On the trip back from the Cleveland Show in November, I had the chance to visit with Rob Enrico and see his Monogahela Division layout in person. I have to say that I seen his layout in print before but I wasn’t prepared for what it looks like in person. The photographs in print do not do it justice.

It’s actually a very simple layout if you look at the published plans. It’s basically a double track loop around his two car garage with a section across the middle for a yard area. What it may appear to lack because of the simplified track plan design, it makes up for in scenes that are recreated on the railroad. The rail fans on the overpass could have been my brother and me. Notice the fence posts.

Or this simple scene of a crewman walking out to his car at the end of the workday. How many times have we seen that rail fanning? But how many times have you seen it on a layout?

Here is Rob talking with Rich Yoder about freight car truck.