ANNOUNCING DUNHAM STUDIOS...another new sponsor!!!

Great website!

now there's a class act!

Very nice. Nice gentleman to talk to. I remember OGR run 126 when I was getting back into the hobby. I just stared in awe at the beautiful layout.

welcome

Clarke was a great host to the L.O.T.S. members who visited his workshop during the Saratoga Springs convention.

Welcome Clarke.

Alan, you,re working on commission aren't you? 

No...I pay him in 6464 box cars. One for each new ad.  

Welcome Clarke!!!

Alan you have done it AGAIN!!!!! WOW I bet Rich has set a goal for you to reach that results in him brining NKP675 to Mountain Home.  

Good Work Alan.

Welcome Clarke. 

It's a pleasure to be here both as a sponsor and a participant in the OGR Forum.  People ask me all the time why I am so willing to share information with people.  The answer is simply that I don't think it's particularly cute to withhold information that might be helpful to the hobby in general.  And if you can do it better than I can, so be it.  So, if you've got questions for me, please ask them and I'll do my best to answer them.  Actually, there's a lot to be learned just by checking in at the Dunham Studios website.  Check out the "How We Do It" and the Private and Public Layouts areas in particular.  There are lots of feature articles on the website as well.  Just click on the magazine covers along the top of the website, and you'll also find that there's a lot to be learned just by looking at the layout photos.  By the way, it doesn't matter what Scale or Gauge you're looking at, there's good information there for you either way.  And thanks for all the welcome messages, I'm glad to be here.

Another great job Alan.

Rich, at the rate Alan is going, he could exhaust any supply of cars  very quickly.

Well let me tell you about Dunham Studios. They are great builders, I have first hand experience with one of his layouts. The Siouxland Historic Railroad Assoc. has an 80' x 15' HO layout that was built in 1991. We actually got it in 2003 but were able to finally set it up again in 2010. After a few problems related to the storage of the layout, we are ablt to run 7 to 8 trains at once. We are continuing to improvet the layout. Hats off the the builders. You can see the layout, the Nebraska Central, here.

Dick

Welcome Clarke Dunham and your crew. Your business is greatly appreciated.

I'd like to thank Dick, the CBQer for being a part of an organization that saved one of my favorite layouts from extinction.  What Dick didn't say (or possibly even know) was that Siouxland is actually the third destination of that huge layout.  I originally designed the layout for the founder of Godfather's Pizza in 1991.  He had it about a year, then donated it to the Western Heritage Museum in Omaha.  We came out and helped move the layout to the Museum.  The Museum later "deaccessioned" it to an unknown "train club" in an unknown location (to us, at least).  When I, years later, got this e-mail from the Siouxland club along with photos and video I was absolutely knocked over.  We always build layouts to breakdown and travel because we build them in our shops and ship them to the client's location.  It never occurred to us that some of our layouts would travel, and travel, and travel.  Some more than four times.  We are proud, and rightly so, of what we do and how we do it, but it's great to see the longevity of this layout's survival, sometimes under less than perfect circumstances.  Not the case with the Siouxland folks who have kept the layout looking as good as ever.  But, considering the number of times that layout was in and out of tractor trailers, even I am impressed.  Thanks again, Dick.

That's what happens when you do quality work...IT LASTS!!

And in the not too distant future, we will soon be reading more about Clarke and Barbara in an upcoming story I will be doing.  Welcome to you both!