Run 295 Polar Express Article

In a word...."WOW!"

I just read the article about Skip's Polar Express layout last night.  It's a dandy indeed!!  Congratulations, Skip!!

NICE.

Thanks Rich since have not got over to Barns and Nobel yet to pick up a copy.  Local Toy Train Shop no loner carries ORG.

Wow!!!  I want one!

I encourage everyone to go look at Trainworx other threads about this layout over the past 6 months.  They show the making of and a bunch more pictures of it afterwards, including a total shot of it from a distance.  It is truly a striking, beautiful layout and I have no doubt many other like it will be sold.  It definitely sells itself.

...but only if you beleive

I beleive oh boy I really beleive.A big locomotive comes down the street like that.You better beleive.I just wish they would make a part 2.This is the one movie that shocked me.My mother has this movie.While walking through the house I noticed her watching the movie.So I said"You watching the polar express but I thought you did not like trains.She looked at me and said"I never said I did not like trains!"I was just in shock.I think I stood there for a few minutes.Rich great cover page the scale poplar express looks so cool!!

Funny how the Polar Express has become such a popular and integral part of the Xmas season. Something the whole family can enjoy  without shock & awe. Love it. Lost my tape of it that I had. Loaned it to someone.

Rob, That's a cool video.

Jim, I just wish I had known.  We were going through the tapes and DVDs a couple months ago, and realized we had both a tape and DVD of the Polar Express.  I carried a box of tapes down to St. Vincent de Paul's, including the Polar Express.  Maybe you can find it still there.

Skip's layout article MADE the Christmas edition this year very enjoyable! Good stuff!

Outstanding layout AND article!  

Volphin posted:

Outstanding layout AND article!  

DITTO!!!! add the fact it is pretty compact I can see lots of public interest. Thanks my copy came yesterday. 

OGR Webmaster posted:

Skip Natoli's article in the December 2017 issue of O Gauge Railroading magazine has garnered a lot of interest beyond this forum and the hobby.

Consequently I'm posting this article reprint here for everyone to enjoy.

What a treat!!! Great article! Great Magazine! Thank you for sharing this article in this format You've inspired me to dedicate an entire section on my blog to the making of Skip's Polar Express Layout...I'll get to work on that right away and then I'll have to create a "Natoli Part II" for the first custom layout we delivered last spring Such a treat to be part of this Traintastic Hobby. Thank you Skip and Thank YOU OGR Magazine/Forum and our dear friends at Lionel who really knocked it out of the roundhouse with their Polar Express Train - ALL ABOARD!

Have an excellent weekend trainiac friends and if I may say so... being from Texas and all **Go Astros**

Happy Tracks,

TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(214) 634-2965
www.blog.traindame.com 

Great story and layout Skip. TW Worx does amazing work.

Congrats to all.

Traindame posted:

OGR Webmaster posted:

Skip Natoli's article in the December 2017 issue of O Gauge Railroading magazine has garnered a lot of interest beyond this forum and the hobby.

Consequently I'm posting this article reprint here for everyone to enjoy.

What a treat!!! Great article! Great Magazine! Thank you for sharing this article in this format You've inspired me to dedicate an entire section on my blog to the making of Skip's Polar Express Layout...I'll get to work on that right away and then I'll have to create a "Natoli Part II" for the first custom layout we delivered last spring Such a treat to be part of this Traintastic Hobby. Thank you Skip and Thank YOU OGR Magazine/Forum and our dear friends at Lionel who really knocked it out of the roundhouse with their Polar Express Train - ALL ABOARD!

Have an excellent weekend trainiac friends and if I may say so... being from Texas and all **Go Astros**

Happy Tracks,

TrainDame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(214) 634-2965
www.blog.traindame.com 

The blog sounds like a great idea, Dorcie!  

I'll root for the Astros too!  I'm glad they moved to the American League.  That was one less good team beating up on my Pirates in the standings!  

Its a fantastic article!  Skip is one the first class icons on our forum and i hope to meet him someday.

Somewhere in the OGR archives is his other Christmas layout,  i like that one too!

As I said in another thread recently, Skip is becoming "Mr. Christmas" around here!

Followed through and posted on my blog focusing on this OGR article... check it out here: OGR Magazine December Cover Issue 

Couple of photos on the McGowan Street Studio Floor - Traingineers Polar Expressing

Happy Tracks,

Dorcie aka TrainDame 
TW TrainWorx
(214) 634-2965
Dallas, TX | Concord, NC USA
www.holidaytrainlayout.com 

Thanks Rich and everyone for the kind words! I will gratefully accept the title "Mr. Christmas!"

What a wonderful article with beautiful photos! Our children and grandchildren will love to see this! I can't think of a better way to promote long term the Greatest Hobby in the World!

I BELIEVE that layout is just amazing!! Great work Mr. Christmas!