| Last updated on December 2, 2020
Mike Danneman’s N scale Moffat Road model train layout is set in the Colorado. Watch Rio Grande freight trains and they run through the detailed scenes on this 18′-6″ x 24′-9″ model railroad.
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Great layout, but why must many railroad videos include banjo music in the background? I don’t get it.
This inspires me to stay in N Scale
The mother of al model railroads. Wow.
I like the video and sound effects. Why can't these be downloaded for our personal use? It would complement the magazine article.
Colin from Ontario Canada
Fantastic layout.. The winter scenes are so realistic it makes me feel that I'm home.
I must have seen this 30 times and I still can't get over that it's N scale! Absolutely the best model RR video ever! Fantastic layout, operation, photography, staging, music, you name it, it's a masterpiece!
Absolutely stunning! Just an oustandingly realistic layout. Fantastic video as well.
The Rio Grande standard gauge is an awesome prototype and very well modeled on this excellent layout. The video and music are wonderful.
Simply Outstanding! Great work, thank you for sharing!
Amazing scenery, great variety of locomotives and rolling stock, wonderful musical score and a sense of fluidity that just carries one through the video like looking at great vacation movies. Congratulations.
A beautiful homage to a picturesque route through the Rockies. I especially enjoyed the seasonal aspect and the Krauss- Maffi diesels. Great modeling.
A wonderful experience to watch the very well done video. The scenery is phenomenal. Thanks for sharing your work with us.
My wife and I are CU alumina! We have been to many of the scenes, many times. My wife has Alzheimer's and does not talk but when we viewed the video it is amazing how she responded. Her first comment when we saw the trains on the big 10 was "the headlight is not on" . The snow scene is of the East portal… we would place it at the West portal as we remember it! Thank you for these moments.
I can definitely agree with the rest of the comments! Exquisite scenery and backdrops! Before I saw the size of it, I was wondering "how BIG is this thing"! Mine is the roughly the same size, but in HO. I'm further north up the Cashe la Pourde Canyon, …and now wishing I had 36' by 48' to do it! Unfortunately, the Colorado State Land Office only granted me what I have. This is real inspiration for the rest of my work!
Next stop Winter park! I'll bring my skis!!
What a gorgeous railroad!!!
Awesome production! Scenery's not too shabby, either. Wow! Great music, too, although at 6:25 there should be Marlboro commercial music.
Ausgesichnet!!
Out standing I love the snow scene
Mike, Excellent job. Love the snow! Very well done.
outstanding The snow sure looks real. The scenery & backdrops , sure blend together
Good video, nice fading and GREAT layout!
I'm pretty sure I won't be able to add anything new to the comments and I'm kind of out of superlatives. But I'll just a coin old word for this layout – It's spendiferous and then some. Thanks for sharing. The landscaping is perfect and the snow scenes were enchanting. I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to your layout. And the fact that is N gauge is impressive enough to me since I can't imagine working in the details that you worked in with everything being so small. You must have the patience of Job, to be sure.
Fantastic modelling! Inspirational – my wife and I travelled from Denver on this route a few years ago, not in winter, and it brings back some very good memories, especially with the very accurate geography. Superb!
Outstanding video and gorgeous layout!!! Thanks for sharing!
Really liked the "shatter the silence" opening scene. The video was one postcard scene after another. At 8:20 I couldn't help but gasp at the wild ruggedness and weight the scene projected.
Way to represent N scale!