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k27rgs Posted - 03/09/2010 : 6:00:00 PM
Good day all.

Three new videos have been added.

San Juan Central layout will be remembered and copied for many years to come.

Enjoy

http://www.modvid.com.au/html/body_you_tube.html
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CieloVistaRy Posted - 03/14/2012 : 12:18:32 AM
Is it on DVD nowadays? If its still on VHS nobody is buying that.
k27rgs Posted - 03/12/2012 : 9:00:41 PM
Arthur

Unable to do anything with the D&RCW video as it would infringe on copyright laws. There maybe copies around for sale.

Sorry mate

Mario
CieloVistaRy Posted - 03/12/2012 : 6:21:12 PM
I think it's a disappointment that his best effort, the D&RCW was also the layout that received the least exposure. Mario, any chance you could upload that video of the D&RCW to YouTube???
WVM_Nut Posted - 03/08/2012 : 10:45:21 AM
Malcolm is certainly talented, no one can deny that. I'd have liked to see what he could do with Eastern theme layout in HOn3.
NEMMRRC Posted - 02/15/2012 : 10:12:57 PM
Add me to the list that counts Furlow as a model railroading hero.

Jaime
dougcoffey1950 Posted - 02/15/2012 : 5:51:18 PM
The last I heard Malcolm was building custom motorcycles. I saw one of them. As an IMBBA certified Master Bike Builder myself, I can say with absolute certainty that Malcolm was by far better at building model railroads.
ELK RIVER RR Posted - 02/15/2012 : 5:21:37 PM
I started my layout reading Furlow,Olsom and Dave Frary's layouts and really liked there work . Maybe when he gets older and wiser he will return back to the dark side of model railroading. Tom
dougcoffey1950 Posted - 02/15/2012 : 3:14:30 PM
Malcolm Furlow's name always seems to inspire controversy. I never could understand why. In my opinion he was a true inspiration to many of us and a definite asset to the hobby over all.
Malcolm's first layout was not an operator's dream by any stretch but he accomplished a great deal in a very small room. He wanted verticle scenery and he mastered it. If he had had more space to achieve the same goals with lesser grades, I'm sure he could have done it.
Considering the D&RCW was his first layout, and we all make huge operational mistakes on our first layouts, Malcolm did a world class job,
The San Jaun Central certainly had it's weak points.....but only if you saw the areas the camera didn't visit. I think that is a fair assesment. The layout was built as a magazine feature and accomplished that task quite nicely.
Malcolm will always be a hero in my book. I only wish he was still active in the hobby.
eTraxx Posted - 02/15/2012 : 11:31:39 AM
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Originally posted by rckwallaby

Still very good watching material.

Saw his Rio Chama Western in person about 25 or more years ago. Very much at the forefront of modelling then and still would have been today.
Wonder if any of that surviived ?

Cheers

Hmmm. Counting back 25 years, that's about 1986. That must have been when/what I saw. I was living in Dallas and they had a Model Railroad convention of some sort (forget what) and I visited Malcolm during the layout tour. The layout was (best I remember) in a green Masonite shed out back.

This is where I shrug in puzzlement. I had an excellent visit as I was the only one there at the time so it was basically a personal tour by him. The layout was amazing. I suppose it was 'art' more then a model railroad .. but .. it was impressive.

Malcolm was a nice guy and the - 'diorama' - I suppose to at least partly satisfy anyone that his work upsets .. was excellent. I really don't have any problem at all with telling that to anyone. I don't care how famous or 'important' that person may be.
k9wrangler Posted - 02/15/2012 : 10:17:26 AM
Another fan here of the man's work. I shared Mario's video with the Doll and she was equally impressed. Expanding on what Schoolmaster said, he was a caricaturist that used the RR as a means toward an end that was not to operate, more like a 3-D still life.

One of the videos off to the righthand side of the U-Tube page shows some of Furlow's other work. Not my taste but quite interesting use of colors.
Schoolmaster Posted - 02/15/2012 : 09:43:12 AM
I see Malcolm Furlow primarily as a sculpture artist who uses model railroad as his medium to express his vision. Accordingly, I accept and enjoy his work for being excellent art.

Thanks for posting the material.
CVSNE Posted - 02/15/2012 : 09:26:53 AM
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Originally posted by Dutchman

Malcolm Furlow is certainly one of those lightning rods in the hobby - strong opinions one way and the other about his modeling.

Personally, I love seeing it.


So do I, Bruce, so do I.

Marty
Dutchman Posted - 02/15/2012 : 09:17:25 AM
Malcolm Furlow is certainly one of those lightning rods in the hobby - strong opinions one way and the other about his modeling.

Personally, I love seeing it.
jaynjay Posted - 02/15/2012 : 09:00:38 AM
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Originally posted by akimmons

Malcolm Furlow and John Olsen are why I'm a model railroader. Thanks Mario!!!


Make that ditto for me also. Thanks to Kalmbach I started my first layout with John Olsen's 'Model Railroad with Personality'. I started building it in Southern California in my garage. We moved to Oregon and I converted to HOn3 and started Malcom Furlow 'Narrow Gauge Railroad that you can Build'. I had to give up the spare bedroom that I was building it in for a while; so I had to tear it down. Later in Oregon, the bedroom became clear again and I started on Malcom Furlows 'Building the Carbondale Central' found in the Kalmbach's '6 Model Railroads you can Build'. Then we moved to Indiana and I have much more space available so I am building Dave Frary's 'Pennsy Middle Division in HO Scale'.
CVSNE Posted - 02/15/2012 : 09:00:00 AM
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Originally posted by Bill Uffelman

Nice video Mario.

I reviewed the Furlow video tape for RMC long ago. As I recall RR room was above the garage via outside stair and his dog was in it. Review never ran based on the if you can't say a lot of nice things about it don't publish it. He was good at (somewhat) fanciful scenery but building an operating RR left something to be desired.

Bill Uffelman
Las Vegas NV & Ocean View DE




Ain't that the truth. If you wanted to get normally soft-spoken Gordy Odegard to cuss like a sailor all you had to do is say three words . . . San Juan Central . . .

Marty

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