Tuesday night was the monthly British Railway Modellers of Australia (BRMA) meet and this time it was at Denis Lane’s place … a great host with a fantastic layout. His British layout is currently under construction but the one we got to drool over was his West Virginian inspired HO layout.
His layout is multi-tracked with a great selection of vignettes/cameos (including a moonshine distillery), excellent lighting, a nice variety of industries and settlements and a long run track with plenty of sidings for operations. He uses a Car Card system for ops, wireless NCE DCC for control and great supporting audio elements to add life to the layout.
Basically, the layout is W-shaped with a single track mainline that folds under itself for an interesting continuous run. The modelling was excellent with a nice variety of scratch-built and kit-bashed structures and some gorgeous rolling stock including sound-equipped locos.
While I would like to see some steam running around, his diesels were beautiful, smooth running and a delight to watch. Hopefully, one day I may get to operate on this great layout but in the meantime, here’s a short vid to enjoy:
