I can't believe how realistic looking this layout is. Truly a work of art. Enjoy every minute of it. Two thumbs up!!

Love this, Chris!! So much detail that I'm not able to see in - as you said - some of your other general run videos. Appreciate you sharing your methodology/approach to things as well. Full-on awesomeness!!

Fantastic! You’ve built the layout of my dreams. Our basement was just finished. I’ll be building a permanent layout down there soon. You’ve given me lot’s of inspiration!

Excellent use of the area - love the thinking behind areas of separation, providing depth and interest, multi-level etc. Good to see the trains running at realistic speeds. I hate seeing race tracks. Well done on the layout and the video commentary.

Yea its a pleasure to watch your channel. Chris you have something to be proud of.

Job well done brotherman Chris!! We love it! 😊👍

Definitely love the layout. Especially the two separate tracks above the main layout

Good looking layout. Appears well planned, and good running layout with a purpose.

Thank you for not operating your trains at ridiculous fast speeds. Good stuff thanks for posting

Thank You for your video. I have 3 Lionel Train Sets "2 Steam, 1 Diesel" just sitting in my closet, it's time to take them out and enjoy them!!

More model train youtubers need to do this. Great video!

Beautiful layout! I appreciate how you you show exactly what you did. Congrats!!

Thanks for the video's. Can't wait to see one on how you built those awesome tables!

Fantastic job, Chris. Love your video and commentary. Keep up the great work!

You've done well.....nice to see good work AND someone under 60!

Thanks the detailed review. I hope to use some of your ideas chris.

Love how this channel is growing! Keep it up!

Hi Chris. Amazing job on the layout. My son just moved out and I’m rearranging that floor of the house to include a train work room as well as storage and then another room for a display such as yours. I totally love your track plan. My area could easily support something like yours. If you could post the track plan I’d love to work from it. Again awesome job. Keep em coming. Take care!

Chris, Great job on your layout .I abslout love it. Keep up the great work.

Cool looking layout, Lots of action going on

Top quality here - great video and spectacular layout - both in design and execution!

Very Nice Track plan The Trains Are Running perfectly Good.

Great layout , thanks for sharing.

Great info very nice, thank you.

amazing layout , i love what you done with the room you have

A great illustration, this 2 yr. old layout overview and the February live session. No wonder Hitchcock appreciates your presentation of Lionel trains.....😉 Keep doin what'ja doin Mr.

The stone retaining wall look very life like. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Loves the layout, the design is incredible and I love how you made it yours the way you wanted not how everyone else thinks it should be. Bravo!!!

First time viewer and new subscriber here. What an outstanding layout. Extra cool that you included the station from you dads layout! Looking forward to more vids.

Hey! I’m a new subscriber and I just wanna say I love your videos and your layout! I recently started getting back into model railroading myself and this is a big inspiration! Keep up the awesome work!

Great explanation of your great layout very nice job

Ah hah! I found your track plan. Makes your layout even better . It’s such a big help seeing how to fit these big trains in your space. I’m trying to shove three O scale trains and an On30 Trolly with a dozen Christmas village buildings in a seven x twelve area. Oh, and the Christmas tree right in the middle of it. LoL

You have a beautiful layout you are up there with “Eric trains” and “Matt’s trains and tractors” as my fav youtubers.

I love trains like you

Great looking layout

Love this layout - nice work!

These videos are fantastic! I love your layout, and you have a stellar channel too!

I thought I commented before. If I did, I apologize for a double post. This is a great layout. Thank you so much for sharing. You have an amazing channel. I am a huge fan.

I love the detail you put into your layout and having your father’s train station adds that passing down feel. I have the Davenport and Emporium from Woodland Scenic that I plan to use for a tower square shopping center that’s built around my train station, its based on my towns tower square even though we no longer have the train station. I am really excited to see more from your channel and oh by the way, I have a farm house with Christmas lights that I let shine lol.

Great video! Thanks for sharing.

Great set up !!

You are my favorite KZfaqr

Your layout looks great! Lots of character and is a good mix of toy-trains and 1:48 models! Really cool.

great job on the layout

Really a nice looking layout.

