In this episode, host Chris Chianelli visits Greenfield Village part of the massive museum called The Henry Ford. Henry Ford was passionate about saving buildings and artifacts from Americana, and Greenfield Village is part of that vision. Among the artifacts and restored buildings in the collection, Greenfield Village also boasts an impressive turntable and roundhouse. The turntable is unique in that it is hand-operated; tow men can push a 100-ton locomotive resting on it. Later in the program, Chris visits a model railroader In Kansas City, Missouri who has built an impressive, multi-stall turntable and roundhouse on his O-gauge layout. Then, in the studio, Chris Chianelli is joined by guest David Popp (Associate Editor, Model Railroader Magazine) to demonstrate how to add a turn table and roundhouse to an existing layout. Construction of these added elements is done using modular pieces.
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