I was born in May of 1936 in the town of South Pekin Illinois.....my paternal grandfather retired from C& NW in 1956 after nearly 50yrs. South Pekin was half way between Chicago and St Louis. Check out it's history.
Great layout. I like how everything is spaced apart and not too crammed together. I was thrilled to see your loco collection. It reminds of the locos I saw at the CNW Madison, IL yard in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
cool layout!.... my only complaint is, besides just the tour I want to see some trains running. 90% of tours, you dont see many, if any trains running. and pick better music than the others. lol something fitting to the HP pulling the trains. like a coal drag, play some "heavy metal". locals, "power ballads"....you get the idea. still a very cool layout, I really dig older period layouts. 60's - 80's. before wide cabs, except Canadian Alco units.
"We're gonna stop the train before Rockdale. Closest is... the Harris Mill Junction. Contact the railroad, tell them to make out like it's a routine emergency inspection. And have Bronsky bring his men up in choppers from the south. Get all the passengers off the train, and I don't want any slip-ups." I actually own bits from the locomotive crash at the end of the film, including from the mirror and pillar it goes through, and the fake EMD builder's plate from the mockup locomotive. You have a beautiful railroad!
Well in 10 minutes you're gonna have 200 tons of locomotive smashing through central station on its way to Marshall Fields! Well done Sir, I don't think I've ever heard anyone besides me quote that movie before. And that is amazing that you have memorabilia from the movie! Where you there when it was filmed? We had to get Mary Lou, she's our date for the party. Come on conductor, lets get this show on then track, oh I beg your pardon...
@@CNW1025 C'mon, c'mon, get back will ya? You guys are just totally uncontrollable, you know that?!? I was not there for the filming, but I was at the time trying to figure out how to start a career in the film industry, so I was making friends at the studios and was sometimes invited to drop by for a visit. I became friends with one of the art directors at 20th Century Fox in 1977 and he invited me down to the studio and toured me through the train car sets, which were sourced from actual Budd and Pullman cars. I got to lay down in Jill Clayburgh's roomette bunk where she and Gene Wilder had their love scene. I got to go through the lounge/bar and got one of the dinner menus. Sadly, some of the items I got were stolen years ago. It's one of my top ten favorites.
@@CNW1025 Your attention please. May I have your attention please. You are requested to walk to the nearest exit as quickly as possible. Please do not run. Walk as quickly as possible to the nearest exit. People waiting for the arrival of the Silver Streak on Track 5 are requested to vacate that area immediately.
Very Very Nice layout and tour. I can tell that you are very serious and experienced in what you are doing. Can't wait to see the final completion even though a TRUE layout is never COMPLETELY finished. Keep up the Great Work.
Great tour of a very nice layout…you’ve done some great scenery and structure work…like nearing the history lesson of how you got to this point and some of the industries and businesses…new subscriber…Anthony
awesome layout just subbed I love watching other peoples layouts! btw be careful one day Clayton Creek might mysteriously turn into Clint Eastwood Creek LOL
You have a nice layout going. Over the years I have come into contact with CNW in several Nebraska locations (I'm in eastern NE). Nice models and some really cool projects going. I'll stay tuned.
You have a beautiful layout! Thankyou so much for the tour... I grew up in N. Milwaukee in the 70's and would ride my bike over to the C&NW Lake Shore line to catch a train... take care.. DD. 😜🤗
Wow You're a Incredibly Talented Model Railroader!! Love the scenery the trackwork the lower section as well as you amazing Roster of CNW Locomotives and Cabooses. It's all in Really Super Cool Railroad Room. Wow the video is Really Super Cool too!! Thanks So Much for Sharing the video!! I have a suggestion to share with you for hiding gaps in your corner sections. I have very similar lift out sections in the corners of my 30 by 25ft ho scale northeast NJ and NY state layout. I used green felt glued to thin cardboard to the existing hillside section creating a Flap that overlaps the existing hill side base on the other side. It hides the gaps really well. I teased up the felt fibers painted the green felt with water base paint to blend it in with the high grass hillsides. I hope that this can work out for you hiding the gaps.
Nice layout, really like how you've disguised the helix, both the entry to it and the view as you enter the room, would never have guessed there was one there. How are you going to access the corners on the upper level when the lower level rounds its own corner sections?
Thank you the nice remarks. The lower level is going to be only 18" deep whereas the main level is 30-36" deep and the lower level is flush with the front of the main level leaving about 12-18" of empty space behind the lower level backdrop so if I wanted to access those corner panels for the main level I would need to low crawl under the lower level and then theres plenty of space behind the lower level. I'm even thinking about creating some hidden staging behind the scenicked portion of the lower level.
