I once visited Tom Miller’s home in Oregon while on an NMRA Convention layout tour. He had a large outdoor 7-1/2” layout featuring two scales, 1-1/2” to the foot representing standard gauge (with a live steam Big Boy loco), and 2-1/2” to the foot for narrow gauge, with several Colorado live steamers. The outdoor layout was very large, complete with tunnels, grades, and trestles. There were several trains running, carrying passengers on rides on the cars. He had shops with machine tools for each scale, and he also had a large indoor G scale layout in it’s own building. The G layout featured custom mountain scenery by Joel Bragdon of Bragdon Enterprises (the lightweight foam rock casting company). By the time I got to see his Flyer layout, I was in deep sensory overload, and unfortunately I don’t remember nearly as much about it as I would like to. I saw on the web that he had the property up for sale a couple of years ago, complete with all the layouts, and I often wonder if he sold it. For what was there, the price seemed quite reasonable, though way out of my reach.
Check out the property & video here: <http://www.uniqueestateforsale.com/>
Bill in FtL
