🚂🚃🚋 Insta360 Tour: Amazing Model Trains at Lehnis Railroad Museum

Welcome to Dude RV. Hey, I appreciate you stopping by. And of course, say it with me, you got here just in time. That's right, just in time for another training video. No, no, not that kind of training. We're at the Lennis Martin and Francis Lennis Railroad Museum, Brownwood, Texas. We're We're going to go see some train stuff. We're doing some training. They actually have some really really neat stuff. We'll be going that way shortly. >> $3 for veterans. Of course, we have the gift shop there. >> Shut up. >> You want more than happy to give you the tour, too. >> Well, hey, we like tours. >> Show you around, my friend. >> Give us the rundown on it. Well, welcome to the Martin Francis Venice Railroad Museum here in Old Brown, Texas. And we got all kinds of things here. We're mainly for him because that gentleman over there and his wife are an absolute power couple when it came to the railroad. You see, Mr. Lennis, he worked for Santa Fe as a welder for 49 years. And he loved the railroad so much he took it back home. He's like the old Johnny Cash on his collection. He built it one piece at a time. He collected anything. It started off with just little bitty wrenches, little bits of train memorabilia, anything with a train on he wanted in his house. But then he wanted the railroad itself. So then he got that caboose. >> He got the green Pullman, which is one of 18 remaining superintendent cars. And that little yellow station out there. Why that ain't from Brownwood? That's all up from Crest, Texas near the panhandle. >> Okay. >> He brought that down over. Him and his son worked on that one together. Actually turned out to be a Father's Day present. But then >> pretty cool. >> This locomotive right here. Now, Mr. Lennis, he wanted a railroad he could actually ride on instead of just looking at. So that's why he built this one. See, he got the pieces from a catalog. He got the boiler and everything together and hooked up in his garage. And this right here is a real working engine. The chucks and puff goes down the line. You excuse me a moment? I'll >> absolutely. >> So this is actually a live steam cold fired live steam. What What scale would that be? >> This is 7 and 12 in gauge. >> 7 and 12. >> So basically the truck's about 7 and 12 in apart. And this is one you can actually ride on and operate. Has pole you can go over here, lift the seat up, and then you can actually pop this open and you put a water hose in there and get the water going. Okay? And then from there, go here, grab this piece of equipment, slide her in, and you actually pump the water in. >> Okay? Okay. And then water goes all the way up in the boiler, builds up pressure, comes all the way down here to the piston, drives the rod back, and we have locomotion, my friend. It's able to chuff and puff just like the real one, and pull you, me, and 50 other people. No problem. >> So, where did his feet go? >> His feet. So, he would sit here and then he actually have two rods, which I have put up right now. >> Go right here. >> Okay. So, >> so he put those two little metal rods here and then bolted on this end and that's where his feet would rest. >> Foot pin. Okay. >> Little pes on. >> All right. Kind of like a motorcycle just on the track. >> All right. >> And we actually have something that you can ride on on Saturday. So if you have a chance, do come on back >> on Saturday. >> Mhm. >> We have operating 7 and 12 in gauge railroad out there. And what's really interesting is with our model trains here, we put a lot of work to them. But the folks outside, we'll get real working railroad equipment and before we have a chance to make a display or anything about it, they'll take it from us and then build it onto the mini railroad outside. So once a 4-minute loop could go around, be done. No, no, no, no. 10-minute experience with actual real working railroad equipment. >> Okay. >> Working their 7 and 12 in gauge railroad. Now over here we have our model trains. We have five different scales. We have G scale, HO, N scale, S scale, O scale. >> Okay. In just a moment, I'll fire them up for you, friend. >> Get them fired up. We would We would We really like to get up close and personal with with trains. >> Oh, I said we got trains. >> Well, he's firing those up. Ah, that's cool. Oh, lantern. I need to start collecting some railroad lanterns. Oh, look. There's there's the lantern code. >> Awesome. >> Thank you so much. Texas. [Music] So, this this breaks it down for you so you get a really good idea. O gauge N T Z. How small that T is? H O S G. So there's not an H O N. There's a narrow gauge. Ho Harvey Hotel. was an icon in the day. And that's actually across the road. All right. Being a Harvey girl. I didn't I didn't know about the Harvey house and the hard girls. All right. Y'all ready to look at the train? We'll start with the S gauge. Y'all will have to wait. We We'll be coming back to you.