One of the most Picturesque and Largest Model Railroad Layouts in the U.S.

One of the most Picturesque and Largest Model Railroad Layouts in the U.S. - Cab Ride Layout Tour

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Жыл бұрын

One gets the impression that model railroading in the United States leads to either very small train dioramas or to extremely large model railroad layouts. There is nothing in between - either very tiny timesaver switching layouts or hugely large MRR layouts that allow endless hours of operating sessions. However, in this video we discover one of these large, but lovingly built and weathered model train layouts that is operated by the Northern Virginia Model Railroaders (NVMR).
The Northern Virginia Model Railroaders (NVMR) is a club of model railroading enthusiasts headquartered in the historic train depot in downtown Vienna, Virginia. More than a hundred members use and maintain this large permanent HO scale layout inside the depot. The club is over 70 years old and has been at this location for more than 40 years. The railroad is open to the public twelve times a year, with members-only meetings and ops sessions also occurring weekly and monthly, respectively.
The beautiful HO scale layout depicts the Southern Railway from Spencer, North Carolina, to Asheville, North Carolina. While not every town on the line is present, many real locations are represented on the model rail layout. Many structures and details were kitbashed or scratch built by members. Much of the track is hand-laid, with an estimated 250,000 ties placed and spiked. While the model railway layout is permanent, maintenance and improvement is an ongoing effort. Thus, recent layout updates include a new computerized turnout control system and 3D printed structures.
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@SteveMikre44 Жыл бұрын

Watching a new Pilentum episode is a great way to spend a Saturday night...

@andrewkuebler4335 Жыл бұрын

It is

@lissanne9769 Жыл бұрын

Best Saturday night ever, watching a cab ride through a beautiful railroad countryside.

@RandomGamesProductions Жыл бұрын

True that

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

Is Saturday night a good time to release new videos? I've honestly never thought about when I release new videos. Whenever I finish the video production, I upload my videos.

@clintdespain3549 Жыл бұрын

@@lissanne9769 ujn, I'll join I'm 55 I'll us I'll jszj3mzss3.snnt CC W2 6 m I'm just no I'm 7

@tegothecat1519 Жыл бұрын

This is not just a model railroad layout. This is life.

@davidcaro8217 Жыл бұрын

An amazing layout! Obviously the life-long pursuit of a passion for model railroading that I imagine all began long ago with a dad giving his son a Lionel train set for Christmas.

@phillipmiller4380 Жыл бұрын

I was a member of this club in the 1980's and miss it very much. This is a great video to see how much it's advanced along with some changes that have been done since then. Nice work! I hope you'll post some more like this of operating sessions.

@coasterfreak007 Жыл бұрын

We had a long & fun day at the club filming for it :)

@vincenthuying98 Жыл бұрын

Interesting layout, especially love the spline roadbed construction that’s visible on several occasions whilst the train runs through parts of the layout’s helix.

@lissanne9769 Жыл бұрын

Fascinating set up and layout. The audio and video was really done well. Loved the train track sound. Thank you so much for the fun cab ride, Pilentum team.

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

There is no Pilentum Team! Pilentum is still a one-man business, see www.pilentum.org/pilentum-model-trains

@lissanne9769 Жыл бұрын

@@pilentum Well Thank you anyway.

@Bobrogers99 Жыл бұрын

An impressive layout and a great place for really tiny people to live!

@billhuber2964 Жыл бұрын

This is one awesome layout. You outdone yourself again.

@dadoodadaa6282 Жыл бұрын

Outstanding!!! Nicely done

@johncamp2567 Жыл бұрын

Very cool and very impressive! The “Railroad to the Light Fixtures”.

@rogerackert6573 Жыл бұрын

Nice trackwork! The best I've seen. And excellent scenery.

@bruno581 Жыл бұрын

A source of inspiration. Thank you.

@peters1127 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic! Thank you for the ride.

@fredaycott5283 Жыл бұрын

Pilentum, great video. Train layout is excellent!

@kliller854 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful ride to experience.

@uwekoch8054 Жыл бұрын

Impresionante el tamaño de esta Maqueta. Muchas gracias por compartir!!

@christopherorourke6543 Жыл бұрын

Great video & great layout which is impressive.

@christinelatex Жыл бұрын

vous avez un magnifique réseau très bien fait ,bien détaillé et bien décoré 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@tgt44e44t Жыл бұрын

That's absolutely impressive and brilliant.

@SB5SimulationsFerroviairesEEP Жыл бұрын

Superbe! Very cool! Thank You! Stéph.

@thomasmeyer9909 Жыл бұрын

Great job!!

@rongoodwin4053 Жыл бұрын

Wow! What an extraordinary feat of engineering.

