“Hi Al , think this will go down well , Its a friend who posts a few on Youtube , I have asked if he would mind if I posted , and said O K ..good laugh and all model railway
Dave”
What a hoot!
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
Proper model train layouts here!
Best
Al
Absolutely Brilliant !!!!
Wonderful! This is like watching an episode of “Life on Mars” or “The Sweeney”. Best model train video I’ve seen this year; more, please!
Very good production but not happy about falling in front of train. Very distressing for train driver. A lot of questions though how was it all done ?
Brilliant. Haven’t laughed so much for ages. loved it. Bring us the next episode soon!!
The best video! After that I have a very nice day !
Congratulation !
That’s brilliant…what a giggle…well done whoever did that..:O) J
Great creative twisted mind. a new Spielberg is born.. low budget great impact.
I nominate for bst amature vieo of the year in any catagory.
That was great. more
This could be downtown Camden! Nw Jersey, that is.
Very creative and well done. Love the references to “Christine – a tragic love story about a boy and his car.”
Nice video if I saw a spider in 1_1 scale climbing over the car in front of me I think I would need clean pant’s yuk
Dave that was awsome
A really good laugh and clever too.thanks for posting you made my day
regards
Albert
hi,
I live ikn Scranton, Pa a name very close to Scumton. Some of the stuff happening on thios video actualy happen!
Absolutely great! The spider scene is fantastic! The whole video is just GRAND. Keep up the good work!
jerrymitch…Marietta, GA
Fantastic video more please
ABSOLUTELY amazing!!!! Great work with the models. Great imagination!!
I loved it awesome video may we have more?
Love it!!!
Absolutely wonderful, great humour and reminds me of a few locations that are actually like that
Great layout as well
GOOD LAUGH WELL DONE
Very clever! Enjoyed it a lot!
That was a very clever video and a display of fantastic modeling skills plus fabulous video skills. It is the most entertaining model train video I have ever seen. Bravo
All I can say is WOW!!!
Nice one Dave lol, Cant wait for 2nd episode, Also goes to prove that model railway builders DO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR!!!!!!!….
Great job Dave, Keep em coming mate!!
Sid
Brilliant! You’re giving our show “Robot Chicken” a run for it’s money!
The “wildlife” and “Catzilla” were a nice touch!
Hey, thats my town! 🙂
That made my day! Also gave me some ideas for my layout, especially the lamp post ladies 🙂
Excellent!Excellent! I too would like to know the secrets of some of the stuff, such as the wheel falling off. The cat scene reminds me of my solid white 15 lb. cat, Marsha, on my layout when I first got it, that was one of her 9 lives she lost ( just kidding out there you SPCAers). I am going to forward this to some people I know plus some members of a Z scale group. A very funny and entertaining video, only problem is thelength, too short. Thanks Dave for letting us see this. This could probably go viral on UToobe, I don’t know how to do it and wouldn’t without the owners written permissing. Hey keep more of ’em coming. SUPER !!!
Brilliant 🙂
What a warped sense of humor! Just like mine!!! Very time consuming to make all the motions. Well done. And the spider and cat! they looked “so real”
Unbelieveable!
Thought this would cause a good laugh , all enjoy , I did
realy got a good laugh out of this one good work
What a hoot, really funny, tongue in cheek. Either a budding animator or film director. But aside from that someone has toooooooooooooo much time.
excellent detail…and the Drama is exciting….!!
none of my HO trains have that much power in there motors.Lol.that video was very well done.how did you get them cars to move like that.
Very Creative! Extremely well done! Yes, should share more of like this.
Arnie
Brilliant video, loved all of it. More please.
Did the man, who fell on the track got killed?
Great very very entertaining. Pity about the spider. It reminded me Im in the attic tomorrow most of the day.Good Fun
One disturbed sense of humour. King meets Speilberg. Great piece of fiction.
Insanely funny, I love it.
Great production!
Absolutely fantastic!!! Take care Jim.
I expect to see this video at the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah.
An original horror story.
