The scenery is great, too, but I love the sound.  It really brings it to life.  The animated water tower was a nice touch, too.   

Excellent scenery and operation. I would gladly give up "Fireman Fred" and the cheesey "All Aboard" sounds to get the playable whistle and bass sounds that PFM was doing 25 years ago. Good cinematography. I really liked the slow descending pan from Lobato trestle. Good job all around!

Those Mudhens were "On3" and watching the Video helps with my inspiration for My "HOn3 version I'm building of the Rio Grande Southern with a small portion of Rio Grande Western. I have those same engines in HOn3 and no mater what scale they are they look Great. I can hardly wait for the second segment and I'd like to say thank you Jim Reardon for sharing your Narrow Gauge Railroad with us .

Dan

Nice scenes and modeling there...Nevertheless, the train sounds were a distraction and a destroyer of realism.  Apparently, no one has explained that locomotives going down hill or drifting sound a lot different than those accelerating or pulling up a heavy grade.  This is what I call negative detail: something added that takes away from realism.  Gee, and even O-scale has tinney sounds.

On the other hand, whistle/horn and bell sounds are useful.  But nobody listens to me about the idea of a card-deck-sized sound unit carried by the train operator for those effects.

Regardless, thanks for the video!

This is a very good inspiration for my Hon3 project "Silver Creek".

Wolfgang

Thanks Charlie C for some real Fine filming and Joe great interview about the PFM sound system, you guys are getting better all the time. This is really what it's all about UP CLOSE and Personal and your variety of Model Railroads each week have been Fantastic.  I have been and will continue downloading them all and not only I'm I collecting a fine library of Videos but my neighbors have become more interested in Model railroading since you guys have started these Monday videos and I may be helping to expand our hobby by getting 3 of the guys living around me really into the hobby just by letting them watch the Videos from the MRH Monday Videos. Keep them coming and thanks again for the great Work.

This is one nice layout, and without all that DCC stuff too, I know, DCC is where its at today, however, I still feel that those old PFM systems were still great for their time, and obviously still are, love the detail of the trains in On3, never could keep my interest in narrow gauge modeling, so I do narrow gauge in V scale, and standard gauge in both V and HO scale..........

More than fantastic.No word to discribe the movies.

Ok, well first of let me say, words can't describe that layout, one of the best I've seen in a long time.

On a different not however, what's with the sound, that's a 25 year old sound system, and it sounds better then any DCC one I've ever heard. I might have to look into finding one of those....

Speaker size may have something to do with it... You can fit much bigger speakers into those On3 tenders than fit in HO. The other thing that helps is having a real whislte control that you can play rather than the on-off that is typical with DCC. And there's NO system delay when using the whistle because there's no cab bus...

Cheers,

Charlie