January 16, 2025 • 28 mins
Ultra-realistic HO scale railroads and the train clubs who love them.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So there's a guy who lives in southern New Jersey,
so like outside of Philly, and he's got a house.
It's not it's not an enormous house, but the house
has essentially it's a finished basement, but it's unfinished, meaning
like it's it's it's air controlled, and they've got like
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a like flooring and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But there's no walls up down there. Do you understand
what I mean by that?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Like it's it's a basement, but it's not like a
dirt floor or there's like walls that are like just
kind of like the studs are up, like there's walls,
but there's no individual rooms or anything.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I mean, it sounds like an unfinished basement.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, but but it's not. And here's here's why I
say that. The entire basement, except for master control, is
train tracks and model trains, but not just his. There
are thirty people in his train club that go over
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to his house every Wednesday. Now, he may not have
all thirty of them there. And I know what you're thinking,
old people. No, they said there's some as young as sixteen.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Wow, that is quite the setup.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, tone what I say something, it's impressive. The Okay
that Diane's tone was.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I wasn't trying to be a bitch. I'm just saying, like,
that's that. Look at look at that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know what it is. It's like a massive utility room.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, that's fair. But instead of it, but it's just
filled with trains.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because he does have lighting on the.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Scene buildings and streets.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh no, I'm not talking about the trains. I'm just
saying that describing the room itself has lights. Yeah, you
gotta be able to see the trains. And I think
some of those the walls may have mountains scapes painted
on that behind the mountain to add to the actual
mountains that are part of the setup.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Absolutely. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This is in Jersey, yes, uh, just outside of Philly.
So on Wednesdays people go over to his house and
he sits in master control. He's got all the computer
screen set up, and he'll he'll say things like, uh,
coming out of see fifty two, not see fifty see
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fifty two, like he's managing the trains in the yard.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, and all of the look at the computer setup.
Look at the computer setup.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It looks like air traffic control. The Yeah, he looks
like he's actually operating.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
He looks like he saw on a race simulator.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wow. I love We've talked about this before. I love
when they put the cameras on the actual trains. This
is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So you're missing all the facial expression.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Do you know? I didn't do I'm not being a bitch, and.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I just say this. I don't know how this story
goes or ends.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I hope that what is his name, Jeff, Jeff Bernardi's Bernardie.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I hope Jeff is is good and clean when it
comes to a criminal record or God knows what you're
gonna tell us about him. Oh, well, he's dead, so
there's like a murder mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No no, no, no, no no no no no no, no,
no no.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
No that causes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No he got hit by a train.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, of course not. He's an old man died of board.
Just told us. He's an older guy. He's he's in
his he's in his late seventies.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
He looked at you late seventies.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Really, I would have guessed younger.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, okay, well he's still dead. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Anyway, on Wednesdays, thirty people would come to the house
and he would.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Be he would be I'm in charge of the trains.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No confusion in delay Thomas and they and they said,
the thing that's odd is a lot of people who
have model trains are really really specific about don't touch
my trains, don't touch my track. But all of these
people kind of build it together and it's their club.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, that's fun, Like, what a great night with your friends.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
What I don't know what you just did there, But
it wasn't train related.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm saying that if this is your gosh, absolutely everybody
should have people that they showed are older.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
They may not be as old as him, but they're older.
It's not like there's any.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
There's no, no, no, there's a sixteen year old.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
They said.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The youngest one is sixteen.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, and there and and he got into it and
didn't like none of his friends were into its.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
See into it because his grandpa's into it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The I think it was a family thing, like when
he was young. They had like the Dickens village.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
By the way, not to insult these people, these people
are like, oh, so like you have a Dickens village.
They'll cut your mouth open. They're like, we don't have
a Dickens village. We have like they built towns and
cities and everything.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, what is it? Says Pacific Southern is always looking
to attract more young people. That's the name of their club.
Oh okay, that sounded like a real railway.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no, that's the name of their club. That's the
name of their club.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that what they've built in that basement is the
railroad is Pacific Southern.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Henry says some of the older members have shown him
the ropes. He likes that club members are allowed to
operate one another's trains.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right, which normally saying hands off, hands off.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
A lot of train clubs are really uppity, but this
one's about acceptance.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And he said that, so on, like I said, on Wednesdays,
they'll come over and then listen.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's their passion. They love I love hockey because you
do stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, As a thirty seven year old who is apprenticing
to be the next train master of Pacific Southern.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well what they're hoping for, what they're really hoping for
is that that thirty seven year old will do what
Jeff and his wife did because he wasn't always the
train master.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Was it another older family member?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, and that guy died.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That guy died and Jeff and his wife and they've
been there for decades. Jeff and his wife moved into
the house so that the club could continue.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Wow, So now that Jeff is dead, was the house
willed to them?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
What do you mean? No, no, no, no, no, no,
like they sold it. They sold it, they bought the house. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
When the first train master died.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, the previous train master, Yeah, when he died. Oh, careful,
train coming around the bend.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The future of Pacific Southern Railway is in fux.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And a lot of people are looking at the wife
missus h missus Jeff of don't sell an outsider.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I thought you were saying that he was like suspicious
or something.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm sure there were many times where she was like,
if you don't get those trains out of my basement,
I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So she has no interest in the trains, she said, no,
it's not her passion.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And it's also like the house is like she's I
think she's seventy four, seventy five.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She doesn't need it, she doesn't need the house. She's
getting up there in age.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
She's like, I don't need I don't want to be
a part of this, like this was my husband's thing,
and the group is great, Like they're very nice people,
but it's not my thing. So they're hoping that this
thirty seven year old, and they want one of the
young the sixteen year old camp buy the house. But
they're hoping the thirty seven year old will because he
could go on to another thirty years.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, I mean if he lives to Jeff's age.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I think that thirty seven year old is is actually
a woman.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Or her age whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Wait, but this based on the size of this basement,
this can't be a cheap house.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's not. It's not.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And they're just like, hey, you're the next train master
in waiting by this place.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well but well, they'd like her to.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But they're also hoping that that Jeff's wife will work
