Large O scale Layout

That is outstanding!!! Its the best I have ever seen from the along the track perspective.

Thanks for sharing.  Set at 1080p, the details look amazing.

The track is very smooth, what kind of track is this, hand laid?

 Thanks for posting that Charlie. It is breathtaking scenery to me. Would love to have something even close to that someday. Wonder what the size of that is? Track plan??

We cheated.  Most of it is flex track.

By the way, I posted this video plus two more under https://ogrforum.com/d...nt/13537903699132104

I now believe the original title was a mistake.

Jay

  Charlie that looks great!!!

Jay that was incredible!!! Is there any chance you could give us an overview of the layout room? Really inspiring! Thank you!

That was outstanding track, ballast, and scenery work, Jay. Would love to see that layout in person. When's the next open house?

Vast realistic trackage and outstanding scenic work.

Doesn't get much better than that....love it.

Great video & layout.

Beautiful work! You guys are brave not having any plexiglas screens in those precipitous sections.

This is incredible - the rock work is by far the best I've ever seen!

We live near the Blue Ridge Parkway and it is very similar in appearance.  Would love to know how you achieved such realism with the rocks. 

The ongoing duplication was not intentional but created when Charlie posted our video.  If I'd started this whole thing with a better title none of this confusion would have occurred.  I'll be more careful in the future.  I want to take the time now to thank Charlie for really getting this out there.  My original was just kind of languishing out there.

The following is a cut & paste from the other thread.

The reaction to our video is kind of overwhelming.  Please forgive me for not replying to each of you separately.  It makes me happy to see everyone likes the work that's been done on the layout, so far. 

It's located near the Fresno Airport (Central California).  We call it a club but there are only 3 remaining members.  Two died and two quit.  It is 35' X 85' with minimum 8' radius on the main lines.  We're not going to have a lot of structures.  We feel most layouts are just too cluttered which kind of takes away from the overall effect.

The rock work was/is done using Bragdon Enterprises techniques and material.  Most is very lightweight foam. Here's a link to their website; http://www.bragdonent.com/index.htm  Joel & Jenny actually spent many hours on the layout which probably explains why it looks as good as it does.  They also took the time to instruct us in using their techniques so we could continue once they left.

We've opened it to the public twice (both times following O Scale West) but for the most part we've kept it's location & hours of operation semi-secret.  Truth is, if someone wants to see it all they have to do is contact one of us and we'll set something up.  Oh yeah, kind of hard to do without contact info, huh?  Actually, I think my contact info is available through this website.  If asked, I try to oblige.

The landscaping is not protected from being touched but we expect visitors to have enough common sense to not touch it.  If you do you'll be escorted out and not allowed back.  As a matter of fact, we had one guy come in who immediately started picking up rolling stock for closer examination.  He hasn't been seen since.

Again, thanks for the kind words,

Jay

This is a fantastic layout and super video.  Thank you for sharing it here.

Cheers

Stefan

Glad you enjoyed it.

Thanks,

Jay

Jay, my comment about plexi screens was more for protecting equipment from gravity in a derailment or equipment failure, than keeping fingers off.

Cool video! I love it too.. .

about 20 years ago one of the guys in my old group did these

Jay- your doing good buddy!

I started posting Youtube videos of our layout some 5 years ago never looked back since. It doubled our website traffic and really helped out our exposure!

Jay,

The installation of the track is pure perfection. It just flows so smoothly and so naturally. You guys are Artists!

Is it Atlas flextrack or is it hand laid?

Yves

Eric:

I like how you guys put in guard rails on sloping areas to prevent derailed equipment from rolling off the layout. I'm going to look into that for the club layout.

It is just as amazing in person as it is on the videos.  If I lived nearer to Fresno and they were accepting members I'd be all over that.

We don't have guard railing, catch cans, netting or anything else to protect our locos & rolling stock.  We spent a lot of time & money to get the bench & track work right so we wouldn't have any derailments.  Does this mean we never have any?  No, we've had a few but none on the main lines for over 5 years.  The few we've had were mostly in the yards or at the lower levels where the train can't go too far.  Until a loco can prove itself to be reliable it's not used to pull large trains on the main.  Typically, if a loco has a problem we'll trouble shoot it, find the issue, and fix it.

Having said that, I'll probably have a huge derailment tonight and destroy multiple thousands of dollars worth of models.

Jay

Your track work is top notch, as can be seen throughout the video. Plainly the result of good planning and execution.

At our club we had the need to install the plexi screens in some places. During our holiday open houses it gets pretty busy and it's inexpensive insurance against the loss of expensive equipment and the time invested in it.