Hey yall, does anyone know if Cliff Powers has a website or a webhost where i can see some more pics of his great gulf layout? I know i keep posting these kinds of Q’s but either im not looking hard enough, or im just dumb! Thanks again, Ben
Please, if anyone has any info, let me know. Missisippi, Alabama, and Gulf-Cliff Powers layout April Model Railroader Mag-Thanks Ben
Thanks for your interest in my layout. Unfortunately, I do not have a website. The layout featured in the April 2005 MR was dismantled four years ago. I entered my original MA&G in MR’s Small Layout Contest in the fall of 2000. Although it did not win, it was a finalist and MR purchased the manuscript in January 2001. It took four years for the article to be published (!!!)…quite frankly I had given up hope. Shortly after the manuscript was purchased, I had a 14 X32 foot building custom made for my dream layout. This month marks the four-year anniversary of the building’s arrival. Although the layout name and theme remains the same, there have been a few changes. The MA&G now meets the L&N much closer to New Orleans in Fort Macomb, LA instead of the fictional Beaumont, MS which has been abandoned. My new MA&G is a triple deck layout with double-track helix. The lowest level, which is 30 inches from the floor, is strictly for staging and has 30 tracks with a wye. The second level, which is 40 inches high, represents the mainline run through rural Mississippi and features two fictional towns (Wharton and Edna which are southwest of Silver Run), a sawmill complex, three major bridges and a farm. This level is 98% complete. I am currrently constructing a BTS Hyde Pulp Mill, which is the last major structure to be built on the second level. An FSM pile driver will follow. I plan on having this level completed by July 4. The run between Edna and New Orleans, which includes the Fort Macomb connection to the L&N, is located “in the helix”. I decided to take advantage of the dead time spent in the helix to represent these miles of unmodeled mainline. The upper level, which will be 58 inches from the floor, will entirely represent New Orleans. It will feature a 32 foot long yard with roundhouse, turntable and engine facilities, a long riverfront area with warehouses and huge ships (I have already purchased two Sylvan freighters), a coach yard with passenger facilities, and the New Orleans Union P
Thanks Cliff!!! You are a real inspiration! Wow, Allen Keller!! Good for you! Cant wait to see the video in the future. Sounds like you got your dream layout after all! Sounds great. Thanks alot! Godd luck, Ben
Cliff that sounds like one hell of a layout you have brewing there.