with her to find a price that are that's good
for both.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
This is going to not end well, you know what,
it's gonna end with train disaster. That's gonna be the
wife down there with a sledgehammer.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And general Brandon writes in Pittsburgh last month, I visited
the world's largest private collection of model trains with Placey
with placey. She was with them too.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I bet I bet you she was excited to go
on that trip.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
No, she went.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Look at this setup.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, it goes with Brandon because he's got a bat
between his legs.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Can we focus on the photo?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Wait? This is where Brandon went.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You look at that?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Wow? Wait? What is that? The biggest collection of model trains?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Private collection?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Private, that's somebody's personal collection and they just have him
all on display.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So the difference here why I'm walking in never ever
make fun of a sports fan. Again, they are not,
And there may be something set up elsewhere in this home,
but these are on display versus the Pacific Southern Railway
that's that's running around multiple tracks.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Right, Damn.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I can't imagine walking into that, that that private display.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I can't imagine how horny place he was.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You don't know what if she actually is really into.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Give me that steam engine Brandon.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Being a foamer?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Do what now?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Isn't that what they were called foamers?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Weren't those the people who stand there and start screaming
and yelling when oh yeah pass by?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well remember what was that guy?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
David? The my old Engineering New York.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The clips that we had that ran for years.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Awesome. There he is. But remember I had that engineer
in New York.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
There it is. That's the one I remember at.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Z one hundred who would go out by the train
tracks and record the trains and then.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And then go home and listen to him and masturbate.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And he was a foemer who No, David, No, he
was a masturbator and he wanted remember he wanted Milkman
to stay with him, and I was like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But yeah, he would go masturbate.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But obviously everybody who knows the old engineer David knows
that his on air name is General Brandon.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
This is during COVID. The club even ran the trains
through Zoom, so they can't let this sad passing get
in their way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, then lower the price of the house. Jane, I
think that's her name. Where am I going? Line three?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Elliet the morning?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Ahi?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Is this me?
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Hi? Who's that?
Speaker 8 (11:11):
My name is Stone, I'm sixteen and I'm a part
of a Model Train Club.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Are you really you know what? Good for you? Good
for you? Son?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
The No?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No, like you know what you found weird?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, you've found the passion. No, I think that's great.
I think that's great. The is that how many how
many people are you doing a bit? Oh no, oh okay,
how many people are in your train club?
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I would say fifteen to twenty around the DMV.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
They said there's thousands of train clubs all across the country.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Oh yeah, there's there's some in DC. One, there's one
out of Northern Virginia. There's one based out of Baltimore.
And two weeks from now on the first there's a
train show in Timonium.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
They they hold it about.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Three times a year.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
And I don't know if you've been there.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
There's Cow Palace, Oh the old the old concert venue
in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I saw bon Jovi there.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Oh no, this is in Cimonium, Maryland. Yeah, there's something. Yeah,
it's just called the cow Palace. And there's it's just
like this huge warehouse. There's three sections. There's right get
to the point of them, where get to where you
can get.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
To the you get Yeah, you gotta get to the sorry,
you're there's.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Two parts where you can actually buy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh, I got one of them.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's just like an exhibit in the other places where
you can buy Hey, So like, do you like when
I when I talk about this story of the guy
outside of Philly in South Jersey, and they have like
the whole basement is set up and all the trains
run and everybody goes over there. Is that kind of
what your is, that kind of what your train club does.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
There's we have a spot out of Fairfax Station where
it's it's like this old train museum, and there's a
setup there that all of our club members.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
They call them.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Modules, but you can you can build these individually by
yourself or with some other members, and then we pretty
much just hook them all up and run the trains
on there.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Pretty that's pretty cool, pretty fun to do.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You're eating well, swallowing. Actually I looked over. I think
you're having a medical emergency. Why is he not talking?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
All right, dude, Hey, I appreciate the phone call. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, hey, you got to you too. Now this explains
that clubs don't usually have their layouts in private homes.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh so normally it would be like he said, where
they go to that cow palace or something, so that
this palace, but like wherever he had the module.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Quote unquote, a very unique situation that a club President
has always lived in that house, lived in the house,
and run Pacific Southern's depot.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Is there any chance this would.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Be devastating to those other members if they lost this?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
What if? What if General Brandon and Placey bought the house?
Are they looking, I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Know, buy a home.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Could you imagine Placey would walk into that basement and
just get horny.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
He has not commented or he's responded to these claims.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Now he's just regretting sending that picture.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Line eight. Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Hi, I was also in a Twain quote.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, goodbye, see that. I'm not gonna talk away, Diane.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
Worse than me, worse than me, expect tolerate it. And
you're laughing at they call for you, Diane. They know
that you can be amu by their antis. Elliott at
least hangs up on them.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Hi Elliott the morning. Hey, good morning, Ellie.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
It's George.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Hey George, how are you.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I'm doing good. Listening to your training discussion. Way back
in the day, I knew. I knew this old guy,
and these guys are amazing. They will literally build these
houses out of out of wood. They stick build and
they use exact their knives, and you know, they they
construct these houses out of miniature timbers and they literally
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build them ut out of.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Six are plumb.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
No, I'm no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
I'm just reminiscing. So I don't know if you want
to go on the air with me. But yeah, the
level of detail these guys go to is it's not
about the trains, It's about the whole world they build.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You know.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
It's they must spend tens of thousands of dollars to
do this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Listen, if it's not tens of thousand dollars of cash,
it's definitely tens of thousands of hours of time.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I mean, it's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
All right, Hold on one second, let me think about
whether we're gonna go on the air.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hold on one second. I didn't understand what he meant
by that.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Some of the details in the non train stuff in
their city. I mean, there is a big top circuit, look,
not three rings, and you don't even see a train.
