My layout was started 36 years ago today.

Happy anniversary,has to be a good feeling ,many more !! enjoyed your post s .happy 4th,you are a inspiration!!!

rich b

So when are you going to finish it ????????

Looks great Marty. Nice to be friends even if it's through the forum. Don

Thanks guys.   It will be done the day I die.

Hay Marty, 

I need to get up there to see your layout, which by the way looks great from all the pics that I've seen over the years on OGR. Maybe as soon as my wife has her hip surgery's done (that's plural) I could get an invitation to see your layout. Our group (The Raritan Valley Hi-Railers) has a photo shoot for the August 11 & 12 Greenberg's show in Edison. Classic Toy Trains wants to do photos & story on our layout (modular). Hope you & Dottie are in excellent health!!!

     Steam Forever

           John

Happy Anniversary Marty.

What a great story Marty! Happy Anniversary with many more to come!

Happy Anniversary Marty !! Absolutely fantastic layout !!

Alex 

Happy anniversary Marty.

Happy Anniversary Marty and many more.

Dave

Happy Anniversary Marty...and many, many more.  BigRail.

You and your layout are icons of the hobby and proof that the hobby is as much about people as it is the “stuff.”  Here’s to many more!

Fantastic!  Congratulations Marty.  I wish I lived closer.

Happy Anniversary Marty! 

Happy Layout Birthday, Marty, and may you have many more years running trains on it. Looking forward to your visit to Portland.

John

Marty,  what a terrific way to let all of us know how long you've been helping us.  You've been a great friend to me and all of the OGR formites.  You've been a wonderful host and Dottie a wonderful hostess when any of us have had the opportunity to visit your home...  I think I speak for everyone who has ever visited when I simply say THANKS, YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!

As always dear friend,    Dave

And the crowd goes wild...PICTURES, PICTURES, PICTURES!!! Congrats on the longevity of your layout. 

Dave 

You are an inspiration 

Congratulations Marty. Keep working on it.

MELGAR

Dave, I have put out many over the years and have been thinking of some new pix from different positions.

Marty Fitzhenry posted:

Thanks guys.   It will be done the day I die.

And I for one hope that's a long time coming!   Happy Birthday to your layout and congratulations to you for building it.   I have not yet had the pleasure to see it in person but the pictures I've seen are stunning!   BTW, thanks for your help in the past and I enjoyed meeting you in person in York at the October 2017 meet.

Chief Bob (Retired)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND MAY YOU HAVE MANY MANY MANY MANY MORE!!!!!

Happy Anniversery Marty. One of the great layouts...............Paul

Congratulations!  You are a great asset to the hobby and to our "Forum"!  You've even been of material help to me by resurrecting a project that was wallowing in the LaBrea tarpits on the verge of extinction!  Thank you!

May you have another 36 years of pleasure from your layout!  God bless you!

Happy Anniversary Marty. Your presence on the forum has been invaluable to all of us and we thank you  for sharing your knowledge & helping us all with guidance to problems we all have encountered with our trains.

Marty, you are a true steward of our hobby and a selfless resource to us all. How about 36 more.

Marty congratulations and here is wishing you another 36 years to get it finished. Also thanks for all your input on the PS1/PS2 question I posed. Between you, Barry and Kristin at MTH I was able to cut the list I was concerned with to just 6 units and half of them are PS1. I have never seen any go the Pics of your layout and would love to see room and maybe after I retire the wife and I will make to your part of the world. If you are ever in Central PA, Harrisburg or State College/Altoona drop a line and list. Pretty sure mine at what ever stage it is in will never hold a candle to yours. Again here is wishing you at least 36 more years to get it finished.

Happy Anniversary!

One final statement.  If you are building a full time layout, use good materials and do the job one time.

 

Pretty much sums it up for me and makes a lot of sense!

Marty, congratualtions - your layout is a true inspiration. In this hobby, folks like you make it interesting and fun.

Happy Anniversary!   Here's to many more years  

Marty,

Keep the trains rolling and keep on rolling yourself! Thanks for all of your helpful posts on the forum. I'm looking forward to reading many more.

Fred

Marty,

Congratulations on the anniversary of your layout.

You, Dotty, your layout, Ralph and Big Louie (Marty's two cats) are the best. Your layout is the one I enjoy most running trains on.

Thanks for being a great friend for many years. Have a great 4th of July. 

Erol    

Marty happy anniversary on you great layout! really enjoyed your hospitality of you n Dottie when I visited you both enjoyed our conversations and especially running trains with you both! I think you enjoyed running my challenger I had converted from ps 5 volt to ps 2 3 volt you enjoyed running it as much as I did .hope to get together sometime this summer when we can get together!

thanks for being a great friend ever need any help or a favor with anything just ask!

your friend and Dottie forever!

Alan

Marty - I believe I have all the back issues of the magazines that feature your layout...I think the first was around 1990 - maybe it was late 1980s - talk about how time flies.

Run 120

Happy layout anniversary Marty.  Over the years, you have invited me to visit your layout but the trip from NC just does not seem to be in the cards.  I have enjoyed the many pictures of your layout over the years but have often wondered about the total room, how you display all the engines you own and is there anything in the area except the layout.

I was wondering if you might take a video scanning the entire room from a point somewhere around the middle and post it for those of us who live too far away for a personal visit?

Thank you for all the encouragement and advise through the years!

Wishing you all the best for many more years enjoying your wonderful layout.

Don

Way to go and Happy Anniversary on your layout.  WIFE and I will be going on our annual trip to Maine first week in August, we might have to stop and check it out.  Keep those trains a running!!!!

Congratulations on 36 years of fun and enjoyment. If there ever was a full featured high tech layout using the very latest equipment it would have to be yours.

Marty, could you please post some more pics or videos here? Also thank you for your input on the Hudson that I’m looking at. I value your opinion.

Marty - great job over the years and much appreciated.

Still trying to find time to make a short trip down from the North Shore in the Elkhart Green '72 convertible.