Seashore Trolley Museum receives multi-million dollar donation to relocate and house model railroad layout.

The Seashore Trolley Museum recently broke ground on a new building to house the Harold and Helen Beal HO-scale layout of the Maine Central Railroad, circa 1940s to 1960s.

“Don has probably been around the longest in the layout-building business,” said Jim Kelly, editor of Model Railroader magazine. “In fact, for a while, he probably had the business to himself.

Unfortunately, the days of building new features for his layout are over, he said. Swartz and his wife are downsizing, and the model railroad will have to go.

With more than a mile of track and under construction for more than two decades, there's nothing miniature about the model railroad that occupies the basement of Bob Bandy's Colorado Springs home.

Under the IPD Lite model, the construction manager’s pre-construction services are significantly expanded and typically begin very early in the design process, such as at conceptual design.