Mssr. Lafondue, Gruezi! Thank you for bringing this beautiful layout some of the attention it deserves! I think I am maybe the only guy in America that models in Om (if there are others...please contact me!). Mein Bester Freund in Zurich Herr James Stapfer, has a wonderful DVD of this layout when it was operated as modules in Herr Tarnutzer's living room. You can check it out online at JS Video's on youtube. Om is actually 1:45 Finescale and is beautiful stuff. Runs like a dream.....but it is EXPENSIVE. A double headed Crocodile with 8 coaches would buy you a Porsche! The new Bemo stuff is really awesome, and it beats paying 800 euro's for a freight car. If you have never been to Switzerland and you love trains....start saving! Book a trip on the Glacier Express between St. Moritz and Zermatt, you will never forget the ride! Cheers (Tschus!) Jack
Allegra Jack,
Would be nice to see your work in Om scale...
On a side note, when MRC used to import the Fama stuff (who where considered Om, not quite right since the gauge was slightly wider) there was and probably still is a few Om users around in America...but probably the Om finescale one are probably very, very few.
That's via Youtube that I learned about the Bernhardt Tarnutzer layout in the Albula museum, it's interesting to see 1-2 years old video and the progress who was made.
Om is expensive, well same as O if you buy from small serie manufacturer...lucky wise there are now several more affordable options (Lenz, Brawa, MBV..etc) who like Bemo tend to be very close in quality to the small serie product...and with the huge price difference you can past on some of slight flaws that these models offer.
Now the choices are still fairly limited, in O or Om, so if you like a models you really have not much other option than to go with the small serie...
If you have never been to Switzerland and you love trains....start saving! Book a trip on the Glacier Express between St. Moritz and Zermatt, you will never forget the ride!
Could not have say it better 
But I have a slight better trip, the Glacier Express is a terrific train ride (a bit less since 1982 with the line passing through the Furka Tunnel ) with 1 issue..it stop in St-Moritz..doing so you past on the Bernina Line.
I found better to take the GEX in Zermatt up to Chur (Chur is actually a very nice town and overnight there is more affordable than in St-Moritz) and the next day to take the Bernina Express up to Tirano (yes you can take the Bex from St-Moritz too, but well St-Moritz like Davos are not my cup of tea) and then either continuing the trip with the Bernina Express Bus to Lugano, or coming back to Chur via Pontresina, Samedan, Scuol, Klosters, Landquart...that give probably 80% of the coverage of the RhB network. Adding another day to do the Arosa Line.
But at the end the most important is to have been there.
Sincerely
