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You’ve seen Paul Dolkos’ meticulous work featured in the December 2015 and January 2016 issues of Model Railroader magazine. In this MR Video Plus exclusive layout visit, you’ll now have the chance to tour his entire 17 x 29-foot Baltimore Harbor District HO scale layout! Join Paul as he guides you around the operating model railroad and shares various layout intricacies and modeling insights along the way.
looks as good as a Norman Rockwell painting of the America I remember from the 1950+,, nicely done sir!, cant wait to try the building photo idea..
Paul, very inspiring, thank you
Paul, really enjoyed seeing your new layout. It is truly a masterpiece! I would also like to thank you for the inspiration you have given me over the years with your excellent scenery techniques.
Yes, Paul, very much enjoyed your layout and helpful hints you have given. Thanks!
Paul – Enjoyed the visit and your operation.. Lot’s to do and work, really like the structure ideas with photo shopped pictures.. They look great.. Thank you for taking the time to share…
Paul, nice work. Loved the single-point “trolley” switches. Find a lot of those around the country in industrial districts. A question on your ferry operations: Wouldn’t it be safer to use an idler car when pulling or spotting cars on the float. The weight of the engine might just tip things the wrong way.
Paul, I really liked the point wagner carfloat scene. it was nice to see someone do an operating single point switch. I work at Puget sound naval shipyard in Bremerton, Washington, and we have a few of those too.
Pretty clever trick with the buildings. And they look great.
Great railroad and the video was well done. I especially enjoyed watching the video with the switching operation – the most realistic switching video I've seen – no smashing into pickups sending them another car length down the track or switchers going from 15 mph to a dead stop. Looks like a railroad video.
What a nice model railroad! I enjoyed this video emencely. It brought back old memories when I lived in Baltimore. Thank you for all your efforts.
This is well done; and what a fascinating model railroad! Paul, thank you for allowing us to visit your wonderful layout! Great job Kent!
liked the video. especially liked wagner's point, and his single point switches. where I work at the Bremerton navy yard, we still have some single point switches that are still being used on a regulr basis.
A pleasure meeting you through this video! Great layout and I picked up a few ideas that I will try. Especially liked the illustration board building technique.
Paul, thanks for sharing clearly a very successful Baltimore Harbor RR! I'm going to try constructing the illustration board buildings. Many great ideas! Jim
Very inspiring… Great ideas like the relief buildings and the actual harbor area, I was trying to figure out what to do with my small harbor area and now I know….thanks…
It's good to put a face to a familiar name! This is a great layout and very inspiring. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Superb.nplease document the construction of Canton Yard for a future MR article.
Fantastic, I lived and worked in Baltimore, kind of felt at home. Again great work and I also will try the illustration board and photo technique looks like fun.
This is a great operation, and some really nice ideas… Thank you for the insights and sharing…
You have a great layout. Thanks for sharing your railroad with us. Many nice ideas here for future reference. Keep up the outstanding work!
Paul; Great job… Looks like you've done a lot more work since we visited your layout a few years ago. You and your layout are a true inspiration to the hobby.
Thanks for sharing…
Paul:
I'm currently in the very beginning phase of building a small HO layout with lots of switching. Your layout gave me some good ideas. Your scenery is fantastic.
Awesome layout. Great tour by Paul illustrating his operations and modeling.
Paul. Thank you for including your "backdrop" buildings out of photos and illustration board. I recently completed backdrop panels for our club's On30 modular and show layout. I utilized photos of old Colorado mining town structures and "painted" them into their respective scenes. Other building I actually painted from scratch. It was a great success with the visitors at our show last weekend. However, getting back to my own HO layout, ..finally, I am going to take your technique on with both back drop and foreground structures. I have many areas where commercial kits just will not work. Thanks for a solution to my problem. Why didn't I think of this first? Duh! Merry Christmas, Randy
What a superb layout. I have always admired your workmanship and it was nice to see it in video format. I have enjoyed your articles in MR for many years. My home layout was modeled after a design of yours called " a tight Yankee or compact Dixie" that appeared in MR many years ago and I still operate it to this day. I look forward to the remaining articles on this layout that will appear in future issues of MR.
Best Regards,
Ashby Trevey