Wow, what a beautiful layout! Looks like it would be great to operate. Thanks for sharing this with everyone. Great job on the narration and video production.
Fantastic layout! Beautiful Gary!! And wonderful narration Bruce, giving us an insightful tour covering track plan, scenery, industries, and operation. Well done all.
I'm a massive Conrail fan but when I saw this layout for the first time in Model Railroader I couldn't put the article down, Wow what an awesome layout, I still have that edition of Model Railroader too!!
Wow, what a magnificently beautiful railroad this is. My favorite railroad is the L & N because my uncle worked as a conductor for over twenty years from the mid 60's to the momid 80s until an accident and medical retirement. I live in East Tennessee and am glad to see a railroad modeled for this area. We see a lot of beautiful western railroads, but few from the Appalachian region it seems. I'm just an armchair model railroader since I have no room for one but enjoy rail fanning the railroads of others. Is there a lot of maintenance of the electrical portion of the layiut?
A number of the locomotives do have sound, which does add to the realism. The downside of having too many sound-equipped locomotives operating at the same time is due to Gary’s design of the layout: There is so much track compressed to a relatively small area, the sound carries further than it would in the real world and it becomes distracting. For example, the distance between the mainline coming down from Eldridge Camp into Glenbrook and the Rock Creek Branch at North Dent is scenically separated by “hundreds of miles” but physically (literally) just a couple feet through a 1/4-inch thick backdrop.
Well I like to say You have great outstanding HO layout of L and N Eastern KY area and it looks great great there and I like your L and N trains that you were running on your layout I like to tell you about my self I too I m a Big L and N Railroad fan it's my favorite road well when I was in early years of my I started out in H O. Gauge from ages of 7 to 20 years of age but I changed into N scale Trains when I was 22 years of age and I have been there ever since and I love it and now I have been a N scale train collector since then I have 125 N scale Locomotives and I have about 5000 train cars and that's me
A very complete vision and theme, the color pallet is seamless. I like everything about this layout, especially the purposeful need for train activity and the directional nature. One of the best layouts I've seen, I'll watch this video several times to take it all in.
Beautiful, I live in eastern ky, and have always wanted to build a eastern ky layout, this has given me so much inspiration. I am in lee Co. An hour from hazard.
I had the opportunity to operate Gary's layout and liked the scenic dividers between scenes. Good presentation Bruce. May you come back to Hamburg sometime?
I was hoping to find the link to the video that Bruce mentioned regarding the operation of the CTC panel, but I do not see that here. Maybe it’s because I am looking with the iPhone app and not on the actual RUclips site?
I’m pretty late to watching this, so maybe the link to the ctc video wasn’t present when you first watched. I too am using an iPhone app for RUclips. In the description, you must locate the “…more” links to expand the content of the description to view more of the description text. I had to click a “…more” link twice to find the ctc link.
Nice work there John And great narration Bruce Gary has built quite the empire Kudos to all the gang on keeping the layout looking / running better than ever! Jeff
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One of the very best layouts, tours, and explained operations I've seen!
Don't never post much but this was worth my time. Awesome layout, the builder and helpers are top notch in my book.
Very nice to see continuing commitment to Gary's awesome and nicely detailed layout, thanks for the tour Bruce!
This is AMAZING! WOW!
Absolutely fantastic model railroad,L&N is one of my favorite Railroads.
Beautiful top to bottom! Great NARRATION!
Thanks for sharing, what a great piece of work.
Beautiful Layout. Loved seeing all the C&EI coal cars represented on the layout. After all, I am C&EI John. LOL
Very nice layout. Thanks for sharing it.
Wow, what a beautiful layout! Looks like it would be great to operate. Thanks for sharing this with everyone. Great job on the narration and video production.
That control board was "Big Time" professional.
Start by giving us a tour, especially the engines.
Fantastic layout! Beautiful Gary!! And wonderful narration Bruce, giving us an insightful tour covering track plan, scenery, industries, and operation. Well done all.
I'm a massive Conrail fan but when I saw this layout for the first time in Model Railroader I
couldn't put the article down, Wow what an awesome layout,
I still have that edition of
Model Railroader too!!
