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Steven Douglas
Приєднався 20 лис 2012
I have a strong interest in the time frame of 1900 to 1945--all things Pre War. Love to collect, restore and scratch build or kit-bash std gauge in the tinplate fashion. 99% of the time--what ever you see on the layout will be time related to the P:re War trains and that era.
I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.
I'll be home for Christmas, if only in my dreams.
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Відео
Looking across the pond and thinking back .
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Looking across the pond and thinking back .
Lìonel's 251, the 0 gauge Mini Me 8 doing standard gauge duty.
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Lìonel's 251, the 0 gauge Mini Me 8 doing standard gauge duty.
Holidays madness. Are there no prisons? And the Union work houses? Are they still in operation?
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Holidays madness. Are there no prisons? And the Union work houses? Are they still in operation?
Something just a little bit different.
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Something just a little bit different.
Let's get on Mr Peabody's Wayback Machine and look at some early Lionel.
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Let's get on Mr Peabody's Wayback Machine and look at some early Lionel.
It's a 500 series kind of day, so let's run some.
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It's a 500 series kind of day, so let's run some.
Making a standard gauge wheel puller to replace the one I wore out.
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Making a standard gauge wheel puller to replace the one I wore out.
Fresh from the Corgi Bootleg Production Shops, the Kingsbury Trolley .
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Fresh from the Corgi Bootleg Production Shops, the Kingsbury Trolley .
Running the JAD Lines Hiawatha engine on freight and the trolley snafu.
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Running the JAD Lines Hiawatha engine on freight and the trolley snafu.
A Kingsbury trolley weekend color update.
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A Kingsbury trolley weekend color update.
A Halloween Kingsbury trolley update and pumpkin run.
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A Halloween Kingsbury trolley update and pumpkin run.
Die-cast wheels pressed on, the frame is done, and I see the paint booth on the horizon.
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Die-cast wheels pressed on, the frame is done, and I see the paint booth on the horizon.
Cutting a hole for the trolley headlights.
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Cutting a hole for the trolley headlights.
The Kingsbury trolley body is now bolted to the frame.
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The Kingsbury trolley body is now bolted to the frame.
A Corgi Bootleg Production up date. The Kingsbury trolley body is at the mounting stage.
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A Corgi Bootleg Production up date. The Kingsbury trolley body is at the mounting stage.
Kingsbury trolley. Pick-up added to the running gear. Next, get the body mounted.
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Kingsbury trolley. Pick-up added to the running gear. Next, get the body mounted.
The Kingsbury trolley now has a motorized frame.
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The Kingsbury trolley now has a motorized frame.
Creating a power frame for the Kingsbury trolley.
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Creating a power frame for the Kingsbury trolley.
A unit I put together to break in the gears.
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A unit I put together to break in the gears.
We're calling it 99% done. Move on, nothing more to see here.
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We're calling it 99% done. Move on, nothing more to see here.
September 10, 2024. From the make-believe world of trains to the real world of trains. Big Boy.
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September 10, 2024. From the make-believe world of trains to the real world of trains. Big Boy.
Run Forrest run!! Another glorious day in the service of the Empire
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Run Forrest run!! Another glorious day in the service of the Empire
More power Mr. Scott!! Aye Captain, warp speed.
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More power Mr. Scott!! Aye Captain, warp speed.
Merry Christmas Love the info
You are one helluvah human being Steven. Continue to have a beautiful life. Buon Natale.
@angeloavanti2538 Well, thank you for the kind words. I'm no different than anyone else. We've all got a story to tell and knowledge to share. I like to share what I know, and if it helps answer a question or solve a problem for someone else, so much the better. I'm just a guy looking for that light at the end of the tunnel, and I'm hoping it's not an on coming train.😊
@stevendouglas6594 🖖
Thank you for welcoming us to your beautiful home and giving the full tour. A true piece of paradise with many wonderful memories for sure. I have a similar American Flyer set unfortunately not yet running. God bless. Paul
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Marx guy here, enjoyed visiting your home, and your narration. MERRY CHRISTMAS and NEW YEAR. GOD BLESS.
Merry Christmas! I never gave a bit of thought to east coast home design or features. Your home is wonderful and absolutely nails the look and feel.
I'm an old Boston boy now retired and residing in Maine. Your home and your hobbies are spectacular. 👍🎄
Maine's a great place to retire. I've been there and it's beautiful. .
Thanks for sharing. Our first home here in southern New Jersey was a cape cod style home. We too we’re influenced by colonial architecture. You have a beautiful home. It was nice to hear how your wife helped you realize your potential. I feel the same about my wife. Have a very Merry Christmas. Christmas blessings.
God Bless, a Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year as well! Great layout! Love the house!
Great video. Have a happy Holidays.
fabulous steven
Nicely done. Great idea.
Any ancestors from Oklahoma?
