Thanks for sharing your video of this HO layout and the other information. I grew Up in Chicago and have visited the museum many times. I remember the old Lionel O Guage layout which previously operated within the museum. Appreciate your details presented.
I’m from Chicago and I didn’t even know some of the history you shared! I too model Ho scale trains Mainly UP C&NW and BNSF. Glad you enjoyed your visit a few years back
We really got a kick out of Chicago! Read heard so many horror stories, when we got there we found it was just like any big city. Except this one has the lake. And a really awesome museum. And an incredible railroad museum, all the list goes on and on
Thank you for your video and I am glad you had a great experience. I worked at MSI for 23 years as an Electronic Technician. I takes a great team of individuals and the organization as a whole to make those experiences possible every day. Please come back!
Thank you for another excellent video. As a suburban Chicago kid in the 1950's, I visited this place many times. Mom had to pry me away from the magnificent "Museum and Santa Fe" O scale layout that occupied 50 by 60 feet. Viewing it from the balcony was mesmerizing. It's a shame it couldn't be saved. It was built pretty much by one man, Minton Cronkhite, who was an excellent scratch-build train guy. Circa 1940, when it began, it had steam trains. When I saw it as a kid, it had only two trains running on a double track convoluted figure eight: a spectacular AT&SF stream-liner and an almost equally cool freight train. Twenty years ago, I saw the HO version. I suppose if you had never seen the old layout, nostalgia would not kick in and you would love it, but shucks, I couldn't do that, although I appreciated the new one, too. It has many fine features, but once you've seen the real Super Chief in person during its glory days, well, you know what I mean.Thanks again. This was really fun to watch.
@@ToyManTelevision Yeah, that's really too bad. You may be able to relate to the fact that we took only a few photographs back then unless it was vacation or wedding time. Now, I'd have at least 1,000 pics of the new layout! They've made some nice changes to it during its 20 year life span.
@@ToyManTelevision Oh man, yeah. My digital cameras paid for themselves in film and processing costs, and now the phone does it all just as well. Crazy.😄
I have no words to describe this goliath of a museum. The HO train and City of Chicago exhibit is truly a Modern Marvel! It took me two full days to see the entire museum...and even then I had to "keep moving with my camera."
I'm from Chicago,, and have been to the museum many times in the 70's. I see it's changed a lot from watching your video. Thanks again, you two are great !
We love Chicago. The criticism is justified but let’s hear the praise too. Our faves are Chicago, San Francisco and Portland or. Oh and I guess Manhattan. But Chicago is amazing!!
The best thing about the model layout of Chicago is when you climb up to the next level where the actual passenger jet is housed. You can look down past the jet and the model looks like it is in perfect scale for 10,000 feet down. It is a truly masterful job. Like you said most of the model is not track, which makes it fairly unique and more realistic.
I loved the O-scale railroad that was there in the 196-0s and 60s. I think it was funded by the Santa Fe Railroad with freight and passenger trains running. Scenery features included the Grand Canyon, orange groves, a detailed steel mill and, if you were really lucky to be there on a day they OPERATED the railroad, a working hump yard with actual operating retarders. There isn't very much information on what happened to that model railroad and only one or two pictures can be found inline. It was wonderful! I visited it as a little boy many times - my grandmother would take me.
Having grown up in the part of the country.I been to the Museum many,many times.The layout is pretty new.The old layout was in o gauge maintained by the Santa Fe railroad.In the 50's when I was a little kid they ran steam engines.No computers in those days they ran it with block signals.Coal mine used to scare me.My have to take a road trip, live in Fla. now.Thanks for the video,brought back many memories.
You would have loved the original O-scale model railroad. Only a couple of pictures are on the Internet. My grandmother took me often to visit that layout which, incidentally in addition to other features, had an operating hump yard with working retarders!
Dale, I'm so glad you and your wife visited the Museum of Science and Industry, and I hope you'll come back again so that you can stay for an extended time to see the whole, entire thing. There are a couple of other places in the general area you should see, too. One, is Railroad Park in Rochelle, IL. That's where the UP and BNSF railroads cross the diamond. They have a pavilion situated between the two lines, and it's a great place to take pictures! The other place you should see, and maybe heard of, is the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) located in Union, IL. It's the largest railway museum in the country. I go there with some friends about three times each year. I was just there yesterday, in fact. Admission is $14 for adults, and $12 for Senior Citizens. Those prices allow you to ride on the trains, trolleys, electric buses and trains they have running on certain days during your visit. Look it up on Google, and you can see many pictures of this fabulous museum! They have many barns where old executive rail cars, locomotives (steam and diesel) are kept, and a LOT of wonderful railroad memorabilia all over the place!
Just a little update on the exhibition. One of the reasons It was white was that it was a Major Open house for electric lighting. It was also just what Nicola Tesla need to prove that AC current was better that Edison's DC system. At the time it was the largest usage of electric lighting. Just imagine an all white city with all of those classical structures, rides, fountains, huge statues, and streets kit with the old unfrosted bulbs. Also Tesla made his own lights as Edison would have nothing to do with it.
Back in the 1960s when I was a student at the Dixon Elementary School on Chicago's south side MSI's railroad was either S gauge or O gauge [I am uncertain which]. I have to go back and visit.
Eugene King hi. It was o scale. I think it was built fir the railroad fair and then moved there. Anyway it was old and they wanted to start over in HO. Shame they didn’t keep parts on display.
I would like to point out that this HO layout replaced a long running O gauge layout sponsored by the Santa Fe ( later BNSF). I marveled at this train set as a child and young man. All the locomotives and rolling stock were hand made. The engines were so unique that when they finally ran themselves worn, they could not be repaired because the parts were not available. I miss it very much, the HO stuff just doesn't do it for me because you know the trains are store bought.
Been there, done that. Toured the U-505 several times when it was kept outside. Also been through the faux coal mine. Back in the day, admission to the Museum was free. I continued to have weird dreams about the Museum into my mid-50's.