That's how elaborate the circus is.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Where's the train outside the circus? But I'm saying this
shot Ken Young was at Tyson's They were like, where
are the cars right outside the door?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The park got the lighting rig though the time and
effort is to build this and this part had nothing
to do with the actual tracks. Oh and look at
the tiger is attacking. That in itself is impressive. If
someone had that in their basement. They said, you want
to see my model circus, and they showed me that.
I would be pretty impressed.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Hold on, let me just share my location with some people.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's at the bottom of my well.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Is that not a thing a model circus?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I've never heard of that. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Really, I had a playmobile circus growing up. Mardon's not
a model circus, but we would construct I'm sure they still.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Like the Little People collection.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
No playmobile Oh yeah, oh sorry, big difference, and we
would keep that up. But that was more. That was
a toy, like a durable toy. I don't like. They
clearly have an updated version of it. I don't like it.
Oh there it is, there, it is. This is what
we had. Do you see that? Oh that's nice? What
is that, Diane? I don't need this? Did I did
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appreciate your last eBay purchase, but I don't need this
just too many toys in the house. But that's exactly
the one that we got at nineteen eighty two vintage.
Look at that. It was the year I was born.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That you didn't have to worry about your friend's breaking it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We had a play group in Chicago growing.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Up, me mother and my best friend, the teacher who
I asked to hold her hand on.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
There was Terry, the imaginary.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Friend you know. Oh and Cherry.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
See did I step in because for a second there
and I should have known better, that was my.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Teacher in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Again, an opportunity for Diane to step in because that
was Pittsburgh. But I shouldn't be shocked that Diane didn't
take that moment, correct you, because she's the one laughing
at the speech and pediment.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Caller exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Isn't that circus? Pretty cool?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah? Hi Elliott in the morning. Hey good, How many
of your friends were always busy? I'm sorry? Yes, hi?
Who is this?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
This is Greg from Manassas.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I've been in a model train crew for the past
twelve years now. He is a modeling going up to
the Timodium U to the Timonium Show and we're doing
both like a layout there and like how to clinics
for like, here's how to do scenery, here's how to
build trees you know on the cheeps for year layout
at home or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Hey, is that when when you said that you're on
a model train crew? Is that is that the same
as being in a model train group?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is is there a difference there?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Essentially?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yes, we're associated with other clubs and crews and enthusiasts
and organizations are around Virginia, right.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Uh, and so it's just to be.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Like affiliated with them and have you like instead of
being our own, right understand.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And like like like this guy and this guy in
outside of Philly where the train club and everything is
built in his house.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That is that is rare. Normally it would be kind
of like at a at a central point, if you will.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Well, so a lot of the members, even in my crew,
have like full bay. The president actually has a two
thousand square foot basement, multiple rooms, the whole thing to
lay out. Oh we want to actually if you want
to look up something cool on like YouTube or whatever. Uh,
the channel is Eastern sp Rails.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Eastern sp Rails, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
As in Southern Pacific as the sp.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Right does everybody like, does everybody who has one of these,
like is it? Like does everybody name it to sound
like real official like railroad sounding?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Usually yeah, usually like you.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wouldn't have like like like like.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Pig Benus railroys or something like that.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Oh no, that's common too.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
People can like one off name them and then they'll
make their own logos and everything like that for him.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Yeah, that's people do that too.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Any interest in buying the house of the president who's
dying or.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Dead, I should say somebody will mean personally no, but
somebody will, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Just to But that is a thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And when is that? When is that event in Timonium?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
It's coming up on I forget that's a couple of
weeks away.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know what will be the only morning.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
General I'm sorry, Brandon will be there. All right, very good,
Thank you sir, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What if General is actually like it was Brandon's favorite locomotive.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Like the General?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
The General?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
He actually though, has responded, Oh yeah, he didn't stop
listening after your ridiculing, and he writes, actually, yes, we
are looking for a house. Well damned suck on that
he didn't write that part.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So they are are? Are they expressing an interest in
the uh in the train club.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
If the rumors are true about her finding trains to
be triggering in a good way, and I think this
would be the perfect match.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Place he never goes into the basement or else.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Orgasm line too, Hi Elliott the morning, Am I am
I misremembering, but didn't like one of the first weekends
when they started dating that Diane and Scott went away,
didn't didn't Scott take Diane.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
To a training sister? I'm sorry? Yes, Hi? Who is this?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Hey? This is Joe and Farmville.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Hey, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Been good? I've talked to you before about model trains,
probably sometime last year. Oh wow, I'm actually currently running
model trains right now at our club in Farmville.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Are you really so? Are you the president?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Yeah? I actually just became the president this month.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh congratulations. Oh you're like Trump? Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Hey, do you get to like is it what does
when everybody gets together, like they talk about this guy,
the guy Jeff who unfortunately passed away, where like he
sits kind of in the in the like the main
chair and kind of calls everything out.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Is that what you do?
