Scoles was Paul Scoles' layout. I don't remember Thwait's first name. I can picture the Chooch Enterprises guy but I don't remember his name. I appear to have accidentally deleted or just not taken any photos of the NZ prototype layout that I saw. Younkins is Jim Younkins. That's an awesome layout.
Easy to do. From the north end of Seattle, these days it almost all blurs together up 99 to Everett. Try it at rush hour. You'll have plenty of time to look around, while you sit and bake at light after light. Ugh.
Jims layout are some of the first pictures in his photo album Ken. Also, one of my most admired layouts even though I have yet to get a chance to see it.
I see that. I don't believe he'd uploaded those when I'd posed my question. Something might have changed, but RI usually shows last uploaded photos, first on an album page. Also, it looks as though Jim has made some changes to his layout. I hope a magazine article is forthcoming!!!!
The photo upload took a while and had some stops and starts, so in real-time it very well probably didn't look like it was all there when Ken initially wrote, but was there when Ryan looked. Jim's layout is great. The most recent article was in one of this year's RMCs. That's the one I saw that got me interested in going to see the layout. Back to NG, those of us with the videos may think we know Paul Scoles layout but really, we don't know it until we've seen it. What really struck me is that his layout takes up the basement but he doesn't have all that large of a basement. He has crammed a lot of visual and operational interest into a modest space. The one that I didn't get any pictures of (because I couldn't get a decent angle to see it as there was a duck-under involved and it was just too crowded for a 6'-3" guy to do the duck-under) was the NZ 42" gauge layout.