Wow, what a nice tour! I visited Chicago and I went to the Field's Museum, the Aquarium, the Planetarium, the Art Institute of Chicago, the main library and a wonderful mansion that belonged to a wealthy family that has been turned into a museum [can't remember the name], but I missed this museum and I dare say, this is the best! I have to go back to see this!
Well done! A nostalgic journey for me, as I grew up in Chicago, and first saw the museum, sub, and layout in 1959, when I was nine years old! 🤓 Many thanks!
Your near my home town here, I've been to MSI a number of times when I was younger. They always has a number of cool exhibits, it's even more crazy in the winter, where the museum does "Christmas Around the World" displaying Christmas trees for many different cultures from various places around the world.
Sorry - I have to butt in here with my 2 cents. The building you have highlighted at 2:41 is NOT the Palace of Fine Arts. The PofFA is further north. See the last little body of water to the right of the picture? Just to the right of that is the Palace. It is at an East/West orientation to that pond. Also, the 1933 fair was laid out closer to downtown Chicago, not in Jackson Park. It was in the area of the Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium. All in all, you have done a great job filming this, and your narrator's voice is excellent.
Great video! Me and the wife are planing on taking the southwest chief to Chicago from Los Angeles next year, we are definitely going to go to the museum now! We enjoy watchIng your videos!
COOL!!! We are taking the California Zephyr to Denver soon. Shoot a bunch there. Perhaps a stay over at Glenwood Springs. Love riding the rails. Do check the Museum!! WOW!!!
This museum is so far south of down town Chicago and museum row, that many people miss is. Yes, the Field Museum, Shed Aquarium, Planetarium, Grant Park, Millennium Park, etcetera are all interesting, but the Museum of Science and Industry has always been my favorite place to go since I was a little boy in the forties and fifties. The Illinois Railway Museum is a long way west of the city but it is a great place to go. With my interest in everything railroad (especially steam), I find it captivating! I think you will too.
Yes WOW. We fell in love with Chicago while we were there. But the museums!!!!! Best ever!! Except perhaps Washington DC. Missed most of this museum in spite of spending the whole day there. Same at the railroad museum. Stayed until we were kicked out. Saw perhaps 30% of it. Ue need to get back!!
New subscriber here. I remember seeing this layout with my folks in the Summer of 1963. It has changed with the times, of course. Back then it was almost all Santa Fe, a bit less "urbanized," and had a definite Far Western Horizons flavor. But today they've done a good job showcasing BNSF to Seattle, with a good nod to UP as well. Glad to see they brought the U-505 indoors, and gave it such a dramatic display. The coal mine exhibit looks unchanged, which is as it should be. Thanks much for sharing this video!
Hello!! I hear the layout was rebuilt totally like 10 years ago because the old one was just falling apart. Whatever, this is amazing!!! HO scale 100 story buildings like 12 feet tall!!!! WOW!!!!!!
The original O gauge represented the SF system from Chicago to the West coast, and the city had a small downtown. The SF was known for West ergo, the War Bonnet paint scheme.
Toy man and wife. Thank you for the video. its good to see they add some suburban landscap. The next time your in town you must check out Beverly Shores. I can't recall the year, but there are houses that were barged over to the coast. many of them are being restored. Its a great trip to make. The lake looks fantastic. Especially with the the vintage houses. thanks again guys your great.
So much we missed. The entire Space Center!! And they make 60 foot tall tornados in one area!! Missed most of that, just saw the twisters coming down a hall! Guess we just need to get back there!!
Come by but I may hand you a paint brush! (kidding) But we are so up to our buts with Garagemahall. BUt BOY is it looking good. We will have an open house at some point. First we need a layout!
Well, I meant I would like to visit the museum as I live in southern Illinois, but am fairly disabled with arthritis. I would be honored to meet you and Karyn, but I really am not that forward of a person. Keep bringing great video to us as I really enjoy each post. Wish the both of you a great future!
Another interesting Vid by you . Thanks . I bought the Great Train story DVD when they first did it, but its nice to see some of the other exhibits. Les
Did you get a chance to walk through the U-505? Do they still ALLOW walk throughs? And if there is ANYTHING I miss about Chicago, it's two things: (1) Really great sausages, and (2) The Museum of Science and Industry!!!
Yup. Have a follow up vid. Could not shoot much in there but did. I think. All a blur... but you need to get there at opening and get in the list and pay like $30 extra. Fills up in about an hour.
@Toy Man Television, good stuff here--and I especially appreciate your positive attitude and insightful commentary. As an aside, the last time I saw U-505 was either 1959 before my father was assigned to MAAG Taiwan or 1961 when we returned to the States. Thank you! Subscribed--and not only for the trains.
Hello Mr. toyman, G I wish I knew you were here three years ago I would love to meet you go out to for lunch or something because I live in the suburbs of Chicago and Villa Park Illinois. Anyway enjoy your videos and be safe out there on the highway take care
Hi! We did fall in love with Chicago. At first we were a bit afraid because of the news but it’s really just like most big cities. But full of treasures
Great video. Love the reference to the Blues Brothers. The last time I was at this museum, was when they still had the old O scale Santa Fe layout. That was back in '88 or '89. Loved the video.
There was another German Untersee Boot exhibited in Chicago. This was after or at the end of WWI. When they were done with it they towed out onto Lake Michigan for Naval Reserve gunnery practice. It's still out there
Wow!! Sort of sad. Down at the studio Bryan who owns the rental equipment has an old trailer that has the Diesel engine from a U boat in it. The generator is used to create power to run movie lights. Or should I say it was it hasn’t been used since about 1976. Down there just is sort of a relic now but it was used on a lot of really famous movies including catch 22.
