A Night of Trains, Friends, and food.

That's beautiful,  thanks for posting Marty

Love those big sweeping curves!

Wow Marty thanks for sharing, this layout is absolutely beautiful. You can easily notice

the superb craftsmanship in these photo's. Would love too see more photo's

Thanks,

Alex

Beautiful layout!!!! Thanks for posting the pictures Marty and this is just another example of how this Forum successfully connects the members of our Forum.

Like Marty said.... Beautiful layout, and great hospitality!! Always a great time.

Thanks for the kind words.  It was great to run trains and visit with good friends.  Looking forward to the next get together!

Andy Blakley

Very nice layout. Thank you for sharing pictures.

Looks like a great time ,nice pictures .

Wow! Beautiful layout Thanks for sharing.

Wonderful layout.  Thanks for the pics.

Great looking layout

Nice layout.  Thanks for posting, MartyE.

Guys

The really great feature of this layout imo is that it has 2 mainlines that loop over and under around the length of the layout.  You can, and we did have 3 trains on 1 loop and be able to keep them well spaced.  You can tell a lot of time and thought went into Andy's planning.  It is the layout that I will base my next and final one on.  At least in concept.

The layout is well powered as evident by the amount of engines with smoke units and passenger cars on the rails.

BTW, it was all Legacy, all night.  5 remotes all running at once.  Come in, turn on and find the base.  Change a couple of IDs and we were running trains in about 3 minutes.

I suspect we will see this layout in OGR soon.  Once I get a few videos off my iPhone I'll post them to this thread.

Your title says it all. That is a good night. Time well spent and well enjoyed.

Thanks for sharing the photos.

I love that steel trestle; no wooden trestle for a mainline!

Steve

I certainly hope so!

Remember, folks, a layout does not have to be 100% finished (if any layout really is ever finished) to make a fine feature for our readers.  All I need is a "heads-up" that the layout owner is ready and willing, and I'll take it from there.

Looks like a very nice layout!

Andy, do you happen to know my friend Lynn Sontum?  He also lives in Saxonburg.

Dave

Next time I want to take my 35MM DSLR.  Maybe a tripod too.  The iPhone obviously does not do it justice.

Dave, I do know Lynn Sontum.  It has been a little while since I've run into him, my wife and I had him for Physics in high school.  He was a great teacher!  I look forward to catching up with him.   

Thanks guys for the nice comments.  Everyone here in the hobby knows how much time and hard work it takes.  I'm just happy to share it with fellow friends. 

Andy B.

Andy thank you for having me over I had a very nice time great food layout is real nice

Just to add, Vince and I left without the need for mandatory drug testing as there were no incidents on our mainline.  Can't say the same for the other line.  LOL!

Friends, Food, and Trains. Doesn't get much better than that. Thanks for the post.

Great looking layout.

Marty, it must have been all the steam in their eyes!!!  LOL!  

Andy

Crappy iPhone Videos!