Tag: Roger Farkash

What’s been going on in Traingineerland???

Whew!!!!! Catching my breath now and mind boggled that I didn’t post a peep on my blog in July – YIKES!!!

Below is a sentiment I’ve stated out loud at least 10 times (if not more) over the past 6 weeks…

“So wish I could be in two places at one time… or realistically… more like 5 places at once!”

I have been fortunate to be in a hopping travel mode with the Traingineers as we’ve been serving clientele from the West Coast – Thousand Oaks, California, on into the Mid West – Indianapolis, Indiana and Chilicothe, Ohio… and just when I think it can’t get any better… it does!

There are so many wonderful “Train Nuts” across this great country of ours, who are really some of the most “traintastic” (Traindame word) people we not only have the opportunity to produce layouts/product for but (*Added Bonus*) we also enjoy time making wonderful memories and experience INCREDIBLE fellowship with truly EXTRAORDINARY people!!

I was pondering the best way to get my past six weeks experience across to you and decided to put together a couple of Traindame Photo Collages:

But wait… before the collage, a shameless selfie first 🙂

Traindame & the Traingineers… completion of day #4 of California custom layout installation:

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Summer of 2014
Thousand Oaks, California – Harry Potter Themed Layout

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Chillecothe, Ohio
Rooney Family Layout

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Collage July Rooney

LCCA Convention
Indianapolis, Indiana

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The countdown to our Third Annual Layout Festival has *BEGUN!

September 27th, 2014 is the date and YOU are guaranteed to have have more fun than an Engineer rounding the mountain pulling three miles of cars!

Be sure to sign up on the Official Attendee List because I am believing we are going to break last year’s attendance record and I want to make sure I am prepared!

Now activated… TW TrainWorx Third Annual Layout Festival link:

http://www.trainworxfestival.com

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
http://www.twtrainworx.com
(877) 881-4997

Save The Date 2014

 

P.S. GET YOUR NAME ON THE ATTENDEE LIST… win a chance for  a bonus surprise if YOU travel the furthest!

http://www.TrainWorxFestival.com

P.P.S. Part of proceeds benefit the amazing Ronald McDonald House of Dallas

 

 

Harry Potter and the TW Traingineers!

The Traingineers are heading to the West Coast in a couple of weeks to install our first ever Harry Potter themed train layout. Chief Traingineer, Roger Farkash, designed this layout complete with Hogwarts Castle, Great Hall, Station 9 3/4, Privet Drive and some absolutely awesome bridges hand crafted with our handy dandy laser cutting machine.

My favorite part of the layout are two areas where little Hogwarts can pop up and stand inside the Grand Hall on up through the Castle and then down on the other end of the layout they can pop up and be inside a loop with the London Bridge wrapping around them. CRAZY FUN I tell ya!

Get comfy, pull up closer to the screen, grab some popcorn and enjoy a quick slide show behind the scenes with the TW Traingineers inside the TrainWorx Studio:

THREE… TWO… ONE…   ACTION!

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Table Base: (Be sure to click on image to enlarge)

With a touch of paint…

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Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
http://www.twtrainworx.com
(877) 881-4997

Back from OMAHA!

Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder’s Meeting
May 3, 2014
Omaha, Nebraska USA

What an Absolutely  “TrainTASTIC” trip I had with the Traingineers at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway meeting!! I especially enjoyed meeting with Mr. Buffett again and having the incredible opportunity to spend time with him and really appreciated his genuine pleasure to take pictures with the TW Traingineers along with our special guest, Lionel’s VP of Marketing – Mike Phillips. Check out all the smiles…

Warren Buffett, Traindame and the TW TrainWorx Traingineers

Roger Farkash, Warren Buffett, Matt Rose BNSF

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I was standing on the other end of the table while Mr. Buffett was talking with Mr. Rose from BNSF, and the question arose from Mr. Buffett the desire to have an even bigger layout next year and I chimed in.. “We’d love to design an additional section to your layout!! So… shhhhh don’t tell anybody, totally UNOFFICIAL, but perhaps Roger will soon be in BNSF Layout Addition Design Mode and that would be SOOOOO COOOOOOL!!

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I can pretty much sum up the conversation (in truncated sentences) around the BNSF Layout during the event…

“Wow!”

“This is UNBELIEVABLE!”

“Fantastic”

“Amazing!”

“What a display”

“Really, I can run the trains?”

“Great job!”

“Look…. !”

“Totally Fabulous”

“You guys do amazing train layouts!”

“AWESOME!!!”

Two upcoming dates to save on YOUR calendar!

#1. May 17th, 2014 – TrainWorx Showroom Store open from 10 to 4

#2. September 27, 2014 – TrainWorx 3rd Annual Layout Festival

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
2808 McGowan Street
Dallas, Texas  75203
(877) 881-4997

http://www.twtrainworx.com
traindame@traindame.com

 

TrainWorx Layouts in 4 different states this April!

LOUISIANA

Denny T. started our jam packed month of April off by loading up his trailer with the TW TrainWorx Custom 5′ x 9′ Hellgate Table along with the
Lionel Arch Base to set up in his Louisiana cabin.

Load out day:

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ALABAMA

Next up, loading the van for a road trip to Alabama to set up a custom table for
William P. in his train room:

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 PENNSYLVANIA

We had a great time at the York Spring Meet! Saw many old friends and made lots of new ones! Thanks to Eliot S. for sharing his fabulous photo book he put together showing off his incredible layout. Especially cool was having Roger sign the page with the Albuquerque/renamed Munoz Station 🙂

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 NEBRASKA

Closing out April and spilling into May is the BNSF Layout making it’s third appearance at the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder’s Meeting. The big ole 53′ truck is loaded and on it’s way to Omaha where the Traingineers and I will be setting the layout up in the BNSF Booth in the Convention Center! Talk about a Fantabulous Train Layout Packed month!

