Postwar Lionel Excursion on a Modern Layout
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- čas přidán 22. 04. 2020
- We decided to shut down the modern trains and give my postwar Lionel trains a chance to visit and stretch their legs on a modern layout. We see ten trains in nine minutes culminating with a 1950 Lionel 773 Hudson steam locomotive pulling a unit train of eleven 6464 series box cars.
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Who needs anything else with the nice display of Lionel post war trains TJ has here. Everything is so nicely and proportionally sized. That’s all I would ever run. Timeless exhibition of what is the heart and soul of toy trains. Thanks
Thank you Gene, I appreciate it!
Terry's got some beautiful postwar sets here, and he's not afraid to run them. A joy to watch again and again!
TJ You have an incredible layout! Absolutely amazing!👍
Thank you, I really appreciate it!
Postwar Lionel trains can look good on any O gauge layout in my opinion. Maybe because I watched I Love Toy Trains a lot as a kid
Very ice. I like running the old Lionel on a highly detailed layout.
Thanks for watching and commenting!
That’s the most impressive layout I have ever seen! I love the post war and also MPC!
Thank you Brad, I appreciate your comment!
love how you started your video shutting the the new ones DCC control down first then bringing the old ones to life great presentation beautiful layout good job
Thanks Larry!
Very well-thought-out presentation totally welcome
Man gosh, what a layout Post War Lionel the BEST!
Great layout. Great postwar pieces. And no matter Legacy what, that Lionel air whistle is still a Hall of Famer. It is the sound that made a lot of us fall in love with trains. Congratulations.
I agree, thanks Alfonso!
I love modern Lionel, I would choose any modern Lionel over any post war Lionel, maybe, but there is just something about watching a post war Lionel Hudson coming down the line. It looks even better with the backdrop! You are one lucky man to have all of that!
Thank you!
Wonderful great watching this.
Fantastic post! I've always had the softest spot for postwar Lionel - maybe the best-built toys of all time and certainly more engaging than sitting in the same position for hours with thumbs blazing away! Yes, it takes a bit of money to buy some of these very special toys and familiarize yourself with how to maintain and occasionally fix something, but these trains, if cared for, will last another 2 or 3 generations, unlike the games and amusements that won't be here a year from now. Building a layout is an easy way to learn basic electricity, carpentry, and how to make easy and inexpensive scenery.
So true on all accounts. It's a great hobby! Thanks for commenting Eli.
Those classic PW trains look terrific on that huge layout !!
Thank you BB1!
Cool to see these older trains on a layout that isn't crowded with small curves. Nice to see them be able to breathe
So I’ve been interested in the old postwar era for a while. I knew of them, but didn’t really have any experience with them. Then I found this video a while ago, and really started to love them
And as of a month ago, I caved in, I’m now the proud owner of a 2055 Hudson! My absolute favorite model in my collection of mostly HO, and this old beast is definitely what’s gonna get me more into O gauge haha
Just wanted to share this fun little story, I think it’s fun and I adore the Hudson SO much!
Excellent! I started with O gauge as a kid then transitioned to N scale, HO and finally back to O gauge. All of the scales have their pros and cons but it is really hard to beat the "beast" quality (in your words) of the big, noisy and oily postwar Lionel trains. Thanks for watching and sharing your neat story!
Great video! I really enjoy watching good ol postwar! Keep the videos coming!
Thank you Paul!
Wow! Great stuff! I love those postwar trains.
I'd love to run my 622 on a layout like that!!! The Lionel Gods will be pleased.
Indeed! You can see my 6220 sister to your 622 switcher running on my postwar layout here at about the 1 minute mark- czcams.com/video/JbjANYXPBFw/video.html
They still run great, love them!
I like my Williams locomotive for conventional operation. They are simple and easy to maintain. If the board goes out you can live without it just put some rectifiers in line so you can run it. Do Fridays fancy electronic control systems have any lifespan to them at all. Of course I don't have a club size d layout. It used to take five or six people to run a great big layout like they show on these videos now everybody runs them by computer with remote control. That was part of the fun of having an operating session. For some people who did not have room for a layout at home especially with 0 scale to rail DC powered locomotive having access to a club layout would probably be the only way you could run your very expensive 0 scale locomotive. I have old issues of Model Railroader from the 1940s and 1950s and they have ads in there for people who will convert your 3-rail Lionel Hudson over too 2 rail d.c. I like the Mike's train house Premiere locomotives that you could order with scale wheels and scale couplers and have a switch so you could run it off either three rail or two rail. Not that I could afford those type of expensive engines. I would rather have to Conventional controlled engines that last forever compared to an engine with all the bells and whistles that last hardly at all. The noise becomes cacophonous after a while and all the smoke makes your train room look like a scene from Cheech and Chong. Like vintage motorcycles simple last forever.
Yeah, I have plenty of MTH Premier locomotives but I only run them by conventional control and you are right; our old Lionel beasts will outlast the newer ones by far. Thanks for watching Frank!
