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While strolling through the orange hall at York, I bumped into Norm and said hello. We were standing near a display stand of TM books and videos and he mentioned that TM featured his latest layout on one of their recent dvd's, called, 3 RAIL O SCALE TRAINS. So I purchased one, ripped it open and twisted Norm's arm to autograph the disc. (Thanks Norm, hope your arm heals OK). Well I just finished watching it and I'm just blown away at the awesome job TM did filming the layout and interviewing Norm. This is a must have dvd for every fan of Norm's latest layout. I hope to some day make the trip to see it live. I'll be back. Gotta go watch it again. Can't get enough.

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Just home from York myself, and of course I had to get the new TMBV video with Norm's layout on it (one of my true mentors, as I freely tell him). I'm also looking forward to seeing the Griffith, IN groups layout. A bit too worn out tonight to do anything but get ready for bed, but I'll have some relaxed viewing time available tomorrow. I always enjoy the videos produced by Tom and Joe from TMBV.

I met him as well. Great guy. He told me about the DVD and I ended up purchasing it as well. I have watched it once and yes ofcourse it's awesome. His commentary was well done too with very clear explanations of what was being shown in the video.

Most of his YouTube videos are just a glimpse of the layout but this video takes away some of the mystery but still shows the magic. 

Dave

Seems odd to me that in the otherwise excellent 2 minute promo video posted above, that at 20 seconds in, while the announcer is talking about scale trains this poor UP Notthern and it's consist is visibly lurching and bumping over a turnout in a very un-scalelike manner. Perhaps a little judicious editing...

Here is a very rough idea of what I'd like to do eventually. I probably should have built it like this in the first place:

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This idea would keep as much of the current layout intact. I would convert the front isthmus into a peninsula and would lose the duckunders. The staging yard would be in the workshop and I could probably add a couple long passing sidings too. 

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I'm not a big fan of swing sections or things like that. They end up looking awkward and can use up a lot of real estate. If I do anything like that, it would be to put a reverse loop sort of where J put the wye. This would probably be a removable non-scenic bridge section that would normally be stored until I needed it. My ducks are currently semi-tolerable with my layout height being 42". I'd still like to get rid of them someday. 

Mark Boyce posted:

I agree wholeheartedly about getting rid of duckunders!!

On a jocular note, so did my knees and back when I eliminated my two duck-unders.  I lost a significant amount of operating flexibility, but likely retained a significant amount of knee and back flexibility.

As to Norm's layout building prowess, there are a limited number of hobbyists who can match him.  Any video of his layout(s) is always a sight to behold -- a true artist in every sense of the word.

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Norm Charbonneau posted:

Here is a very rough idea of what I'd like to do eventually. I probably should have built it like this in the first place:

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This idea would keep as much of the current layout intact. I would convert the front isthmus into a peninsula and would lose the duckunders. The staging yard would be in the workshop and I could probably add a couple long passing sidings too. 

Norm

I just got the video last week and watched a few times. detailing is GREAT!!!!  If you have the option to go around your room get in touch with Bob Bartizek, see the OGR video #11. You can easily do a scaled down version.  Just thought. great layout!!!!

steve

 

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