Perhaps someone out there could help me find mine. It was published back in the early to mid 70's, and was an urban layout set in the city of Baltimore. I remember photos of the 0-4-0 tankers negotiating very tight curves as they switched out cars. Does anyone know the issue or title of the article from way back when?
Rod Stewarts layout is probably my favorite recent one featured.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
It may be the Severna Park Club. I think there is a link on the MR Mag part of this website to the club and original article.
Chuck
Modeling the Motor City
steam618lover1 wrote: Hi Everyone, this is a great thread, i just got back in a couple of years ago on recieving my model railroading mags, i've seen so many great layouts it puts me in dream land, since i don't know to many of the layout builders, maybe you can help me to find three of them IF they where ever built, 1( THE CAJON PASS) 2(THE DONNER PASS RR) and finally, 3(THE TEHACHAPI PASS RR) I like the donner pass rr the best, if you have seen these three in any of the MODEL RAILROAD MAG PLEASE LET ME KNOW, i would love to do donner pass, i will contact model rr and send them some money for those issues. thanks Earl steam618lover1 What Do you call an engineer drinking jack and coke???? A HIGH BALLER
Hi Everyone, this is a great thread, i just got back in a couple of years ago on recieving my model railroading mags, i've seen so many great layouts it puts me in dream land, since i don't know to many of the layout builders, maybe you can help me to find three of them IF they where ever built, 1( THE CAJON PASS) 2(THE DONNER PASS RR) and finally, 3(THE TEHACHAPI PASS RR) I like the donner pass rr the best, if you have seen these three in any of the MODEL RAILROAD MAG PLEASE LET ME KNOW, i would love to do donner pass, i will contact model rr and send them some money for those issues. thanks Earl steam618lover1
What Do you call an engineer drinking jack and coke???? A HIGH BALLER
My number 1 Layout is the G&D which I have never seen. My number 1 layout that I have seen is the Tehachapi Loop built by the La Mesa club at the San Diego Model RR Museum. This layout was featured in MR but I am not sure which issue since I am traveling at the moment.
Peter Smith, Memphis
January, 2004.
Andre
My favorites. It's hard to rank them, so in no particular order:
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
Frank Ellison's Delta Lines has defined model railroading for me since I started reading -- and re-reading, and re-reading -- his articles in MR, RMC, and Model Builder in the 1940s. He "invented" operations on model railroads at a time when most of us were just runnin' trains, his scenery set the standard at a time when many layouts were Plywood Pacific, and his articles were more than inspirational -- they were poetic.
um... this is hard.... I'd have to say................................ All the Above!
Seriously, the AM, UB, VO, etc. and what not are my favorite
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Bruce Chubb's Sunset Valley (and its more recent versions) will always be my favourite because the June 1970 edition was my first ever copy of Model Railroader. I've always liked the way the Sunset Valley has incorporated so many different aspects of modelling - both prototype and freelance, operating purpose, signalling & detection systems - and I always liked noting the additions and improvements to the layout over the years. Another key aspect was the way the extended Chubb family were involved in building and operating the Sunset Valley.
Other great layouts (and I've had to shorten a very long list):-
Gorre & Daphetid (always an inspiration)
Virginian & Ohio (impressive approach to regard the layout as an actual transportation system)
Canadaigua Southern (combination of great layout design, building and humour)
Yosemite Valley (admire the adherence to a single prototype at a single point in time, along with the quality of modelling)
Allegheny Midland (purpose and development so clearly described)
Rensselaer Model Railroad & Piermont Division (Howard Zane's) are favourites also, because I visited them during a US trip 15 years ago, and I still have vivid memories.
One that was missed was Irv Schultz's St. Clair Northern. Although it was not operations oriented it was beautifully detailed from one end to the other and was an early 20th Century railroad setting that some of today's modelers yearn for.
Rick
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
kcole4001Another candidate would be Bruce Chubb's Sunset Valley. Very impressive, and innovative control scheme.
I had a chance to visit it recently, and it is simply overwelming. It has sheer size, multiple decks, crazy electronics, and the nicest people you'll ever meet.
I was at a local swap meet here a few weeks ago and picked up the 1998 Great Model Railroads. Wow, I saw John Gray's Wyoming Division for the fist time...... That's got to be the UP holy grail of layouts. (Maybe he has a job opening in Mo. so I can pay for my layout )
Of recent layouts featured in MR, Pelle Soeeborg´s Daneville & Donner River RR is certainly my favourite. I just love the "simplicity" of the layout, yet detailed so sophistically.
Each era, though, has brought up some really great layouts - the start of which was John Allan´s famous Gorre & Daphetid RR.
With all the new materials available nowadays, it is certainly much easier to build excellent layouts, IMHO.
joegideonWow! Goes back to September, 1963- the Bellefonte & Snowshoe by Chuck Yungkurth. Possibly the best pages ever in this magazine that were devoted to small layout design! I liked Larry Forgaard's Ironwood Railroad, back in 1987...Mike Tylick's Fitchburg & Southbridge back in '85 and the 'Last Days of the Duquesne' in 1983. Bill VandeMeer's AT&SF panhandle/Oklahoma branch line is another beautifully done r.r. Also Perry Amicangelico's C&NW shelf layout from 2004- and in the same issue- Mike Harner's North Timber Co. branch...Lately, Mike Confalone's MEC/Canadian stuff is beautiful. And of course, there's the grand ol' lady of 'rm all, the Gorre & Daphetid. -Jim Snyder Monterey
I have always liked Chuck's plan too. Nevertheless, the layout plan that has influenced me the most over the last 50 years is John Armstrong's Foothill and Excelsior R.R. in the August 1953 issue of Model Railroader. It was ahead of its time, I think unintentionally, by including hidden staging. It had a continuous mainline and a point-to-point branchline, all in 50 square feet in HO scale. My current plan is essentially a bedroom-sized adaptation of that plan.
Mark
Granger Denrock and Southern
Gorre & Daphetid
Mescal Lines
Jason
Modeling the Fort Worth & Denver of the early 1970's in N scale