Speaker 9 (23:04):
So we have different people that do that every time
we do what's called an operating session, you know, where
we get members of the club together that bring their
own locomotives and then we have our own club owned
cars and stuff, and we kind of stage them around
the layout of different industries and stuff and you know,
basically switch out the cars like a real railroad would, right,
(23:25):
And we're actually getting ready to do one of those
that's coming Saturday. I'm down here working on getting that
set up right now. But yeah, we have somebody that
runs what's called the dispatcher desk, where you're kind of
in charge of everything that happens during that session, and
then you have all your different operators that do various
things on the layout.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And how long how long have you been in the club?
Speaker 9 (23:46):
This club here, I've only been a member of for
about a year and a half when I moved down here,
but I've been into model trains for over twenty years myself.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Was your family was your family into like your dad
or your grandfather? Were they into model trains? Like what
got you in? Were just always been interested in them?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
My grandfather was into O Gage, which is the slightly
larger than the ones that I'm running here, which are
ho scale, right, I kind of took on my own
thing once I got more into the hobby in my
teenage years.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But yeah, you know what, good for you? Good for you,
And I'm being serious. Listen, you want to know the
most shocking thing. Every phone line is fully, every phone
line is full. I'm in a train club. I'm in
a train club. I'm in a train club, and I
think it's great. Everybody should find what makes them happy.
Everybody should find what makes them happy. So good for you,
and congratulations, I'm being president.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Thanks, Hey, you got to do talk to you later.
What are you showing me there?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I was trying to see the exterior of the house
forwarded on to brand it here and I wasn't sure.
They did blur their address out on Google Maps, but
there are yard signs that say trains are coming, so
this is definitely the property.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But you know what I mean, what do I always
say there's an ass for every seat? Yeah, right, there's
an ass for every seat, and so yeah, we can
we have fun with each other. But I think that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I've told you before. One of the traditions we have
on Christmas Eve as we get out my old train.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Tracks Okay, but that's not what these people are. They're
not doing Dickens village.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's not a village. Always just set up a train,
We build a circular route, We see how many cars
we can attach to the engine and how many times
it can go around, and then we immediately dismantle it.
It's a piece of my childhood. I didn't have an
elaborage setup like all these callers or the story we're
reading about. But I could easily convince my kids to
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do this. If we wanted to convert the basement into
a Pacific railway, you.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Know what, Hug your kids because mine would shoot pucks
at it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is lame, bam, this sucks.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
We actually said a record this past year because we
got four cars attached to it. And this is a
small circle. So it's an impressing engineering feat.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I mean, is it the is it? The tiny little
train cars like that?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's h o scale and the actual passenger cars are
they're long, I mean they're they're a foot log. Yeah,
so when you're talking about a very small circle, because
I don't have that much track, I also don't need
track as a gift. I haven't convinced the kids to
get into this yet, but you have to just just
trying to get the engine the General if you want Brandon.
(26:44):
Trying to get the General on the track is difficult
because the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is a certain enough track, or do I need to
get you enough so that it also runs under like
it kind of like as escape, it runs under the
inflatables and stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I just said, I don't need any additional track. Yes,
and it's not even there's no Christmas tie in except
that it's Christmas Eve, but it's there's there's nothing you
could You could set this circle up uh and and
bits of track anytime of year and no one would
be like, hey, is that your Christmas train. It's not decoration,
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which is.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Why Tyler doesn't call the thing that's still up in
his living room the Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You know, it's just a tree.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I'm just saying, it's it's a fun it's a little
dabbling I did. I was more into the circus setup.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Okay, let's little did I did.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
It was fun, it was something that my dad took
interest in, and it was a It's a great memory
and that's why I continue that element on on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm sorry, missus Molnar. No, my son is very busy.
It is not going to be able to come over
for the sleepover. But thank you, thank you my best.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Now you you make fun.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Because my mom was here this Christmas Eve. She was
tearing up when we were putting the train together. Who
feels like a dick now?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Not me?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Even she was crying like, oh my god, this is
so embarrassing.
So there's a guy who lives in southern New Jersey,
so like outside of Philly, and he's got a house.
It's not it's not an enormous house, but the house
has essentially it's a finished basement, but it's unfinished, meaning
like it's it's it's air controlled, and they've got like
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a like flooring and stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
But there's no walls up down there. Do you understand
what I mean by that?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Like it's it's a basement, but it's not like a
dirt floor or there's like walls that are like just
kind of like the studs are up, like there's walls,
but there's no individual rooms or anything.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
I mean, it sounds like an unfinished basement.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Yeah, but but it's not. And here's here's why I
say that. The entire basement, except for master control, is
train tracks and model trains, but not just his. There
are thirty people in his train club that go over
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to his house every Wednesday. Now, he may not have
all thirty of them there. And I know what you're thinking,
old people. No, they said there's some as young as sixteen.
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Wow, that is quite the setup.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, tone what I say something, it's impressive. The Okay
that Diane's tone was.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I wasn't trying to be a bitch. I'm just saying, like,
that's that. Look at look at that.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
You know what it is. It's like a massive utility room.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Okay, that's fair. But instead of it, but it's just
filled with trains.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Because he does have lighting on the.
Speaker 4 (01:44):
Scene buildings and streets.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
Oh no, I'm not talking about the trains. I'm just
saying that describing the room itself has lights. Yeah, you
gotta be able to see the trains. And I think
some of those the walls may have mountains scapes painted
on that behind the mountain to add to the actual
mountains that are part of the setup.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Absolutely. Wow.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
This is in Jersey, yes, uh, just outside of Philly.
