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Video interview: Tony Koester describes his recent layout progress
Very excellent interview! It was most interesting and informative. I have read a lot about Tony in past issues of MR and it was a true pleasure to see what is new and recently going on with Tony. Thank you for this enjoyable interview David & Cody!
I’d love to see an instructional video or even a series of videos on the construction and operation of a large model railroad like the NKP. Thanks Cody and David and especially Tony!
Been a fan of Tony’s since the early days of the AM and when he was with RMC.“Trains of Thought” remains one of my favorite MR features. When I read that he was tearing down the AM, a perfectly beautiful, fully operational, totally successful model railroad, frankly, I thought he had gone nuts. What I’ve been learning about the NKP layout since then has mitigated this feeling somewhat… but this video is the icing on the cake. I get it. Because Tony, you get it. If you grow up with something as awesome as the Nickle Plate in your back yard, I guess this is what you gotta do. This layout is destined to become one of the truly great MODEL RAILROADS of all times.
As always Tony set’s the bar for all of us to envy and try to copy.
Great interview with Tony Koester, Cody !
It gives me sufficient inspiration to stay the course of construction with the frequent and inevitable delays, which we call life. My little
9 x 12 is coming along now that I have a believable Track plan.
This is because I spent a lot of time reading Tony’s Realistic Model Railroad Design. Keep up the great work !
Regards,
Tony Smith
LVRR
6/20/2009
an excellent video! i met tony many years ago when he came to australia for an nmra convention and found him to be very easy to get along with. his layout is a tribute to his skills as a model railroader
I’ve followed Tony’s work in MRR magazine for quite sometime now. He mentioned he was one of the layout tour spots during the NMRA convention in Philadelphia, which I missed because of work. Will he ever do any layout tours in the future? If so - how do we go about finding out about dates, times and location? I would really like to see it and be able to get ideas and advice…
A very excellent and informative interview with Tony Koester, Cody.
I always like to keep updated on how the Cloverleaf Division’s NKP
Third Subdivision HO Layout is progressing, and from what the photos showed us, it looks very professional and well built. Great
job, and Congratulations, Tony.
Although it was sad to see the AM retire, this new update on the NKP is a fresh take on his new chapter…and it looks awesome!
Great interview Cody. Always like to hear about others and their layouts. Planning to start my new one this fall and the ideal of enlarged photo was timely. Never thought of doing this. Also plan to view ScenicKing (?) products. Thanks Dave for thr ideals.
Love Tony’s work and his support of the hobby. He is one of a very small and influential group that has really made a difference in a very positive way. Thanks Tony!
I really got a lot out of this interview, it completed ideas I received from an article in MR june 2009 “Turning The Corner” . I’m brand new
to this hobby and greener than the pictures in the article. It was also
nice to learn I can combine my interest in photography with this one !
Thanks for the update on Tony’s layout. I appreciate Tonys sly humor in this video and in the Dream Plan and Build series.
I really enjoyed the series of still shots at the end of the video. Moving the tractor and cattle was an awesome touch! So clever! I hope everyone caught it!
Hope to meet you in Cedar Rapids summer 2010 Cody.
I am in the process of building a new layout and Tony’s comments were most encouraging and helpful. As he said take it step by step and ensure track and trains are running properly and then the scenery can come. Thanks Tony.
Very well put Tony! After years of procrastinating, I’m finally building my 1943 Frisco layout.
Very rusty, but determined.
An interesting thing about that scene under/behind the viaduct is that I believe it hides trackwork behind it which would otherwise ruin the scene. Great use of photobackdrop and thinking “outside the box”
Jerry
I’m always interested in what Tony is doing on his road. I am inspired to keep on going with my layout when I get bogged down with the thick of thin things, like too much of any one thing. I have finally gotten out of the armchair and started my layout of the Yreka Western and Tony’s ideas and pointers have been incorporated in how I planned and am building the layout. Thanks, Tony, for your inspirational thoughts through the years.
Very interesting on what Tony had to say.Excellent interveiw and layout pictures.
A wonderful and inspiring video from nice guy Cody and super modeler Tony, whose work (and talents) are way out of my league. Interestingly, Tony’s advice to get trains running did a lot to inspire me to get my head out of simply modeling and into “training.”
By the way, Tony, it was the NKP that got me interested in trains when I was a kid growing up in Buffalo. In fact, I once almost hung a train order on the nose of a Berkshire in Silver Creek, N.Y, where the kindly op let me handle a hoop. He also tried to teach me telegraphy, but that didn’t take.