The Museum of the American Railroad's
TrainTopia
affords visitors hundreds of fascinating vignettes. This lifelike scene is in front of the newly created Hotel Settles, a faithfully reproduced 1:24 scale replica of the original structure in Big Spring. The real version has been spectacularly renovated and anchors a revitalized downtown area of the west Texas town. The scale model is a tribute to Amanda and Brint Ryan who made TrainTopia possible, and who also renovated the actual hotel in Big Spring.
Our thanks to Tom Pantuso at B&T Model Railroad Building and Design Works for an outstanding job on the creation of the scale model hotel.