Last email I got from Bob, the layout was packed and he was moving to Seattle. When it comes to the SP - Bob, Bruce and Joe have it handled, AT&SF Barrow, Priest, Hitchcock for sure. I have found some off the hook Freemos from Europe of the SP that knocked me out. The best looking HO SP layout is in freakin’ Germany (I think). Google SP layouts and also Youtube videos SP and check out this layout.
Chuck,
I like all of those too, but for a club layout I would have to go with this:
The La Mesa Model Railroad Club’s layout is great and the other day I was given a special tour of the new level with the loop, and all I can say is just sit on the edge of your seat and wait because it is going to be amazing.
I would make it a top 12 and add Stephen and Cinthia Priest’s Emporia Division and the layout of the Museum of Science and Industry!!
My favorites, in approximate reverse order (the bottom of the list being most favorite) are:
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The GN Whiskey River Division by I don’t remember who
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Pelle Soeborg’s UP layout
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Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line
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Whit Towers’ A&LP
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Paul Dolkos’ old small layout - the Duquesne something-or-other
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Bruce Chubb’s Sunset Valley (the one in the 70’s)
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Tim Kerkhoff’s Overland Green River Basin RR
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Cliff Powers’ MAG
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John Allen’s G&D
and my all-time favorite -
- Mark Brunton’s CB&Q in Wyoming (if my own layout wasn’t my favorite, I’d be building someone else’s!) [:D]
My favorite, and I think the most useful of the master layouts…Joe Fugate’s Siskiyou Line. His web site is superb. Joe inspires and teaches you something.
Here is my top ten, but I’m probably missing some great stuff…
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Utah, Colorado Western - Lee Nichols
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ATSF Lamy Jct. - Carsten Lundsten
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Chicago, Indianaopolis and Louisville - Lance Mindheim
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Los Angeles District - Bruce Petty
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Yosemite Valley - Jack Burgess
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Utah Belt - Eric Brooman
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DRGW Tennesse Pass - Bernie Kempinski
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SP Coast Line - Charlie Burns
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SP Siskiyou Line - Joe Fugate
Denny is one of the European modelers I was talking about. His SP Coast Line in N scale is the bomb. Great work Denny. I want to come help you scenic, that would mean a trip to Italy.
Good list on the whole but I would have to add Jack Burgess’s Yosemite Valley - and somewhere near the top too!
Well to start with , I like any layout , everyone works hard to produce what they are capable of. PC aside , There are layouts I really like looking at , no order of preference
Cliff Powers MA&G is beautiful and so southern. I love it
Joe Fugate SP rules
Bob Grech great Detail
Chuck Geiger hard to believe it’s N scale really nice details too SP rules again
Pelle’s layout for his fantastic desert scenes
Just some I like: And being near retirement and having CRS . I can’t remember the one in the UK Joe is it ? Great detail.
Hey Chuck, thank you!
You can come to Italy whenever you want 
A few others we should toss in the ring
Harold Werthwein’s Erie RR
The NEB&W
The Ried Bros N scale layout
Before the V&O became as popular as it did, many of the same concepts were used in a “Lichen Belt layout” was Jim Paine’s Durham and Southern
There was a beautiful B&O layout, I cannot recall the modeler, it was featured in one of the early Allen Keller videos
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John Rogers MEC Mountain Divison
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Larry Reynolds PRR Horseshoe Curve
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Bill Darnabys Maumee Road
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Tony Koesters Allengehny Midland
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Bob Helms Clinchfield
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Allen Mcellands Virginian And Ohio
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Vince Lee’s Erie 28th Street Terminal
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Jim Herzogs Reading
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Brian Kellys C&O
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Harold Wirthwiens Erie
Also don’t forget teh beautiful O scale C&O layout in the kansas City area.
Is that Larry R. who loves in Emmaus, PA? - If so awesome layout, I toured it in 2000.
Layouts that have had a big influence on me:
Gorre & Daphetid, John Allen
Franklin & South Manchester, George Sellios
Empire & District RR, Lane Stewart
Pitkin Tramway, Joe Crea
San Juan Central + others, Malcomn Furlow
Several on Carl Arendts micro-layout site
Several Garden Railroads
I met Al Mayo at the Springfield show and he is a really nice cool guy. You old farts have to give the younger generation a second chance. He used to post photo’s on Atlas and I was impressed with his layout. He has a lot of energy and has modeled some very interesting scenes (many very funny and tongue in cheek). I only wish I had some of that talent and energy!
I’ll vote for most of the western layouts - all so very nice!
Top ten layouts of all time or just on this forum?
I’m not sure if I’ve seen enough layouts to choose a top ten, and if I have I can’t remember enough names.
Of the layouts I’ve seen on the forum, my two favourites are Dave Vollmer’s and Jon Grant’s.
I notice that there are few people who like John Allen’s G&D. Nice layout scenery-wise, but I don’t care for all-steam locomotive fleets.
Hi guys
Hmm some thing wrong here no1 should always be your own.
so no1 mine
no2 Gore & Daphetid
no3 Buckingham Great Central
no4 Delta Lines
no5 Ffarquar Rd
no6 Thomas’s branch line by REV Awdry
no7 San Juan Central
no 8 Pig sty Hill Light railway Unless you are into garden railways UK style you will not know this one.
No9 Sandstone and Termite railway
a load of other English lines
regards John
Above all others, my two most favorite layouts are:
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Gorre And Daphetid
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The La Mesa Club RR
Peter Smith, Memphis
Young farts need to learn that their actions will draw reactions.
Corny Al got pwned, thats it, end of story.