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Model Railroader 2014 Layout Progress Tour
is Saz’s any good? I recognize that are cause My granparents used to live there before they passed and it was always nice spotting the CP line there.
Great pictures! Looks like it was a great time!
Looks like a lot of fun as always! Why no video this year?
Dean Purcell: The video is coming. It takes longer to edit a video than to select photos. 
I was wondering (if) when Steven is going to finish his layout. I think his layout would make a great MR article in the future if he’s willing to do it.
Angelo Bifulk: I’m working on it! On this year’s tour I showed off about 20 feet of new benchwork, with four new towns. The scenery is progressing more slowly, but it is progressing. Now that I’ve reached a milestone (half the mainline modeled), and built a staging section to represent the rest of the layout, I can turn to structures and scenery. Next year’s tour will show even more completed scenes, including scenery in Lebanon. But actual completion is years away. I don’t want to finish my layout and then have nothing to build for the rest of my life!
This was a lot of fun, visiting the layouts with you guys! Wish that I wasn’t half a country away.
Pictures are o.k., but videos, along with photos, are MUCH better and show the layouts better. Please reconsider videos for next years progress.
I think my favorite is Chuck Sable’s HO scale Chicago and Northwestern layout. I really like the large structure at extreme right in the second picture. It looks like it may be a kitbash of a Heljian brewery. Is there any chance of getting an article about it in MR? … (or maybe just a few more pictures)
Excellent series of photos. I always look forward to the layout progress tours. Looking forward to the video of this year’s tour. I can sympathize with Jim’s problem with track kinking with weather changes. I have several areas on my N-scale layout suffering from the same problem. In my case, the kinking seems to be associated with the drop in humidity in the train room during the winter. The humidity can get down to 22% vs. 50% during the summer. I realign the track and put a drop of super glue between the ties to avoid having to take up the track and re-glue it.
Keep up the good work and progress.
Bob
Electrical cords hanging from the ceiling, kinky track, unfinished scenery, derailments! Hey these guys are just like us. I don’t feel so intimidated by the stuff in the magazine now. I enjoyed the tour very much, thanks.
i enjoy seeing other people layouts just go to prove a layout is never done.been working on mine for 20+ years. driving a truck don’t leave much time to work on it or enjoy it. ohwell
You’ve only whet my appetite for the videos!!!
The Layout Tour was great. I really enjoyed the photos. Next year could you include one or two photos of the electrical side of them?
Hi. Great layouts and I enjoyed the video tours of the past trips. But, let me guess, video when it comes, will be accessed in the video plus subscription service right? Hope that is not the case! Layout tour needs to be available to all. Thanks and keep up the great work on the layouts.
Neil,
I’m a Vietnam Era Veteran, and I want to thank your son for his service in the Marines. I’m sure you are very proud of him. This has nothing to do with model railroads; but it needs to be said.
Roger that, Gary Roe, from another “Era” vet.
It is interesting to see what is being model by the staff at model railroader. I enjoyed seeing the photo’s of the layouts.
To Peter Lloyd-Lee: the structure in the second photo is a kitbash of a Walthers Brewery kit. Basically it is cut and stretced out to fit in a five inch deep area. Some Walthers brick styrene was added to the right side of the kit to give the building some height.