Not full size preservation but preservation nonetheless, we at the Cheyenne Depot museum have been offered and accepted one of the worlds most famous and beautiful layouts for permanent display.
Many of you who had read Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette over the years will know really well Harry Brunk's 'Up Clear Creek' series written over 30 years as he built his amazing C&S inspired Union Central and Northern narrow gauge layout.
That layout ended up being so big that it had to be housed in its own trailer, yes a 65'x12' HOn3 layout, it replicates the Georgetown, Idaho Springs, Blackhawk and Clear Creek areas of Colorado .
We are now planning to move the layout now owned by Rick Steele of Labelle models and donated lock stock and barrel to the Depot museum, on september 24th and 25th, its 463 miles away and will be gently towed back to Cheyenne from Nebraska, then dissassembled and rebuilt with new sections in the depot loft. We hope to have it open and running in time for Depot days in May 2012.
Exciting times and a wonderful and worthy piece to preserve.

Mike Pannell
Cheyenne

Worthy of preservation indeed! I'm glad everyone could work together to preserve, and even add to, that layout so that more people can enjoy it.

thats very cool.

The Minnesota Museum of Mining has F. Lee Jaques O scale layout, it was featured in Model Railroader in about a 1964 article, what makes it amazing is its artistic approach
to achieve an effect than to exact details, his articulated steamers looked like your heavy N&W Y6b's, yet they were only 2-4-4-2's, the background art captures the frigidity of the mountain snow, etc a spectacular sunset and so on.

If you saw this layout you got enveloped into it.