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After touring Tom Piccirillo’s O scale layout, the Somerset County Traction System, you’ll enjoy a revealing ride along the length of the line! In this BONUS (free) video, viewers will see the stunning trackwork, powered overhead lines, detailed scenery, and extra-ordinary craftsmanship of Tom’s model railroad – all from the motorman’s perspective! You can learn more about the layout in the 2009 issue of Great Model Railroads.
LOL I loved watching them hide from the camera!
What a great video. That facility looks huge! I wonder what it once was. Very enjoyable.
Fun ride and very realistic!!! This reminds me of the trolley excursions at the Electric City Trolley Museum in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Very well made and the layout is super, job well done. Also look forward seeing these kind of videos
ALL I CAN SAY IS "WOW" FANTASTIC.
Great ride on a great layout. My wife liked it too. I'd love to operate on it. I have always loved trolley & traction lines. Thanks very much for sharing your layout with us.
SIMPLY AMAZING. Thanks for the ride.:>)
David Nelson, The track work IS that smooth. I operate on this layout about twice a month, and I'm always amazed at how great the RR operates. Even when I watched the video I was expecting a little wobble at some of the turnouts. You know how "the camera adds 5 degrees to you" 😉 . But I saw no wiggles or jiggles.
Great work Tom P an MRVP
Not often on layout tours does one get the complete tunnel ride. Very good track work.
Ya'll caught me! Wonder if you also saw Tom …and Ben too? — Kent, assoc. producer
What a beautiful layout! Top notch track work and scenery. However the music just about killed the video for me. Had to turn the sound off. Much rather have just listened to the rail/ wheel noise in this case. Just my two cents worth.
wow that is agreat layout
I see you, Kent Johnson! 😉
Great video! Such a lovely layout.
I really liked this video tour of the line — and found myself wishing the train had explored some of those intriguing steep downward grades (branchlines? industrial areas?). I also noticed how little wobble there was at turnouts and although that might be a function of image stabilization in the video camera, still — very smooth looking track.
I loved the first-person view of the layout. It's a perspective we seldom see, and yet many of us model with the railfan p.o.v. in mind.
I do have one question: Did Kent ever find that contact lens or coupler spring he dove after just as the camera car came into view? 😉
Way too cool! I love the details and the familiar places I used to haunt in NJ.