Rockford O Scalers March Meet layout tour. Comments and suggestions....

Wow guys what an AWESOME layout. 

Thanks John,

I agree with your comments. 

I believe our impromptu opening on Saturday night was beneficial for those who came so we should add that same Saturday night time officially to the schedule for 2019 (in addition to our regular Sunday hours).  That will give folks from the East a chance to see the layout prior to driving back home on Sunday.  As for photos, I got so busy talking to people I didn't take any!  Also, I would like to thank Roger Dawes and Tom McCabe (no relation) for coming over and helping to run the layout, which freed us up to visit with people.  Thanks again to all of our visitors over the past weekend for coming out to see the Rockford O Scalers.  

Frank McCabe, The Rockford O Scalers

We had a great time visiting your layout on Sunday afternoon.   It looked like you have been very busy working on it over the last year.  As always the layout looked great, everyone was very friendly and willingly to answer questions and share knowledge, and the snacks were good too.  

A special thanks to John for sharing his techniques for making the fabulous large trees on the layout.  After we got home, my wife explored the Internet for sage brush armatures and found a site called Branches Wholesale that we are going to try.

Another thing I forgot to ask about was the source of your backdrops.  I'm especially interested in the small town and farm scenes behind the area where the new Altoona Model Works grain elevator is.  I have seen these scenes before and now can't seem to find them anywhere.  I hope this manufacturer hasn't gone out of business and I have waited too long.

Thanks for opening up your home and layout to us every year, your modeling is very inspirational to us and we appreciate it very much.

Art

I forgot to post a few pictures earlier that would help clarify my question regarding backdrops.  Here are a couple that show some of the area that I am talking about.  I think these would work very well behind my towns of Spencer and Ruthven. 

And I really liked the Milwaukee Road station in the two tone gray paint scheme.

And finally I didn't realize you had a crime problem until I saw these two guys stealing a wheel off this car parked by your freight yard.

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Wow guys what an AWESOME layout. 

Really enjoy the pictures, wonderful layout. 

Chugman,

The backdrops are from Sceniking.  Unfortunately they closed two or three years ago.  I do like their scenes and the angles that they used.