@teddawg327 Жыл бұрын

Very smooth running

@richardhancock2771 Жыл бұрын

Been watching this and it must of taken ages to build just seems to go on for ever

@jasonrusso151 Жыл бұрын

I love the Memorial Hand Sanitizer Monument Dedication there. It stands a testament to time.

@retostaempfli-avoulou7467 Жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@John44004 Жыл бұрын

very, very nice !

@kimberlywertz3839 Жыл бұрын

Very nice.

@pipafumador Жыл бұрын

Gracias por el video. Asombroso. Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱

@igorgavrilov8140 Жыл бұрын

Автор, спасибо за замечательное видео!

@unspunnewz 11 ай бұрын

Wow so impressive.

@gunsaway1 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Need more

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

There will be more... next week!

@jamescurran9002 Жыл бұрын

I was as fascinated by those long hidden sections as I was the exposed. The thing for me, maybe because I worked in a major city, and had this view many days..was that the underground section, looks exactly like what you would find in a major city. The underside of overpasses, of freeway interchanges. I bet, with very little work, something could be done to make those linkages more realistic.

@robbyboy03 Жыл бұрын

I am just blown away by the size of this layout. Rather curious of the statistics like how long it took to build....etc. Fantastic work guys.

@davidcaro8217 Жыл бұрын

☝🏾what he said

@user-mi2xu4qw6m 6 ай бұрын

Super model! Mersi Pilentum!

@jimkammerer5240 Жыл бұрын

ALL LAYOUTS ARE A LABOR OF LOVE AND NEVER DONE ALWAYS FIDDLE WITH IT IN SOME MANNER VERY NICE INDEED THANK YOU JIM KAMMERER OF PHILADELPHIA PA NORFOLK SOUTHERN RULES MY RAILS 👌

@mikeuk1954 Жыл бұрын

Great view of a massive layout. I would certainly be concerned about a model derailing on one those high areas!😳

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

...also maintenance at this high areas is very exhausting.

@sarasotasage6135 Жыл бұрын

I see you had the old SEABOARD AIR LINE Doodlebug in your video. I rode on that from Lakeland, FL to Ft. Myers, FL in Feb. 1970. Of course it had been painted SCL black by that time and renumbered to 4900. It was pulling a coach and a sleeper which were taken off the West Coast Champion in Lakeland. It only had one powered truck so it was probably maxed out with those two cars! The route it took has been torn up from just south of Lakeland to Arcadia, FL, but you can still get to Ft. Myers (at least freight can) by rail. The Ft. Myers depot was (and still is) a beautiful Spanish stucco style edifice with a tile roof and is now a museum. The tracks were located on the south side of the depot and you would wye in from the mainline which was about a quarter mile to the east. You can still see evidence of that wye today (2022). A nice memory of a simpler time. Great video!👍

@Planetrainguy 8 ай бұрын

5:12 Holy cow a gauntlet track in HO scale that is awesome

@patricklambert1710 Жыл бұрын

réseau extraordinaire

@stuartbenjamin7176 Жыл бұрын

Watching Pilentum is also great for quitting time.

@50buttfish Жыл бұрын

1:58 I love that replica "GIANT ELECTRIC PLUG".

@HemlockRidge Жыл бұрын

An amazing amount of trackage for a somewhat limited space. Seems to be "under construction" and quite a bit of detail left unfinished. There is almost as much time "underground" as in the layout. Major PLUS - Penn State Train.

@coasterfreak007 Жыл бұрын

I knew someone would appreciate it :)

@hntrains2 Жыл бұрын

The long ride suggests this is quite a big layout. Lots of levels, too, to confirm that feeling. Very impressive! While the wooden structure, the wiring, the pipes could be interesting for the railroad modeller, they might ruin the illusion, otherwise so well constructed - where the layout is finished -, for the common viewer. Thinking, also, the season could be autumn (lots of burnt or dying, if not already dead, vegetation); and the tracks might now lie in what appears as nearly deserted territory. If that is in accordance with the builders' intentions, kudos to them!

@milesfann33 3 ай бұрын

Now I know what an ant's perspective would look like if they had trains. This has ASMR vibes to it too!

@OgaugeTrainsplusslotCars Жыл бұрын

That's a long Railroad ♐️👍

@frdml01 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful sceneries, but: it's stacked so high, how are people to enjoy all of this, other than by video's like this?

@user-ol4vh9ci4h Жыл бұрын

wow!!

@obi1988 Жыл бұрын

Just getting in trains, just had twins and never had any as a child. Want to give them this whole room.. Love every single thing about this video. Amazing scenery, insane build. Way over my head on where to try and start.. What scale is this by the way. Its what i want!!

@notenvisioned Жыл бұрын

ive been here!

