This N-scale layout was three years in the making, mostly because [Peter] was waiting for just the right little powered chassis to come along. For the layout, [Peter] ...

it’s great escape from the world. >> the 14 by 20 ho scale layout covers his entire basement, almost 400 feet of track, 61 locomotives. 165 structures. more than 700 individual figures.

This isn’t the first attempt to build a complete miniature railroad into a coffee table, but most to date have involved sunken layouts that sit inside a table and beneath a pane of glass so ...

Involved in the layout will be two areas of HO scale buildings. One would be a town and the other a “coal town,” similar to one where the mother of Treiber’s wife Georgia was raised.

FULL TIME JOB TO SUPPORT HIS FAMILY. THIS IS HIS NON PAYING ONE, THE ONE HE’S WORKED AT FOR NEARLY 25 YEARS. IT’S A HOBBY THAT HELPS ME KEEP WHAT LITTLE SANITY I HAVE. IT’S A GREAT ESCAPE ...