Great layout, but I have one question though, how are you planning to enter the layout once you have completed the lower level? It seems to me that it is gonna be too low to duck under. Good luck on the rest of the construction, keep up the great work you've been doing.
Thank you! I am going to have a swing out bridge for the lower level under the duck-under. Not a fan of the idea, I don't like track that is not connected but I want to have continuous running and this is the way to do it. So it will basically be like a door under the duck-under. Just need to figure out an iron clad mechanism with total precision.
Awesome layout. Been following for awhile. Love the theme and era. Curious what is the radius of. Curves on your layout and what is the radius of your helix and the dimensions for the base of the helix . Keep up the great work and I look forward to more videos
Thanks! The largest radii are about 42"and the smallest is about 36", the helix itself is 32" The base of the helix is a multi angled odd shape that was built specifically to fit into that spot between the existing benchwork so its hard to say the dimensions of it, it just kind of ties the east and west end of the peninsula together. But its about 8'x8' roughly.
great layout. Gratz. I especially appreciated how the backdrop matched the scenery and structures on the bench work. Very nice attention to detail throughout. I also found your "back story" for the layout elements very interesting. What are you intending to do with your channel?
Thank you for the compliments. I'm not really planning to do anything with the channel besides just post some videos. I enjoy watching other peoples' layouts and figured it's about time I returned the favor!
Great layout, great video. It appears there are a few more videos I look forward to checking out. One question (comment) about one of the signs. You mentioned that your father was the graphic artist who produced the signage . . . clear, crisp, colorful; good job all around. Very professional looking. Regarding the East-West designation on the fascia in front of the grain silos: which way is East and which way is West? I thought East is to the right as facing the tracks. The way the words and arrows are stacked looks a little confusing. Does the right arrow go with the 'East' word on the same line? Or with the 'West' word stacked below it? There is a discernable gap in the center. A long time ago in an engineering class on Uniform Traffic Marking, this exact scenario came up. Please keep in mind this is not a complaint, just an observation.
Thank you for the compliments. I can see what you mean about the signs, and yes as you are facing the layout, your left is always railway West as long as you are inside the loop. In the one area that is outside the loop, by the entry point and Clayton River, the E/W is reversed since you are facing it from the opposite side. I never thought about it like that but I can see what you mean about the stacking. It was intended that the arrows go with the direction and that the 2 stacked on top of each other represented the tracks themselves. CNW being a left-hand main road, the Left or Bottom track in this case is West.
The main photo backdrop is a custom one that we made ourselves. Its a panoramic shot from Geddy images or one of those sources from about 10 years ago and then my Dad modified it and mirrored it and cut and pasted it to extend it to a whopping 50'.
I was originally only planning a single level with lower staging and then lower staging became more of a lower level with full scenery. If I had to do it again I would have made the main level higher so that the lower level would not be so low to the ground.
great tour 0f your awesome layout...WOW a "Y" in the helix... do you do op sessions??? i have subbed to your channel ...thx 4 sharing.. vinny,,,aka bnsf6951
Thank you Sir, been following your videos for a while myself. I'm a lone wolf operator. Mostly like setting up a train and letting it go and then just settling in at various railfan locations around the layout to catch it.
Anybody who likes _Silver Streak_ is automatically awesome _Hey Chauncey, this is Grover T. Muldoon! You wanna know what happened? We just whooped yo ass! We whooped yo ass! Ha ha ha!!_
Hi. I'm not a fan of US railroads but I have enjoyed watching your layout tour and may be you could encourage me to watch more of your railroad modeling along with others. I'll subscribe as we all appreciate those I'm hopefully start uploading videos from my UK heritage railway layout soon.
I was born in May of 1936 in the town of South Pekin Illinois.....my paternal grandfather retired from C& NW in 1956 after nearly 50yrs. South Pekin was half way between Chicago and St Louis. Check out it's history.
Great layout. I like how everything is spaced apart and not too crammed together. I was thrilled to see your loco collection. It reminds of the locos I saw at the CNW Madison, IL yard in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s.
Thank you very much! If someone can say it looks like the CNW they used to see back in the day, that means I did something right!
cool layout!.... my only complaint is, besides just the tour I want to see some trains running. 90% of tours, you dont see many, if any trains running. and pick better music than the others. lol something fitting to the HP pulling the trains. like a coal drag, play some "heavy metal". locals, "power ballads"....you get the idea. still a very cool layout, I really dig older period layouts. 60's - 80's. before wide cabs, except Canadian Alco units.