Well done. Thank you.

Great 👍 Layout!!!

Love this!!

Awesome overview of your layout Chris!!!

Very nicely done. Thank you for posting. I also use the Lionel Fastrack system on my layout. I fell in love with those lighted switches when I first saw them. They look far more realistic than the old Lionel switches. Their only drawback as far as I can see is the fussy and often futile method by which they attach to their lighting fixtures. Please keep up your great work.

So cool! Love it!

Very nice train layout!, I really like the design of the layout.

Very nice!

new subscriber! I love this kind of stuff.

First time I see a CLEAN and finished O layout ! (Not from an old guy with a 40years old T-shirt ,,😉) Congrats ! My dad does N scale and I used to do HO but sold it for LEGO trains...

In over sixty years I've seen a ton of layouts. You did a nice job, not cluttering, transitioning in short space. don't feel you need to make excuses or explain why you did what you did, everyone is a critic to one degree or another and in these politically divided times Americans just need to get over it and not feel they need to explain everything. We all differ, so what. M more of a tinplate guy but I like it.

@ 8:00 the big rock candy mountain?.....hehe i know that song!!.......beautiful layout man, who cares if its prototypical or not..That's club mentality.... Your layout, your design, your era of modelling it's all good...We just love trains....period!

great layout

I Love Trains so you're the perfect person to watch I also run a tro so I know it's like to have dreams us know what it's like to break or lose trains it's pretty sad especially when people treat their train like it's their child if they lose their child it's really sad

great vids thank you, keep it up

your channel is fantastic my friend! keep it up :)

i too have an Allegheny, same road name. its a beast nice smooth puller

Wow. You incorporated your fami,y with names into your layout? Awesome, beautiful layout. Thanks for sharing.

Hey Chris, Love your videos, and thank you. I am new to O Scale / O Gauge (first purchase was January 2021 - Polar Express for wife). I have however been in and out of model railroading since 1978 in HO until switching to N scale in 1999, and then back to HO in 2009 and now HO and O. Since moving to Georgia from California in 2020, 2021 was the year I started building again, but small. I built a 4x8 O Gauge Christmas village layout with 2 ovals (very simple) that is displayed for Christmas and put away in storage afterwards (this Christmas being it's 1st year on display). Now I am building a 4x8 O Gauge layout for my son (and Dad too). I am planning on a small wood platform to create a tunnel and a place ontop for some scenery items. The platform I am planning on building with plywood. But I was wondering if you could do a short video on how you built your wooden raised platform section and specifically your retaining wall. I have the tunnel portals and most of the platform figured out how I will build it....but I will admit I am coming up empty on the retaining wall (or least I am not excited about methods I know of such as plaster casting, styrene sheets, etc). I really like the look of what you did and would love some inspiration / guidance on what you did. I really enjoy your layout and videos....I appreciate it and thank you. OK enough rambling from me for now lol.

Great video Chris! I think a great idea would be to add an underground subway.

Well done!

Really enjoyed watching this video! I’m a new subscriber

This channel is amazing hopefully I can start a channel like yours soon!

Nice layout!

Like the layout . Wish I had the room. I wanted to try elevated track but need the right trestle for small elevated teack.

Just awesome. Of course I know better but you just make everything look so easy.

great commentary.

Nice layout! I just subscribed

Love this..

New Sub here.. your channel came up as a one of interest .. I guess I picked a great one to check out. Looking forward to seeing the other videos that you've offered. Thanks for sharing your really great layout.

Nice!!

Love the layout and videos I love the upper level do you have to use half curved track pieces to get it to be over. Thanks

Nice

EXCELLANT

I'm jealous!

