This year the Sn3 Symposium was in Seattle, home of many great layouts….I love seeing and operating great layouts so I just had to go. Additionally, I gave a clinic, Introduction to TT&TO operations. Here is the first post about those that I did make it too.
The Sn3 RGS layout of Dale Kruetzer is gorgeous. How about those backdrops?
4-6-0 #25 on Dale’s layout
A train passes under the trestle
Sawmill along Dale’s RGS
The summit is over Dale’s workbench.
Clearly Dale is a fine modeler. Sorry, not an RGS guy, so not sure what location this is
Telephones in the layout room for OSing to the dispatcher. Dale operates with TT&TO. Actually, he attended my clinic back in Hickory. But I doubt I was much of an influence in what he has done. Instead I’d think Paul Scoles and others had a much stronger influence than me.
Dale’s dispatcher desk is located in the adjacent room. It is as well done as the rest of the railroad.
Dale’s railroad is a continuous run through the staging yard which is in this little room.
The layout’s scenery is about 50% complete. Dale make use of mockups to see how the scenes will look.
The mainline and some spurs are on grade. When switching, a red flag can be inserted into a tube between the ties to hold that cars in place by the coupler.
Sn2 Modeler 
A great looking layout – and the red flag is a neat idea: thanks for sharing that.
Cheers!
– Trevor (Port Rowan in 1:64)