@dreaticadta806 Жыл бұрын

17:09 ... check the head dissapearing ... lol

@thomasboese3793 Жыл бұрын

Interesting track plan for a mid-sized space: 20' by 60'. (I followed the path to the club site. There the photo tour showed much more of what I would want for a major layout.) Since it was built well before DCC, there is no 'walk-around' and follow your train. (From what I could see.) It would be very interesting to see a new layout in the space using N scale and DCC. You would be able to have all of the towns and not have so much hidden track work that is currently needed to 'set up' the next scene. Hidden staging yards, absolutely. Scale miles of hidden track just to get from one end of the room to the other, no.

@tommilton5753 Жыл бұрын

The layout was converted to DCC some 25 years ago. It can handle both duplex and wifi throttles, and operators are required to follow their trains, to pay attention to signals and to choose routes in the double track sections. It takes advantage of the height of the room so has at least six levels. Seven if you include a representation of another railroad that connects with it (a train on that railroad is visible passing under about halfway through.

@Macrobish Жыл бұрын

Fabulous layout. I do wonder what happens if something derails in areas that look totally inaccessible

@tommilton5753 Жыл бұрын

Every bit is reachable, sometimes by stepladder.

@user-bx4hy7kr7p Жыл бұрын

製作中が一番楽しい時間。

@robertmay5393 Жыл бұрын

Excellent video...what type of camera set up do you have?

@marktipper994 Жыл бұрын

Fine layout......maybe edit out the portions behind the scenery/on the helixes?

@bruceboatwright7488 Жыл бұрын

What a great ride! Is this the same club that was on King Street in Alexandria next to the rail yard 50 years ago? My how time has flown.

@clarenceguenther8920 Жыл бұрын

It is. They moved out to Vienna about 1980. In the Spenser freight yard there is a model of the original building. Lift the roof and inside is a model of the original layout. If you watch the really long video there is a quick shot of it. Clarence Guenther, club member

@philippebertrand5417 Жыл бұрын

C’est magnifique et où se trouve cette realisation

@jonathanchalk2507 Жыл бұрын

More please

@pearsooo6972 Жыл бұрын

Wow

@davidleinenbach3174 Жыл бұрын

***ing Hell,so nice. Greetings from Radeberg,the Beertown in Saxonia. Not my Gauge an not my Theme,but very nice and big Layout.

@richardhancock2771 Жыл бұрын

How long is this Lay out it seems miles long. A lot of scenery and looks real when you are in the cab very nice well done

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

Track Plan NVMR: www.pilentum.org/northern-virginia-model-railroaders-cab-ride-layout-tour

@mmi16 Жыл бұрын

Amazed at the number of STOP signals are being run through.

@lYa-us1ei Жыл бұрын

Круто

@jboushka Жыл бұрын

Is this in Vienna VA? a couple blocks off Maple Ave near the VA Train station? I've been there a few times for Christmas shows. The layout I've seen is quite vertical but you can observe it from only one walkway. I'd visit it if it were open to the public. (Live near Falls Church, not far away)

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

Please, get the link on my website = www.pilentum.org/northern-virginia-model-railroaders-one-of-the-largest-model-railway-layouts-in-the-united-states

@KeanesCove Жыл бұрын

Cab view is nice but would be good to see other views to appreciate it all

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

I still have a lot of video footage of this great model railroad layout. I will publish it in the next weeks.

@FlamerSmasherMBXCar Жыл бұрын

Hey Pilentum, I dare you run this whole train set with a train with 1001 cars long, just like Snowpiercer.

@jonathanaina7754 Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t it just block the mainline? 🤔

@abundantharmony Жыл бұрын

How and why did they bend those wood struts for the support?

@bruceenlow8480 Жыл бұрын

What is the theme of this layout? PA in transition era is my guess? I like the original box car handles on the wall, those are really cool. I would have mounted them on pine boards painted box car red to give them an authentic presentation. But that is a nice piece of RR history.

@tommilton5753 Жыл бұрын

Its name, the Western North Carolina, locates it between Spencer Yard on the Southern main line and Asheville. Transition era, roughly 1955. And the video doesn't show the nine staging tracks on the bottom level, nor the numerous storage tracks.

@STRV103C Жыл бұрын

what camera was used in this video

@HagiaSophia1952 Жыл бұрын

What an achievement: but in order to make use of the height of the room, the 'cab-driver' needs to see a trmenedous amount of sub-structure. Nevertheless, there are moments of beauty, enabled by all those 'behind-the-scenes' structures. By the way, has anyone lost a pen? At 18:25 you'll find a big green biro lying beside the track. It's HUGE!

@pilentum Жыл бұрын

What sharp eyes you have? I didn't see the pen when I was cutting the video...

@HagiaSophia1952 Жыл бұрын

@@pilentum Not bad for a seventy-year-old, eh?! Great clip, though.

@philippebertrand5417 Жыл бұрын

Combien de kilomètres de voies ?

@davidpanetta6400 Жыл бұрын

Too many tunnels. Nice layout, but would like to see more buildings. I guess if I saw the entire video, I would've enjoyed it more.

