Tour Details

Saturday November 1, 2025

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AM Tours

10am - 1pm

Jonathan Galucki’s Neighborhood Christmas Train Experience

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Experience the beauty of Atlanta’s largest model Christmas Train display. Our Christmas Village is located under a forest of Christmas Trees includes over 300 homes, shops, churches, chalets, diners, and an amusement park. Our mix of Lionel O Gauge passenger and freight trains keep a tight schedule as they whisk past sleepy snow mountain villages and big cities. As part of the 2025 Piedmont Pilgrimage, admission to the Neighborhood Christmas Train Experience will be FREE on November 1.

City: Norcross
Scale/Gauge: O
Jonathan Galucki

Sub division of the B&O

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City: Acworth
Scale/Gauge: HO
Ron Lundgren

PM Tours

1pm - 5pm

Robert Jarrell’s Southern Railway, Asheville & Spartanburg

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Set in the year 1929, prior to the Great Depression, this model railroad is of the Southern Railway mainline through Spartanburg, SC and the line to Asheville as far as Hendersonville, NC. Saluda grade is the used to reach the second level. Staging yards represent Atlanta/Washington DC, Columbia and Asheville. The lower level benchwork and trackage is currently complete

City: Marietta
Scale/Gauge: HO
Robert Jarrell

Doug Munnell’s Chicago Kentucky Railroad

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Layout Created by my son Timothy Munnell. It Depicts the junction between the Chicago Kentucky Railroad and the Missouri, Indiana & Ontario. Two principal tables with two connecting tables and four tables for upper levels. One area represents Paris Illinois, whose central business district was encircled by railroads at one time. The remaining areas are industrial and yards. Layout is Bachmann EZ track, which allows for its alteration each year. The layout will never be the same at any two visits. This year the layout has 3 different levels. Timothy plans to build a permanent table for future expansion. Also my son's friend Julian Lewis' HO layout will be set up on the left side room of the Train Room. Julian's layout is a 5X6, it will be et up on the floor. His layout is also Bachman EZ track which makes it simpler to move. The layout is set along the CSX Alleghany Subdivision in Eastern West Virginia. The part of the Alleghany Subdivision that Julian models runs from Huntington, West Virginia to White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia.

City: Marietta
Scale/Gauge: HO
Doug Munnell

Rick Bigliardi’s North Pole, Tinseltown, Sabastian, and Bigville (NTS&B)

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My wife (who passed away in 2019) was the main influence on the design of my layout (and boy was she sorry!). It features 4 layers including a 6’ diameter 2 track Helix (her requirement), 2 12’ suspension bridges and a 4’ arch bridge. It has ceramic and plastic buildings, lots of lights, and multi-levels (also her requirement). Most lights and accessories can be operated by visitors. The layout contains about 1000’ of track and can run 14 trains and a trolley on dedicated loops. The major loops include the dual 110' long mainline using Gargraves track, and the 202' helix loop with Lionel track. The most common description I've heard from visitors is that it is a fun layout. After the virtual layout tour was recorded, I renamed my layout slightly after my grandson. The name is now "North Pole, Tinseltown, Sabastian, and Bigville" instead of "North Pole, Tinseltown South, and Bigville". The town of Sabastian is now the 'Little Town with the Big Future'.

City: Kennesaw
Scale/Gauge: O
Richard Bigliardi

Perry Lamb’s Utah, Colorado & Western Railroad

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The UC&W Railroad is an operations-oriented, modern-day, Class 1 railroad. The railroad interacts with CP, CN, CSX, UP, BNSF, and VIA Rail. The railroad owns NS and all Amtrak operations in North America except for the NE Corridor and the Amtrak lines in California. The modeled portion of the railroad features sections between Salt Lake City, Utah and Seattle, Washington. Operations feature mainline freight, commuter rail, main-line passenger, steam excursions, and local freight. Scenery is about 70% complete, with the major remaining features including two town areas, an industrial area, and select industries. Visitors will notice that the layout owner has a sense of humor.

City: Kennesaw
Scale/Gauge: HO
Perry Lamb

All Day Tours

10am - 5pm

Jerry Michnewicz’s Michigan & New York Central Railroad.

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A must see layout! I have a lot of scratch built things from buildings to rolling stock to road signals and grade crossings. A duck under to the center of the layout or a walk around on the outside of the layout is best for more viewing and provides a lot of space for a lot of people. The Ford Motor Coal Dock has a ton of interesting detail with a lake freighter at dock side unloading coal. Detroit, Dearborn, Wayne, Dexter all have a spot on the layout. Over Dearborn, with banner in tow, is a bi-plane actually flying the full length of the southern part of Dearborn. A full moon (light globe) provides enough light for viewers to get a night time view of operations on the M&NYC. The Mercury and Wolverine passenger trains run daily out of the Michigan Central Depot. I use pine bark for rock formations and for some of my yard ballast I use dirt collected from the street at curb side. I have all my electric poles on the layout wired (thread or stretch line) and all street lights working. A very populated layout with people, cars, trucks and trees. I make what I can, kit bash if I have to and make it fit when it's necessary. If you pass my layout up you have really missed a very interesting visit.

City: Marietta
Scale/Gauge: HO
Jerry Michnewicz