Model Railroading > Southland trip Part 2

The RPM meet was a fun day Sat, but the highlight for me personally was visiting one of the presenters layout. Presenter Tim D's home layout is based on a 1970's post BN merger period in the Pacific Northwest. A CTC controlled layout with operating signals and semaphores. The level of detail and perfection is most impressive. DCC controlled F units with howling dynamic brakes and moaning 567 prime movers...Wow! How cool is that.
Here are some photos of Tim and friends work. Had a great visit.

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Three more.

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Wow. Tim's layout has made some great strides since I last visited a few years ago. It was already impressive even then. Positively stunning now. The F-units look absolutely terrific too. Thanks for sharing Dave.

Cheers,
Harry

p.s. the Pigs are SooOOOweeEEEET! =)



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/09/10 09:10 by tracktime.

Yep, Tim's layout is fantastic, and he's a class act. Looking forward to paying another visit to his layout one of these days...if he'll let me.;-)

PE

Good pictures, interesting layout, thanks for sharing your pictures here. Have any more to post?

Con

Wow, that is awesome!!!

Been years since I've seen the place Tim, looking good!

Yeah, nice layout; thanks for sharing. Look at the piglets sucking on the sows! LOL

really nice layout, I love the grass.

Hello,
WOW!! Neat pics hopefully ya got more to share! I especially love the real looking rail joiners in the third pic.....VERY cool!!!!!
TheHammer
Mark

My favorites are the AMC Gremlins(or are they Pacers?) at the diner.

This layout is located in So Cal??

There's more video footage of that layout on BLMA's website. Craig shot some video of his TopGon's behind a couple of custom built NS C40-9W's from Paul F @ DW. Link is below.

http://www.youtube.com/user/BLMAmodels#p/a/u/2/iMz-lc6Z2hM

NSTopHat

That is one well done [labor intensive] layout!
JB

jrwadman Wrote:
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> My favorites are the AMC Gremlins(or are they
> Pacers?) at the diner.


I see one blue AMC gremlin up front next to the black convertible, and two honda civics to the side of the restaurant. One brown civic and another blue one in the background. All were models/toys produced by "Fresh Cherries".

Cheers,
Harry

That is one kick ass layout, Craig from BLMA models has some videos of Tims layout posted on his YouTube channel.

sphauler Wrote:
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> This layout is located in So Cal??

Yes.

The photos are fantastic, they just don't quite match up to being there! Personally, I really enjoyed watching the operating semaphores, even if it was just a cab-hop. Now just need some MRL blue running around there...

Mr. MRL

Over Tim's dead body! :-D

PE - No Espee either, dagnabbit...

MrMRL Wrote:
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>Now just need some MRL blue
> running around there...
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> Mr. MRL

SP_8299 Wrote:
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> Over Tim's dead body! :-D
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> PE - No Espee either, dagnabbit...

I asked Jim about that. He said that they do run SP SD45T-2s.Back in the 70's SP tested Locotrol equipped BN stuff in southern Ca. and SP sent T-2s to run on the BN. I remember that...
Glad everyone enjoyed the photos, but they don't do the layout justice.
I'll try to post a few more when I have time.