"We're gonna stop the train before Rockdale. Closest is... the Harris Mill Junction. Contact the railroad, tell them to make out like it's a routine emergency inspection. And have Bronsky bring his men up in choppers from the south. Get all the passengers off the train, and I don't want any slip-ups."
I actually own bits from the locomotive crash at the end of the film, including from the mirror and pillar it goes through, and the fake EMD builder's plate from the mockup locomotive.
You have a beautiful railroad!
Well in 10 minutes you're gonna have 200 tons of locomotive smashing through central station on its way to Marshall Fields!
Well done Sir, I don't think I've ever heard anyone besides me quote that movie before. And that is amazing that you have memorabilia from the movie! Where you there when it was filmed?
We had to get Mary Lou, she's our date for the party. Come on conductor, lets get this show on then track, oh I beg your pardon...
@@CNW1025 C'mon, c'mon, get back will ya? You guys are just totally uncontrollable, you know that?!?
I was not there for the filming, but I was at the time trying to figure out how to start a career in the film industry, so I was making friends at the studios and was sometimes invited to drop by for a visit.
I became friends with one of the art directors at 20th Century Fox in 1977 and he invited me down to the studio and toured me through the train car sets, which were sourced from actual Budd and Pullman cars. I got to lay down in Jill Clayburgh's roomette bunk where she and Gene Wilder had their love scene. I got to go through the lounge/bar and got one of the dinner menus.
Sadly, some of the items I got were stolen years ago.
It's one of my top ten favorites.
@@CNW1025 Your attention please. May I have your attention please.
You are requested to walk to the nearest exit as quickly as possible.
Please do not run.
Walk as quickly as possible to the nearest exit.
People waiting for the arrival of the Silver Streak on Track 5 are requested to vacate that area immediately.
@@ponyhorton4295 Amazing, perfect, accurate movie quoting!
Thanks for the tour, inspirational and thought provoking.
Thank you kindly.
Just wow! Looking forward to watching this grow.
Awesom layout loved the scenery and the c n w
Loves the layout and your imagination, not to mention your talent !!! Thanks for posting it
Thank you!
I love this! It's fantastic!
Always nice to see the excellent work of fellow C&NW modelers!
Thank you, do you have any videos up?
SUPERB layout! Terrific design and video indeed. It looks HUGE! I just subscribed and look forward to more of your videos. Great job!
Thank you very much!
Very Very Nice layout and tour. I can tell that you are very serious and experienced in what you are doing. Can't wait to see the final completion even though a TRUE layout is never COMPLETELY finished. Keep up the Great Work.
Thank you kindly. And yes, it can never really be finished can it? That's why I'm just taking my time. There literally no finish line to get to!
Very Nice! really enjoyed seeing your layout!
Thank you very much.
Outstanding layout, very well detailed. Thank you
Thank you!
Very Nicely Detailed All the Way Around.
Thank you very much!
What I Am Thinking of Modeling is C&NW pulling CN Rolling stock.Gotta Find the Right Engines Don’t know if I want to do in Ho Or N Scale.
Parabéns, trabalho excelente!!! Obrigado por compartilhar!
Wow, niiiice layout! You’ve done excellent work. Thanks for the detailed tour. -Mark
Thank you! Same back at you!
Nicely done, clean and neat!
Thank you!
Love your layout. It's beautiful. Big fan of the CN&W. You got a new subscriber. Look forward to seeing what you do.
Thank you very much Sir.
Great layout. Nice to see all those green and yellow diesels :)
Indeed!
LOVE THIS!
Love the concept!
Thank you kindly.
Great overview of your layout! I really enjoyed it. Keep up the great work! ~Tony
Thank you, same to you. You do great work
Just found your channel!! Can’t wait to see more! Great looking layout and nice details
Thanks for the compliments!
Excellent layout !! Congratulations
Thank you very much
Fantastic layout. I’m an O guy but nothing wrong with HO.
Amazing layout. Very realistic good job👍
Thank you, very kind.
I don't know if I commented but man your layout is incredible. I can't wait to see some operating sessions!
Thank you very much!
Wow..first time here..everything looks freakin awesome...thanks for sharing and keep up the great work..Lance
Thank you!
Great Layout Love those Engines.
Thank you kindly
Beautiful lay out!
Thank you very much for the compliment
Great tour of a very nice layout…you’ve done some great scenery and structure work…like nearing the history lesson of how you got to this point and some of the industries and businesses…new subscriber…Anthony
Thank you again!