@@isellu didn’t you have a Williams Canadian Pacific FM train master once Terry?
@@huntercoleman460 Yes Hunter, it now is stationed at my roundhouse and is under repair by the engine facility crew. It has the doors and part of the roof opened up with a crane pulling out a component. It has been painted primer gray. You can see it at 6:50 in this video.
I love the Lionel layouts. It's so relaxing to watch these videos.
they look great on the sweeping curves.
nice video seeing postwar classics gives good nostalgia
Ohhhhh that 2378!!!! It’s beautiful!! Just took delivery myself and went through it. Took me 16 years to get the one I wanted. I don’t have the yellow stripe but I have it. Lol feel like I’m in the club now lol. That flame on the front screams “watch out”!!!! Great video...
LOL, glad you got one. Enjoy it and thanks for the comment!
Back when stuff was by hand built to last
Great layout, and I just love seeing the beautiful postwar stock actually running! Really enjoy this video- THANKS!
Thank you Michael, I appreciate it!
Fantastic looking layout, I love how you run trains at speed, would be nice though to see longer trains, 15 cars or so.
Thank you Steven. Most of the trains shown are the original postwar sets which had a small number of cars. I added more to the last two trains shown but your point is well taken. I may take your idea and shoot another video with longer trains. Enjoy Thanksgiving!
@@isellu That is nice you ran the older Lionel as the sets they came in, sets never did come with many cars. Most of my Lionel has been peaced together no actual sets, it's the thrill of the hunt and finding engines/cars that need repair and fixing them, whatever they need, I enjoy the challenge and luckily most parts are available in the aftermarket.
Clearly an all-encompassing world-class layout with exceptional examples of postwar Lionel trains. Nicely choreographed action that is well filmed and edited. Can be watched again and again. (Love the super-elevated curves that add to the realism.)
Thank you Paul, I really appreciate your comments!
The super-elevation is just a strip of N scale cork roadbed under the outside rail. It's not really needed for the slow speed of our trains but I agree that it adds to the realism.
that was beautiful. thank you.
Thanks Matthew!
I still have a lot of the same cars I grew up with and two of the steam engines luckily they were passed on to me taking me years to build a nice layout one day I'll have it done of course I picked up some new ones too love running and them both thank you
Crazy cool layout! You don't see many layouts like this not too crowded big curves super huge I could watch this layout all day! I wish I was able to run my postwar and free war lionels on this layout
Thank you Jeffrey, I appreciate your comments!
great layout thanks for sharing
Amazing layout
Thank you!
Beautiful layout
Thank you!
Great layout! Thanks for the video.
Thanks Robert, I appreciate it!
Nice
Thanks for taking care of us old timers .
LOL, we gotta stick together, right John?
Very nice
Very nice. I really enjoyed watching that. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Oh this. This is beautiful.
Thank you!
I love those clouds hanging from the ceiling I just hope they don't leak any water LOL
LOL, they've been dry so far, but two of them have lightning strobes inside them that fire during the storm special effects sequence. Thanks for watching!
@@isellu 😃
What a lineup! I'm blown away by the variety of the postwar selection!
Thank you Pete!
Nice layout and running !!!!
Awesome layout!!!
It’s Terry Johnson from the magic of Lionel trains!!!!!!
I’ve always been wondering what happened to your layout from the video!
Shhh, don't tell anyone you found me! That was a few decades ago. That layout was dismantled when we moved to a different house. This layout is larger (of course!).
Thanks for reaching out! TJ
@@isellu No problem TJ I won't tell anyone it's our secret!
P.S Do you still have that hat collection?
@@Nathanator-6688 Yup, but most of it is packed away and only about 50 are on display.
TJ Okay nice!
TJ Oh My Gosh it is you! I remember seeing your layout when I was a kid and I Always wondered what your layout looks like now^^
Wow Terry you have a original postwar 773 Hudson! I have two modern era 773s in my collection. The Century Club 1 773 and the Postwar Celebration Series 773.
Yes, I just bought it. Congrats on all the nice 773s you have. Impressive!
@@isellu Thanks I also have the Lionel Santa Fe Warhorse Hudson as well including the 783 Hudson.
wow amazing
I have the original semi scale 773 that Lionel kept secret since 1950
Beautiful!
@@isellu I uploaded 2 videos of the 773 Hudson
I'm a train and I approve this video :O !
Excellent!!! 👏😁
Thank you Porschedude8 as always, I appreciate your comments!
Love the video and layout! By the way, was that the Santa Fe NW-2 making all that dinging? I kept looking around wondering if I was imagining it.
Absolutely! The Lionel 6220 released in 1949 was the first locomotive to feature Magne-Traction. As you noticed it also has a gear driven mechanical bell on the front truck. It cannot be turned off but I love the sound. Thanks for noticing and watching!
I thank so it would be awesome
Nice layout, very nice indeed! I love to see the postwar sets running so very well. And the the scenery is breathtaking! I love it! Like, subscribed, rang the bell!
