About a month ago, a couple of friends and I visisted Phil Klopp's amazing O gauge layout.
You probably know him and his layout from Tom McComas' Great Toy Train Layouts of America book and video series, as well as several issues of OGR. It's very surreal seeing how much has changed, while many other things have stayed the same.
Of course, Phil still had that magnificent replica of the Starrucca Viaduct, the Colorado snow shed mountain, and the recreation of the Horseshoe Curve.
Phil was terrific company, and we really got to learn a lot about his life that didn't relate to trains, but it shows there's always an extensive life to every train collector.
