Largest Family Owned 3-Rail Layout In The Country (United States) - Located in Northeast Ohio

Will be there soon! Nick

rockstars1989 posted:

Will be there soon! Nick

Ok Nick, sounds fantastic!!. See you soon.

I’m looking forward to making another visit to see the expansion and other new items.  

Mark Boyce posted:

I’m looking forward to making another visit to see the expansion and other new items.  

Mark, sounds great. Yea, the expansion will be fantastic for you to see. And yes, plenty of items for sale in the hobby shop to purchase. Used to new!! Hope to see you again soon!!

I'm looking forward to my 5th visit... or will that be my 6th visit... I'm losing track !

Glad that you are nearly in my neighborhood !

I love bringing visitors to see your amazing layout !

I made this video in 2017 on my first visit... before the expansion !

https://youtu.be/FH3SxpFyuP0

Ken,

Great video, Ken!  I wish I lived closer than my almost 2 hours.  Your video showed what to me are my favorite parts of the layout.  They are the turntable spinning steam locomotives way larger than what I could ever run at home, the Grand Central Station with a lineup of passenger trains, and the downtown city scenes which I don't model either, as in my small space I model West Virginia.  Everything is very well done on the layout.  The Eleshs are great folks also.

Mark... I always see things that I missed on my previous visits... and now with the expansion, I see a lot more visits in the future.

I always walk away being inspired even though I am limited to available space on my 8' x 12' layout that I started for my son almost 25 years ago... often seeing  a sign or accessory that would go well with my layout.

I love the reactions of the people that I bring, and others who go there after I tell them how great it is... and most of these people are not train hobbyists.. they just love seeing amazing things, and all seem to have memories of trains in years gone by.

But space is always an issue... even for the Elesh family, who are wonderful friendly people... I just don't have enough room to knock out my back wall and double the size !

Makes me wish I still lived in South Russell....  Will try to stop by when I'm back up around Cleveland some time.  Can't wait to see the layout! 

Ran some good trains today. Had an unplanned train meet here in this video.

Wow, wow, wow! 

I'll have to visit sometime!

Looks like they have a large inventory.  

Enormous layout and VERY WEAK WEBSITE.  Just a few pics on a loop.

I very much look forward to  visit. However, is this the largest family-owned 3-rail 0 gauge layout (31' x 145' = 4495 sq. ft.) in the USA? The classic family-owned Roadside America layout in Shartlesville, PA claims a layout size of 7450 sq. ft.

Bob

Bob Bubeck posted:

I very much look forward to  visit. However, is this the largest family-owned 3-rail 0 gauge layout (31' x 145' = 4495 sq. ft.) in the USA? The classic family-owned Roadside America layout in Shartlesville, PA claims a layout size of 7450 sq. ft.

Bob

Bob, that's true. Roadside America is large. Ours happens to be 145 feet long. Theirs is 104 feet long. The square footage is the size of the building they have.

Another busy day at Corner Field. Remember, kids are what it's all about and boy what a group. And they really enjoyed themselves.

Next time I visit my in-laws in Mercer PA I will make time for a side trip.  Looks like about an hour each way.

The New 2019 Lionel Catalogs are in at Corner Field Model Railroad Museum & Hobby Shop. Stop by to pick up a copy today.

Tom, So how many kids did you have today?  How did they like the layout?

Mark Boyce posted:

Tom, So how many kids did you have today?  How did they like the layout?

Mark, we had 48 children and 6 adults. They were here for an hour & a half and they loved it!! And of course, the kids loved the amusement park and all the accessories.

Wow!  That was an excellent group!  I like that there was one adult per 8 kids, just to keep an eye on them.  I'll bet they loved the amusement park, and that there was a lot of button pushing going on!!!

Do to the extreme weather and temperature and mainly the ice in the roads and in our long driveway, we will be closed tomorrow Wednesday January 30th, 2019. For your safety, that is why were closed do to the ICE and EXTREME TEMPERATURE. As far as Thursday goes, CALL. BE SAFE!!!

The Family of Corner Field Model Railroad Museum & Hobby Shop.

Close to me...  hope its open saturday...  i wanna see that!

Super O Bob posted:

Close to me...  hope its open saturday...  i wanna see that!

Bob, the weather looks great for Saturday. Shouldn't be any problems. See you then.