Layout Tour

It's fantastic! it's colossal, it's even mediocre!!

That is an impressive layout! Thanks for sharing!

-Greg

Very nice perspective.  I like the "Pepto" 400E whooshing about too!

Rob English posted:

Very nice perspective.  I like the "Pepto" 400E whooshing about too!

 

Rob

That is actually a 385E. The set is one of the MTH/Franks Roundhouse ones.

Steve

Steve,

Very impressive, you have accomplished so much in a short time. So much more than the last pics. Really enjoyed it!

Joe Gozzo

Trainlover160 posted:

Steve,

Very impressive, you have accomplished so much in a short time. So much more than the last pics. Really enjoyed it!

 

Joe Gozzo

Thanks Joe

Steve

Steve "Papa" Eastman posted:

Rob English posted:

Very nice perspective.  I like the "Pepto" 400E whooshing about too!

 

Rob

That is actually a 385E. The set is one of the MTH/Franks Roundhouse ones.

Steve

Yes i See it now.  Moving so fast I really struggled to see what it was!

I play classical organ and model On30.

HOWEVER, I love listening to Theatre organ, and I LOVE your layout!!!

Thank you, Sreve, for posting this video of your "new" layout.  You are a Titan of Tinplate" and a Lord of Lithography."  I always enjoyed seeing videos of your prior layout and look forward to more of this one.  Your videos make me feel as though I have visited your train room (garage?) in person.

i could not tell whether either of your McCoy diners were one of those that were banquet table centerpieces at the 1995 TCA Convention in Seattle.  My wife "won" the one on our table at that convention, and she proudly displays it in a cabinet with other treasures.  I have a Harold, the helicopter left over from the grandkids HO Thomas set. I wounder if she would notice the addition to her display.

Clearly, you have items of significant value and quality, but your layout also exudes an air of "Tinplate Fun for the Common Man (and Woman!)."

Cheers!

Alan

ya know if we keep this up PaPas head will be too big to get into his garage.......

Well, this nice video proves a very important theory of mine, most every modeler in this Hobby, does it uniquely in their own way. What's neat and interesting, and collectible to some, is so uniquely different from another. Tinplate, lithograph, or realistically Scale, N guage to G Guage, all Model trains are fun. 

Now, reviewing this nice video, it's amazingly unique. Tinplate in action, older tinplate accessories, standard guage trains, o guage trains, passing unique accessories, on a complex track pattern, on simple Tablework. I really like this video and can appreciate his work of art...Amazing. I like the momarail, the houses, the diners, the entire novelty of this layout....

Thank You for sharing your talents with Us....Fantastic.

Steve, thanks for recording this - this must be the real 'happiest place in America'.  Really like the 5 rail track, all the structures and accessories and the vast diversity of your collection.  Great stuff.

Jim