Wow, what a magnificently beautiful railroad this is. My favorite railroad is the L & N because my uncle worked as a conductor for over twenty years from the mid 60's to the momid 80s until an accident and medical retirement. I live in East Tennessee and am glad to see a railroad modeled for this area. We see a lot of beautiful western railroads, but few from the Appalachian region it seems. I'm just an armchair model railroader since I have no room for one but enjoy rail fanning the railroads of others. Is there a lot of maintenance of the electrical portion of the layiut?
Yes there are at times, but the guys who work on the layout are very good at identifying the issue and solving the problem quickly!
Beautiful layout. You should add sound to the engines to make it more realistic.
A number of the locomotives do have sound, which does add to the realism. The downside of having too many sound-equipped locomotives operating at the same time is due to Gary’s design of the layout: There is so much track compressed to a relatively small area, the sound carries further than it would in the real world and it becomes distracting. For example, the distance between the mainline coming down from Eldridge Camp into Glenbrook and the Rock Creek Branch at North Dent is scenically separated by “hundreds of miles” but physically (literally) just a couple feet through a 1/4-inch thick backdrop.
Well I like to say You have great outstanding HO layout of L and N Eastern KY area and it looks great great there and I like your L and N trains that you were running on your layout I like to tell you about my self I too I m a Big L and N Railroad fan it's my favorite road well when I was in early years of my I started out in H O. Gauge from ages of 7 to 20 years of age but I changed into N scale Trains when I was 22 years of age and I have been there ever since and I love it and now I have been a N scale train collector since then I have 125 N scale Locomotives and I have about 5000 train cars and that's me
Ah, my old haunt. I miss operating on the EK Sub.
A very complete vision and theme, the color pallet is seamless. I like everything about this layout, especially the purposeful need for train activity and the directional nature. One of the best layouts I've seen, I'll watch this video several times to take it all in.
Beautiful, I live in eastern ky, and have always wanted to build a eastern ky layout, this has given me so much inspiration. I am in lee Co. An hour from hazard.
I was lucky enough to visit this layout with Bruce back in 2011. Great memories. Thanks again Bruce.
Mark from Melbourne
So, so beautiful. I'm surprised there is no sound?
I had the opportunity to operate Gary's layout and liked the scenic dividers between scenes. Good presentation Bruce. May you come back to Hamburg sometime?
Beautiful. That trackwork is gorgeous.
I was hoping to find the link to the video that Bruce mentioned regarding the operation of the CTC panel, but I do not see that here. Maybe it’s because I am looking with the iPhone app and not on the actual RUclips site?
I’m pretty late to watching this, so maybe the link to the ctc video wasn’t present when you first watched.
I too am using an iPhone app for RUclips. In the description, you must locate the “…more” links to expand the content of the description to view more of the description text. I had to click a “…more” link twice to find the ctc link.
Love when there is a layout location map to reference where the video is taking place otherwise everything all muddles together.
Mind blowing R.R. How did one guy do all this? And the cost + time it took..Just Amazing. Thank you for showing us.
Nice work there John
And great narration Bruce
Gary has built quite the empire
Kudos to all the gang on keeping the layout looking / running better than ever!
Jeff
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great job, Bruce. Excellent layout. I'll have to come back again
Fantastic layout! Thanks for sharing John!
Great to see the hood units, reminded me of childhood and seeing the CN hood units on freights and passengers. the layout has great detail work.
OUTSTANDING Bruce was great
Great presentation of an extremely impressive railroad. This layout hits all the marks! Thanks for posting.
What a great layout, John. Thanks for sharing it. Take care. Sean.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Made me feel like I was in coal country!
Very nice! The countless hours spent on this project was time well spent.😮
Wow! Spectacular layout!! Greg
Thanks for that Great tour !
Awesome layout! Thanks for a great tour.😊
Thanks John, Thanks Bruce, and Thank you Gary! What an enjoyable visit to a terrific layout. And what a great hobby!
Much impressed! Nice show.
Such a beautiful layout & very realistic.
beautiful layout
Cool!
160/161 sure sound like The Blaze.
phenomenal!
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