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N2CHX
12-09-2012, 10:03 PM
How'd you like this in your backyard?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpS2qqtFMpA
Dr. Detroit
12-09-2012, 10:25 PM
That's a "backyard"? The video would have been over after the first 13 seconds in my yard. Seriously, though, a very cool video. I would love to see it with some new-fallen snow!

Dr. D.
NQ6U
12-09-2012, 10:48 PM
That's a "backyard"? The video would have been over after the first 13 seconds in my yard. Seriously, though, a very cool video. I would love to see it with some new-fallen snow!

Dr. D.

I couldn't help but think about all the wire antennas one could loft into those big old trees without the neighbors ever being aware of it.
KJ3N
12-09-2012, 10:58 PM
I couldn't help but think about all the wire antennas one could loft into those big old trees without the neighbors ever being aware of it.

Welcome to my world. ;)
KA9MOT
12-10-2012, 04:14 AM
Wow! That was cool, but I am a little disappointed that the cat didn't jump out somewhere and scare the hell out of all of us......my cats would have been all over that!
KB3LAZ
12-10-2012, 07:15 AM
Too much upkeep for me.
NM5TF
12-10-2012, 10:34 AM
this is so kool...thanx for sharing Kelli...

someone has lots of $$$ and free time on their hands....
imagine what kind of radios they could have had if they
were hams....

glad they showed the rolling stock at the end...looks like G scale
to me....
wa6mhz
12-10-2012, 11:10 AM
wonder if that was HO gauge or N?
NM5TF
12-10-2012, 02:15 PM
wonder if that was HO gauge or N?

it looked more like G (Garden) scale to me...
W8XLR
12-10-2012, 07:44 PM
it looked more like G (Garden) scale to me...

Yep, G scale... and BEYOND cool! That person has built "living art". The time and money invested must be un-beliveable.

The video kinda reminds me of the 60's TV show "Land of the Giants"...

I recall back in the '70's there was a similar railroad at the L.A. county fair grounds that I'd spend all day watching. I have a Lionel layout that I'll work on again some year... Actually, that's what I built the model radio tower for.

Thanks, Kelli... :-D
kb2vxa
12-10-2012, 08:23 PM
G scale is it, I've seen garden railroads before but nothing like THIS! Then there's that house that reeks of money... sigh.

"I couldn't help but think about all the wire antennas one could loft into those big old trees without the neighbors ever being aware of it."
WHAT neighbors?

"Too much upkeep for me."
That's what servants are for.
Dr. Detroit
12-10-2012, 11:11 PM
Darn ... tried to show my son the train video as he was headed off to bed and the video owner has made it private on You Tube. Crap.

Dr. D.
N2CHX
12-11-2012, 06:31 AM
Darn ... tried to show my son the train video as he was headed off to bed and the video owner has made it private on You Tube. Crap.

Dr. D.

Wow! What the hell? That was an awesome video. Why on earth did he make I private I wonder. :-/
N2CHX
12-11-2012, 06:34 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VpS2qqtFMpA

Here's another of the same railroad.
NM5TF
12-11-2012, 08:30 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VpS2qqtFMpA

Here's another of the same railroad.

also marked private now....too many views???

major bummer....it was great while it lasted

this is a short clip of the same layout:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmmnNevbiMQ
NM5TF
12-11-2012, 10:36 AM
FYI.....the layout is NOT mine, nor is the video...I WISH it was mine...

I also did NOT make it private nor do I own it....

for some unknown reason it was marked private by the actual owner...maybe
too many views...or someone felt threatened by all the attention???

the actual owner is listed as NEALS384....

I have received 2 mails this morning asking why I took it down....it WASN'T ME!!!
NM5TF
12-12-2012, 09:25 PM
the site is now back up under a different owner....
N2CHX
12-12-2012, 09:28 PM
the site is now back up under a different owner....

go here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpS2qqtFMpA&list=FLAPExYmY4HfwPa83h_w75Rg&index=1

Cool, thanks! Won't even ask how you managed to finagle that.
n2ize
12-12-2012, 10:14 PM
Maybe it's Poptech :lol:
KJ3N
12-12-2012, 10:54 PM
Maybe it's Poptech :lol:

Unpossible! Those videos aren't peer reviewed. ;)
kb2vxa
12-13-2012, 12:12 PM
Poptech, makers of the world's slowest popcorn popper that pops and salts each kernel individually one at a time.
N7RJD
12-18-2012, 12:58 AM
I've seen much larger layouts but never in a person's backyard or built and/or maintained by an individual.

Very nice.
ka4dpo
12-18-2012, 02:51 PM
Last year we visited the model ralroad museum at Balboa Park in San Diego. If you are into model railroading this is one you have got to see. There are three primary clubs that run it and the layouts a no only huge but absolute works of art. The level of detail in the towns and even inside the buildings is incredible and very imaginative.