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02-26-2016, 08:58 AM
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Dispatcher
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Montreal
Posts: 1,308
Scales Modeled: HO and OO
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He doesn't travel with his layout...it is huge and not transportable. He does rent an adjoining hotel room as a workshop when he travels because he does carry his modelling tools and kits he is working on when on the road.
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02-26-2016, 12:24 PM
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Train Master
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: East Haddam, CT
Posts: 8,234
Scales Modeled: HO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dinwitty
I don't think he moves his layout around, but he takes models/kits with him and builds them on tour.
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Exactly right. He has two huge footlockers, one for his tools, one for his supplies. He builds in a spare bedroom in the hotel suites.
He enjoys operating the trains, and participated in the design of his layout, but he did hire some folks to build and wire it for him.
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02-26-2016, 12:25 PM
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Train Master
Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: East Haddam, CT
Posts: 8,234
Scales Modeled: HO
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Genetk44
He doesn't travel with his layout...it is huge and not transportable. He does rent an adjoining hotel room as a workshop when he travels because he does carry his modelling tools and kits he is working on when on the road.
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Ah, sorry for restating what you said. I didn't notice there was a Page 2 when I hit "reply".
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Connecticut Valley Railroad -- A Branch of the New York, New Haven, And Hartford
"We don't stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing." --George Bernard Shaw
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02-28-2016, 10:18 AM
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play every day
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: rural unincorporated Los Angeles County
Posts: 4,950
Scales Modeled: HO, Lionel post war O, 1:8 riding railroad
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03-01-2016, 08:47 AM
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Station Master
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 2,510
Scales Modeled: HO, 3R 1/48
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I think Rod has two layouts. The one in California is American prototype and the one in England is British. I suspect the one in California will stay.
Pete
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03-01-2016, 10:27 AM
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Station Master
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Accra
Posts: 2,953
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I think the British one will stay.
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03-01-2016, 02:30 PM
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Hobo
Join Date: Aug 2015
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 14
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CTValleyRR
he did hire some folks to build and wire it for him.
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Where's the fun in that? 
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03-02-2016, 07:36 AM
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Station Master
Join Date: Dec 2014
Location: Accra
Posts: 2,953
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Maybe the fun for him is in the running. When you've got that much money you can stick two fingers up at everyone else and do what you like!
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03-03-2016, 02:23 AM
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Dispatcher
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Reno Nv.
Posts: 1,901
Scales Modeled: HO 1950s Southern Pacific in So. California.
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He doesn't do that much track work his passion is in building buildings. That's what he takes on the road, building stuff.
Magic
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03-03-2016, 06:30 AM
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Brakeman
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Northern Kentucky
Posts: 120
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Not sure if it was a MRR article, but remember reading that fans occasionally throw building kits onto the stage at his concerts. He's come a long way since panties and bras! 
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