Looks good

VERY VERY NICE

VERY VERY NICE

Thanks for sharing

A superior piece of work. I

A superior piece of work. I hope to do as well.

Nice Layout and very nice work

very nice

A very nice layout and presentation.  I especially like the feeling of open space - you haven't jammed in everything that would fit.  The first picture of the corner and open grassy field is most impressive.

Artarms

Building the Bagnell Branch - here's the timeline.

Dan - I kept track on when I started the layout and when I got the major areas or projects done.  The dates are on my web site http://mopac51.tripod.com/id11.html

Basically I got the framing up in February 2005 and had my first operating session October that year - scenery came later.  You have to remember Nebraska has some very long winters so one has a lot of time indoors.  On the prototype there's one town (Lohman) I decided to leave off the layout - I didn't want the engine in one town and the caboose in another.  This allowed me to show the rural farm country and wooded areas between the small towns.

Charlie

Layout size

Charlie, I am probably missing it somewhere on the website, but what is the overall size of your layout?  As others have noted, you've done a marvelous job of capturing the wide open feel . . . of course, if the layout is actually about an acre in size, this wouldn't be such a modeling feat!!

David

Nicely done

Layout size

Room size: 21'-6" x 24'-0" Mainline is 155 ft. on the Mopac and 11’ 9” on the Rock Island. 

Layout extension

Really nice work

You've done some terrific work there Charlie. I especially like the low rock cutting in the last shot - very realistic and could also easily pass for a similar cutting in Australia's southeast. It just goes to show you don't need to have lofty mountains to get the feel of the real thing. In fact, I think it's a good deal easier to make modest topography look a lot more convincing than grand mountain scenery. Very often, less is more. (Which is why I model N scale!)

Cheers

Tony in Victoria, Australia

I like the aisle side brewery

in the second photo lower deck. .DaveB

Enon warehouse

I expanded the layout last November; this was done by moving the helix in another room.  This allowed me to add Lohman to the layout and move the warehouse and stock pens in Enon out of the curve in the helix on to level ground.  Am giving a Power Point on the Bagnell Branch in St. Louis this August at John Golden's RPM meet in Collinsville, IL. 

RI caboose and yard office

Here's Mike Porter's RI standard wood caboose made by AMB and a Rock Island yard office by Lake Junction Models.  Mike was here last month and operated the layout with some other model railroaders.

Enon boxcar depot and warehouse shots

Beautiful

Beautiful work Charlie.  Nice to see you on here.

I have to say, as great as Charlie's layout looks - and it's stunning, especially in person - the nicest part about it is its builder.  I've never met anyone in this hobby who's more willing to help others.  What Jeff Otto did for my layout's infrastructure, teaching me about Homasote splines, hand-laid track, and inexpensive turnout control, Charlie has done for the artistic portion, sharing his vast skills on cloud painting, ground cover, SuperTrees construction, roads, etc.

A beautiful layout! Thanks

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Some Nice Scenes

I like the bridge and river modeling, and also like the warehouse.  The bushes and weeds look great!

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New scenery going in

Have been adding 6mm static grass, weeds and flowers to much of the layout.

Olean with new scenery added

Really like the scene with