As I sit here drinking Micky-D coffee I must agree. But dang I wish we were in Seattle right now. OK Seattle joke: The TV news helicopter gets lost in the fog (happens) and the pilot slowly brings the craft toward the ground looking for any landmark when he see a glass building right in front of him. The TV reporter writes on his clipboard in huge letters "WHERE ARE WE?" A guy in the building holds up a sign the says in huge letters "IN A HELICOPTER". The pilot flies to the airport and lands. Seeing that the information was 100% accurate yet 100% useless he knew he was at Microsoft.
I went here when I was a little kid, it is quite a good place to go, it’s a great place to go even if your not interested in model trains, or real ones for that matter
Nice tour guys! I was there July last year, spent the whole day there but could easily go back for another look! I was speaking to one of the guys who runs the layout, would you believe it is DC only, too much drama with DCC and decoders in all the locos. He said they manly use Kato and Atlas for reliability , with some Athearn thrown in and the locos do some amazing miles and don't last very long at all, even with regular maintenance and repairs!! I wonder where all the used ones go?????? would be some nice bodies out there..LOL Chicago was a bit daunting for an Aussie from a small city, but I loved it and would gladly go back for some in depth rail fanning! Thanks for the trip down memory lane. Cheers Gregg.
GuDay Mate! Right what a place!!!!! We missed the whole thing I think. Need to get back. And SOON. Didn't even ride the EL. And missed the Space Center in the Museum. AND the display on the Ferris Wheel!!!!!! Just no time!
L&MR Rocket was not just famous for the Railhill Trials. The locomotive incorporated 'new' engineering techniques to locomotives in 1830, which then became the mainstay of locomotive designs for the following 100+ years. Including; multitube boiler, exhaust blast pipe to help the fire burn and articulated motion. Engine was quicker, more powerful, and economic. Free steaming and could be prepared in quicker time. It was a prototype designed to win a competition. Within a month it was obsolete and sold to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway following several modifications. The original is now at home in the Science Museum, Kensington, London.
Good info!! Don't know much about it, loved it in the Keaton film. And built serval models of it. Planning another in 1/24 scale soon! Pair it with a trevwick.
From wikipedia....... The museum had an earlier model railroad layout, dating back to the early 1940s when Minton Cronkhite built the original Museum and Santa Fe Railway; a 2,340-square-foot (217 m2) layout in O scale.[1] This layout had over 1,000 feet (300 m) of track and over 20,000 hand-laid ties. The project was financed with a $58,000 grant from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. Cronkhite began construction in 1939 and the exhibit made its public debut in January 1941. Much of the rolling stock and locomotives were hand built from scratch by Cronkhite using original Santa Fe plans. It featured Santa Fe’s southwestern freight and passenger operations, including a depiction of the Grand Canyon and quickly became a favorite with children and adults visiting the museum. In 1953 Central Locomotive Works owner Bob Smith rebuilt the layout in O scale and added several diesel locomotives. It was updated again in 1988 during a year-long effort once again financed by Santa Fe. Santa Fe transferred ownership of the layout to the Museum in the early 1990s. Wear and tear from six decades of continuous daily use gradually took its toll, and by the time of its demise the layout had only a couple of operating loops. The Museum and Santa Fe Railway was closed in May 2002.[2] That summer, the exhibit's surviving items - several original buildings, rolling stock (both used and surplus), and pieces of scale scenery - were placed into forty lots and sold in an eBay auction. The auction generated over $21,500 for MSI.
YES, YES, I loved that layout. First saw it in the early '50s. during a grammar school outing. To a young kid. it was bigger than life, and in O gage all the more so. In my '70s now and that is a fond memory.
I'm so glad you wrote this, for those of us in our senior years. A trip from our suburban home to the museum was always a thrill when I was a kid, and mom had to almost drag me away from that magnificent 50 by 60 foot Museum and Santa Fe layout with its Super Chief streamliner (red and silver warbonnet diesels and fluted side cars) and modern for its time Santa Fe freight train, snaking around the enormous double tracked main line at scale speed, passing each other at different places each time they met. Fun! I was heartbroken when I heard it had been torn down. Visited the HO railroad in 2003, on a day when bugs were being worked out. Only a few trains were running and they were derailing often. Looks like they've worked out the kinks now. I've heard that the mayor of Chicago never liked the old layout because it didn't include the city. The new one sure does, and its structures and mountains and farm fields are, I hate to admit, far superior to the old O scale pike, but that one remains in my heart as a wonderful childhood memory and as a big factor in my life-long love of real and model trains. Thanks again for posting.
If you guys ever are in N.C. You have to go to the transportation museum in spencer N.C. And little Choo Choo shops right across from it. It's unbelievable and words cant express how Awsome it is
I saw that back in December 1991AD I also loved the collection of Star Fleet Starships (Not sure if this is still present) I think I watched the HO Scale railroad for hours hehehe if you are in Chicago please do go to the Museum of Science and Industry (Also be sure to take in ALL of Chicago's Museums including the Natural History Museum (??? Not sure if this is the correct name) there are exhibits for everyone. (I loved the Submarine but when I was there she was still located outside) Nice channel too
The Will County Model Railroad club which my dad is a member of volunteered to build some of the smaller buildings and structures along with some of the other Chicago Land area model railroad clubs. Also there is another Burlington Zephyr train set that is preserved in operating condition at the Illinois Railway Museum which was featured in the movie A League Of Their Own about the Rockford Peaches and the women's baseball league during WW2 that lasted all the way to the 1950s. I live in Rockford Illinois not too far from the Rockford Peaches old baseball park which some of it was preserved and is in the process of being restored. BNSF offered to restore the Zephyr train set that is at the Illinois Railway Museum and operated it on the BNSF from Chicago to Nebraska and back. =^.^=
Chicago is called the Second City not because of its size relative to New York but because A.J. Liebling coined the phrase in a series of articles in the New Yorker.
Great video, Jack and Elwood were cool (only a certain bossa nova background music was missing). This museum seems excellent, the U-Boot is well presented. But it didn't seems less spacious than the more modern Japanese sub I have visited. The HO layout is indeed huge, must be fun to program all these trains.
