 Hey there, I'm Charlie Comstock model railroad hobbyist magazine. I'm here with Nick Muff Nick has got this Kansas City Southern layout downstairs in his house, and it's a very unusual layout in fact, we have to take quite a walk to get through it. He's got a Passenger car down there and we're gonna hike through that and he's got a bit of a station down here You can hear some of the sound effects in the background So you want to show us what you got here? Sure. I'd be glad to. Okay, let's go. All right Well, my real love is the passenger trains and passenger train travel So here in the basement I've recreated in full-scale and in an HO scale an experience in passenger train travel the lobby here simulates the Midway at Kansas City Human Station and To the left is the entrance to the Pullman car so the right here is what looks like part of the side of an F unit and the Numenate new the enigmatic door Operates and this represents the mock-up of a Pullman car People ask where I got it. I built it. I tell them that everything that's in this car I carried down those stairs. So come on in So there's a room at a museum restroom Come on in here and see the museum with Miss Southern Bell standing on the left and like all passenger trains It's cramped around the corner here and down the hall is Bafé lounge and again, this is all a mock-up Probably about one-third the length of a real passenger car and like all model railroaders do it's been selectively compressed So that it recreates the feeling of being in a passenger car. Even only it's only one-third as long as one And the table setting here. That's Kansas City Southerns Rocksbury pattern China and Kansas City Southern flatware and Holloware on the table And come on through this way through the door is the layout room Hobos jokingly referred to box cars as side door Pullmans This is a real side door Pullman and out here. We're in the layout room to the left here is the passenger car and Then the locomotive as opposed to the passenger car. The locomotive is not a mock-up. It's the real thing and then Across the room from right to left is Kansas City downtown in the late 40s early 50s So well, I like to have animations on the layout Okay visitors really are interested in those things And but I want really realistic animations So kite on the end of a piece of music while it goes around and around isn't going to work for me Okay, and so first animation on this end of the layout is this little Rock Island switcher number one. Aren't you afraid it's gonna come off the end of the trestle Well, we've arranged so it doesn't actually there is a diode in here That blocks this section of track so it can only run so far and it will stop automatically The same on the other end when he gets in behind the buildings where it's hidden. So next animation here is a hobo campsite Actually, the model was built by a friend of mine when he was just a teenager I've replaced the Fireplace electronics with something a little more modern. So it gives a very nice effect. One nice thing is to have Buttons that visitors can operate on the edge of the layout and so there is a button here that says here the lonesome hobo call So you push that and