Reply to "Review of new Lionel "Renz" Hobby Shop"

I love this accessory, and expanded my table layout to include it.  There are two additional upper levels that I added a few years later, but I used to have the ZW, switch controllers, and the operating crane controller on that flat space now occupied by the Madison Hardware Shop.  I added a ten X twelve, then mounted the controllers underneath, in a vertical style. It's a bit messy, but is well hidden.

My Madison Hardware version seems to have the same two cruisers on the back wall.  There are three separate consists of equal size, compared to the three operating consists, that are mounted along the back wall.  At left is a Southern passenger train, then a Santa Fe passenger train, then a mixed freight.  In Marty's pic, the guy behind the counter is holding up a Warbonnet SD 40, while my guy has the blue and yellow SD 40.  I really like that because it was my best runner on the old attic layout, back in the late 80's.

Adding three tiny operating layouts to my relatively massive three-room table layout was irresistible!

Jerry