I like to run the trains. But computer control is amazing!! This layout has sort of both. When the train stopes in the station, you can take control and pull it out. Sometimes. The computer has the last word as it needs to to keep things working. But some control by the visitors.
The Great Train Story is electro-mechanical, using voltage sensing relays. It does NOT my friend us computers! The humans running it have the last word!
I like that model of downtown Chicago. It could be used for a stop-action remake of "Battle of the Gargantuas". Capsule review of the original: "Two gargantuas meet and engage in destructive battle." Best capsule review ever (of the 1970's film "Swept Away"): "Two obnoxious people, one rich and one poor, are marooned on a deserted isle." Never seen in print though. I wrote it myself. No wonder I think it is the best, that and the fact that it probably is.
Very detailed informative video. Thanks. One correction: the wheel was never sent to Paris. In fact the Paris World’s Fair happened in 1889 years before the wheel was constructed. However, after the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, the wheel was setup again in Chicago at Clark and Wrightwood in 1895. It was finally installed at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 where it was subsequently demolished after that fair.
As much as I want the 999 to be the first, Flying Scotsman has proof, which to me disclaims both 999 and city of Truro. Great video by the way, especially u-505
I love the 999. Great model of it in our lagoon show. Er, pioneer village at lagoon, which is to say the railroads of John young shows... anyway lagoon park built a 12 inch gauge model as a park ride in about 1910 or so. Still there but they tore out the track in about 1990.
I just fell in love with you two and your style, panache and extraordinary knack for sharing enthusiasm! 😂🍀❤️🌹 Oh, did I mention the surplus humor? You had me in stitches - stitches I tell you! You might ask a huge commission from the museum. I doubt they'll ever get better promotion than yours...
We used to hitch-hike all the way from Minneapolis to visit these museums in the early1960s!
What a time!
Thanks for sharing your video of this HO layout and the other information. I grew Up in Chicago and have visited the museum many times. I remember the old Lionel O Guage layout which previously operated within the museum. Appreciate your details presented.
That old layout is legend.
The museum of Science and Industry is tres neat! So cool! You did a neat job! So good and like you said you couldn’t see all of it in one day.
Love that city and that museum!
Awesome...visited Chicago in 2013..loved it..awesome..
Had no idea about this Museum. Loved the Chicago display
Amazing right?
I’m from Chicago and I didn’t even know some of the history you shared! I too model Ho scale trains Mainly UP C&NW and BNSF. Glad you enjoyed your visit a few years back
We really got a kick out of Chicago! Read heard so many horror stories, when we got there we found it was just like any big city. Except this one has the lake. And a really awesome museum. And an incredible railroad museum, all the list goes on and on
Thank you for your video and I am glad you had a great experience. I worked at MSI for 23 years as an Electronic Technician. I takes a great team of individuals and the organization as a whole to make those experiences possible every day. Please come back!
thank you for unlocking forgotten memories of that museum
Love this place.
Thank you for another excellent video. As a suburban Chicago kid in the 1950's, I visited this place many times. Mom had to pry me away from the magnificent "Museum and Santa Fe" O scale layout that occupied 50 by 60 feet. Viewing it from the balcony was mesmerizing. It's a shame it couldn't be saved. It was built pretty much by one man, Minton Cronkhite, who was an excellent scratch-build train guy. Circa 1940, when it began, it had steam trains. When I saw it as a kid, it had only two trains running on a double track convoluted figure eight: a spectacular AT&SF stream-liner and an almost equally cool freight train. Twenty years ago, I saw the HO version. I suppose if you had never seen the old layout, nostalgia would not kick in and you would love it, but shucks, I couldn't do that, although I appreciated the new one, too. It has many fine features, but once you've seen the real Super Chief in person during its glory days, well, you know what I mean.Thanks again. This was really fun to watch.
I’ve heard so many good stories about that. And seen a bit of “video”. (Mostly film). 🎥. Geeee
@@ToyManTelevision Yeah, that's really too bad. You may be able to relate to the fact that we took only a few photographs back then unless it was vacation or wedding time. Now, I'd have at least 1,000 pics of the new layout! They've made some nice changes to it during its 20 year life span.
@@gmaneis it was so expensive back then. About $.10 a photo. Or about $.90 in today’s money. And gee. I want to take like 100 photos!
@@ToyManTelevision Oh man, yeah. My digital cameras paid for themselves in film and processing costs, and now the phone does it all just as well. Crazy.😄
Fantastic video
I loved it
Thank you for posting
Have a wonderful day today
Thank you! You too!
Great Layout!!
That it is.
If I come to Chicago I'll definitely visit that museum but it's a long way from Melbourne Australia.
OMG Nothing has changed since I was there in 1994! I remember getting a little Space Shuttle out of that Mold-O-Rama.
What a great educational video.Thanks for posting.
I have no words to describe this goliath of a museum. The HO train and City of Chicago exhibit is truly a Modern Marvel! It took me two full days to see the entire museum...and even then I had to "keep moving with my camera."
We missed most of it. Need to go back!
I'm from Chicago,, and have been to the museum many times in the 70's. I see it's changed a lot from watching your video. Thanks again, you two are great !
We love Chicago. The criticism is justified but let’s hear the praise too. Our faves are Chicago, San Francisco and Portland or. Oh and I guess Manhattan. But Chicago is amazing!!
The best thing about the model layout of Chicago is when you climb up to the next level where the actual passenger jet is housed. You can look down past the jet and the model looks like it is in perfect scale for 10,000 feet down.
It is a truly masterful job. Like you said most of the model is not track, which makes it fairly unique and more realistic.
I loved the O-scale railroad that was there in the 196-0s and 60s. I think it was funded by the Santa Fe Railroad with freight and passenger trains running. Scenery features included the Grand Canyon, orange groves, a detailed steel mill and, if you were really lucky to be there on a day they OPERATED the railroad, a working hump yard with actual operating retarders. There isn't very much information on what happened to that model railroad and only one or two pictures can be found inline. It was wonderful! I visited it as a little boy many times - my grandmother would take me.
