Nixon Library Marx Layout, Full Dress Rehearsal

Outstanding! Amazing tin.

The service station scene is especially nostalgic.

Wonderful.   A lot of whimsy and imagination are evident there.

Very, very cool! 

Outstanding I can smell the tin and ozone!!!

Steve:

When everything is in place at the library, consider taking a whole series of hi-res photos--wide views, mid-range, and closeups--and submit an article to me for possible use in our Christmas issue next year.  If accepted and published, you'll receive a nice bit of $ for your efforts.

Steve,
You can borrow my Nikon d7100 for the shots or I can assist if you like.

Make sure the library is open before you pack everything up for delivery. The JFK Library is closed because of the Govt shutdown.

Here is the video. It is now pretty much boxed up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc7u9TUUS8U

Steve

The 40th  anniversary of the Vietnam POW's White House dinner, held this year at the Richard Nixon Library starts at  ca. the seven minute mark.

Great video, thanks for posting.

Steve

Steve, that is one very nice layout. I agree with the OGR editor, you should do an article for the magazine, just to show there is more than Lionel, tho there is nothing wrong with that. For you to share your Marx sets, and the buildings with the accessories is very public spirited of you, and might even make a few people get back into trains, when they see the fun that can be had. Maybe the Library will use the local TV networks to showcase the train layouts there.

BTW, is the ice cream truck Marx, or Dimestore Dreams? Thanks!

Sounds good Jeff. Better than using my phone

Steve

Steve,

Did the Marx skyscraper come with the King Kong/Fay Wray/airplane tower attached to it or is that something you added?  Very neat!

Bob

Steve, will you be there to run it?  I'd like to bring a couple of friends by and have then meet you and see the trains.

I'll let you know.  It has been a spell.

Tom

Steve, we'll be there Tuesday, November 26 around 10:00am.  Three of us for sure (so far) and more expected, with one all the way down from Kanab, Utah.

Hope you can be there to meet us.  You're more interesting than the trains.....well, a little more.  

Thanks, Steve.  Looking forward to seeing you there.

Steve, what a great looking layout.  I never gave Marx much attention until I started seeing your stuff.  It is truly what toy trains are all about.  I had one when I was 3 and kept it until I was grown although I continued to loose some of it along the way.  The layout brings back all that magic from my childhood memories.  Thanks a bunch.

Ray Sugg

Steve:

Just watched the video.  You did a great job.  Nice layout and imagination.

So will you be recruited to go to the library and set it up and then 'check' on it periodically to make sure it is still working properly?  And, since it appears it will be mated with some other persons' work similar to yours, how do you know you will get back exactly what you took there?

Thanks.

John

Yes, I will be in and out swapping loco's and rolling stock around so as not to overly wear things out. It is actually quite a bit of fun to hang around and talk to the visitors. We will have one night a week, probably Tuesday,  were we go in after hours and do service of everything.

There will be six independent 5x8 layouts. Mine is the only one with primarily O gauge tin so it won't be an issue.

A tin Marx themed O gauge layout (mine)

A bit of a modern concession for the younger kids, a G gauge Thomas theme.

A standard gauge layout.

A S gauge layout.

A replica of the Lionel Disappearing Train layout.

A post war themed O gauge layout.

A nice variety I think.

Steve

Steve