Nice site

Thank you I really enjoyed looking at this.  Do we have any idea who the layout belongs to?

first picture belongs to Bill Leiter (sp) of Chicago area.

picture 4,to right is Bill Leiter, in back center is Dennis Mashburn of Austin Texas, dont know fellow on left

The second and third pictures are of the Twin City Model Railroad Museum at Bandana Square in St Paul, MN. I used to belong to that club. It is open to the public.

In the second pic, I helped build the bridge in the foreground. That's a model of the 3rd Avenue bridge over the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The bridge behind that is the James J Hill stone arch bridge. It was built off site by a couple of other club members and set into place in one piece. Then I painted every stone by hand. The ballast on the bridge was made from actual ballast taken from the real bridge and hand crushed. My arm was sore after that. That was over 20 years ago.

In the third pic, I built the roundhouse from scratch. I was given a plywood cutout of the footprint. The walls are made of plexiglass then skinned with brick embossed plastic.

That fellow on the right is Bob Jakl.

the women...left, Darlene Schmidt, center ?, right Kathy Mashburn

Nice photos and that bridge and roundhouse are really nice. Great job Big Boy (Elliot).

Beautiful work...wow.

A lot of the models shown seem to be from Larry Muirs collection,and would be custom built or detailed with costume drives, great pictures! enjoyed them!      cTr...(choose the right)

only saw one or two from Larrys collection.

found a good one:

http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/dda...mgs/1/8/185684c9.jpg

thanks!