Having grown up in the part of the country.I been to the Museum many,many times.The layout is pretty new.The old layout was in o gauge maintained by the Santa Fe railroad.In the 50's when I was a little kid they ran steam engines.No computers in those days they ran it with block signals.Coal mine used to scare me.My have to take a road trip, live in Fla. now.Thanks for the video,brought back many memories.
Your post was blocked for no reason... (sigh) FIXED. What a fun place!! Need to get back!!
Right--that is also my memory of the O gauge original from when I was a kid!
then we would go home and fire up the Lionel on the 4X8 plywood.big fun.
Fixed again. Never can figure out the Google Robots.
that's nice museum!
The best!! Love Chicago. The good the bad and the ugly. Still just love it!! Go bulls!
A credit to the people who actually built this layout and other great replicas in this museum.👍
Hello from Kansas 🇺🇸
Really Really Nice!
Holy Cr*p!
As Harry Cary would say!
Once again what a video you spare no stops LOL thanks for sharing as always. 🙂Thomas over at The Model Hobbyist
Thanks again. And hi again.
Great train set. Love the submarine
This is now on our top 10 list of places. They could sign us up for an annual visit.
You would have loved the original O-scale model railroad. Only a couple of pictures are on the Internet. My grandmother took me often to visit that layout which, incidentally in addition to other features, had an operating hump yard with working retarders!
I hear it was amazing. But so is the HO. But still sad to loose a railroad.
This is the best railroad display I have ever seen! GOOD JOB!
Right!!!???? Those sky scrapers!!!!!!!
you know the layout is old when it still has the pre-earthquake waterfront of seattle
Saw this in person and it is amazing.
The idea that someone has modeled 1000 foot buildings in 1/87 scale is just amazing!! Like 11 to 12 feet tall!!!!
Dale, I'm so glad you and your wife visited the Museum of Science and Industry, and I hope you'll come back again so that you can stay for an extended time to see the whole, entire thing. There are a couple of other places in the general area you should see, too. One, is Railroad Park in Rochelle, IL. That's where the UP and BNSF railroads cross the diamond. They have a pavilion situated between the two lines, and it's a great place to take pictures! The other place you should see, and maybe heard of, is the Illinois Railway Museum (IRM) located in Union, IL. It's the largest railway museum in the country. I go there with some friends about three times each year. I was just there yesterday, in fact. Admission is $14 for adults, and $12 for Senior Citizens. Those prices allow you to ride on the trains, trolleys, electric buses and trains they have running on certain days during your visit. Look it up on Google, and you can see many pictures of this fabulous museum! They have many barns where old executive rail cars, locomotives (steam and diesel) are kept, and a LOT of wonderful railroad memorabilia all over the place!
Just a little update on the exhibition.
One of the reasons It was white was that it was a Major Open house for electric lighting.
It was also just what Nicola Tesla need to prove that AC current was better that Edison's DC system.
At the time it was the largest usage of electric lighting. Just imagine an all white city with all of those classical structures, rides, fountains, huge statues, and streets kit with the old unfrosted bulbs.
Also Tesla made his own lights as Edison would have nothing to do with it.
"We're on a mission from God". LOL! Blues Brothers reference.
Some fun with that!!
excellent movie. never gets old
But you aren't Jake
@@mpetersen6 So he must be Elwood, then.
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I always thought The Penguin in the Batman movies should have been Sister Mary Stigmata
Amazing museum and exhibits! Thanks for showing! :) Jack
Hi Jack!! Hope all is well with you guys. What's happening with the sale of you Mustang?
Grew up in the region and its fantastic seeing all the updates to the museum! Thanks
Its incredible!! My brother told me it was amazing. IT IS. WOW.
Back in the 1960s when I was a student at the Dixon Elementary School on Chicago's south side MSI's railroad was either S gauge or O gauge [I am uncertain which]. I have to go back and visit.
Eugene King hi. It was o scale. I think it was built fir the railroad fair and then moved there. Anyway it was old and they wanted to start over in HO. Shame they didn’t keep parts on display.
@@ToyManTelevision I thought it was O scale. Thanks for your reply.
I would like to point out that this HO layout replaced a long running O gauge layout sponsored by the Santa Fe ( later BNSF). I marveled at this train set as a child and young man. All the locomotives and rolling stock were hand made. The engines were so unique that when they finally ran themselves worn, they could not be repaired because the parts were not available. I miss it very much, the HO stuff just doesn't do it for me because you know the trains are store bought.
Yup. It’s still an amazing layout! But the old one is legendary
Been there, done that. Toured the U-505 several times when it was kept outside. Also been through the faux coal mine. Back in the day, admission to the Museum was free. I continued to have weird dreams about the Museum into my mid-50's.
That museum is awesome. Going to haft to make it up there this summer.
See the sub! Sells out, Plan a long day.
This is a wonderfully produced video!
Thanks
Wow, what a nice tour! I visited Chicago and I went to the Field's Museum, the Aquarium, the Planetarium, the Art Institute of Chicago, the main library and a wonderful mansion that belonged to a wealthy family that has been turned into a museum [can't remember the name], but I missed this museum and I dare say, this is the best! I have to go back to see this!
Love Chicago! Wee need to get back!! Missed most of it.
I went to the Chicago Science and Industry Museum just so I could see U-505
It’s great 👍. But sooooo much more. Still it’s worth the trip al by it’s self.
15:15 - Hey, slinky bus!
No Oscar Meyer?
Took my breath away. And you....Toy Man....your video production is top drawer. Glad I found your channel. By accident.
Well done! A nostalgic journey for me, as I grew up in Chicago, and first saw the museum, sub, and layout in 1959, when I was nine years old! 🤓 Many thanks!
Never thought I'd fall in love with Chicago. But......
