Large mobile MTH layout in a traveling trailer - whatever happened to it?

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https://ogrforum.com/...p;queryString=big+mo

Wonder if they did dismantle it.

@Rick Bednar posted:

I remember years ago what I think was called "Big Mo" - a traveling layout in a large trailer sponsored

for a while by MTH. 

  Does anyone know what happened to it?

you can get the details from this post about 2 weeks ago on the forum..

https://ogrforum.com/...mth-model-train-cars

Rick Bender, asked what I thought was a reasonable question. 

After looking at the links, it isn't clear to me either as to what happened to the trailer and its contents.  

A brief post describing the its status would be appreciated.

Thanks!

I suspect it was dismantled but I can't say for sure.

I found this post listing it for sale back in '17, and the last posting stated if they didn't find a buyer it would be dismantled.

https://ogrforum.com/...22#80128401308069122

That stinks. Sorry to hear it.

I saw it once at York. It was pretty cool. Somewhere there is a TM (I believe) video segment on it of the owner who had it before MTH or Lionel got it. I don't remember exactly which video had the segment of the trailer.

  I believe Lionel had it before MTH.

Lionel DID have it before MTH, and both had appeared at York. I remember when MTH bought it they had a contest for a new track plan design, but never changed it other than to add a few of their own accessories. I have the model (or rather, my daughter does) and I found the red Dodge Ram pickup to go with it. Looks pretty cool when it's all lit up.

Here is the email for the guy that was selling it.  glenn.llewellyn@gmail.com  Someone can contact him (he is a member of the forum) to find out what happened to Big-Mo.

@artyoung posted:

Lionel DID have it before MTH, and both had appeared at York. I remember when MTH bought it they had a contest for a new track plan design, but never changed it other than to add a few of their own accessories. I have the model (or rather, my daughter does) and I found the red Dodge Ram pickup to go with it. Looks pretty cool when it's all lit up.

At one point Harry sold sets of the trailer, a red pickup, and also a little figure that was supposed to be his dog as a package deal (I recall buying 2 sets).  He provided a little paper cut out license plate the buyer could affix to the pickup to match his plates (the plates said Big Mo in some form, but I forget any spacing/punctuation that may have been part of the plate)

IIRC (I don't have pictures since this was both before I had a digicam and also before photos were allowed at York) a few of those accessories may have just had the Lionel markings scraped off and replaced with the letters MTH!   (I'm thinking it was either a control tower or radar tower - where LIONEL is on the side of the structure)  Obviously as Mike's line of accessories matured, he replaced those with ones already clearly defined as MTH products.

-Dave