Your railroad is SO nice excellent work!
Thank you very much!
Fantastic buddy 👍💯👍💯👍
Thank you
Super nice layout! Excellent! i also just subscribed to your channel so I don't miss anything.
Thank you! You have quite a nice setup also!
awesome layout just subbed I love watching other peoples layouts! btw be careful one day Clayton Creek might mysteriously turn into Clint Eastwood Creek LOL
Thank you! Always a pleasure to speak to someone who understands movie references!
Amazing stuff there, keep up the great work!
Thank you!
@@CNW1025 your mighty welcome, can’t wait to see further progress
You have a nice layout going. Over the years I have come into contact with CNW in several Nebraska locations (I'm in eastern NE). Nice models and some really cool projects going. I'll stay tuned.
Thank you! I always have multiple projects going, its never boring, at least I don't think so!
Very enjoyable layout tour. Looking forward to upcoming updates. Subbed.
Thank you for the compliment.
Nice layout. Put me down as subscriber number 65. I’ll be catching up and looking forward to your updates. Nice job.
You did a very nice 👍 job of capturing the look and feel of that area !! Even if it is freelance !!
Thank you, that's a rewarding compliment!
You have a beautiful layout! Thankyou so much for the tour... I grew up in N. Milwaukee in the 70's and would ride my bike over to the C&NW Lake Shore line to catch a train... take care.. DD. 😜🤗
Thank you, I appreciate the kind words. Never thought this video would get this much of a reaction.
@@CNW1025 Well, you do nice work, and this tour was long overdue!
@@cnwtrain Well considering that your layout was a big part of the inspiration behind this layout, that's quite the compliment!
Great Layout
Thank you!
AWESOME my friend 👍
Thank you!
Most educational video of the true history of Southfield! Awesome! And Aliens in Town:))))
Can't have a small town in mid America without aliens!
Wow You're a Incredibly Talented Model Railroader!! Love the scenery the trackwork the lower section as well as you amazing Roster of CNW Locomotives and Cabooses. It's all in Really Super Cool Railroad Room. Wow the video is Really Super Cool too!! Thanks So Much for Sharing the video!!
I have a suggestion to share with you for hiding gaps in your corner sections. I have very similar lift out sections in the corners of my 30 by 25ft ho scale northeast NJ and NY state layout. I used green felt glued to thin cardboard to the existing hillside section creating a Flap that overlaps the existing hill side base on the other side. It hides the gaps really well. I teased up the felt fibers painted the green felt with water base paint to blend it in with the high grass hillsides. I hope that this can work out for you hiding the gaps.
Thank you for the compliments and that's a good idea for hiding the gaps!
Really nice, very good concept
Thank you!
@@CNW1025 is that U30C a Atlas, my eyes kept getting drawn to it. All that power looks just right weathering wise.
@@davidstewart5694 Yessir that is an Atlas model. And thank you for the weathering compliment!
Fantastic
Thank you!
Nice layout bud
Thank you kindly
Attractive layout
Thank you!
wow nice
Thank you!
@@CNW1025 your welcome
Great video! Nice layout! How did you make your “name plates” on your facia?
Thank you! Those are printed and mounted on .040 styrene. My dad is in the graphics business so that helps a lot with this kind of stuff!
If anyone asks about the black lines coming off your lift out section, refer them to the 'drainage ditch' thought. That is how I see them.
That's actually a brilliant idea, I could work the scenery on those a little more and that would be a good explanation. Thanks!
Nice layout, really like how you've disguised the helix, both the entry to it and the view as you enter the room, would never have guessed there was one there. How are you going to access the corners on the upper level when the lower level rounds its own corner sections?
Thank you the nice remarks. The lower level is going to be only 18" deep whereas the main level is 30-36" deep and the lower level is flush with the front of the main level leaving about 12-18" of empty space behind the lower level backdrop so if I wanted to access those corner panels for the main level I would need to low crawl under the lower level and then theres plenty of space behind the lower level. I'm even thinking about creating some hidden staging behind the scenicked portion of the lower level.
So much work...
And nowhere near done!
Great layout, but I have one question though, how are you planning to enter the layout once you have completed the lower level? It seems to me that it is gonna be too low to duck under. Good luck on the rest of the construction, keep up the great work you've been doing.
Thank you! I am going to have a swing out bridge for the lower level under the duck-under. Not a fan of the idea, I don't like track that is not connected but I want to have continuous running and this is the way to do it. So it will basically be like a door under the duck-under. Just need to figure out an iron clad mechanism with total precision.
