Some of you have seen the finished pictures of my layout, as I do have a photo
album on the list, but have not updated it for some time.
I am on the TCA list and I think David Dewey, Bruce DeGailler, Sr. and I are
the only S people on the list for the TCA. It is usually me writing about 2
rail track vs. 3 rail track in fun. Oh wait, Jim Lyle is on the list, sorry
Jim, I almost missed you here.
Anyway, Doug, below and I go at it in fun and today I sent him pictures of my
layout.
Here is his reply below from a O gauger, as many O gaugers, do not know much
about AF or the new products for S today.
Doug wrote some nice things about the layout and Linda and me.
I have been in touch with Roger Carp till August as I told him the layout was
done, as he said he would get back to me, as last year he was pushing me to get
the layout done for the magazine. Well, it is done. LOL I just emailed him
about it.
My layout does not have fancy landscaping, mountains, two level track, but it
has a personality of its own, as the ideas just came as I went along. I got
kits from BTS, Bar Mills, GCLaser, and some others, it has Plasticville on it
that is painted and blends in well. It has AF accessories on it and they
blend in well. It has has track on it from www.classictrains.com with their
scale crushed ballast as Roger really like the ballast on it. It is a good
mix of AF thing and scale things using S Helper trains, cars and engines and
some AF converted to DCC engines with several DCC action AF cars.
And the baseball field with all the AF smoke fluid funnels on the baseball
lights, all 64 bulbs.
Many ideas come from several on this list and the TCA list, as well as from
Linda. Hence the Apple Orchard she has on the layout.
Anyway, just thought I would share what someone in O gauge who had no idea
about S had to say about it.
Thank you for reading.
Mike Marmer
From: Doug
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 7:47 PM
To: Michael & Linda Marmer
Subject: Unbelievable
Hi, Mike...
What a labor of love that layout is! And how proud you must be for all the joy
that both Linda and the trains must bring into your life. You are one lucky
guy, I hope you know that.
What I find so outstanding about your layout is the observation that it is not
all junked up with clap-trap pieces of rubbish. So many model train layouts
lack only the kitchen sink, but they are just a thoughtless hodge-podge of
toy-like stuff. I do not see that anywhere in evidence on your painstakingly
accurate design and implementation. It's as though we were viewing a real-world
scene from a little helicopter hovering over the layout. You have gone to
incredible ends to make everything as reminiscent of the prototypical as you
possibly could.
Until you sent me those great picturesand thanks tons for going to all the
work in assembling them for meI would read your posts on the TTML, but I could
not appreciate what you were writing about. The pictures change everything!
My own "retro O-27 Lionel layout" is still in the design stage while I put the
finishing touches to a year-long project of hand-crafting 50 DVDs of my high
school reunion. I organized it, I did the videography (over an hour's worth)
and then I was elected class historian when we all got together in August of
2009.
Thank you once again, Mike, for taking the time to share your love and passion
about "S" gauge/scale with me. You have every right to toot that horn of yours
just as loudly as you can!!!
Doug
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