So on Wednesdays people go over to his house and
he sits in master control. He's got all the computer
screen set up, and he'll he'll say things like, uh,
coming out of see fifty two, not see fifty see
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fifty two, like he's managing the trains in the yard.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, and all of the look at the computer setup.
Look at the computer setup.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
It looks like air traffic control. The Yeah, he looks
like he's actually operating.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
He looks like he saw on a race simulator.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Wow. I love We've talked about this before. I love
when they put the cameras on the actual trains. This
is pretty cool.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
So you're missing all the facial expression.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Do you know? I didn't do I'm not being a bitch, and.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
I just say this. I don't know how this story
goes or ends.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
I hope that what is his name, Jeff, Jeff Bernardi's Bernardie.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I hope Jeff is is good and clean when it
comes to a criminal record or God knows what you're
gonna tell us about him. Oh, well, he's dead, so
there's like a murder mystery.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
No no, no, no, no no no no no no, no,
no no.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
No that causes.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No he got hit by a train.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Are you serious?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
No, of course not. He's an old man died of board.
Just told us. He's an older guy. He's he's in
his he's in his late seventies.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
He looked at you late seventies.
Speaker 3 (03:44):
Really, I would have guessed younger.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Yeah, okay, well he's still dead. Anyway.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
Anyway, on Wednesdays, thirty people would come to the house
and he would.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Be he would be I'm in charge of the trains.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
No confusion in delay Thomas and they and they said,
the thing that's odd is a lot of people who
have model trains are really really specific about don't touch
my trains, don't touch my track. But all of these
people kind of build it together and it's their club.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Yeah, that's fun, Like, what a great night with your friends.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
What I don't know what you just did there, But
it wasn't train related.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
I'm saying that if this is your gosh, absolutely everybody
should have people that they showed are older.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
They may not be as old as him, but they're older.
It's not like there's any.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
There's no, no, no, there's a sixteen year old.
Speaker 4 (04:41):
They said.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
The youngest one is sixteen.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah, and there and and he got into it and
didn't like none of his friends were into its.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
See into it because his grandpa's into it.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
The I think it was a family thing, like when
he was young. They had like the Dickens village.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
By the way, not to insult these people, these people
are like, oh, so like you have a Dickens village.
They'll cut your mouth open. They're like, we don't have
a Dickens village. We have like they built towns and
cities and everything.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, what is it? Says Pacific Southern is always looking
to attract more young people. That's the name of their club.
Oh okay, that sounded like a real railway.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Yeah, no, that's the name of their club. That's the
name of their club.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
And that what they've built in that basement is the
railroad is Pacific Southern.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Henry says some of the older members have shown him
the ropes. He likes that club members are allowed to
operate one another's trains.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Right, which normally saying hands off, hands off.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
A lot of train clubs are really uppity, but this
one's about acceptance.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
And he said that, so on, like I said, on Wednesdays,
they'll come over and then listen.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
That's their passion. They love I love hockey because you
do stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Okay, As a thirty seven year old who is apprenticing
to be the next train master of Pacific Southern.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Well what they're hoping for, what they're really hoping for
is that that thirty seven year old will do what
Jeff and his wife did because he wasn't always the
train master.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
Was it another older family member?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Yeah, and that guy died.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
That guy died and Jeff and his wife and they've
been there for decades. Jeff and his wife moved into
the house so that the club could continue.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Wow, So now that Jeff is dead, was the house
willed to them?
Speaker 2 (06:33):
What do you mean? No, no, no, no, no, no,
like they sold it. They sold it, they bought the house. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
When the first train master died.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Well, the previous train master, Yeah, when he died. Oh, careful,
train coming around the bend.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
The future of Pacific Southern Railway is in fux.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
And a lot of people are looking at the wife
missus h missus Jeff of don't sell an outsider.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
I thought you were saying that he was like suspicious
or something.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
No, no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
I'm sure there were many times where she was like,
if you don't get those trains out of my basement,
I'm gonna kill you.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
So she has no interest in the trains, she said, no,
it's not her passion.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
And it's also like the house is like she's I
think she's seventy four, seventy five.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She doesn't need it, she doesn't need the house. She's
getting up there in age.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
She's like, I don't need I don't want to be
a part of this, like this was my husband's thing,
and the group is great, Like they're very nice people,
but it's not my thing. So they're hoping that this
thirty seven year old, and they want one of the
young the sixteen year old camp buy the house. But
they're hoping the thirty seven year old will because he
could go on to another thirty years.
Speaker 2 (07:45):
No, I mean if he lives to Jeff's age.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I think that thirty seven year old is is actually
a woman.
Speaker 2 (07:50):
Or her age whatever. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Wait, but this based on the size of this basement,
this can't be a cheap house.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
It's not. It's not.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
And they're just like, hey, you're the next train master
in waiting by this place.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
Well but well, they'd like her to.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
But they're also hoping that that Jeff's wife will work
with her to find a price that are that's good
for both.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
This is going to not end well, you know what,
it's gonna end with train disaster. That's gonna be the
wife down there with a sledgehammer.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
And general Brandon writes in Pittsburgh last month, I visited
the world's largest private collection of model trains with Placey
with placey. She was with them too.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
I bet I bet you she was excited to go
on that trip.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
No, she went.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Look at this setup.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Yeah, it goes with Brandon because he's got a bat
between his legs.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Can we focus on the photo?
