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MRVP Layout visit: Tom Piccirillo’s O scale Somerset County Traction System
What a beautiful railroad! I really enjoyed this video!
Wow!.The workshop and the railroad are very impressive.
Enjoyed the trip around your railroad. Very nice work.
Traction takes me back to when I was about seven years old and used to ride the interurban from my home in Ankeny to Des Moines with my mother before she got a car. Used to see steeple cab engines pulling freight cars going through town before they converted to diesel. Really enjoyed this video. Beautiful shop set up.
Nicely done! 13 years you say. I don’t feel so bad when I am building my N scale layout!
So much detail and so much fun to look at. Tom needs a 3-d printer for his workshop!
I was really impressed by the large passenger station! Wow!
Wow Tom, that is a super piece of railroad craftsmanship. Very well done. Being from NJ, I’ve been to many of those little towns and have seen those very lines as a small boy. Just wonderful layout. Thanks.
Very impressive. That foot bridge over the tracks at the station looks very ‘British’. Is it? (And that’s a workshop and a half!)
I am not sure what I enjoyed watching more: the railroad . . . or the workshop! 
Great video thank you for sharing!
I love this railroad. Traction has a lot of visual appeal and Tom has done a great job of integrating the standard and narrow gauge lines as well. It was good to see where all my Micro Mark tools come from
Thanks for the video! I really like this layout, the scenery is amazing!
Wow, simply amazing!! Really enjoyed watching.
Magnificent!
Great layout and great presentation!!
a beautiful piece of work!
Great Job… Outstanding detail to the layout. Great video well filmed. It was a pleasure to watch the video with having the operation being done rather than watching a train run around the layout
That was great, thanks!!
I had the privilege of operating on Tom’s layout and it was indeed a privilege. Tom’s operating scheme included a “rolling staging” with the Easton & Amboy. It worked great. The video showed the train and interchange but not how the “staging” worked. It worked flawlessly, but I’m sure didn’t make terrific video. and Tom’s attention to detail, is only partially shown in the video. Obviously, in a 16:00 minute layout visit MRVP video can’t cover or show everything in Tom’s Somerset County Traction System and Easton & Amboy, it certainly gives the feel of ozone, creosote, coal dust, the smell of the sea and the sounds of a working railroad. It was a great operating experience and a well done video tour.
Tom’s even more talented then I thought, as I heard and read he also played the guitar on some of the video. Thanks for the tour. Hope there are more to come.
That was an excellent video. Great to see trolley operating on over head wires.You, sir, are to be commended.
Tom: Wow! Beautifully done, Sir! This is quite inspiring for this HO’er who has yet to get as far as the SCTS. A lot of the scenes are worthy of imitation! Hats off to David and his crew for bringing this to us. Our teacher/advisor at the club in high school always said, “Traction is where the action is!” You’ve just proven him right, after all! …43 years later.
I really enjoyed seeing a traction railroad that actually uses an energized wire for power.
Tremendous detail and wonderful hand laid track. It must have been a long and arduous journey for the Sacramento Northern steeple cab to make it to Elizabethport.