The San Antonio Model Railroad Association (SAMRA) recently held their 41st Annual Train Show in San Antonio, TX. Before it got too crowded on Sunday morning, I was able to take a few videos of some of the club layouts that were at the show.  There is a large HO layout that has a really great looking refinery scene, then an O-scale layout that has a great circus with lots of music, and lastly, the N-scale layout with dinosaurs in the stock yard at their meat packing plant.

First a little back story. For those of you have seen my Madras Oregon Switching Layout  I had eluded to the fact that I was no longer going to use it at my office and I would be posting about a new project, well here it is. I had been asked by my company to build a much larger layout for training purposes in our new training center.

A while back I had the pleasure of attending an operating session at Bob Gretillat’s Rock Island layout. I like to shoot video to show the trains in operation, but on this particular occasion the video didn’t turn out very good, but Bob’s model scenes are well worth showing. So, I thought I would share a few images from our time. 

I hope you enjoy this short tour. Images on the first post.

Due to a house move and change of workplace, I have to tear down my layout.

My new train room is smaller than the actual one, And there is no place for Ullapool and Inverlael. But my other modules could be reused. I will keep you up to date with my new layout.

Markus