Alan:
The coverage of your spectacular layout in OGR Run 314 is superb!!!! Being a northeast coast person, I love urban scenes and themes. Your layout captures the American large city wonderfully. I am sure that it is even more breath-taking when seen in person. Bravissimo on your creation!!!!
The building that most caught my interest is Grand Station. Was that scratch-built? If not, where is it commercially available (not as if I have room for it in my layout)?
Again, your layout outstanding!
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Thanks Randy! Grand Station is a kit bash so to speak. Many years ago, Disney produced a very nice kit of their Main Street Station located at Walt Disney World. They advertised it as an HO model but in reality a mistake was made by the kit vendor and it is in fact an O scale model. Back when I first became aware of the kit, one could purchase them online for around an average of $30.00 to $50.00. I ended up collecting 8 kits and so the station model on my layout is made up of these kits configured into a large passenger station. The kits are so easy to work with and go together so well (no glue is required) that I did not have to cut or modify anything and so someday when it is time, all 8 kits will be able to go back into their boxes and then be sold as complete. By the way, Steve Nelson of Mr. Muffins Trains created a similar station for his layout after contacting me soon after I built mine. He did some nice painting of certain details on his which makes it look different from mine. Oh, and currently the kits seem to be selling for between $150.00 and $300.00 each! YIKES!
Thanks!
Alan:
Thanks for the information. The station is fabulous as is all of your layout!
The Disney station is advertised as an HO kit, though obviously its not. We copied his and made ours out of eight of those kits, all acquired on eBay. We are making a second one now.
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