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Wait? This is where Brandon went.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
You look at that?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Wow? Wait? What is that? The biggest collection of model trains?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Private collection?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Private, that's somebody's personal collection and they just have him
all on display.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So the difference here why I'm walking in never ever
make fun of a sports fan. Again, they are not,
And there may be something set up elsewhere in this home,
but these are on display versus the Pacific Southern Railway
that's that's running around multiple tracks.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Right, Damn.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I can't imagine walking into that, that that private display.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I can't imagine how horny place he was.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
You don't know what if she actually is really into.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Give me that steam engine Brandon.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
Being a foamer?
Speaker 2 (09:42):
Do what now?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Isn't that what they were called foamers?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Weren't those the people who stand there and start screaming
and yelling when oh yeah pass by?
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Well remember what was that guy?
Speaker 2 (09:58):
David? The my old Engineering New York.
Speaker 4 (10:00):
The clips that we had that ran for years.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Awesome. There he is. But remember I had that engineer
in New York.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
There it is. That's the one I remember at.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
Z one hundred who would go out by the train
tracks and record the trains and then.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
And then go home and listen to him and masturbate.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
And he was a foemer who No, David, No, he
was a masturbator and he wanted remember he wanted Milkman
to stay with him, and I was like no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
But yeah, he would go masturbate.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
But obviously everybody who knows the old engineer David knows
that his on air name is General Brandon.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
This is during COVID. The club even ran the trains
through Zoom, so they can't let this sad passing get
in their way.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Well, then lower the price of the house. Jane, I
think that's her name. Where am I going? Line three?
Speaker 6 (11:05):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Elliet the morning?
Speaker 7 (11:07):
Ahi?
Speaker 5 (11:07):
Is this me?
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Hi? Who's that?
Speaker 8 (11:11):
My name is Stone, I'm sixteen and I'm a part
of a Model Train Club.
Speaker 2 (11:16):
Are you really you know what? Good for you? Good
for you? Son?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
The No?
Speaker 2 (11:20):
No, like you know what you found weird?
Speaker 1 (11:22):
No, you've found the passion. No, I think that's great.
I think that's great. The is that how many how
many people are you doing a bit? Oh no, oh okay,
how many people are in your train club?
Speaker 8 (11:36):
I would say fifteen to twenty around the DMV.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
They said there's thousands of train clubs all across the country.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Oh yeah, there's there's some in DC. One, there's one
out of Northern Virginia. There's one based out of Baltimore.
And two weeks from now on the first there's a
train show in Timonium.
Speaker 9 (11:58):
They they hold it about.
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Three times a year.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
And I don't know if you've been there.
Speaker 1 (12:04):
There's Cow Palace, Oh the old the old concert venue
in San Francisco.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I saw bon Jovi there.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Oh no, this is in Cimonium, Maryland. Yeah, there's something. Yeah,
it's just called the cow Palace. And there's it's just
like this huge warehouse. There's three sections. There's right get
to the point of them, where get to where you
can get.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
To the you get Yeah, you gotta get to the sorry,
you're there's.
Speaker 8 (12:39):
Two parts where you can actually buy stuff.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Oh, I got one of them.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
That's just like an exhibit in the other places where
you can buy Hey, So like, do you like when
I when I talk about this story of the guy
outside of Philly in South Jersey, and they have like
the whole basement is set up and all the trains
run and everybody goes over there. Is that kind of
what your is, that kind of what your train club does.
Speaker 8 (13:00):
There's we have a spot out of Fairfax Station where
it's it's like this old train museum, and there's a
setup there that all of our club members.
Speaker 6 (13:11):
They call them.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Modules, but you can you can build these individually by
yourself or with some other members, and then we pretty
much just hook them all up and run the trains
on there.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
That's pretty cool.
Speaker 8 (13:29):
Pretty that's pretty cool, pretty fun to do.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
You're eating well, swallowing. Actually I looked over. I think
you're having a medical emergency. Why is he not talking?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
All right, dude, Hey, I appreciate the phone call. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah, hey, you got to you too. Now this explains
that clubs don't usually have their layouts in private homes.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Oh so normally it would be like he said, where
they go to that cow palace or something, so that
this palace, but like wherever he had the module.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Quote unquote, a very unique situation that a club President
has always lived in that house, lived in the house,
and run Pacific Southern's depot.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Is there any chance this would.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
Be devastating to those other members if they lost this?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
What if? What if General Brandon and Placey bought the house?
Are they looking, I don't.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Know, buy a home.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Could you imagine Placey would walk into that basement and
just get horny.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
He has not commented or he's responded to these claims.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Now he's just regretting sending that picture.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
Line eight. Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Hi, I was also in a Twain quote.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Okay, goodbye, see that. I'm not gonna talk away, Diane.
Speaker 10 (14:50):
Worse than me, worse than me, expect tolerate it. And
you're laughing at they call for you, Diane. They know
that you can be amu by their antis. Elliott at
least hangs up on them.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Hi Elliott the morning. Hey, good morning, Ellie.
Speaker 6 (15:09):
It's George.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Hey George, how are you.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
I'm doing good.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
I'm doing good. Listening to your training discussion. Way back
in the day, I knew. I knew this old guy,
and these guys are amazing. They will literally build these
houses out of out of wood. They stick build and
they use exact their knives, and you know, they they
construct these houses out of miniature timbers and they literally
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build them ut out of.
Speaker 6 (15:36):
Six are plumb.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
No, I'm no, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I'm not.
Speaker 7 (15:42):
I'm just reminiscing. So I don't know if you want
to go on the air with me. But yeah, the
level of detail these guys go to is it's not
about the trains, It's about the whole world they build.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
You know.
