I've seen that layout twice.........only about 20 miles from me.
It's unbelievable!
You can "tour" that layout for an hour, and never see all the detail.......and moreover, never pay any attention at all to the operating trains !!!!!
Doug Peck
Port Line Hobbies
6 Storeybrooke Drive
Newburyport, MA 01950
888-708-0782 (within US only)
978-465-8798
doug@...
www.portlines.com
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[email protected]Subject: [S-Trains] For sale: George Sellios's layout book
George Sellios, founder of Fine Scale Miniatures, wrote and published this book, "The Fabulous Franklin & South Manchester Railroad" in 1991. In 79 pages, it describes, and shows numerous pictures of, the incredible 23' x 42' layout he built on the second floor of the Fine Scale Miniatures factory. The cover says Volume 1, so perhaps he later published more books like this.
While the trains are HO scale, the modeling ideas and techniques he describes in detail apply in any scale, and on page 34, there is a billboard advertising the early American Flyer trains before Gilbert bought the company.
The price on the cover is $19.95. I would call it mint condition. Make offer.
Bob Graves
