The Switch Is Off

The switch may be off on your purchases for now but I know the switch will be on on the enjoyment you guys will have with the Munoz line for many years to come. You have a terrific layout. Felix Navidad and Ano Nuevo.

Jay

I imagine you will have a lot of fun despite the slow down in spending on trains, but then you have a wonderful layout and a pretty comprehensive inventory of locos and such. 

I more than a few holes in the inventory of locos I eventually want to have, and spaces made on the shelves for them - in 2013, at least the N&W J and a GS-2 (both on order).  What else I buy will depend on what is in the next Lionel and MTH catalogs.  

I'm not the least put off by any "lack" of features, etc.: I'm quite happy with the current crop - I seldom use whistle - whistle steam or otherwise - etc, etc., and I figure the new models are better., so it does not really matter to me if the loco runs well and looks good.  Generally, they do, so . . . 

I pictured this as a two way switch, once turn off of hardware (train purchases), there is a tremendous amount of model railroading yet to be touched.   I actually see you spending more Eliot.

Mike  

Eliot you new station looks great.  I need to come over to see it since I missed the Christmas viewing.

Doug

Eliot

I see you found your mariachis. Very cool. Do you have a CD or MP3 player in the station to play mariachi music? You should come to Tucson some time for the mariachi festival.

Eliot....I really like the scene in front of the station.  AND....I am willing to bet that you will probably find something special sometime during 2013 that will tempt you to turn the switch back on...at least for a few minutes..

Wait till you see the new deep water harbor I am working on....I will be posting pictures soon!

Alan

Eliot, that does look brilliant. I will be over at my warehouse today and I will see if there is a guitar playing Mexican homie to join the group. I look forward to seeing the layout at a completed stage.

BTW, isn't there supposed to be a "Tilde accent mark" over the "o" in Munoz?

The tilde was extra.

We're trying to keep costs down.

Scrappy

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The station looks outstanding Buddy!!!  What a wonderful hobby it is when a friend gets an outstanding addition to his layout, that was built by another friend.

Budget grammar; I love it.

Hi Eliot, the station  looks absolutely beautiful, I can't wait to see it in person.

Thanks, Alex

Eliot, I checked my bag of homies and zombies, but there are no Mariachi guitarists in there, sorry.

Many thanks to all for the kind words. 

Dave, thanks for looking. Australia is much too far for Mexican Homies to travel.

Crocodile Allen will have to hunt high and low for Pablo LOL.

This scene is really all about the station. You have to see this piece in person to appreciate all the wonderful detail Roger and the gang at Trainworxx has put into it.

Th design is simply perfect. The doors and windows look so real, I expect Gene Autry or the Cisco Kid to walk out.

i am incorporating some real "railroady" feel to the scene. Blacktop/asphalt abutting the tracks filled with dirt. Real wood planking between all tracks laid piece by piece. The station parking lot is coming out well with individual parking spots. Lights and sound will finish off the deal. Appropriate tanks cars and hoses will service the locomotives. Finally, the Mariachis will greet all the passengers.

Almost forgot. I have completed three 60" x 17" backdrops that I hang from photo backdrop stands. I can make the backdrops 15 feet long if I need to. The backdrop in the shot above was my first attempt. Cool ! It is actually well detailed and sharp. It's blurry in the photo as I was hand holding the camera to check perspective.

eliot

Actually, Eliot, the homie holding the Mexican flag is sitting on my workshop desk! I really look forward to what you come up with. I agree Trainworx have excelled themselves with this station, really cool for sure. Even though I can't give you a Mexican homie trumpeter, I can do a 1/48 Tilde.

Beautiful station Eliot  Are the backdrops photographs

Dave...accent mark goes over the "n".

BTW, good to meet you at the LUG meeting in October!

Eliot ABQ1 is looking nice. I look forward to seeing the area develop. I had a couple of the little brown/black pegs come loose in shipping. Still looking for one.

Eliot any thoughts about lighting the upper section of the tower on ABQ1? I wonder why they did not put a hole in the floor to let light come up to the top area?

Alex, many thanks. Ginny and I look forward to seeing both of you.

we have an open door for you.

Ben,

The photo above is a fairly hi res shot I took from the net and up scaled in Photoshop and printed on my large format Epson. you cannot tell from the photo how good it is.

i can make a background any length and 17" high.

Pops,

in addition to the light on the upper section, I would have liked lights in the walkways. I am not going to modify the station. I will have street lights custom made for it and incorporate them into the scene.

eliot

While the switch is off on train purchases at Munoz Lines world headquarters it appears that infrastructure spending in Albuquerque may be at an all time high in order to keep railroad happy.

Joe

That station is simply beautiful!

--Greg

Nice Elliot! Enjoy your beautiful station with an equally beautiful photo backdrop. 

Greg, if you ever get the opportunity to get up to Eliot's you will love this layout. He has some neat tricks built in to it, making it a very entertaining layout to use and watch. The micro detail he continues to add, will make this layout one of the great layouts for sure. Being such a good photographer with shot composition gives Eliot a great eye for not only detail, but the layout's geography.

Eliot,

That station looks great, and the Mariachi singers fit in well!

Since you have turned ‘the switch’ off for a while, this would be the perfect opportunity for an update, whether pictorial or video, of the Muñoz Lines layout as it stands. How about it?

Thanks for sharing!

Alex

And, . . . ¡Próspero Año Nuevo!

Hi Eliot,

Fantastic station!   And the Santa Fe F unit really sets off the scene (a Lionel offering?).

Where is the station going to be on your layout?

Steve

Eliot,

       I see the switch is back on

Gunny

Eliot,

That is a great looking station!

Mike R