Farewell to the "Tidewater and Oak Grove RR"

Sorry to hear about your friend. Very nice layout!!! Thank you for posting pics,

Bob

Beautiful layout. Sorry to hear about your friends condition.

Bob

Sorry to hear about your friend, he built a great layout.  Hopefully somewhere inside he retains some of it.

Very nicely done. Sorry for her loss.

Wow! A very nice layout. Im so sorry to hear about the loss of your friend. Any idea on the fate of the structures? The red one in the first picture looks fantastic.

Sorry to hear of your friends change of life.
As the layout is to be dismantled is there a plan for it or components of it?

would donation to a museum perhaps be feasible?

it really is a beautiful layout and needs to be exhibited.

anyone have any ideas?

Sad. It deserves to be posted here and glad you did so.

MELGAR

What a nice layout!  Many of the structures are absolutely awesome!

Sorry to hear that it needs to be taken down and the reasons why.

Thank you for posting the photos.  Do you recall which magazine had the article and when it was published?

Don

That is a fantastic layout and a beautiful work of art.  I am also so sorry to hear about your friend.  

I hope that the great structures can be saved or perhaps sold so that they can find an appropriate home on new layout.  NH Joe

Pete,

Very sorry to hear about your loss. Your friend was a true ambassador for the hobby. He literally ran trains until the end which I'm sure gave him some sense of peace. We all can only hope to be able to do this when we are called to go home.

Dave

All,

Thanks for your kind words.  Tony loved to scratch build structures. Most are really interesting. The dismantling will be a slow process.  I will drive from Williamsburg to Richmond once a week to work on it.   His wife wants as much of the layout to be given to local modelers.

Another friend of Tony's is involved with a small train museum and sections will go there.  He is going to take the harbor area for his On30 layout. Tony hand carved the boat hulls.  He also built some beautiful ship models which will stay in the family.

I'm taking the sawmill section.  That's as far as we've gotten.  I will be there tomorrow, loosening buildings and packing up tools and parts.  Regrettably, he secured the buildings to the layout with contact cement instead of white glue...

Here are some photos of the harbor before the water was poured:

I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to see Tony's layout, as well as his many other railroad collectables from his past, while they lived in Mathews.  His creations were truly amazing!  I didn't get to see his new layout after they moved to Richmond, so really appreciate your sharing the pictures.  Glad that some of his works might find future layouts.  Please let me know.

Pete, indeed, it is sad to witness a good friend's departure from society.  Many of us have been faced with a simular situation as well.

A pity the layout can't be saved and find a place in a museum in memory of Tony.

Thank you for sharing this.

Pete- nice to hear that much of it will be saved and repurposed. You are a true friend.

Sounds like your friend was a well known modeler. His work is spectacular.

Beautiful layout glad parts of it will live on in some ways. What magazine was it featured in?