Not that I know of--how ever---two weeks ago I was in Bartlesville OK at Woolaoc to see the Christmas lights and the buffalo---I've been there before. My people being Scots came in from the East and up through the south--some were slave owners, some weren't, some fought for the South, some the North and some just kept score. Any connection with OK is though Lonesome Dove ---Fort Smith and Indian Territory ---and a friend in Mountainburg AR. If I'm in Fort Smith around Christmas I always go to the Fort Smith National Cemetery after they decorate the graves for Christmas ---this I missed as they did that the day before I came back to Illinois, the most corrupt and bankrupt State in the Union.but I did go to the Fort Smith Symphony Christmas concert. -- outstanding as always.
@stevendouglas6594 Also Scot linage. Grandma once said similar things as you stated Wish I wrote it down . She said out line went back to Tom Benton, a rather bar brawling Senator and his daughter married Charles Fremont who may have been the first senator of California and is probably rolling in his grave. Trying to remember names of grandmas siblings, shed buried in Okaloosa, KS Alice Faye Douglas / Finley. If your at all interested in your roots Find A Grave, sometimes helps and look in the Surname search for Scotland ours is pretty wild. Our ancestor on Scotland are traced to a king and they are still pissy about it today.as it's the infamous Macbeth drama and the name was dropped and things were probably changed to Ferguson
Thanks for the tips! Ingenious way to make multiple use track, excellent video. 💯
Thank you for the helpful video.
I thought I remembered you had explained it before. And you did: it is in the oldest video on your channel 11 years ago!! It was time for an update 😂 Anyway, very clever way to produce the 5 rail track and the 1 gauge track. Merry Christmas in advance! 🎄⭐️
And Merry Christmas to you---or as the say on the BBC production of----A Childs Christmas in Wales ---By Dylan Thomas ---Happy Christmas---I have the DVD and at least two of the books illustrated by different artists------
From across that same big pond I enjoyed this video and the personal history and your memories of these JEP and Hornby trains. I have some myself and recognize post war Hornby motors do indeed draw a lot of current. The Hornby motors are not the best quality (side plates of the frame are attached with cheap tab and slot connections, this soon can cause play and the motor then runs crooked, sometimes even so that it sticks against the field magnets. You can also take the motor only a few times apart, as the tabs brake loose). JEP's are always smooth runners.
Shoee....Doggy, Merry Christmas and the Happiest Ever New Year.
Where did you get the 5 rail track? I would love to be able run my STD gauge more often.
I made the 5 rail--Gargraves makes 5 rail but you have to bend your own curves.
Your films are always a treat to view. Interesting and enjoyable. Thank You 👍🎄 p.s. I also graduated in '68...it was another world. 😃
Awesome story, great looking Europeans!
Hope you enjoyed your trip to Chicago on Amtrak. Amtrak was my employer for just shy of 35 years. Will you speak again on your dual gauge track. Is there anyone that manufacturers 5 rail tubular track? I enjoy your videos and story’s Thank you Merry Christmas 🎄 Alfred
Our trip up and back was great--my brother retired from the UP, he did Metro up in Chicago--he started out as freight with the C&NW which the UP bought. No--there is no one who makes or sells 5 rail tinplate track but Gar-graves makes 5 rail but you have to bend it to get the curve you want. I'll try to put together a short video on it---it's easy to do. The hard thing now is to find 0 gauge ties---USA track sold the ties to build 5 rail but now that source has dried up and they don't have any.
Really fun running O pulling standard. Next, get that 256E on the track, it's an honorary standard gauge engine (others have done the conversion)
LOL---I was kind of hopping you'd do one first and I'd copy it.----I bought the 256 with that idea in mind.
Awesome looking 251's, perfectly paired with the Standard freight cars. I get loose lights inside passenger cars all the time. Thanks for the video!
Fantastic display on your layout!!! Great vid!!! Keep doing more of this subject. Very rare up here in the Pacific Northwest!!
These 251's are great looking locomotives. Love the Dutch Cleanser boxcar. Have a good time at the Christmas market! (any trainhunting on the market, or just christmas stuff? )
No train hunting, just Christmas and German food. One .must give the Hun his do. I'm northbound right now on the train. I may have to do a small video on my Postwar JEP and French Hornby one of these days.
Postwar JEP and Hornby sounds good, looking forward to that 👍
Interesting train operation! You have to stay alert with 2 trains on the outer track, especially that early in the morning! 😴
That Standard 390 is a beautiful machine. SHOEE---DOGGY!
Very cool run session, especially that Zephyr! I'm partial to O Gauge. 😉
I love crazy.
Great trains Steven !!
Some very cool stuff, Steve, thanks for showing. Merry Christmas.😊
I can definitely relate to the nostalgia of maintaining and running these old trains. Who owned it, why and how did I end up with it? Another cool consist, thanks for the video! BTW- I have a couple of those 10th Mountain Division Ulsters. 😎👍
If I remember right---they had 3 different styles.
I always enjoy your videos. Keep them coming.