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Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
2808 McGowan St.
Dallas, Texas 75203
(877) 881-4997
http://www.twtrainworx.com

P.S. Shop online 24/7 and enter code: SY14 upon checkout for 10% Discount on all Bridge Kits!
 *Offer good through 5/8/14

TW TrainWorx Layout featured in Architecture Tour

Countdown is on… In 24 hours, everyone who would like to experience one of our custom layouts… tomorrow is YOUR chance! 

The Rice Design Alliance 38th Annual Architecture Tour “Additionally” will take place March 29th and 30th in Houston, Texas. One of the eight homes featured on the tour is where the Traingineers just finished installing the “Houston, Wharton, Pecos River Railroad” in it’s very own TRAIN GALLERY!!

*** This just posted online from the Houstonia eMagazine:
Houston, Wharton, and Pecos River RR. ***

The layout has been in our studio for well over a year as architects and construction workers painstakingly remodeled this home. All the outstanding effort and focus to detail by everyone has resulted in this home addition being included on this prestigious Architecture Tour!!

Here is a shot of the train room (pre-Gallery designated) in its infancy:

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Traingineers earlier this month in the Train Gallery…

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Link for all the tour details: RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE ARCHITECTURE TOUR

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx

(877) 881-4997
traindame@twtrainworx.com

February 2014 … Layout Installs and Dismantles

What a fabulous month February has been for the TW Traingineers having the incredible opportunities to partake in the Rosenbaum, “Houston, Wharton, & Pecos River RR” layout installation and just earlier this week the dismantle of the awesome, seen by millions world wide, Lionel Holiday Layout displayed at the Transit Museum inside the Grand Central Terminal which just celebrated its 100th Anniversary of existence!!

Gives me goosebumps to think about all the travelers and stories that have transpired in the 100 years…

I know you will enjoy this time lapse of the TW TrainWorx Traingineers doing what they have a passion to do!

Enjoy!

Click on link below to see more pictures taken of this layout:

LIONEL HOLIDAY TRAIN LAYOUT

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx est. 2008 a division of TW Design
(877) 881-4997

P.S. SAVE THE DATE: September 27, 2014 join us for our 3rd Annual Layout Festival!

Houston… We Have S U C C E S S!!!!

It’s been a long time coming and I am happy to say the layout installation of the Houston, Wharton, & Pecos River RR has been completed and to quote the layout owner: “the incredible piece of artwork now resides in his Train Gallery!”

Wow, I had no idea of the absolute pleasure I was embarking on back in June of 2011 when Glen first contacted us to collaborate with him to make his 50+ year dream layout come true… all the while, at the same time he was in the process of remodeling/adding on to his family home in Houston. I won’t go into a long account of the extraordinary experience but will take the opportunity to focus on two items:

#1. The entire layout – all 410 sq. ft. of it (14′ x 30′) went up into the train room (back then it was a “room”) through a hole in the floor (not kidding) which was deemed the “Farkash Hatch” by Glen and his Architects from the get go!

Farkash Hatch Collage:

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#2. Glen’s home was chosen to be 1 of 8 in the 38th Annual Rice Design Alliance Architecture Tour which you all are invited to partake in Houston, Texas –  March 28th and 29th! Read all about it right here:
Architecture Tour

I have it from my sources that there will be an exclusive article written about the Houston, Wharton, and Pecos River RR very soon and until then I can’t post any “finished finished” photos but here are a few I took of the Traingineers during last weekend’s installation:

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This video just in from the inaugural running of the trains on the
Houston, Wharton, & Pecos River Railroad, ENJOY!

 

Next in line for the Traingineer Production Studio is a layout for a gentleman in California who Roger designed a Harry Potter themed train layout for and just added to our production schedule another residential layout for a gentleman in Alabama whom we had the pleasure of meeting at last year’s LCCA Convention!

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(877) 881-4997

TrainWorx Showroom Store Opening

Showroom Store will be open from 10 am – 4 pm 

Come one, come all to 2808 McGowan Street, Dallas, TX 75203 to *Shop, *See our custom layouts, trains running, TrainWorx Product, and best of all fellowship with other train loving NUTS (said affectionately 🙂 )

*Traindame*… that’s right, I – will be the lead conductor for the day and certainly could use assistance running the trains.

What? TrainWorx Showroom Store *OPEN*
When? 10 am to 4 pm
Date?   Saturday, February 1, 2014
Where? 2808 McGowan Street | Dallas, TX 75203

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(877) 881-4997

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Hat-Trick for TW TrainWorx!!

What’s the best way to start the New Year?? Attending not 1… not 2… but 3 live train events all in the great Lone Star State of Texas and that is exactly what the Traingineers did starting with the Katy, Texas TCA Lone Star Division Meet, then to the Houston, Texas for the World’s Greatest Hobby Show and back to Plano, Texas for the North Texas Counsel of Railroad Club’s 29th Annual Train Meet!!

Best part?? Being with fellow Train Nuts to start the year off perfectly!

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With a start like this in January, the remaining 11 months of 2014 are just going to keep getting better, funner, and more exciting!! Love the ride!! 🙂

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(877) 881-4997

P.S. Saturday, February 1st we will be opening the TW TrainWorx Showroom Store from 10:00 to 4:00 at our Dallas Studio: 2808 McGowan Street – Dallas, Texas  75203
**Come see Traindame, custom layouts, TrainWorx product and several “mystery” items for sale… Saturday only!**