Visit to the Morlitz Central

That is very impressive!!! Nice pics. 

Thought he was sharp but did not know Gerry wore so many hats.

Just walked in the door from Gerry and Sue's house. Linda and myself had a wonderful time! Gerry and Sue are always wonderful hosts and as far as Gerry's new layout..VA,VA,Va VOOOM!  Absolutely beautiful  in every sense of the word! An Extremely well done "must see" layout! Thank you Gerry and Sue for your warm hospitality. 

Dotty and I were amazed on what a great layout Gerry has put together in a very short time.  It not only looks fantastic but runs fantastic.  Thank you Gerry and Sue.  Gerry had a top notch helper in his good friend Bob Deguarde.  Gerry and Bob did a first class job.

Only wish I could have attended , the layout looks great and it looked like a great time was had by all.  

Alex 

Thank you for this post as I would really like to visit this layout. Where is it located, what City and State?? Near York, by any chance??  

leapinlarry posted:

Thank you for this post as I would really like to visit this layout. Where is it located, what City and State?? Near York, by any chance??  

Not near York.    New York. 

Here are a couple of short video's 

And here's another couple of pictures.   Thanks to Sue and Gerry for hosting us.

Thank you guys for coming and the nice words. Sue and I had a really nice time with a great bunch of people. As I told everyone there, many, many thanks to Bob DeGuarde for all of his help. Steve Maier and Mike Caruso have also assisted.

Alex, I was really sorry that you and Dina couldn't make it. Let me know when a trip up works for you. We would love to have you over. The 30th Street Station, Dunkin Donuts eatery and Hershey's engine you created for me were all very much on display.

Although I love being a NJ HiRailer, with that great scale layout, my layout is anything but scale. I love the whimsical and green painted plywood reminds me of the way it was in the 1950's. 

Best thing is having great people over.

Gerry

Nice Layout Gerry, the videos from Chris are excellent.

Kevin

Fantastic layout and pics!

Just incredible!

Peter

Looking good Gerry. Well done. Sorry I couldn't make it. Certainly hope to see it sometime soon.

Me too

Gerry, the layout is looking great!  But I wonder, how often do you dust off those hats??!! 

Neat layout and thanks for posting the pics for all to see.

-Greg 

Brian, I dust the hats every year the Phillies hit 75 victories. It's a low standard and they're getting dusty.

Gerry

Traindiesel posted:

Gerry, the layout is looking great!  But I wonder, how often do you dust off those hats??!! 

Brian. That's what the hats are for. Hats collect the dust and keeps it off the layout!

Very nice layout!!!  Sure wish ALL of you guys lived a little closer....like about 1500 miles closer!!...LOL!!

Alan

Alan, you have it backwards.  We all wish you lived closer to us.  When it comes to great layouts, I think of you first.

Got a chance to unload the big camera, here are a few more.

Nice photo's Don!

Thanks for posting the pictures Don. Sorry I couldn't make it to Sue & Gerry's.

See you all at York.

The pictures above say it all....a layout packed with action and, more importantly, fun!  Colorful trains, whimsical scenes and lights, lights, lights everywhere you look!  Thanks for having us.  

I love the "whimsy".  The combination of different types of structures (ceramic, kits, scratchbuild, tinplate, Cinderella's Castle no less), a great amusement park or carnival, and some of those wonderful paint schemes that are so disturbing to the scale enthusiasts among us, the NYC GG1, pink F units, pastel cabooses.

Oh and Alex did do an amazing job on that vintage Dunkin Donuts.

Great layout Gerry.

A special thanks to you guys for being there. And much thanks to Don & Chris for taking the pictures. I particularly like the one of John G. holding Thomas and the remote. He's a BIG steam guy at the club, and Pacifics are far beneath him. So to get him with Thomas is fantastic.

But you guys were an easy crowd. You're all pretty much train pros, so if I had any challenges I know you could rise to the occasion and help. The crowd today was a MUCH TOUGHER crowd and probably spent about as much time running the trains as you did. Four of them, at one point running 4 separate trains. And running under the layout, around the layout, etc. IMO, is what its all about.

This is called BRATS RR. My wife sometimes calls me a brat. But my children were kind enough to provide Becca, Rory, Alix, Theo and Sami. Since Alix is only about a half year old, she wasn't in on the train room mayhem today, but the other 4 were. And they had a great time.

Gerry

Love the pics with the grandkids!

Peter