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Here are some pix from this weekend.  Saturday, the weather was rather warm, so the crowd was huge.

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During this event, we are constantly adding new details for our repeat visitors to find.  Here are some of them -- bonus points for those who get the reference in the third shot (desert scene).

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Here are some shot of this years' versions of some of our most popular scenes.  "Santa tangled in the Windmill" seems to be the all-time favorite every year.

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And a few more shots from around the layout.

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And a few shots from out in the park.

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During this event, we are constantly adding new details for our repeat visitors to find.  Here are some of them -- bonus points for those who get the reference in the third shot (desert scene).

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With all that work, the bunch of you are mad, Andy… mad, mad, mad!!!!!
P.S. great scene from a great movie!!

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Andy, Merry Christmas! Thanks for all of the amazing posts, pics and vids! You guys are the masters of the modular Christmas train display.

How awesome is it that you all have four new Vision Line Big Boys!!!

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And as a parent of a special needs kid I can really appreciate the quiet crowd event with cool guests! These events have long lasting, positive impacts.
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Oh yeah, and you guys have 356’ of mainline! Over 1,400’ total! Man, who on here hasn’t dreamed of having that size layout at home! That’s what’s so great about a modular club, the ability to stretch out those train lengths.

Keep ‘em coming!

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Andy the vignettes you guys come up with and even just some of the little scene stealers like Thelma and Louise cruising Main Street are incredible.  The thought that goes into every detail of the layout almost surpasses the amount of time and effort to produce "The Show". Thanks for sharing every Christmas.

"Why that's it! Look!  It's the Big W I tell you.  The Big W."

Here are the last batch of photos for our KHL season.  From the beginning of November through the first half of January we spent 52 days working on and operating our layouts (this includes the two Greenberg shows we did at each end of KHL).  Every year, we use a counter to tally each night's attendance and present the final totals to Kennywood for their internal use.  This season, we counted 40,303 visits to our layout.

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Here are some shots from out in the park, starting with the cafeteria building, which was host to our layout for the first few years of KHL:

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And for some last looks, here is a shot of all my scenery, tools,  and two Polar Express consists packed up and ready to leave.

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And this was the second to last trailer load about to be hauled off to storage.

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Great pics Andy.  I was most impressed with the model display of Kennywood's Noah's Ark.  How old is that structure?  Do you know who made it?  I have a very nice hand sketched version of the Ark hanging in my house, along with some other sketches from Kennywood.  I don't recall the artist, my sister bought them.

Ooops, never mind.  I just realized that's a pic of the real thing!

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Andy, following this thread every year is so enjoyable.  I said it before, so many incredible scenes that deserve comment.  Now that it's over for another year I will comment on the final batch.

Are these Plasticville trees?

This one made me laugh out loud.

His Jeep at a Jeep Rodeo, his pink Cadillac at a motel; like the song says, "Elvis is Everywhere!"

Hawkeye and Trapper John giving Frank Burns to the Aliens.

That's one Mad, Mad, Mad, backdrop to the layout.

Just a fantastic repurposing of the MTH Operating Fire House.

What an incredible model of an incline.

Thanks for sharing.

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