I Thought it was great Show some more.
regards,
well done … looks great ,but i’ll skip that town next trip out
Nicely done!!
this was funny…. how did he do it
Without a shaddow of doubt, the BEST train video I have seen in years. I’m so glad I had just changed my “Depends” before I did my e-mail. I too would like to know how the animation was done. Thank you Al and Dave for making my day a little brighter.
Catzilla, I LOVE IT!!! Nice touch.
Just fixed my utility bill for another expensive year so this was just what the doctor ordered. Also my wife is wanting to get a wee cat so she can just **** off. Great stuff Dave.
Haha great video. Looking fwd to the next one
Excellent and enjoyable. I had a good laugh. I love how the catzilla made its way through the street without knocking anything over. I loved the urban renewal with the domino effect. Reminds me of the south side of Philadelphia when they redid all of the section 8 housing projects. The spider is classic. Reminds me of the big spiders in Florida. I love the guy falling in front of the train, again reminds me of the subway in Philly or New York. Good to see Ghostbusters in action either being chased by or working with the A Team. I loved the haunted car especially when the hood falls on the guy. THis was great. Wish I could be that creatively warped.
GREAT video! There should be an award given for this video. Please keep them coming.
Undoubtedly one of the best railroad videos I have seen EVER! The animations area awesome! Gives me a lots of ideas to look for when my layout is complete!
A great model train video. Great amateur video work too !
Very well done. Must say I had a good laugh over this video.
Superb, very clever, worth watching over and over again cos it’s great fun
LOOKS LIKE THE REAL PICTURE. VERY NICE.
Fabulous, just great. Real life is not too dissimilar round here either. Had a rogue car crash through a fence and down an embankment onto the track. Had a mystery fatality treated by Police as a crime scene. Had a driver follow a dog running up the four-foot all the way to the next station, only to see the dog cross over to the down line and run back in front of the next one (honestly!) Had a train cancelled because of an infestation of fleas in the driver’s seat. Had a kid ride through the tunnel hanging on the back of a passenger train, who nearly gave the guard a heart-attack by banging on the windscreen… no two days the same on the railway!
Rod
What an imagination! Beautifully done. I laughed out load. Hope to see some more of Scumtown.
I hope the maker of the video is a kid. It was very good until the spider, then that was it for me.
I would liked to seen more trains, but that is a very good video.
LOL !!!! Christine lives and the kill dozer (granby CO USA ) look it up on you tube
SUBERB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is fantastic probably the best railway vid ever. Ha more like that please.
What a fantastic tribute to real life !
Tremendous –
I loved the scene from the Stephen King movie “Christine” with the 1957 Dodge (?) limping back to the garage, with smoke coming out from under the hood. Absolutely classic. Not just a model RR guy, a budding cinematographer !
Congratulations.
Deliciously twisted… Well done!
totally brilliant, the best video iv seen for ages, this will take a lot of beating,
AWSOME,
Malc
Maybe the bet vid I’ve sen on here!!
FabulOUS weathering and realism in the trackside ‘dirt-life’. You can model for me Anytime [please?]
Unbelievable, Dave you have WAY to much time on your hands. But done VERY well. Now I have to get back to landscaping this corner of my layout
Rick
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Loved it! The “Gumby” of model railroad animation.
I thought this was a serious hobby….
Great fun
the Christine part
very clever
hollywood spends millions on tat and this guy done a great film for a few quid
Well done and more please
What can I say; PURE GENIUS!
Saw this before but it is still great entertainment. So realistic although Christine was actually a hardtop, not a sedan.
well impressed had a few laughs great detailing
FANTASTIC I was Gobsmacked , very creative. Would like to know how you did the animation. I laughed so hard I had tears, almost peed in my pants from laughing. Also, nice scenery and realism.
I would be interested in how he was able to achieve the automobile animantion.
The layout is a pretty accurate portrayal of Detroit Michigan.
Great layout. We should all have some features like this, lest we start taking ourselves to seriously. It’s occasionally a little twisted, but that’s about right for the times and kids of all ages!
Incredible, and funny. Cat reminds me of experience with cat and catenary.
One of the most entertaining model railroad videos I watched! Could have done without the spider though.
