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Having known and assisted both Bruce at the FC&N his 3 to 5 basements layout 1970's to 1990's then 1990's to the new present day Northlandz and the Ben at the NJ Hi-Railers from 2005 to 2010 I can't say who or where the biggest layout is, but Bruce's 2 story 52,000 sq. ft. building had to hold the record in 1997 when it opened.  Bruce did work 19 hours a day and built all of the bridges himself.  Ben and the Hi-Railers are still going at it and only God knows where this is going. 

 

They seem to take on a life of their own.

 

Jack 

 

 

Originally Posted by yardlet6:

I think the biggest O gauge one is the one in Paterson,NJ. The largest HO is in Hamburg,Germany.


That would be the NJ Hi-Railers!  http://www.njhirailers.com/

 

We're in the process of documenting the track plan in RR-Track.  What a job!   We've been working on it for several months now and it'll probably take a good part of this year to complete.  Perhaps then we'll have an objective measure of it being the largest O-Gauge layout in the world. I'm willing to bet it will be the largest plan ever developed in RR-Track.   Hope it can handle it.

 

I'm thinking of starting an over/under as to how many scale miles of track are in the layout!   Winner gets the pride and prestige of being right.

Northlandz I have been to several times, and unfortunatley I have not gone back again. The last time I was there about 3 years ago, a good deal of the layout was not operational, or in very poor condition.

A lot of it from visitor abuse, throwing coins on the tracks, destroying scenery etc.

 

It seems that the maintenance was not keeping pace with the amount of damage that was done.

I hope that someone has been there recently and this has changed for the better!

It was a shame to see such a great layout in this level of dis-repair.

Originally Posted by pennsyk4:
Originally Posted by AMCDave:

Northlandz is cool....but does not compare to the Hamburg layout. The animation and automation of the German HO layout is amazing. Plus the German display is bigger.


But does Hamburg have a magnificent pipe organ?

 

 

 

 
...There's just no proper way to answer to this one; that's some impressive Organ

Northlandz when I was there 15 years ago was nothing but a bunch of joint compound put on with a pointed trowel to try (Key word try) to simulate mountains.  Half of it was not painted / scenic ed and like someone said it was very monotonous  with half of it non-operational.   It was sad.............

 

It might be a monolith, but it is far from the masterpiece of the NJHR!

Northlandz when I was there 15 years ago was nothing but a bunch of joint compound put on with a pointed trowel to try (Key word try) to simulate mountains.  Half of it was not painted / scenic ed and like someone said it was very monotonous  with half of it non-operational.   It was sad.............

I was to Northlandz around the same time you were. I was impressed with the quantity, not so much with the quality. There was much broken plaster and not many trains running. I remember taking note that not one steam locomotive was running,

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