Motors made it's all aluminum

I believe that I have this guy beat!!!!! I have THOUSANDS!!! AND THOUSANDS!!! Mine is all HO!!!!! I just bought two steam locomotives for 2800$ Custom Brass Union Pacific 2-8-8-2's THE MORE THE MERRIER!!!! I HAVE 2000+ feet of track on 3 levels!!!!!!

Love the train tour. Just a bit of advise give a mic to the owner and allow him to explain the collection. and please stop jumping around when the host is talking very annoying

Wow the york pa train show i live in york

love pushing tin.

Been to Strasbourg in lancaster they have a large tomas train

just. . Whoa!!! And Amazing!!! at the same time hahaa!!

Undisclosed location my a$$! If the poor old guy wants you to keep his location a secret you don’t get a close up of his mailbox 🙄! Your just disrespecting the guy.

wow

Would LOVE to see this. Is he doing tours or were you just invited? Love trains my daddy got me interested.

The first thing I saw was the USNSUBS sign. It’s a bubble head!

People need to realize......Lionel trains were damn expensive back then....even as far back as the 1930's. They were made well...but were not cheap to buy. Marx was the poor man's O gauge back then.....

This is nice to see, but I've been in this hobby for 50 years and this is not that unusual. It's nice to watch, but the basic problem for this man and others like him is that the toy train hobby (not to be confused with model railroading) is dying quickly. Most people in the hobby are over 70 and there are very few children who play with trains like his past the age of 10. To be as clear as possible, on any given day now there are over 160,000 Lionel Train items up on EBay. 20 years ago, that number was about 50,000. The trend is obvious. I do hope his collection finds its way to a museum, but I think the museums will soon be drowning in that stuff and won't take anymore. I have put many people on notice that, "No, I won't buy your trains. You can give them to me or donate them to my club."

There's proof to the world's hardest to answer riddle: Q: What do a woman's breasts and an electric train set have in common? A: They're both made for the kids but dad always winds up playing with them. All good humor requires a grain of truth...

How much is the Lionel remote control helicopter car worth?

No sale No Look

if i could afford this id put a spy on top of the train fighting some guy

A man died and his wife sold his collection worth tens of thousands for a couple hundred dollars. I wish she had called me first.

what an utterly uninteresting hobby to have.. obsessing over junk like this.

Pretty shitty collection granpa!