 I described the Pine Ridge Railroad as a selectively compressive version of John Allen's Gordon and the Feeded Layout. John Allen's layout room occupied approximately 630 square feet, whereas the Pine Ridge Railroad occupies only 425 square feet. The, obviously I've taken some liberties in some of the buildings. The towns and cities on the Pine Ridge Railroad require several more structures and certainly a lot more details. The power system on the Pine Ridge Railroad is a Digitrax DCC system and I plan to use John Allen's tablet and car system as a means of car operations. So let's move on to the next scene. I'm standing over at the area of the control pounds of the Gordon and the Feeded. This is an area that I had to greatly selectively compress when you compare this to what John Allen had. John Allen had several bridges and had some loopbacks. The storyline is that the Pine Ridge Railroad purchased the Gordon and the Feeded from John Allen after he retired to pursue his interests in photography and modernity. The Pine Ridge Railroad also kept the Devil's Gulch and Hellengon Railroad, which is a narrow gauge railroad. And what I did is I put narrow gauge track in here where John Allen had standard gauge track and that runs up to from Gory up to Feeded and so that was narrow gauged and then the rest of it continues out and hooks up and becomes dual gauged on the other side of the layout here. Okay, I'm now standing in front of the town of what I call Andrew. John Allen had called this area Andrews and I call it Andrew. Three names several towns along my layout that use different names that what John Allen, this is one example. At Andrew, I incorporated the time saver switching layout that John Allen is also famous for. It's a switching layout game, it's a switching puzzle game, so I've incorporated that down here. This area is a lot shorter than what John Allen had but nevertheless it reflects what he, close to what he had and then panning over to the scenery. My wife painted the backdrop, wonderful backdrop scenery here. This emulates what's called the 10 mile range in Colorado. This is painted, or it makes this S is painted on 1-inch styrene plastic and when it hits the wall over here, the backdrop is then made out of masonite. You'll notice there's several bridges I recreated, I tried to recreate several of the bridges that John Allen had used, if you're going to do anything along the lines of what John Allen did, you're going to be faced with probably scratch built several bridges. The notice over on the side, we also have a mirror that reflects part of the scenery back along the lines of what John Allen had as well. And then we're filming in the area that John Allen calls Sims Loop. We call this Cammie's Loop, we've got some bridges in here that are on a 26 inch radius curve. This area, as you can see is still under construction, there's going to be a mine here called Silver King Coalition Mine, it's a model after Park City Silver King Coalition Mine. And in the center here is where John Allen had the Scout Mountain, and we're going to call it K-Doc's Peak. This will be one of the next areas that I'll tackle and create a mountain here that will be accessed in the back. And then moving over here, ending over here, this is one of my most favorite areas of the Gorian Defeated Railroad. This is called French Gulch, and it's services of three different tiers on HO scale, and up here there's a straight track of end scale. I wanted to make sure that I got this arch bridge in, this is actually end scale which creates a forced perspective, but it's just a 11 foot section of engaged track. This deck bridge is really a two camel kiss that I flipped upside down and turned the HO through truss into a HO deck bridge, and then these other bridges here which get bashed in scratch built. I'd just like to say that John Allen really greatly influenced me as well as hundreds of other model railroaders. I raised the bar on model railing and added a degree of realism that hadn't really been seen, and certainly not seen in most toy train layouts. And I take a lot of inspiration from John Allen, and the Pirate Railroad for me keeps his legend alive, and keeps his railroad alive, even though John Allen no longer is.