Your near my home town here, I've been to MSI a number of times when I was younger. They always has a number of cool exhibits, it's even more crazy in the winter, where the museum does "Christmas Around the World" displaying Christmas trees for many different cultures from various places around the world.
Sorry - I have to butt in here with my 2 cents. The building you have highlighted at 2:41 is NOT the Palace of Fine Arts. The PofFA is further north. See the last little body of water to the right of the picture? Just to the right of that is the Palace. It is at an East/West orientation to that pond.
Also, the 1933 fair was laid out closer to downtown Chicago, not in Jackson Park. It was in the area of the Shedd Aquarium and Adler Planetarium.
All in all, you have done a great job filming this, and your narrator's voice is excellent.
Yup. Oops.
Great video! Me and the wife are planing on taking the southwest chief to Chicago from Los Angeles next year, we are definitely going to go to the museum now! We enjoy watchIng your videos!
COOL!!! We are taking the California Zephyr to Denver soon. Shoot a bunch there. Perhaps a stay over at Glenwood Springs. Love riding the rails. Do check the Museum!! WOW!!!
This museum is so far south of down town Chicago and museum row, that many people miss is. Yes, the Field Museum, Shed Aquarium, Planetarium, Grant Park, Millennium Park, etcetera are all interesting, but the Museum of Science and Industry has always been my favorite place to go since I was a little boy in the forties and fifties. The Illinois Railway Museum is a long way west of the city but it is a great place to go. With my interest in everything railroad (especially steam), I find it captivating! I think you will too.
Yes WOW. We fell in love with Chicago while we were there. But the museums!!!!! Best ever!! Except perhaps Washington DC. Missed most of this museum in spite of spending the whole day there. Same at the railroad museum. Stayed until we were kicked out. Saw perhaps 30% of it. Ue need to get back!!
New subscriber here. I remember seeing this layout with my folks in the Summer of 1963. It has changed with the times, of course. Back then it was almost all Santa Fe, a bit less "urbanized," and had a definite Far Western Horizons flavor. But today they've done a good job showcasing BNSF to Seattle, with a good nod to UP as well. Glad to see they brought the U-505 indoors, and gave it such a dramatic display. The coal mine exhibit looks unchanged, which is as it should be. Thanks much for sharing this video!
Hello!! I hear the layout was rebuilt totally like 10 years ago because the old one was just falling apart. Whatever, this is amazing!!! HO scale 100 story buildings like 12 feet tall!!!! WOW!!!!!!
The original O gauge represented the SF system from Chicago to the West coast, and the city had a small downtown. The SF was known for West ergo, the War Bonnet paint scheme.
Correction at 2:34 he points out the wrong building . A little more up and to the right
Toy man and wife. Thank you for the video. its good to see they add some suburban landscap. The next time your in town you must check out Beverly Shores. I can't recall the year, but there are houses that were barged over to the coast. many of them are being restored. Its a great trip to make. The lake looks fantastic. Especially with the the vintage houses. thanks again guys your great.
So darn much to see there!! Never thought I'd fall in love with Chicago. Only been through, first time looking around. WHAT A CITY!!
That museum was incredible! there was so much to see. I was so amazed to see everything that was there!
So much we missed. The entire Space Center!! And they make 60 foot tall tornados in one area!! Missed most of that, just saw the twisters coming down a hall! Guess we just need to get back there!!
+Toy Man Television yeah that would be cool to see more
Went there while in BOOTCAMP. It's one of the best I've ever been to.
It’s an amazing museum and that layout!!!! Geeeeezzzzz.
Excellent video!
Thanks! We had a ball doing it too.
Coming from someone who watches ALOT of youtube videos, your videos have an awesome charm to them. You're informative as well as funny. Keep it up
Good to see Long-Airdox mentioned in the coal mine! I used to work for them. Thanks again for another awesome video
Great old exhibit!
Dale, enjoyed this video very much. I would love to visit. I think you and Karyn looked pretty spiffy.
Come by but I may hand you a paint brush! (kidding) But we are so up to our buts with Garagemahall. BUt BOY is it looking good. We will have an open house at some point. First we need a layout!
Well, I meant I would like to visit the museum as I live in southern Illinois, but am fairly disabled with arthritis. I would be honored to meet you and Karyn, but I really am not that forward of a person.
Keep bringing great video to us as I really enjoy each post. Wish the both of you a great future!
Thanks. Keep the pain down and sprits high.
I am quite impressed by the quality of your videos. Very well made!
Thanks! We love making them too
Another interesting Vid by you . Thanks . I bought the Great Train story DVD when they first did it, but its nice to see some of the other exhibits. Les
Love this layout. The size of these buildings!!!!!!
The DVD explains how they made them
Need to get that. Made some tall buildings for a WEB site years ago. But about 3 feet tall. These. !!!!!!
Did you get a chance to walk through the U-505? Do they still ALLOW walk throughs? And if there is ANYTHING I miss about Chicago, it's two things: (1) Really great sausages, and (2) The Museum of Science and Industry!!!
Yup. Have a follow up vid. Could not shoot much in there but did. I think. All a blur... but you need to get there at opening and get in the list and pay like $30 extra. Fills up in about an hour.
@Toy Man Television, good stuff here--and I especially appreciate your positive attitude and insightful commentary. As an aside, the last time I saw U-505 was either 1959 before my father was assigned to MAAG Taiwan or 1961 when we returned to the States. Thank you! Subscribed--and not only for the trains.
We love these old memories. When you get right down to it it’s all you really have. Everything else works only to enhance or add to those memories.
Hello Mr. toyman, G I wish I knew you were here three years ago I would love to meet you go out to for lunch or something because I live in the suburbs of Chicago and Villa Park Illinois. Anyway enjoy your videos and be safe out there on the highway take care
Hi! We did fall in love with Chicago. At first we were a bit afraid because of the news but it’s really just like most big cities. But full of treasures
Great video. Love the reference to the Blues Brothers. The last time I was at this museum, was when they still had the old O scale Santa Fe layout. That was back in '88 or '89. Loved the video.
