Hi Roger,
I never had a photo album on my layout on this list, sorry about the mis-lead
on the email.
The reason I never had a album here, as it is not a strictly scale layout, but
a mixture of kits, new track, not AF, Plasticville and AF accessories, that
blend in nicely.
I did want to violate any rules on this list about writing about AF, as this is
the list list for it nor having pictures.
My main reason for posting this message was to show you how a person who is
into O gauge and has no clue about S, that he was very impressed about the S
things he saw on the layout which has many scale things on it.
I can make a photo album on it, if the group says that is okay.
I did contact CTT yesterday about the layout which I know is not a magazine for
scale things.
Mike Marmer
From: Roger Nulton
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 11:26 PM
To: S Trains ; S Scale ; Steve Conard
Subject: Re: {S-Scale List} Fw: Unbelievable
Those are some nice compliments, Mike. You should be proud! What's your
photo album called and where is it located? I can't find it.
Roger Nulton
-----Original Message-----
From: Michael & Linda Marmer
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 6:09 PM
To: S Trains ; S Scale ; Steve Conard
Subject: {S-Scale List} Fw: Unbelievable
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 pictures—and thanks tons for going to all the
work in assembling them for me—I 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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