Speaker 7 (15:52):
It's they must spend tens of thousands of dollars to
do this kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Listen, if it's not tens of thousand dollars of cash,
it's definitely tens of thousands of hours of time.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
I mean, it's amazing, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
All right, Hold on one second, let me think about
whether we're gonna go on the air.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Hold on one second. I didn't understand what he meant
by that.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Some of the details in the non train stuff in
their city. I mean, there is a big top circuit, look,
not three rings, and you don't even see a train.
That's how elaborate the circus is.
Speaker 2 (16:29):
Where's the train outside the circus? But I'm saying this
shot Ken Young was at Tyson's They were like, where
are the cars right outside the door?
Speaker 3 (16:38):
The park got the lighting rig though the time and
effort is to build this and this part had nothing
to do with the actual tracks. Oh and look at
the tiger is attacking. That in itself is impressive. If
someone had that in their basement. They said, you want
to see my model circus, and they showed me that.
I would be pretty impressed.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Hold on, let me just share my location with some people.
Speaker 2 (17:03):
It's at the bottom of my well.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Is that not a thing a model circus?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
I've never heard of that. I've never seen that before.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Really, I had a playmobile circus growing up. Mardon's not
a model circus, but we would construct I'm sure they still.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Like the Little People collection.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
No playmobile Oh yeah, oh sorry, big difference, and we
would keep that up. But that was more. That was
a toy, like a durable toy. I don't like. They
clearly have an updated version of it. I don't like it.
Oh there it is, there, it is. This is what
we had. Do you see that? Oh that's nice? What
is that, Diane? I don't need this? Did I did
(17:44):
appreciate your last eBay purchase, but I don't need this
just too many toys in the house. But that's exactly
the one that we got at nineteen eighty two vintage.
Look at that. It was the year I was born.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
That you didn't have to worry about your friend's breaking it.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
We had a play group in Chicago growing.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Up, me mother and my best friend, the teacher who
I asked to hold her hand on.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
There was Terry, the imaginary.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Friend you know. Oh and Cherry.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
See did I step in because for a second there
and I should have known better, that was my.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Teacher in New Jersey.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Again, an opportunity for Diane to step in because that
was Pittsburgh. But I shouldn't be shocked that Diane didn't
take that moment, correct you, because she's the one laughing
at the speech and pediment.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Caller exactly exactly.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Isn't that circus? Pretty cool?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Yeah? Hi Elliott in the morning. Hey good, How many
of your friends were always busy? I'm sorry? Yes, hi?
Who is this?
Speaker 6 (18:53):
This is Greg from Manassas.
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I've been in a model train crew for the past
twelve years now. He is a modeling going up to
the Timodium U to the Timonium Show and we're doing
both like a layout there and like how to clinics
for like, here's how to do scenery, here's how to
build trees you know on the cheeps for year layout
at home or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:15):
Hey, is that when when you said that you're on
a model train crew? Is that is that the same
as being in a model train group?
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Like?
Speaker 2 (19:21):
Is is there a difference there?
Speaker 6 (19:23):
Essentially?
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Yes, we're associated with other clubs and crews and enthusiasts
and organizations are around Virginia, right.
Speaker 6 (19:33):
Uh, and so it's just to be.
Speaker 5 (19:36):
Like affiliated with them and have you like instead of
being our own, right understand.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
And like like like this guy and this guy in
outside of Philly where the train club and everything is
built in his house.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
That is that is rare. Normally it would be kind
of like at a at a central point, if you will.
Speaker 5 (19:55):
Well, so a lot of the members, even in my crew,
have like full bay. The president actually has a two
thousand square foot basement, multiple rooms, the whole thing to
lay out. Oh we want to actually if you want
to look up something cool on like YouTube or whatever. Uh,
the channel is Eastern sp Rails.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Eastern sp Rails, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:19):
As in Southern Pacific as the sp.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
Right does everybody like, does everybody who has one of these,
like is it? Like does everybody name it to sound
like real official like railroad sounding?
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Usually yeah, usually like you.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Wouldn't have like like like like.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Pig Benus railroys or something like that.
Speaker 6 (20:39):
Oh no, that's common too.
Speaker 5 (20:40):
People can like one off name them and then they'll
make their own logos and everything like that for him.
Speaker 6 (20:45):
Yeah, that's people do that too.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Any interest in buying the house of the president who's
dying or.
Speaker 5 (20:50):
Dead, I should say somebody will mean personally no, but
somebody will, yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
Just to But that is a thank you, sir.
Speaker 2 (21:00):
And when is that? When is that event in Timonium?
Speaker 6 (21:04):
It's coming up on I forget that's a couple of
weeks away.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
You know what will be the only morning.
Speaker 2 (21:12):
General I'm sorry, Brandon will be there. All right, very good,
Thank you sir, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (21:17):
What if General is actually like it was Brandon's favorite locomotive.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
Like the General?
Speaker 4 (21:24):
The General?
Speaker 3 (21:24):
He actually though, has responded, Oh yeah, he didn't stop
listening after your ridiculing, and he writes, actually, yes, we
are looking for a house. Well damned suck on that
he didn't write that part.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
So they are are? Are they expressing an interest in
the uh in the train club.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
If the rumors are true about her finding trains to
be triggering in a good way, and I think this
would be the perfect match.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Place he never goes into the basement or else.
Speaker 11 (22:02):
Orgasm line too, Hi Elliott the morning, Am I am
I misremembering, but didn't like one of the first weekends
when they started dating that Diane and Scott went away,
didn't didn't Scott take Diane.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
To a training sister? I'm sorry? Yes, Hi? Who is this?