Great fun! How to get rid of those leftover “parts”! Mike
This has got to be the best model railroad video I’ve ever seen. I have watched it 10 times now, and shared it with my whole family and friends. Everyone of them are still laughing. Now that I’ve calmed down, I would like to commend the absolute brilliance of the detailing on the layout itself. Most impressive. The realism and fine detail are spot on. Thanks for an entertaining few minutes and again kudos to the craftsmanship displayed..
Fantastic video! Very well done. I couldn’t help but laugh at everything. The spiders and cat were most enjoyable. Tne man is a pure genius!
very funny , it had it all with Christine, The A-Team, American Pickers van, Godzilla, Arachnids, and a lot more from different American TV shows and movies I loved it
My old neighborhood!
That was fun. thanks.
I love scenes that tell a story but this one is over the top! very enjoyable to watch, but suspect Dave had much more fun building it!!! Thanks for sharing.
Cary in KY
Kind of sick but great artistry.
Ken
That had something for us all. Even it was just a break between our modeling screw ups. Great vid/
Hilarious! Show more!
Made me laugh out loud. It took great skill this think this up and make it happen. Well done…. lol
LMAO, that was hilarious…. Minot, ME for sure, comments are just as good as video.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. The spider scared the shit out of me though. I always knew there were spiders as big as cars someplace. Train layouts need to make a statement.
Very imaginative and interesting, well done.
O M G
Great Affects –
H O W
WHAT An IMAGINATION! AND TECHNICAL TALENT! ready for prime time
way to go!!
Oh what fun crazy well done
great video, great layout and a great mind . all come together to show what can be done when you put your “warped” mind to it . Just kidding about the warped mind . when the spider ran into the garage door i thought now the fun really
starts as he has a loose spider o
n his layout .. What do you do with that ?
Extremely well done. Great sound track too.! Thanks and keep up the great work.
Great video, entertaining and creative. It sure beats my ordinary train going round & round & round………….
What can I say that has not been said it was Brilliant! great action. Also look outside of the video, look also the scenery and buildings the little things that go into making not just a model but a master model – well done.
That takes a ton of time and energy!
EXCELLENT!! Thanks for sharing.
I especially liked the opening scene with the guy being run over by a train.
I once had a boss who was the worst person in the world so I made a clay figure of him, placed it on my model RR layout and took great satisfaction as the engine continuously ran over him.
Great stress reliever.
Love it 😍
Wonderfully funny! More, please!
Laugh out loud funny!!!
And the ACADEMY would like to present this year’s award to “Scumton” the Action video!
Great show, And it was a lot of good work.
And that’s just my neighbour hood.
Excellent, realistic, every day, everywhere scenes! I love it!
I always knew it was more than just the trains! Great video and very inspiring.
Made my day. Loved the spider.
What an imagination! I love it ! Can,t wait for more!
I LOVE IT, Like the cat not stepping on anything, Spider is GREAT, nobody could have make the spider do that. I do think the person that did this will not tell how it was done, and why should He or She do so?
NV Bob
needed a good laugh, been days with out one
good video. only thing i would take issue with is the engine running over the person. i am a train guard in Sydney NSW. One of the worst things to happen to use is “person hit by train” other than that good one
Interesting sense of humor and some very good stop motion video.
well done !
very clever and very, very funny !
thanks for sharing it with the rest of us.
dave, in ny
What a change! A great video, well done to all concerned.
Absolutally fantastic complete with multiple TVs shows in ther and some famous films keep up he great work
Outstanding! How true to life. LOL
Stuff is about to get real when the ghostbusters , Christine, a team etc are all in one place!!! Omg too funny!!! Loved it! Great job!! Totally sharing with my family!! Loved the crime scene and catzilka!
Al,
I think you have your feedback as to how this video has been received as I ad my comment applauding the content and frivolity of this video.
Thanks for sharing it.
Mark
SC in the USA
A day in the life of lowville, really well done !! Makes the rest of our la la layouts seem unrealistically tame. Your followers approve Al. Thx. Peter
WoW LOL
Glad you posted this,Al. What a hoot and a half!! Made my day!!
Fantastic! Must have taken a lot of time to make, well done!