Chris, hey David Bonner from the National Capitol Trackers in DC. I would love to see a video where you explain how you built your collection? Are you the type of individual who buys a model because you like it? Or are you the type of person who was influenced by different areas of where you lived. For example my Dad grew up in Montana and I went to college in Helena and fell in love with the railroad history. Stories in my family of riding the Northern Pacific or Milwaukee Road captivated me and I became drawn to that aspect of history. So I snag Milwaukee and NP models when they are cataloged. I also got to railfan the last year of the Burlington Northern. People in my dorm complained about the noise of the trains. (The mainline of the former Northern Pacific ran right behind my dorm in Montana and was not far away) When I heard a train coming there were many times went outside to watch. Even in the middle of snow storms I did that. There was something that melted me. To stand in a heavy snow and see 5 or 6 SD40-2 hooked together breaking through the bad weather and fighting the elements with the lights, and hear the engines while feeling the ground shake. There was nothing like it in the world. Its one of the reasons why I like BN and Montana Rail Link. You have some really nice models and it would be neat to hear the history behind what you collect and why? Keep up the good work! Your other videos I am looking forward to watching.

Awesome layout Chris. The one thing I wish I could do is have a turn around track. But I just don't have the room for it 😕 My layout is complicated as it is lol. Most of the track work is done for the most part now I'm doing sidings and industrial Area & trying to fit this turntable

I admire these layouts-the designs that allow for scenery is something I want, but never really build for. I’ve built numerous HO fiasco’s, but the jump from “design on paper” to laying track always ends with the realization that if had another turnout here, then I could do this…and that would open up this …and the next thing you know, I’m back at the drawing board. I’m on my 2nd O layout.. The first was just slapped together so I could run my trains. Then I designed my around the wall MISC..about a year in the thought was we were moving…so I kept building, with the intent of dismantling the railroad Now, we’re not moving. And I realized in that time frame, I made a major mistake…and it was too big to correct.. So I added my reverse loop to side step it. Now I’m toying with the idea of starting over. Anyway… Does your Railroad have a name? And what are the dimensions? Thanks

giving me ideas for my o guage layout from Britain iam 12 years old well done

Read about your layout in the latest issue of “Classic Toy Trains”. Fantastic layout.

Hi! I have a question. if I have 4 locomotives and more than 25 wagons, adding 21 curved rails of 84, plus 9 straight rails of 1 3/8 plus 21 straight rails of 30 and another 11 straight rails of 10. all of that powered by fastrack power block lock and the GW-180 180 watt transformer, is that energy enough to activate my locomotives and rails?

Considering an indoor layout in this scale you did a great job. I am surprised you can run the big steamers around these tight curves.

I wish I had that kind of layout

Hi Chris! Great looking layout! What radius are you using for your curves? Thanks!

Hey Chris, can your LionChief engines run using the z-4000 transformer or do you only run LionChief on the track powered by the Lionel ZW transformer?

good stuff young man. you have done very well at your age. if i was your neighbor maybe we could run a track from mine to yours. non realistic today but fun to think about. peace

I noticed the western Maryland logo, yea folks that are not a fan of them like them, the "Wild Mary" will live forever

Good day. I enjoy seeing your layout. I have started back working on mine. I have a question. I saw a short clip of the layout design. What did you use to make that? I want to build a control panel with controls over laying schematics. Just a note of my layout. 072 smallest curve,099 largest. All Ross switches and gargrave track. Atlas Turntable. Modified over and under figure 8. And a few more tricks😉.

thanks for the great overview.!!! most folks just show closeups of their layout as if they are afraid to show a overlook view. so, i appreciate it. Also, could you tell what that beautiful engine that looks like a general you are running is? thanks tim

Chris, Where did you get the brick paper? I love the textured look it brings to your layout!

👏🏽👍🏽 Wow

Great layout! Nice town! Will you plan to install Magnorail and achieve auto traffic driving around? It would be a really neat effect.

Hi From England 🇬🇧

Quick question: Your main yard has a few tracks of serious length, but they seem spaced apart a lot. Is that the lead-in switches dictating the spacing? I am planning to have my tracks just a finger thickness apart - wagons about 5/8" apart. Do you see any issues with that?

Just wondering what a good track would be for long runs 10ish ft straight. Thinking about doing a ceiling/shelf track layout but don't wanna break the bank. O gauge. Lionel. I'm finding this is an controversial question. So I thought I'd ask you.