Speaker 9 (22:26):
Hey? This is Joe and Farmville.
Speaker 2 (22:27):
Hey, how you doing, sir?
Speaker 9 (22:29):
Been good? I've talked to you before about model trains,
probably sometime last year. Oh wow, I'm actually currently running
model trains right now at our club in Farmville.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Are you really so? Are you the president?
Speaker 9 (22:41):
Yeah? I actually just became the president this month.
Speaker 2 (22:44):
Oh congratulations. Oh you're like Trump? Congratulations.
Speaker 1 (22:47):
Hey, do you get to like is it what does
when everybody gets together, like they talk about this guy,
the guy Jeff who unfortunately passed away, where like he
sits kind of in the in the like the main
chair and kind of calls everything out.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Is that what you do?
Speaker 9 (23:04):
So we have different people that do that every time
we do what's called an operating session, you know, where
we get members of the club together that bring their
own locomotives and then we have our own club owned
cars and stuff, and we kind of stage them around
the layout of different industries and stuff and you know,
basically switch out the cars like a real railroad would, right,
(23:25):
And we're actually getting ready to do one of those
that's coming Saturday. I'm down here working on getting that
set up right now. But yeah, we have somebody that
runs what's called the dispatcher desk, where you're kind of
in charge of everything that happens during that session, and
then you have all your different operators that do various
things on the layout.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
And how long how long have you been in the club?
Speaker 9 (23:46):
This club here, I've only been a member of for
about a year and a half when I moved down here,
but I've been into model trains for over twenty years myself.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Was your family was your family into like your dad
or your grandfather? Were they into model trains? Like what
got you in? Were just always been interested in them?
Speaker 9 (24:02):
My grandfather was into O Gage, which is the slightly
larger than the ones that I'm running here, which are
ho scale, right, I kind of took on my own
thing once I got more into the hobby in my
teenage years.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
But yeah, you know what, good for you? Good for you,
And I'm being serious. Listen, you want to know the
most shocking thing. Every phone line is fully, every phone
line is full. I'm in a train club. I'm in
a train club. I'm in a train club, and I
think it's great. Everybody should find what makes them happy.
Everybody should find what makes them happy. So good for you,
and congratulations, I'm being president.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Thanks, Hey, you got to do talk to you later.
What are you showing me there?
Speaker 3 (24:39):
I was trying to see the exterior of the house
forwarded on to brand it here and I wasn't sure.
They did blur their address out on Google Maps, but
there are yard signs that say trains are coming, so
this is definitely the property.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
But you know what I mean, what do I always
say there's an ass for every seat? Yeah, right, there's
an ass for every seat, and so yeah, we can
we have fun with each other. But I think that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (25:15):
I've told you before. One of the traditions we have
on Christmas Eve as we get out my old train.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Tracks Okay, but that's not what these people are. They're
not doing Dickens village.
Speaker 3 (25:24):
It's not a village. Always just set up a train,
We build a circular route, We see how many cars
we can attach to the engine and how many times
it can go around, and then we immediately dismantle it.
It's a piece of my childhood. I didn't have an
elaborage setup like all these callers or the story we're
reading about. But I could easily convince my kids to
(25:48):
do this. If we wanted to convert the basement into
a Pacific railway, you.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Know what, Hug your kids because mine would shoot pucks
at it.
Speaker 2 (26:03):
This is lame, bam, this sucks.
Speaker 3 (26:07):
We actually said a record this past year because we
got four cars attached to it. And this is a
small circle. So it's an impressing engineering feat.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
I mean, is it the is it? The tiny little
train cars like that?
Speaker 3 (26:21):
It's h o scale and the actual passenger cars are
they're long, I mean they're they're a foot log. Yeah,
so when you're talking about a very small circle, because
I don't have that much track, I also don't need
track as a gift. I haven't convinced the kids to
get into this yet, but you have to just just
trying to get the engine the General if you want Brandon.
(26:44):
Trying to get the General on the track is difficult
because the whole thing.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
Is a certain enough track, or do I need to
get you enough so that it also runs under like
it kind of like as escape, it runs under the
inflatables and stuff.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
I just said, I don't need any additional track. Yes,
and it's not even there's no Christmas tie in except
that it's Christmas Eve, but it's there's there's nothing you
could You could set this circle up uh and and
bits of track anytime of year and no one would
be like, hey, is that your Christmas train. It's not decoration,
(27:17):
which is.
Speaker 2 (27:18):
Why Tyler doesn't call the thing that's still up in
his living room the Christmas tree.
Speaker 4 (27:22):
You know, it's just a tree.
Speaker 3 (27:25):
I'm just saying, it's it's a fun it's a little
dabbling I did. I was more into the circus setup.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
Okay, let's little did I did.
Speaker 3 (27:34):
It was fun, it was something that my dad took
interest in, and it was a It's a great memory
and that's why I continue that element on on Christmas Eve.
Speaker 1 (27:45):
I'm sorry, missus Molnar. No, my son is very busy.
It is not going to be able to come over
for the sleepover. But thank you, thank you my best.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
Now you you make fun.
Speaker 2 (27:56):
No, I don't.
Speaker 3 (27:59):
Because my mom was here this Christmas Eve. She was
tearing up when we were putting the train together. Who
feels like a dick now?
Speaker 7 (28:08):
Not me?
Speaker 2 (28:08):
Even she was crying like, oh my god, this is
so embarrassing.
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