Jim Zim's Model Trains - Behind The Scenes

This is a little different than my typical model train video. In this one, I take you "behind the scenes" and show you what my house and my train room look like when I don't have a big model train layout set up throughout the house. I show you my stockpile of G-scale track and switches, and talk about the high cost of purchasing these items. This is far from an inexpensive hobby! I keep all the boxes from my model train equipment... especially in light of the fact that we'll be moving to our dream house four months from now. You'll see where I store the boxes, and I'll show you the boxes from some LGB, MTH, and Piko brand model trains that you have probably seen in my videos. Of course, I use the oversized Electrovoice RE20 microphone that has become something of a trademark in my videos. I learned to love these microphones in the days when I used to work in radio. I had to give up on radio in 1990, since it didn't pay very well and I had a family to support. Getting a "real job" was one of the best things that ever happened to me, but that big mic is a fond salute to my old days in radio. I enjoy reading all the comments that people post in reaction to my videos... so you are definitely encouraged to leave comments. And if you're a big fan, join my Facebook group for even more interaction with me and the inside story on what I'm up to. https://www.facebook.com/groups/831976203803181 You don't need to tell me how badly I screwed up the metric measurements about two minutes in to the video. I said the standard 1-foot-long piece of straight track is 150mm. Nope! It's 300mm. And every metric length I quoted after that was 50% of the real number. Numerous people set me straight the first day this video appeared on YouTube. Leave it to an American to bungle a bunch of metric measurements like that! If you're interested in actually spending some time with me in person, you're invited to join me on a group cruise in 2021. I'll actually be leading two group cruises... one to the Caribbean in February of 2021, and one to Alaska in July of 2021. Details are at http://www.jimzim.net/UpcomingCruises.html