Your Gods curator of this magical layout and zills of attendant stuff. You are one happy geyser and you exude enthusiasm . I am Welsh , 72 and eternally greatfull to Americans who helped us stave off the Hun . Hopefully the so called polititians wont get us batting down Nukes . Thanks and regards to you and your kin. Dave
The times we live in now remind me to much of the early 1930's.
Nadolig Llawen!!!----Be sure to watch the BBC's ----A Child's Christmas in Wales---by Dylan Thomas--I will, I got the DVD many years ago and I'm of Scot heritage, black heart and all ----and thanks for the Long Bow----the English used it with great effect against the French. . 😳
Very nice! It was cold here in Toledo, also. 18 was about the high Thursday and it was 13, when I woke-up at 7:30, this morning. Blah! I really like your multiple gauges, so you can run all of the great trains, from years gone by. I enjoy the trains that you're running in this video. They are just so classic. My only pre-war is a 1931 Winner set and it runs like a top. Because of the season, I've put off most of the work on my layout, although I will still make a video or two. An excellent video, as always.
Very nice! Were these American outline Marklin trains exported back than or had Marklin a factory in America?
Good morning---They would have been made in the German State and exported. I believe, like Bing, Marklin at a later date put stand gauge trucks on the cars as stand gauge by the 20's was the main large gauge train in the States--std gauge killed 1 gauge in America after the Great War.
Magnificent sight, beautiful runner. I did notice that my märklin pre WWI LNWR gauge I with the märklin drop couplers does mate with the Ives with a bit of judicious alignment. It's funny, your great opening shot: that camera angle really shows off how superbly proportioned a 402 is. I actually consider the 402 with its consist as being much nicer than the much vaunted state set, even though I know you're a freight man at heart :)
Well, I have 1 402 and two 408's. The 408 in green with the green cars is one of my favorites. But as all great things--it looks grand pulling freight🙂🙂.
That there Marklin tis a real Eye Poper.
where do you get 5 rail track?
I made it.
Merry Christmas I enjoy your videos
@MartinSBrown-tp9ji Merry Christmas to you Marty.
I love your comments as well as I love "1" gauge !
Good morning from viva Las Vegas! Sounds like you've had a busy travel schedule too. Awesome consist, thanks for the video. 😉👍
I've been there---What happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas. LOL
Much to enjoy , thanks !
I learn from your excellent knowledge of early '2' gauge (Approx.) "Standard Gauge." And to see them running perfectly on your nice layout is in a thrill !
The way you fabricate those parts looks like it came fresh from the factory, I really admire your creativity that's talent!
Thank you.
Santa is NOT the reason for the season and is a creature of man’s imagination via Thomas Nast and others. The incarnation of God into the world (ie. Emmanuel) to die for man’s sins is the reason for the season. You have some nice, old toys which we really appreciate you sharing with us. Don’t plan on taking any of them with you. You may have heard “you can’t take it with you”. Merry Christmas 🎅
I have yet to find a tinplater who did not wish to run his train at breakneck speed. What causes that? Tinplate runs go almost as fast as slot cars, and that means they are hard to see! The freight train with 300 series frt. cars was run at a very enjoyable moderate speed. I really thought your train room was great with many very interesting trains !!
The breakneck speed stems from our---at least mine--- childhood---from the day's of Lincoln logs across the track and Indian's on top---what a thrill it was to see that steam engine running wide open and sending the logs and Indian's into the air. In my case, the layout is about 4 feet off the floor------at 74 and having gained some common sense and still an idiot in other things----the thought of having---The Wreck of the Old 97--- on my layout is this Old Man's nightmare ----while a young boy's dream it, it is not an Old Man's dream with trains that have survived near on 100 years with young boys bent on their destruction along the way.
Where are you at in central il? I am too. Great layout
Wow! So cool! I just saw your channel on my feed and subscribed. I always enjoy seeing the old, pre-war Lionel running. The older Lionel is fascinating and the mix of Standard and O gauge is a real nice set-up. Your information about the trains and the years that they were produced, is a nice touch. My oldest Lionel is a 1931 Winner set and it still runs like a top. It is basically an on/off switch and has just takes-off, but it goes around my wide curves, with no problem. I like the design of your layout, as it is similar to mine, as far as it being an L. It is the way a classic Lionel layout should be. Mine is a 24x18 L, with three mains and mostly post-war Lionel and AMT passenger cars, along with some Marx. I like the modern freight cars, though, as they actually roll easily and don't require so much amperage to run. I like running my trains like I did when I was a kid and the way I designed the set-up accommodates that perfectly. It is still a work-in-progress, but the mains are in service, so I can enjoy running, while I work on the layout.. If you'd like, tap on the cat and it will take you to my channel, Chooch's Trains. The videos will take you through the evolution of the layout, with all of the updates in its design. I'll be catching-up with all of your videos, during the next few weeks and it should be fun. An excellent video, for sure.