This is just amazing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN_oDdGmKyA&feature=player_embedded

How delightful! That's not just model trains, but a whole world of transportation. Thanx!

Bob Fleming is into model railroading. I think he even posted the same link at one time.

Cool stuff.

If the money, time and space were available to me, that would be one of my favorite hobbies.

A friend of mine replicates HO scale train cars (flat beds, tankers, boxers etc, for static display only - the detail is incredible.

Great hobby...

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You would love to have the money that setup cost, ME TOO!

I'm not into model trains but I saw a nice setup in the Christmas Shop (visible from I-75) near Micanopy, FL, nothing compared to that one though.

I believe you could spend a day there looking at all that detail, it's really something! Can you imagine the cost and the time to create it?

We have the "Train Barn" here in Kalamazoo. The website is down for reconstruction, but it's a nice big layout, built by a man and wife team, in the loft of a big barn. Quite a nice layout with a lot of detail. Reminds me, I gotta take TheBrit over there someday.

Just realised I posted this on the wrong site, sometimets forget where I am It was probably Woody's "Driving Miss Daisy" post that threw me off. LOL

That is one fantastic layout! I've never seen one like that. No, I never posted that one.

I have plans to build a small layout (HO gauge) around the walls of my study - someday! The study is going up slowly, but at least progress is being made. So far I have one steam locomotive and several passenger cars and freight cars, and three pieces of track,

One of my grandfathers was a steam locomotive engineer out of St Louis on the Missouri Pacific RR. He took me down to the station in St Louis one day and took me out back where all the locomotives were. They are very large and as a little kid, they seemed immense! That was around 1940.

Bob, you have connection to the MOPAC. To hard to believe as I do also. Dad, 2 Grandfathers, and Great Grandfather all worked there. I even have an old seniority list that has all of them in it. Dad started as a boilermaker appr but had to change to carman as the death train for steam ran one month after I was born. I've seen the 844 and the 3985(I think that is the number),even paced it for 6 mi. Other relatives were blacksmith and machinist and carman.

Wow, that's interesting! Grandpa's one son went to work on MoPac Lines as a fireman and could never advance above that grade because of the surplus of trainmen after WWII.

Where did you get the seniority list? It is hard to get any information about MoPac because it was bought by Union Pacific some years ago. I can pay a fee for them to search but without any guarantee they will find anything. Grandpa's name was Richard Neidhart; does his name appear on your copy of the list? I do know he came over from Germany at age 19.

Actually .... This isn't the largest model railway layout in the world. There's one called Northlandz in New Jersy that is larger.

Northlandz has 8 actual miles of track (but is fully built out).
Wunderland in Germany has 6 actual miles of track (but has a plan in place to expand by another 6 miles).

Here's Nothlandz web site:
Northlandz

I'm also into this hobby. I have an extensive HO and HOn3 collection. I used to be a part owner in a hobby (mostly trains) store but had to get out of it as my ex-wife and her attorney thought they were entitled to half it's value since I was the president of the corporation we set up. That was a really fun place!