The HO is SO HUGE. Love the 15 foot skyscrapers.
There was another German Untersee Boot exhibited in Chicago. This was after or at the end of WWI. When they were done with it they towed out onto Lake Michigan for Naval Reserve gunnery practice. It's still out there
Wow!! Sort of sad. Down at the studio Bryan who owns the rental equipment has an old trailer that has the Diesel engine from a U boat in it. The generator is used to create power to run movie lights. Or should I say it was it hasn’t been used since about 1976. Down there just is sort of a relic now but it was used on a lot of really famous movies including catch 22.
You guys are dorks! Ha!
Thx for another fun video.
Marty
Yup. Love being a Dork too. No one questions playing with toys by old people. Normal Dork stuff.
Im in Seattle. If the display has a coffee shop on every other corner (preferably not Starbucks) it works for me.
As I sit here drinking Micky-D coffee I must agree. But dang I wish we were in Seattle right now. OK Seattle joke: The TV news helicopter gets lost in the fog (happens) and the pilot slowly brings the craft toward the ground looking for any landmark when he see a glass building right in front of him. The TV reporter writes on his clipboard in huge letters "WHERE ARE WE?" A guy in the building holds up a sign the says in huge letters "IN A HELICOPTER". The pilot flies to the airport and lands. Seeing that the information was 100% accurate yet 100% useless he knew he was at Microsoft.
I went here when I was a little kid, it is quite a good place to go, it’s a great place to go even if your not interested in model trains, or real ones for that matter
Really great! We missed most of it. Dang it. Need to go back!
Nice tour guys! I was there July last year, spent the whole day there but could easily go back for another look! I was speaking to one of the guys who runs the layout, would you believe it is DC only, too much drama with DCC and decoders in all the locos. He said they manly use Kato and Atlas for reliability , with some Athearn thrown in and the locos do some amazing miles and don't last very long at all, even with regular maintenance and repairs!! I wonder where all the used ones go?????? would be some nice bodies out there..LOL
Chicago was a bit daunting for an Aussie from a small city, but I loved it and would gladly go back for some in depth rail fanning! Thanks for the trip down memory lane.
Cheers Gregg.
GuDay Mate! Right what a place!!!!! We missed the whole thing I think. Need to get back. And SOON. Didn't even ride the EL. And missed the Space Center in the Museum. AND the display on the Ferris Wheel!!!!!! Just no time!
G'day to you two! The space centre was cool , and a great movie too! I didn't ride the EL either, next time!
Gregg :-)
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THANK YOU!!! GREAT VIDEO - GREAT VOICES --- WHAT A TREAT!!! YOU MAKE UA-cam AWESOME!!!
Wow thank you quite the compliment! And we sure had a ball in Chicago! We fell in love with that city
Toy Man Television You're welcome Sir. Hopefully I'll have a chance to visit such cities one day. Looking forward to being your subscriber.
Nice video, well done and very informative!
Thanks!! Had fun!
L&MR Rocket was not just famous for the Railhill Trials. The locomotive incorporated 'new' engineering techniques to locomotives in 1830, which then became the mainstay of locomotive designs for the following 100+ years. Including; multitube boiler, exhaust blast pipe to help the fire burn and articulated motion. Engine was quicker, more powerful, and economic. Free steaming and could be prepared in quicker time. It was a prototype designed to win a competition. Within a month it was obsolete and sold to the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway following several modifications.
The original is now at home in the Science Museum, Kensington, London.
Good info!! Don't know much about it, loved it in the Keaton film. And built serval models of it. Planning another in 1/24 scale soon! Pair it with a trevwick.
wow this is beautiful!!!!!!!! thank you for your excellent videos !!!!!!!!
Most fun is making them!
From wikipedia.......
The museum had an earlier model railroad layout, dating back to the early 1940s when Minton Cronkhite built the original Museum and Santa Fe Railway; a 2,340-square-foot (217 m2) layout in O scale.[1]
This layout had over 1,000 feet (300 m) of track and over 20,000
hand-laid ties. The project was financed with a $58,000 grant from the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.
Cronkhite began construction in 1939 and the exhibit made its public
debut in January 1941. Much of the rolling stock and locomotives were
hand built from scratch by Cronkhite using original Santa Fe plans. It
featured Santa Fe’s southwestern freight and passenger operations,
including a depiction of the Grand Canyon and quickly became a favorite with children and adults visiting the museum.
In 1953 Central Locomotive Works owner Bob Smith rebuilt the layout in O scale and added several diesel locomotives.
It was updated again in 1988 during a year-long effort once again
financed by Santa Fe. Santa Fe transferred ownership of the layout to
the Museum in the early 1990s.
Wear and tear from six decades of continuous daily use gradually took
its toll, and by the time of its demise the layout had only a couple of
operating loops. The Museum and Santa Fe Railway was closed in May
2002.[2]
That summer, the exhibit's surviving items - several original
buildings, rolling stock (both used and surplus), and pieces of scale
scenery - were placed into forty lots and sold in an eBay auction. The auction generated over $21,500 for MSI.
WOW. Didn't know!! WOW!!!!!
YES, YES, I loved that layout. First saw it in the early '50s. during a grammar school outing. To a young kid. it was bigger than life, and in O gage all the more so.
In my '70s now and that is a fond memory.
I'm so glad you wrote this, for those of us in our senior years. A trip from our suburban home to the museum was always a thrill when I was a kid, and mom had to almost drag me away from that magnificent 50 by 60 foot Museum and Santa Fe layout with its Super Chief streamliner (red and silver warbonnet diesels and fluted side cars) and modern for its time Santa Fe freight train, snaking around the enormous double tracked main line at scale speed, passing each other at different places each time they met. Fun! I was heartbroken when I heard it had been torn down. Visited the HO railroad in 2003, on a day when bugs were being worked out. Only a few trains were running and they were derailing often. Looks like they've worked out the kinks now. I've heard that the mayor of Chicago never liked the old layout because it didn't include the city. The new one sure does, and its structures and mountains and farm fields are, I hate to admit, far superior to the old O scale pike, but that one remains in my heart as a wonderful childhood memory and as a big factor in my life-long love of real and model trains. Thanks again for posting.
