TruckLover said:
It is the biggest layout I have ever seen.
http://www.msichicago.org/exhibit/great_train_story/index.html
Click on the Tour, Fun Facts, History and Making Of buttons at the top of the web page to see what I am talking about.
Before I even saw your link my first thought was, "I wonder if he's seen the layout at the MSI in Chicago ..."
HA HA HA!
I've been there, twice! And I'm a 12 hour drive from the museaum. It's incredble, plain and simple. The work is master level and the size of the exhibit is just amazing. You can walk around it for hours and not see everything. They could probably run full sized (110 cars!?) trains and still have it look normal (probably 60 to 70 comfortably).
Anyway, I'm going to begin posting my (38) pictures of the MSI's Chicago to Seattle mega-layout.
Our transportation to the MSI.
The MSI's front door. "Flight" was their big exhibit at the time.
A view of the middle of the layout, pasture lands in the Dakotas.
A couple of Amtraks cross eachother, with auto-racks in the background.
My wife
She's watching a mixed freight train cross the plains. You can see the Rockies in the background. This also shows how much physical access you have to the layout.
Santa Fe coal drag making its way under a bridge through the foothills.
Same train after the bridge.
Same train under the
BIG bridge. Unfortunately I have no pictures of the big bridge. I think I remember it being difficult to get in the frame due to the sorounding layout.
Cargo ship in Seattle. Smith Tower is easily visible here.
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