Hilarious!
Love the way the cars move…
Great scenes 🙂
Hi. Well done Dave. Your video of life in Scumton Junction was a good laugh. You really enjoy your hobby. Thanks for sharing Al.
Damian
Sydney, Australia
Thank you for posting this. I really needed to start my day off with a good laugh. The effects were priceless and the choreography was superb! My advice though is, ‘don’t quit your day job’. LOL
Very good. What an imagination. A little warped but quite watchable
Absolutely a great Laugh!!!…brings to mind Lots of Life’s Realities…the creator is Genius!!!
I agree, it looks like downtown Camden, NJ, maybe South Philly.
Loved seeing Christine again. Loved that movie as my brother George Thorogood sang the opening song Bad to the Bone. The hood coming crashing down on the worker is right out of the movie. WELL DONE
John Thorogood
South Philly is known for their Cheese Steak Sandwiches and trolley cars..
South Philly home to Bandstand and rock-in-roll.
Absolutely fantastic never laughed so much and catzilla was a nice touch
The best model railroad vid……. I could not stop watching……….I would love to know how all of that was done……..love the spider……..
Fantastic!!!
That is truly entertaining. Thanks for all the great smiles to that post. Keep up the good word.
well done i give it 4 popcorn tubs. will be a money maker.. lol keep those coming. needed that .
Very funny!
Hi Al,
Glad you posted this, great animation. It’s great seeing trains running but this video takes the prize. The more you laugh the more twisted your humor is. Keep them coming.
Ray
Painful to watch the deterioration of the 58 Plymouth, more than watching the dude get run over by the train. I liked seeing that the train didn’t get derailed after the runover! The creators of the video must be junior Alfred Hitchcock clones.
this made my day..a laugh a minute.. gave me some great ideas though.. thanks for posting, it was worth it.
LMAO……. Now that’s model railroading!
Hilarious! Made my day. Should be getting paid for that!
LOVE IT
Exactly what I think modeling should be- FUN, humor, perhaps out of the ordinary,
If it doesnt shock you whats the point.
YAY
George from NY
Thanks for the movie it was great was very entertaining
Wow! How did this guy know where I live. That’s my old 57′ Plymouth in the shop. Very funny and pretty close to real life with some creative twists. My cats love my N-scale layout too.
I just had a house spider caught in a sticky trap meant for rats. It was bigger than the videos’s. Otherwise very realistic portrayal of Americana. It needs a shooting scene with say, thirty victims and shooter taken into custody with a lawyer….
thank you for the humor. I have always said that if you can’t have a little fun at work or in a hobby then get another job and or another hobby.
That Neat. That Christine make your whole site. I going to make something that.
Loved it! Thank you for not denying us a look at how the other side lives. Too much of that reminded me of my early childhood in the Bronx back in the 1940s.
Entertaining! It is a gr8 display of how politicians, that have brains, operation.
Loved the ’57/’58 Plymouth!!!!!!
EEEXXXXCCCCEEEELLLEEENNNNTTTTT !!!!
So glad you sent this out.. Lots of fun to watch. Very well done. MOre Please
I find this video in extremely very poor taste, and I’m truly surprised that other than myself and one other person found this in any way intelligent , any more like this and I will have to unsubscribe, thank you.
Benny, take a hike. This video drew tears of laughter on my end. FANTASTIC. Much needed in these trying times. Thanks Al for posting as a good laugh was needed by all.
Awesome video, love it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great show, That is ALOT of talent !!!!
Benny Rosario can unsubscribe any time he choses and spend his time trying to get the stick out…..LOL! The vast majority of us thought this video was all in great fun. Staying couped up for weeks on end is really getting old for most of us and this video was a great giggle. Thanks and more if you can. LOVED IT !
Benny needs to get a life and a sense of humor. This was absolutely brilliant! Thanks for posting, Al.
LOVED IT !
Nice sense of humor and great work.
OUTSTANDING!!! Couldn’t wait to see what the next scene would be!!! A lot of the crazy things you laugh at to yourself, now put in a video! Thanks for the good laughs!