Fantastic museum!!!!!
We need to go back
Thank you. Lou
Love the place!!
Thanks for all your interesting videos. I am always enter-trained by them (sorry, I had to say it).
I am still in training too.
oh wow that was cool from start to finish but i loved that mine what a neat huge place :) awesome clothes to they were really cool
The mine is really old! I love that they hired the miners to build it and as tour guides
yeah that was super cool what a cool idea
AWESOME!!!!! I really enjoyed your video and can't wait for more. Thank you for sharing and keep up the good work.
Every Sunday!!!! We are off to New Mexico right now.....
There is no mention there that the phone was invented in Canada that was the last time I was there a few years ago
Looks like a fascinating place Elwood!
It's lake a spacious mall. Getting trashed.
Take some photos!
love the blue brothers reference!
Ah the mission from God!
Haha! I build steam locomotives out of Lego! Mostly New York Central or Union Pacific. Great video!
I see it has been updated seems a lot bigger
It’s huge. They keep adding to it.
If you guys ever are in N.C. You have to go to the transportation museum in spencer N.C. And little Choo Choo shops right across from it. It's unbelievable and words cant express how Awsome it is
Love to see that. Will be heading to the South this summer. Not there but it would be fun to get up there.
I saw that back in December 1991AD I also loved the collection of Star Fleet Starships (Not sure if this is still present) I think I watched the HO Scale railroad for hours hehehe if you are in Chicago please do go to the Museum of Science and Industry (Also be sure to take in ALL of Chicago's Museums including the Natural History Museum (??? Not sure if this is the correct name) there are exhibits for everyone. (I loved the Submarine but when I was there she was still located outside) Nice channel too
Nothing on Wunderland in Hamburg. it gives new meaning to computer controlled.
Nice video! Thanks
We love Chicago!!
looking dapper. i love suits. more of a vest guy personally. but very sharp look.
Two of the "swells".
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The Will County Model Railroad club which my dad is a member of volunteered to build some of the smaller buildings and structures along with some of the other Chicago Land area model railroad clubs. Also there is another Burlington Zephyr train set that is preserved in operating condition at the Illinois Railway Museum which was featured in the movie A League Of Their Own about the Rockford Peaches and the women's baseball league during WW2 that lasted all the way to the 1950s. I live in Rockford Illinois not too far from the Rockford Peaches old baseball park which some of it was preserved and is in the process of being restored. BNSF offered to restore the Zephyr train set that is at the Illinois Railway Museum and operated it on the BNSF from Chicago to Nebraska and back. =^.^=
Amazing build!! Must have taken hundreds of people.
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Chicago is called the Second City not because of its size relative to New York but because A.J. Liebling coined the phrase in a series of articles in the New Yorker.
Great video, Jack and Elwood were cool (only a certain bossa nova background music was missing).
This museum seems excellent, the U-Boot is well presented. But it didn't seems less spacious than the more modern Japanese sub I have visited.
The HO layout is indeed huge, must be fun to program all these trains.
I like to run the trains. But computer control is amazing!! This layout has sort of both. When the train stopes in the station, you can take control and pull it out. Sometimes. The computer has the last word as it needs to to keep things working. But some control by the visitors.
The Great Train Story is electro-mechanical, using voltage sensing relays. It does NOT my friend us computers! The humans running it have the last word!
Simply stunning!!!!!
Fun place too!!! Next week, Holly Crap!!!
I like that model of downtown Chicago. It could be used for a stop-action remake of "Battle of the Gargantuas". Capsule review of the original: "Two gargantuas meet and engage in destructive battle."
Best capsule review ever (of the 1970's film "Swept Away"): "Two obnoxious people, one rich and one poor, are marooned on a deserted isle." Never seen in print though. I wrote it myself. No wonder I think it is the best, that and the fact that it probably is.
Very detailed informative video. Thanks. One correction: the wheel was never sent to Paris. In fact the Paris World’s Fair happened in 1889 years before the wheel was constructed. However, after the Chicago Columbian Exposition of 1893, the wheel was setup again in Chicago at Clark and Wrightwood in 1895. It was finally installed at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 where it was subsequently demolished after that fair.
Yup. I knew it was moved around. And one was at Paris. But didn’t know that was a new one.
wow, greats vídeo!!! thank you for information!!! regards from Argentina.
WOW hi!! Sure love to come that far south at some point. Sent some of my students to Chile several years ago but had to stay back. Some day....
As much as I want the 999 to be the first, Flying Scotsman has proof, which to me disclaims both 999 and city of Truro. Great video by the way, especially u-505
I love the 999. Great model of it in our lagoon show. Er, pioneer village at lagoon, which is to say the railroads of John young shows... anyway lagoon park built a 12 inch gauge model as a park ride in about 1910 or so. Still there but they tore out the track in about 1990.
This place is on my list still
Oh look they have a New River Mining Company too...lol
And it’s being mined!
Next Time you guys come out here you gotta hang out with me and my railfan buddies and join us at the Elmhurst model railroad club
Would be FUN!! We had a rather full dance card while there. Part of a fund drive for the Railway Museum!! (More next week).
oh cool be sure to talk to Ed whos working on the Electroliner
Missed that!! ARUG. So much to see, so litle time. Love the Electroliner too.
Ain't nothing like the old Lionel Display.
I just fell in love with you two and your style, panache and extraordinary knack for sharing enthusiasm! 😂🍀❤️🌹
Oh, did I mention the surplus humor? You had me in stitches - stitches I tell you!
You might ask a huge commission from the museum. I doubt they'll ever get better promotion than yours...