The Bailey Yard webcam shows the scale

(So to speak).  The live webcam shows the huge scale of railroading in North Platte - but I still didn't realize it would take 1.5 football fields to create it in HO!  Good description!

Wow ...

... it was very interesting seeing what a remote control for a life sized locomotive looks like!  (Didn't see a 'knob' ... unless they are on the sides, under his hands?)  

Neat

They use Accuscale R/C to control engines. No DCC.  How prototypical can you get?  

Bernd

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Ultimately went to Google maps to look at the whole thing, it just goes on...and on...and on AND ON!!!!

 315 total miles of track and 766 turnouts...

So in HO, that's 19,177 feet of track...but that's not too bad on turnouts!!

If you used Atlas code 83 [haha, if you can get it!!!] at $6.00 a 3 foot piece, it would cost you $38,234 to buy the track...and another $7660 for turnouts, if you made them with Fast Tracks jigs...who are we kidding, make that $25 each for Shinohara!!! $19150!!!  BUT WAIT!  They'll likely all have to be a custom size, so we're back to using fast Tracks jigs, and at an Hour per switch, it will take 31 days working 24 hours a day to make them all!!!  More realistically, if we work 8 hour days, it will take 95 days to make them all, or 19 work weeks...almost three quarters of the year!!

By contrast,the  La Mesa Club layout is I do believe 8 scale miles of track...

La Mesa 8 scale miles...