I have been away from the hobby for a bit, due to family.  Our daughter returned home to finish college, We  support all our children in their endeavors. Unfortunately she came with two cats. We love our daughter, not so much the cats.

I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.

I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout. 

My new TT scale diorama was inspired by the railway station Finsterwalde (Lower Lusatia).

This past Trainfest I had the opportunity to visit the North American Prototype Modelers layout. 

The layout is a club with a large membership. The quality of the modeling is simply amazing, and the level of detail and cohesiveness between scenes is astounding considering this is a club. The layout room was immaculately clean. Just all around an unbelievably well-done layout. Kudos to NAPM!

I took photos and would like to share some of their amazing work. In the next two posts, I'll share 28 different images. Enjoy!