Did you buy the shirt? Just kidding. Thanks for the nice comments!
Nice video
Thanks for watching and the nice comment!
So very nice to see many vintage pieces running in tip-top shape. I had a layout back in the early 80s with gargraves track. I had the phantom rail stainless steel. I found it to be very noisy, as I noticed on your layout. I also had a lot of arcing on the center rail. Have you experienced the same?
Hi Ronald, My track is Gargraves phantom but not stainless. It is somewhat loud, especially with these old Lionel postwar trains. My track is laid on cork roadbed which helps quiet it a little, but then again real trains are loud so I am not disappointed.
Arcing is usually a sign of dirty track or dirty or worn rollers. I don't have that issue unless the old postwar locos have bad rollers.
Thanks for watching!
I feel like this layout was featured in a TM books film
You are correct, but not with the older postwar trains. The video is TM's Toy Train Review 3 in 2014 and also OGR Magazine's Great Layout Adventures Volume 7 in 2011. Thanks for watching!
TJ great layout! I would watch this that over and over with my grandfather when I was very little, hows the hat collection going lol!
mind if I use your video for a Lofi beats background?
I'll give you credit for it in return
Sure, and I appreciate you asking first. You have my permission!
Great layout! G&E R/R
If you don't mind me asking, how well do the shorter wheelbased engines, like the 56, take gargraves switches? I've been collecting for several years, and am now planning on building a layout, as I lost my workshop after the owner passed, I just ran them straight down a 60 foot counter on tinplate, but I have a lot of gargraves straight track, and like the style of it, but I want to make sure my engines would run on the switches without stalling.
I'm using Gargraves track with Ross Custom switches on this layout. The Lionel units run well because there are hardly any electrically dead areas through the switches. The problems running PW trains on these switches are when the operating cars which have sliding shoes cross through the switches, they "operate" causing an unexpected result. The early Lionel PW locomotives and cars which have electro-couplers suffer the same problem- they uncouple when they pass over the switches.
I've had to disable these sliding shoes, by unsoldering the wire) to eliminate this problem. Thanks for asking!
@@isellu thank you for responding
Nice trains 🙂🙂 I have a couple of videos of my trains, 1 freight & 1 passenger
Thank you Gordon. I just viewed your train videos. Nice job!
@@isellu Thanks 😊😊
Post War Lionel are best Made in the USA PJ LI NY
Requesting more of this sir. I am requesting cabin fever video
Are you a high-railer Terry because your layout has Gargraves track.
LOL! High Rail is a term with a bunch of different meanings. It seems that the most widely accepted belief is that it is a combination of the 3 rail track, (which is taller or higher than scale track) and over sized wheel flanges that run in a realistic scenicked layout. Basically it's toy-like trains running in scale scenery.
Confusingly, Gargraves track has rails not as high as the original Lionel tubular track but it is still higher than scale 2 rail track.
That's my story and I'm stickin' to it!
hey I was wandering do you have a csx train?
Actually, no I do not. Should I buy one?
What is that boxcar locomotive at 0:24
Good question!
It is the MTH Weed Sprayer set. Many times the real railroads built their own MOW ( maintenance of way) equipment using whatever they could find laying around. Apparently the UP built at least one from an old box car and this is based on that prototype. The MTH set came with the powered unit shown here which pulled two tank cars. I have a better video showing the entire set in action including the fun sounds at the beginning of my video linked here: czcams.com/video/_qC6FweCi1U/video.html
@@isellu thanks for the info!
Do you have a layout plan you would like to share?
Thanks for asking. I can't post a photo in the comments section but I made a short video of a still photo that Classic Toy Trains magazine made of my layout. The link is here: czcams.com/video/6c7qn9TBLTA/video.html
can you share your track plan this looks Great
Thanks Dennis. Here is a CZcams link to a video still I made that shows the track plan. (Artwork courtesy of Classic Toy Trains magazine) czcams.com/video/6c7qn9TBLTA/video.html
Can you make more layout vids? Specifically postwar stuff?
Sure, it's probably time since I have added some "new" postwar sets. Have you seen my postwar layout vids with all postwar trains?
#1 czcams.com/video/JbjANYXPBFw/video.html
#2 czcams.com/video/jOkkCW6nqmg/video.html
I will try to find a few hours to produce another postwar excursion video on my modern layout with train sets not seen before. Thanks for encouraging me!
@@isellu yes I have seen your videos, along with almost every other postwar lionel layout video on CZcams. I would record my setup but it’s very loud in its current state and I’m confident the video wouldn’t turn out so well because of it. So for now I just run my trains and enjoy watching others trains on CZcams. But yes it would be cool to see you detail some newly added stuff!
Hello
Please define "postwar" as you are using it here. What years?
Before the Vietnam war and after World War 2. 1950’s.
@@thekentuckynatureman5085 Thanks.
The Postwar Era for Lionel spans from 1945 to 1969 or right after WWII to General Mills' takeover in 1970.
Can you make a layout video