The last scenery that was on the video that was installed was the Ten Mile creek area.

Unless you count the panoramic photos that Charlie serendipitiously discovered made a great background.

It's amazing what you can do with tight shots and excellent editing.

Loved everything except for the music track. I like voice overs telling what is going on. The music makes it hard to hear the sounds of the railroad. Outstanding video work, and the modeling skills outstanding.

I enjoyed the footage of Siskiyou Line.  It's nice to experience a fantasy, and pretend it's a prototype.  The talent and time exhibited on this layout is obviously phenomenal. 

However, I would have liked to see the whole layout, even if it was in a separate video.  While it's nice to pretend, a video of the "layout" would be great.

You'll want to check out vol I and Live Ops I & II (but you'll want the whole series) http://model-trains-video.com/deal.php

You'll also want to check their Youtube channel - look for full train run bys to give you more http://www.youtube.com/user/modeltrainz/videos

Merry Christmas

Steve

@ancientpops - I have the complete "Tenmile Creek" series produced by Joe (http://model-trains-video.com/d-video-scenery.php)  including the bonus "introduction like" part (the intro part has some of the running for about 1 min 15 sec). The Tenmile Creek series gives much of the "nuts and bolts" of the layout construction. Although the series is titled "Tenmile Creek", that is just one of the main subjects - there are more parts of the layout construction methods discussed. This is a downloadable set - reasonably priced (first half or second half or each of the fifteen segments separately). If the techniques and methods of construction are of great interest to you, this video set is an excellent place to learn them. The fifteen segments are each contained in ZIP files with the video in MP4 format (DVD quality).

I always enjoy seeing a great layout and Joe's is certainly fantastic. Thanks for the time and effort to share a wonderful layout.

Gary

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

I'm a teacher at heart, and I *loved* the V&O series in that it focused exclusively on one layout and discussed all about what makes it tick.

My Siskiyou Line series is an attempt to do something of a video V&O story on my Siskiyou Line. If you take my DCC volume, I'm not aware of anyone doing on video how a larger layout has done all its DCC and control setup. You get smallish examples in articles, and some display layout how-to videos for DCC - but not a serious operating layout and how it does its DCC - after it has baked in for 12 years - so you're getting something that has been time-tested and proven out to work.

Likewise, the Tenmile Creek series, to my knowledge, is the only 15 chapter video set that takes a scene from totally bare benchwork to the final finished scene, with every step shown along the way. You get to watch the transformation happen right before your eyes.

All of this is done on video so you can be my virtual apprentice, following me along as I show you all ropes. I'm not aware of any other video series that does this for one person's largish layout - allowing you to get inside my head, so to speak, and learn how you too, can do likewise for your own model railroading dreams. Hopefully we can also help you avoid some of the stupid mistakes I've made.

If I've helped others more easily achieve their model railroading aspirations, then great!

Some of my op sessions on my P&WV and Union RR I have posted on you tube. Here is the link. I also have posted a series on doing scenery. 

Hope you enjoy.http://youtu.be/43f7R3vB_jA

Tom Wilson

Can't have too many train videos!!  And I love the blues music to go with it.

And Joe has definitely succeeded in what he set out to do with his video set.  Scenery is one thing I had never done before when I got his videos three years ago and between my daughter and I, we did not too bad a job for our first crack at it.  This is my daughter's in HO:

And mine in N scale:

You and your daughter make a talented team. Great looking little scene.