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Whiskey Merchant
Last year I posted a video of the Treasure State Railway built by the late Pete Ellis. The first part of his layout was built inside a quanset hut on his ranch near Cascade, MT.
Here is the original video posted last year. The video quality is quite poor as the video was originally recorded on an 8 mm video camera and recorded off of a TV. The video was also stretched slightly horizontally slightly to fir the video on the screen. A 40 foot box car looks like a 50 footer. The layout was started in 1949 and the majority of the structures are all scratch built. The track is all hand laid code 70. A lot of the things we take for granted today had to be build or invented by the modeler back then.
I found another short video taken a few months later. Again, very poor video quality. I do have more videos of the layout but have no idea where the tapes are.
Pete, like myself, had the opportunity to have visited in person the Gorre & Daphetid railroad by John Allen and I am sure you will see the influence it had on Petes layout. A lot of the scenery extends to the floor.
Here is the original video posted last year. The video quality is quite poor as the video was originally recorded on an 8 mm video camera and recorded off of a TV. The video was also stretched slightly horizontally slightly to fir the video on the screen. A 40 foot box car looks like a 50 footer. The layout was started in 1949 and the majority of the structures are all scratch built. The track is all hand laid code 70. A lot of the things we take for granted today had to be build or invented by the modeler back then.
I found another short video taken a few months later. Again, very poor video quality. I do have more videos of the layout but have no idea where the tapes are.
Pete, like myself, had the opportunity to have visited in person the Gorre & Daphetid railroad by John Allen and I am sure you will see the influence it had on Petes layout. A lot of the scenery extends to the floor.