My Goodness!

Awesome layout Rob!  Thank you (and MRH) for sharing it with us!  Enjoyed the photo tour, but the video was the real treat!  

I Like It

Rob is doing a nice job with this layout.  The scenery colors and forms are appropriate, and he has resisted the too-frequent modelers' temptations to cram in too much track, vertical scenery, or stereotypical "mountain layout" cliches.  Logical cuts and fills help the railroad look like the landscape came first.  

Simple, realistic scenes are a refreshing break from so many "Colorado" layouts that look nothing like the place.

Awesome layout!

Rob, this is the best landscaping that I've ever seen in N scale!  And your conifers are probably the best I've seen anywhere.  You've managed to get away from the 'bottle brush' look and give them some colour variation and even put in a few dead trees, making a believable conifer forest. 

Oh those conifers!

I would really...REALLY love to see him do an article on those conifer trees. Variation on the coloring, dead trees. Excellent work! Please please please!!

My kind of railroad

Rob,

Great job! I've been modeling the Tennessee Pass line since 1986 and must say you've done a great job of capturing the look and feel of the area. N scale certainly opens up a lot of opportunities for majestic scenery. Thanks for sharing your railroad with us.

Dick / Goodyear, AZ

WOW!

Great job there Rob.

You have really used N scale to it's full advantage with those truly amazing vista's.

Simply amazing.

Mark W

Melbourne Australia

Looks Like Home

Signal maintainer to Belden please.

Tennessee Pass

Rob:

Beautiful job, probably the best N-scale layout I've ever seen! Take a bow!    

Bob

Great Work

One Of best N Scale layouts i have seen. Only problem at 68 i am going from HO to. O. 

zepher get lost?

Guess the Moffet Tunnel was closed that day! Long detour, think they would have used trackage rights and gone over UP. 

Impressive!

Very impressive, the scenes seem to be very realistic, they certainly bring back my days of visiting the Royal Gorge. I really appreciate the fact that you have taken the time to share your layout with us. I hope you don't mind, but I certainly plan on using your layout for some tips on building my own. You should be very proud of your accomplishments and thanks MRH for presenting this review.

Gary Houk

I was at the real Tennessee

I was at the real Tennessee Pass, Minturn, Red Cliff area just last fall.  I watched the track for activity but had heard that the rail activity had been recently stopped.  I would love to see excursion trains run through there, such beautiful scenery.  Rob captured it very well.  Thought I was looking at actual photographs of the real sites.  I want to build a similar layout in HO.  That and/or the Durango and Silverton Railroad which I also love. 

Wow!

This is one impressive railroad.

     Jerry L.

Amazing

Simply superb.  I can't believe I'm looking at N scale.  

George.

It just feels right!

I have lived in Colorado for 30 years. I have been to the Royal Gorge and have ridden a bicycle over Tennessee Pass. It feels more than right.

Fantastic!

real nice work Rob

just wondering - in Malta, you have an old hopper half buried in the hill side, obviously for dumping dumptruck loads into gondolas. This is a really neat idea! Can you tell us a bit about the "industry".

Cheers,

Ken

inspirational!

My son and I were looking for just the inspirational layout you provided in the article. Maybe, just maybe, someday I will be showing off my massive N-Scale layout of the Great Northern/Northern Pacific mountainous railroading.

Thanks very much!

Magnificent,if I can one day

My wife's family owned a

Say what?

Hi Bruce,

Could you explain this:

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TIA

A true inspiration for us

Awesome.. Needs a video!

Amazing work.. Needs to have a Trainmasters video!

ed: Found the video in the subscriber extras, Thank you!

(I still think it should have a full on TM video..)