Large HO Scale Model Train Layout
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This is a 1930's style model railroad called Douglassville Locomotive Works (DLW for short). This layout is located in Douglassville, PA. It took the owner, Jay Matz (and friends), 20 years to build this large layout, and it is still expanding! The rail line that runs two Shays and one Climax is "Pine Ridge Lumber" and the two main lines are "Berkshire and Allegheny" and "Neversink Railroad". The layout's website is www.dlw-model-rr.com trainguy3 was the one who took me here, please check out his channel, he might have some videos soon Tags: "Berkshire and Allegheny" "Neversink Railroad" "Pine Ridge Lumber" Shay climax 2-4-0 HO Scale model train layout 1930 1930's trains locomotive locomotion 2-6-0 0-6-0 diesel rail railroad railway steam
January 6th, 2012 - 01:48
nice layout
January 6th, 2012 - 02:17
@pretjim2011 those are actually some of the guys who helped work on it for a bunch of years. next time i make a video of the layout (which wont be for a while because my camera is broken) i will try and record when no one is talking.
January 6th, 2012 - 02:58
@JBofBrisbane
ah ok, thanks for letting me know! Another question was that I wasnt sure if the Union Pacific Challenger steam engine pulled freight or only passenger. Do you know?
January 6th, 2012 - 03:52
@vidfreak727 @trainguy3 – Usually, on a timber line, the logging area is uphill from the sawmill, so the loco faces uphill so that the firebox crown remains covered with water while the loco is climbing the grade. That means the loco will be running bunker first when it is hauling logs back to the sawmill.
January 6th, 2012 - 04:39
Great layout, obviously years of work.
Hint for next time: lock out those selfish ignorant idiots in the background who completely ruined the sound effects! In the 21st century, EVERYONE knows that all sounds are recorded while filming, so background talking and yelling is a NO-NO! Those pricks did that deliberately just for their stupid egos.
January 6th, 2012 - 05:19
nice layout
January 6th, 2012 - 05:59
nicelayout
January 6th, 2012 - 06:10
Great layout. My layout’s been boxed up for the past 30 years, but I’m starting again… once I finish the basement renos. Spent the past year planning, purchasing and assembling, while learing what a dinosaur I am LOL (a lot has changed in 30 years)
Thanks to you and everyone else on Youtube who are giving me inspiration and great tips
January 6th, 2012 - 06:56
Great layout love the Shay’s!!! I subbed you please sub me back!!! thanks!!!
January 6th, 2012 - 07:37
@ChamplainDivision that is a good point, however, I am a part of this video, as well as the creator of some of the scenery on this layout, and it is a 20′ by 60′ building, it would take a very long time, to do this with all the tracks that we have on the layout, too long for such a minor detail
January 6th, 2012 - 08:14
@trainguy3 I am entitled to my opinion regardless of the status of my layout. If the poster of the video doesn’t want our opinions he should disable comments for his video. Otherwise, the shoolting gallery is open!
January 6th, 2012 - 08:20
@ChamplainDivision a lot of talk for someone who has JUST tracks, and no scenery at all…
January 6th, 2012 - 08:41
Man, those shiny silver rail sides against all that scenery really stick out like a sore thumb! Just detracts fcrom an otherwise outstanding layout.
January 6th, 2012 - 09:27
i am building a honby train set basted in the 1940s
January 6th, 2012 - 09:44
Very nicely done!
January 6th, 2012 - 09:50
@NitroLPR9 LOL that’s Jay!
January 6th, 2012 - 10:38
@trainguy3
still very good though! i love it! Specially the steam locos. too bad these are well beyond my budget at the moment.
January 6th, 2012 - 11:20
@vidfreak727 I hav to give the credit to my grandparents neighbor, he’s been working on it for twenty years, and ever since I wasn’t tall enough to see over the layout I came over to see it
thanx tho
January 6th, 2012 - 11:49
@trainguy3
just saying cuz it looks kinda awkard for me. But GREAT layout, nonetheless!
January 6th, 2012 - 12:12
@vidfreak727 not really, at the upper timber camps, a lot of times they didn’t have enough space to build turntables, and even when they did, it was too time consuming, and as they say. Time is money
January 6th, 2012 - 13:07
shouldnt the steam loco be facing forward when pulling that log load train?
January 6th, 2012 - 14:01
@PRObdaman my dad and i started building a model RR a few years ago, but we moved across the country and had to give it away. there was no room in our new house and i kinda lost interest (thats why i go to DLW every week) im currently designing a 1:400 model airport
January 6th, 2012 - 14:52
you ever thought of getting a hornby
January 6th, 2012 - 15:16
awsome
January 6th, 2012 - 16:11
Had to stop watching after a minute or so because the person yelling in the background making me upset.