Awesome layout. Been following for awhile. Love the theme and era. Curious what is the radius of. Curves on your layout and what is the radius of your helix and the dimensions for the base of the helix . Keep up the great work and I look forward to more videos
Thanks! The largest radii are about 42"and the smallest is about 36", the helix itself is 32" The base of the helix is a multi angled odd shape that was built specifically to fit into that spot between the existing benchwork so its hard to say the dimensions of it, it just kind of ties the east and west end of the peninsula together. But its about 8'x8' roughly.
great layout. Gratz. I especially appreciated how the backdrop matched the scenery and structures on the bench work. Very nice attention to detail throughout. I also found your "back story" for the layout elements very interesting. What are you intending to do with your channel?
Thank you for the compliments. I'm not really planning to do anything with the channel besides just post some videos. I enjoy watching other peoples' layouts and figured it's about time I returned the favor!
Awesome layout! is this HO or N scale?
Thank you, this is HO Scale.
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One thing I learned is everyone has a specific type of loco or rolling stock they hoard lol. Me. I love covered hoppers
SD40-2s for me please. 4750 grain hoppers also.
Great layout, great video. It appears there are a few more videos I look forward to checking out.
One question (comment) about one of the signs. You mentioned that your father was the graphic artist who produced the signage . . . clear, crisp, colorful; good job all around. Very professional looking. Regarding the East-West designation on the fascia in front of the grain silos: which way is East and which way is West? I thought East is to the right as facing the tracks. The way the words and arrows are stacked looks a little confusing. Does the right arrow go with the 'East' word on the same line? Or with the 'West' word stacked below it? There is a discernable gap in the center. A long time ago in an engineering class on Uniform Traffic Marking, this exact scenario came up. Please keep in mind this is not a complaint, just an observation.
Thank you for the compliments. I can see what you mean about the signs, and yes as you are facing the layout, your left is always railway West as long as you are inside the loop. In the one area that is outside the loop, by the entry point and Clayton River, the E/W is reversed since you are facing it from the opposite side. I never thought about it like that but I can see what you mean about the stacking. It was intended that the arrows go with the direction and that the 2 stacked on top of each other represented the tracks themselves. CNW being a left-hand main road, the Left or Bottom track in this case is West.
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What company are you using for your back drops they look really nice,
The main photo backdrop is a custom one that we made ourselves. Its a panoramic shot from Geddy images or one of those sources from about 10 years ago and then my Dad modified it and mirrored it and cut and pasted it to extend it to a whopping 50'.
Nice layout.
With all that space, a 2 or 3 layer layout would have been nice.
I was originally only planning a single level with lower staging and then lower staging became more of a lower level with full scenery. If I had to do it again I would have made the main level higher so that the lower level would not be so low to the ground.
great tour 0f your awesome layout...WOW a "Y" in the helix... do you do op sessions??? i have subbed to your channel ...thx 4 sharing.. vinny,,,aka bnsf6951
Thank you Sir, been following your videos for a while myself. I'm a lone wolf operator. Mostly like setting up a train and letting it go and then just settling in at various railfan locations around the layout to catch it.
Who made the Southfield signs and other railroadiana?
My Dad who is in the graphic design business has been the main source for all the signage.
I grew up in Skokie!
Nice! Small world.
Love the tour, my wife watched it with me. If you watched less movies, you would get more done on the layout. lol
Hey now!🤣
Really an awesome layout! You don't mention on your channel which gauge this is. It looks like N scale. Am I right?
Thank you, it is HO Scale.
Anybody who likes _Silver Streak_ is automatically awesome
_Hey Chauncey, this is Grover T. Muldoon! You wanna know what happened? We just whooped yo ass! We whooped yo ass! Ha ha ha!!_
Hell yeah! That Pepe's run off with that no good Manuel again, those two get together smoke a little weed....
Hi. I'm not a fan of US railroads but I have enjoyed watching your layout tour and may be you could encourage me to watch more of your railroad modeling along with others. I'll subscribe as we all appreciate those I'm hopefully start uploading videos from my UK heritage railway layout soon.
Thank you for the compliments! A railroad is still a railroad no matter what side of the pond its on! Looking forward to your uploads.
@@CNW1025 Yes your right. I forgot to subscribe so I have just now as we all the encouragement.
Una maqueta muy bonita, y grande, como para expresar muchas ideas, felicitaciones .
😉🚂🙂🚞🚞
Thank you!