Awesome video and some serious modeling and weathering – Thank you for sharing. Andrew Down Under
This was nothing short of absolutely amazing! — Enjoyed it beyond words, except the train running over person I think I would have to say!
Hilarious! I love it!
Brilliant was great to see some fun at last many thanks for sharing al
So cool!
Outstanding,,, Great Video Work.. was this a section of a much larger layout?
Still Laughing at : “Modern Apartments” ( Urban Renewal), “Christine”, Ghost Busters and the A Team Chasing that car..a real “Compact Car”. The Spider could not have been timed better or the CAT! “Light Pole Ladies”.. Too Much… There are other scenes he made, look at the end of the video and click on one of the titles.!!
What a fabulous imagination and incredible technical skills to create a seedier slice of life….great
It has all been said by others, so I’ll just add my “Thanks” for sharing such a weird and funny video Al & Dave.
Hilarious! And proves there can be so much more to our hobby. After all, hobbies are supposed to be fun, right?
SAFETY FIRST ! I noticed the supervisor/workers all had hard hats and orange vests.
Joe: not south Philly. All the cars still their hoods (bonnets) and tires.
Unquestionably the most praised video you have ever shown. Thanks for the laughs!
When’s the sequel coming out?
Loved it. How do the vehicles move so easily? I can think of a couple towns very much like this one.
Best animated video I have seen in my life& I’m 67!! This is an Academy Award winner + nominated for ” Best Video of the Year”! I loved all the action scenes + soundtrack too! Shows remarkable creativity + composition! I even got some good ideas for my layout! Please give all of us a sequel soon !? *Baron*@Boston😀
Absolutely loved it. especially catzilla and the giant spider
w. t. h. truly unique every thing you do not expect to see on a train layout
I dont think I have ever seen so many comments! There’s only one word to describe that video, JUST BRILLIANT!
Absolute amazing video. Many good laughs on this video. Worth a grammy for best movie.
Kind regards from Sweden!
Absolutely incredible and hilarious. I need more.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s all been said.
GREAT
Really enjoyed the entertainment. And it was entertaining!
loved it. ghostbusters, christine, was that the a team van? catzilla, ha ha. scumville alright.
Thank you Alastair for posting this great stop and go video. I am still laughing and smiling. Couple that with (as previously mentioned) Catzilla and the hugh spider what more could you ask for. OK, I admit it. I want to see more of the Catzilla, spider and Ladies of the Lampost!
Best laugh I’ve had all day! Great piece of videography.
Jeff
Hilarious, got a good laugh
Fantastic!!!
I love the hat tip to the movie Christine. The weathering on your layout must’ve taken a ton of time. The detail is amazing. Great work!
That was just great! It will take the stress away from any future model railroading.
I feel that the fantastic video allows me to let my hair down while working on the railroad, and I dont have any. That was perfect for my day.
…coffee…out the nose…onto laptop…
I think I hurt something laughing…
The “train running over pedestrian” has a bit of a wince factor.
That being said … perhaps the figure could be filled with catsup or red dye #2 for …more..realism …
A friend typed this because I’m only allowed the use crayons here…
…and somebody owes me a laptop…
Chloe (our cat) loved the catzilla part!
4 MEOWS is what my Bellie the cat has to meow about , one of the greatest train video I have seen ! any more out there ? Thx and keep them coming
Reminds me of home !
What a riot. I know, we’re all sick, but it was fun anyway. A good pick me upper.
This has got to be the best model railroad video that I have seen, and trust me, I have seen many!
That was a great video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thanks.
Two thumbs up!
So glad you decided to post. Wonderful! Unique! What an imagination and workmanship!
BRILLIANT! A la Benny Hill! I rarely laugh while watching a Model RR video! Great quality modelling and excellent weathering! The street scenes and the general cityscape were very well done. Your brilliance really showed through. the animation was near flawless! Sound FX and music wrapped it all up into an award-winning piece. I love the recycling the best!
Best one yet. Laughing my a** off. Kinda reminds me of Chicago, New York and LA. You need to add some homeless shelters and a southern border fence!! Also add Air Force 2 landing with Biden, Nancy, Kamala and AOC there to support the crack addicts.