🚂🚃🚋 Scalerailology | DFW Train-ing Adventure + INSANE G Scale Layout!You Got Here Just In Time!

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 no no no not that kind of training video. We are actually doing model railroads and we're going to see some big trains too. Mom-in-law has flown into town. You can hear I'm over by Love Field but we have loaded up Trudy Thunder and rolled through the Greater Dallas Metroplex. Never really fun in the motorhome but we are staying at a RV resort. We know it's a resort because they got a pond. They actually have a swimming pool. But anyway we're staying there so that Yappy can hang out with her mother and rather than just sitting around twiddling my thumbs I brought my toys, my cameras, my scooters and stuff. I was gonna do some kayak video today but the wind is blowing hard so by golly we're going training. And we're gonna start at the Discount Model Train Store. It's one of the few remaining train stores in North America. They have the most popular four sizes available. They don't have an online presence so if you want to see what they have you got to come here and show up. However they can work with you over the phone and they do ship. So if you have a specific need that they can track down they can ship it to you. So let's go take a look. They actually have kind of a layout here too and they've given me clue on another club not too far away. They asked that I be discreet and not show anybody's face so these are all on consignment. Publications. I wonder if they have a motor home. I need to find the end scale of Trudy. Those are really cool. Traffic signs. That's cool. It is especially since I'm Dude RV. Check that out. That's cool. This is my preferred route of the Beaver. So as has happened before on my scale railology adventures the guys over at the train store said I really need to come check out the club layout here. Let's go see what we can find. There are no trains but it is interesting. Now there's music so I gotta cut the audio and replace it with something else but we'll do a quick walk through in case you're into vintage toys. Here we go. So if you collect toys this is probably a place you want to visit. We found the model train but we don't get to see the model train. We'll have to come back. All right we have made it to the destination. This is the Frisco Discovery Center Train-Topia and we are going to get an overview. We're actually not going to do the real trains outside. We've seen a lot of those on this playlist but we have not seen this and we have got a wonderful guide. Please introduce yourself to the world. My name is Sam. I'm one of the volunteers here at the Museum of the American Railroad. This is the Train-Topia exhibit donated by the Sanders family made possible with a very generous donation by Brent and Amanda Ryan and the city of Frisco will bring a place for housing. All right he's got just a lot of info here so let's let's get into it. So this layout was owned by Steve Sanders. I don't know how things were when he was growing up. This is Elm Street. Steve was in the Boy Scouts and he would ride the train from Union Station to various scout camps. One of them was in Colorado outside Colorado Springs. Now Steve designed this layout and he didn't build it. He said I want Colorado. We have a state park there. We do. Caledonia Canyon is the second largest canyon in the United States after the Grand Canyon. This is a picture of White House Rock and a model of it on the track that shows the computer where the train is and it talks to it. The computer controls all the on-off stuff through those since the project was completed. Now that we've got the rundown from Sam I'm going to go in and zoom in on some of these. I think it's really fascinating that they actually have the lighting synchronized so that it the display shows daylight evening. It's very interesting. It says Steve Stop. The O scale over there. It's running underneath. We may want to get this one. This layout was owned by the Newhoff family. Okay. But uh and it's actually was a larger layout than the Sanders layout but we got it after we got here. They look so much alike because Rob Reed actually built the Newhoff layout as well. Those are the only two train layouts he ever built. Okay. We're about five miles apart in Dallas and neither man knew the other and Rob didn't bother him until he had built the other layout. So we're still in the process of resurrecting that because the question was where do you put a third of the train layout because that's all the room we have. So now we're trying to incorporate O gauge and G gauge. They can't interconnect but we've got lines running underneath that will run underneath the layout so we eventually hope to have them. Cool. It's called a whisper dish right here. So I'm gonna I'm gonna put y'all right here. I'm gonna go to that one. This is pretty cool. That's pretty funny. We're headed over here. There's the largest one of the largest diesel electrics ever built right next to the bad boy. That'd be a pretty cool place to live right there so you can see the museum. We will have to return someday and do that. I think this is one of the best as far as the train displays that we've seen the modern full-size trains. This has got to be one of the best and I'm sure it's a guided tour because it's still under construction I presume. The meteor. Good morning. Good morning from Frisco, Texas or I guess we're technically Hackberry Creek maybe. We're on Lake Louisville at a private campground on an old Corps of Engineers called Hidden Cove and it is like right down the road from the Frisco Discovery Center. So if you have an RV and you want to come up and see the this massive train layout this is a good place to stay. Definitely worth the visit to see if you're in a model train. Definitely worth the visit. On this video I just I wanted to kind of give you from the start the beginning we went to the train store and we looked at all the various different pieces and parts and we and then we went and saw an actually completed professionally built actually two I didn't get off there's not a whole lot on that sea gauge line just yet to shoot video of as far as just the aesthetics. So if you like doing them all if you're if you're into scale railology then the Frisco Discovery Center is definitely a an addition to your list. You got to add that to your list because that guy built that that was a heck of a display. That was entertaining. It was fun to look at all the little scenes that he had created and and how accurate they were represented. Very fascinating. Great experience. People were fantastic too. So get over to Frisco, Texas and see the model trains and the big trains. We'll be coming back. All right I hope y'all enjoyed this production. 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