boys and their toys!! pretty elaborate setup here, someone must be in railroad heaven!!

What a stunning sight!

Fantastic!!!

Excellent model! Someone I hope had a great deal of fun.

It looks like a real village!!! Great work!!! :)

Every man and boys dream!! Quite some layout there Bill!

I've never been into train sets (maybe cos I never had one!!), but this sure is beautiful. Are you positive you didn't just take a shot of downtown Chicago and tilt-shift it! Isn't that Lake Michigan on the right and I'm sure thats Mather Tower on the left pre photoshop........ ;)

Whenever I see model trains, the fellas always have a screwdriver in their hands, fiddling :o) Great model rail, zoom is a must!!!!

Wonderful. Too bad youngsters today are hooked on computer games instead of model trains like when I grew up.

Magnificent woww one day Ill go see this :)

Nice capture Bill this is impressive just love model railways use to have a N gauge set up a few years back, no room where I am now.. So now give ma a screwdriver so I can fiddle LOL.. Love this any more of it??

What a magical model! I always wanted a model train and ached to build my towns and fields for it...my folks didn't quite understand a girl's need for model trains. They bought me a slot car track and cars and my dad and I ended up building a race car model scene. Fun and I cherish the memory, but I still long for that train.........

SPECTACULAR MODEL TRAIN AND VILLAGE! SUPERB CAPTURE!!!!! IT REMINDS ME MY COUSIN'S MODEL TRAIN...

great shot

Excellent shot...I'd love to see this train layout in person... So please post more photos of it...!!!!

'boys & their toys', lol! Man, if I had toys like this when I was a kid, I'd never leave home! I remember the model trains at the Museum of Science & Industry, though they may have changed considerably since I've been there. The amazing thing about this shot is that it could almost be a real train in a real valley, etc. I mean, until I read your words I had my doubts. It speaks well of the designers of course, but also of you--you gave it to us in a way that makes it look almost real, ie, the light, the detail, the fading focus in foreground...nice job Bill. I haven't been to that museum in eons. I just remember when I was a kid that we never wanted to leave, and that the parking lot was asphalt hell, it never ended and the walk from the car to the museum--which we were dying to get to--was like a trek across a sun-bleached desert: We literally crawled on the ground gasping for water (just to piss our parents off), it was a great bit. And it ended, I think, with its coal train & some boring guy droning on about carbon gases, and then BOOM! The stuff exploded, and if we had to die on that spot, it would've been ok. We'd completed the journey. I love your chicago pics, btw, everyone of 'm; and I'm glad you're still posting them half a year since you've been here. You really caught the majesty of the city from angles I've never seen; and of course you shot a museum, lol. It's one of your sub-categories, and I assume the Museum of S&I is a gold mine even to an adult. (Though I'd think it'd get a little trying after a few hours...)

wonderful shot of a magnificent work!!!

I like to watch them go. this is wonderful looking

Mind-boggling detail in this. Thanks for sharing it.

OMG, what a modeler's playground! Like ananhata.c, I never had any of this stuff when I was a kid. But I did have a squirt gun and toy lead soldiers to play with. Superlative POV, clarity and detail so starkly apparent in this shot, Bill. I bet if you played around with the focus, you could actually make this look like a real, full size, living scene.

A beautiful little model scene you captured here it almost looks real.

Years ago I used to be a model railroader so this a very interesting shot for me, excellent capture, thanks for sharing!!

Super keen. Model trains get most interesting when your eyeball is down at their level (same with most toys). But then much of the magnificent diorama would be lost to view.

The details in this model are wonderful. The light is absolutely spectacular!

Great capture of a dream, Bill. Great work on the display and lighting. Clive

as a (former) modelrailroader I like this lay out

Oeee - boys and their toys... How amazing and the detail is spectacular Bill! It could easily be a scene out of Austria or Germany! :)

The car making its way up the mountain reminds me of a cabin I stayed in over new years. The road up to it was quite intimidating, but once up there the cabin and the view over looking the valley was breathtaking. Great image.

a very nice tiny world!!! Wonderful picture!!!

they spared no detail on modeling this. your capture shows the quality