Lots of real estate in this layout:

Part 1

Part 2

That is a lotta track for sure. Very nice

Most Excellent! Absolutely no pretense of being prototypical.
Railroading for the pure joy of running trains.

Can you spell F-U-N, boys and girls?

That's GREAT. FUN, yes!!!

WOW !!! What a fun layout.

Rick is a forum member and a really nice guy. It was from his cable bridge hanging from the ceiling that I got the idea for building my cable bridge.

Here's another one of his videos;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...UBJ8&feature=related

Doug

Thanks for the kind words.

Rick

Nice layout, Rick. Now that's running trains!!!!!
I loved the videos.

Andy

WOW!! That is stupendous, tremendous. I'm awe struck.

Richie

An impressive effort. I love the part about it taking more than 10 minutes to make the circuit.

Very cool.

Rick - that is a wonderful job on the helix. Do you have any pictures to share that would show a couple of overview shots?

All the best,

Paul

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have any pictures

I will add a couple of the initial Helix, when I can figure out how to. In the meantime, my blog at http://rickbigs.blogspot.com/ has pictures taken during the effort, along with some discriptions

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Absolutely no pretense of being prototypical.

You mean the siding with the Reindeer Loader on it isn't prototypical ?

Very Nice! Excellent workmanship and presentation!!

Brings to memory a Lionel layout helix I saw as a kid...oh, let's see, that would be around 1950!

Anyone else grow up in the Washington, D.C. area and stand smash-nosed at the big corner windows of Woodward and Lothrop, Kanns, or Hechts department stores downtown at Christmas time and stare at the trains running hither & yon? I'd give anything just to see a picture book of those layouts!!! But, one layout in particular I remember... The train disappeared into a tunnel at the left side of the layout, emerging about a minute later at a higher level!! If you scrunched near the tunnel portal just right you could see the helix inside. Of course, now I'm sure it was taking advantage of Lionel's much ballyhooed Magne-Traction. But to a slobbering, drooling kid it was pure magic and the stuff that warped my brain into a trains enthusiast for life.

You're right, nothing 'prototypical' about it (except, of course for the Canadian Pacific's famed helix-in-a-tunnel in the Rockies), but PURE FUN!!

If it makes you smile, it can't be too bad!

KD

Here are a couple of pictures I got to take at Ricks.




There are a few more pictures and a couple of videos that I took during my visit on my photobucket page. Here is the link
http://s68.photobucket.com/alb...Richard%20Bigliardi/

Hey Rick, I liked the onboard video. It was fun watching it.
Wayne

Enjoyed the video tour alot. You've done alot of work. I particularly liked seeing your design for the helix. Very nice! Bill B.