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Video: Gerry Albers’ HO scale Virginian Ry. Deepwater District model railroad
I liked the high bridge over the aisle at the end of the video.
Great
Excellent! I really like when we’re able to see parts of the railroad room as well. Not just extreme closeups like a lot of videos have.
Beautiful layout…Those humongous hills dwarf the houses at their feet…Just like in the “real world”. Great job…!!
Now this is a beautiful layout! Loved the scenery detailing!
Great looking pike but…the long bridge span (without support) looks a little questionable. I have never seen anything on a model railroad that looked as odd as that bridge.
The scenery was very accurate. And it was projected in a very professional manner. It was a very clean and neat example of what model railroading should be. Very effective of the coal drag crossing the trestle.
Very realistic scenery, but the long plate girder bridge span is too long unsupported, should have been a howel truss.
Obviously the unsupported span is a duckunder to another section of the layout. Use your imagination for the missing supports 
Great layout. The bridge is fine by me. Pretty impressive as it moves the trains over an aisleway and the bridge is bigger than my home layout.
Very good. That is a long bridge without supports, isn’t it? The scenery looks good and the sound makes the scene.
Viewers who question that bridge would be well advised to read Gerry’s article in the latest Great Model Railroads.
Nice layout. Great inspiration for me.
Ed
Beautiful work. Not that familiar with that part of the world but it sure looks real to me and I’ve been in other parts of the country that would be reminiscent of the landscape modeled in this particular layout. Well done.
I had the opportunity to participate in an op session on this spectacular layout last year. It is even more beautiful in person and runs like a million dollars. One of the true high points in my 65 years in model rail railroading was running a V&O freight on the newest incarnation of the Virginian & Ohio with the master, Allen McClelland as the dispatcher!
For those of you that haven’t seen GMR 2014 the long “unsupported” bridge is not prototypical but necessary since it is a duck-under on the layout. Neat idea combining a nice bridge with a necessity. Great layout!!
Excellent and very realistic railroad! The trains look natural running through the scenery. I find the huge plate girder a fitting final touch. When you consider it as an aisle-way duckunder, the lack of support makes sense, and with a little imagination you get a great impression of a long train crossing a realistically-sized canyon bridge.
The long bridge looks a bit strange, but it also appears to be a duckunder to the other side of the scenic divider and the layout. Model railroading is full of compromises and I for one think the overall layout makes this bridge a mute point in the big scheme. Great layout.
Good layout, great features, and interesting details that set the layout apart from others.