@pieslife207 Жыл бұрын

I wish I were alive when there were sleek emd f7s and streamliners and the high amount of passenger railroads here in America now places besides afew parts are the same old desile Red white and blue trains

@bruceenlow8480 Жыл бұрын

Is that hand laid track? It looks really good. I would edit out the 'tunnel" footage.

@tommilton5753 Жыл бұрын

The track visitors see is all handlaid.

@IntlPublications Жыл бұрын

I wonder, does that futuristic and somewhat retouched looking train on the preview image actually exist? I couldn't find it.

@altonwilliams7493 Жыл бұрын

That was the Aerotrain from 1955. Turned out not to be practical

@garysprandel1817 8 ай бұрын

As noted the Aerotrain. A failed concept in cost savings in passenger service by GM to adapt some of the components from GM's bus building to trains. Locomotive was effectively an SW1500 switcher in a fancy dress with a lead power truck and a single rear idler non power wheel. The two axel coaches rode like a truck so it failed. Always on the lookout for inexpensive ways to keep the rolling, working museum the Rock Island called their Chicago commuter service Rock Island not only put their Jet Rocket Aerotrain into commuter service they picked up the remaining ( IIRC) 3 trainsets on the cheap and put those into commuter service. Rock Island pulled them from service late 60s IIRC and two of the trainsets were donated to museums one in St.Louis MO. and the other in Green Bay WI. The other set ( or sets) went to scrap though pretty much until the end of the Rock Island in 80 a couple of the Aerotrain coaches could be seen from the Dan Ryan Expressway at the "Rocket House" engine facilities near old Comisky Park.

@IntlPublications 8 ай бұрын

A belated thank you for responding 🎉

@Hollywood2129 Жыл бұрын

Представляю, сколько сил и средств на это было затрачено...

@trainrailfanningpdx6103 9 ай бұрын

Anybody notice the green pencil to the left at 20:32

@benedyktczydziesty4399 Жыл бұрын

12:00 - Ron Jeremy head :-))))))) ?

@jacksonmiller3961 Жыл бұрын

thumbnail train where?

@marktruso5718 Жыл бұрын

What gauge is this railroad? 0 or G perhaps?

@tommilton5753 Жыл бұрын

Its HO. Also, in response to other comments, only two of the stations, including the western terminus, are not visible from the spectator area. And none of the wiring.

@raspadoable Жыл бұрын

Muy lindo pero abria que hacer primero una vista de afuera

@ayyash_23 Жыл бұрын

Cari miniatur kereta merk, kato, tomytec, tomix, micro Ace websitenya apa ya atau websitenya apa?

@nikorauca1579 Жыл бұрын

All the rail networks in the tunnel system is off tap

@jeanbonnefoy1377 Жыл бұрын

An amazing feat of massive carpentry work, scenery, backdrop and weathering. Too bad the cab ride betrays a bit too many 2d buildings 😉. And the mirror gloss shiny tracks are slightly... disturbing.

@timberrr1126 Жыл бұрын

Turn off the middle ceiling light - leave the others on to eliminate shiny rails. Just put black cardboard in the neon filter screen

@michaelschenkel363 Жыл бұрын

What is the average cost for a layout that size

@TheClockwise770 Жыл бұрын

$250 at least

@PanzerBuyer Жыл бұрын

What is the name of the thumbnail train? thanks.

@kiwitrainguy Жыл бұрын

Aerotrain

@admiralbenbow5083 Жыл бұрын

I see plywood.

@user-zi1kx9cd8p Ай бұрын

what scale is that?

@pilentum Ай бұрын

HO scale = 1/87

@strufian Жыл бұрын

Учитывая состояние проводки, просто удивительно, что это макет до сих пор не сгорел.

@mr.g4tero781 Жыл бұрын

Add more cameras More points of view the video

@bentobarreirinhas5702 Жыл бұрын

too many dark scary spots

@julioernestofioroni4510 Жыл бұрын

Entiendo que podria haber tenido un tendido de cables mejor ordenado, mas presentable que brinde una mejor vista a toda la obra. Da la impresion de que han hechoun trabajo poco vistoso y muy descuidado en cuanto a la imagen que transmite,lTraten de mejorar en la arquitectura y el diseño para que resulte mas ingenieril. y de buena calidad en detalles-

@pilentum 11 ай бұрын

Hay que tener en cuenta que la maqueta tiene muchos años. El mantenimiento de la maqueta corre a cargo de una asociación. Y casi todos los clubes se quejan de que cada vez hay menos socios.

@garyolafson8303 Жыл бұрын

The interior room lighting (low quality acoustic ceiling) is not as well thought out and designed compared to German & Austria train layouts. This to me is most distracting flaw on this RR layout, but I hit Liked on the video anyway