On November 11, 2017, HARM members Bill McAleese, Bill Freeland, and Scott Wooddell traveled to Columbia, Maryland to visit the home layout of Howard Zane during open house month. We also met up with Jeff Dove while there. Howard models the Piermont Division of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in HO scale. His layout totally consumes an almost 3000 square foot basement of his home and has grown on several occasions over the years. The first thing that strikes you when entering his home are the seemingly never-ending display cases of model railroad locomotives (mostly brass) and rolling stock. we could have spent hours just looking at all of the items on display around the entry, but we knew the real reason we came was for what was in the basement. Coming down the stairs, you enter the layout near one end and are awestruck by the scenery, super detailed structures and railroad equipment in front of you. It is not for a little bit, that you realize that this is just the tip of the iceberg. The layout meanders through several areas of his basement, some of which were added on just for the model railroad. It took us about three hours to make our way through all of the rooms to see the many scratch built and kit bashed structures. Because we were the only ones there at the time, Howard ran a few "special" trains for us to watch. It was really a treat to see such a masterpiece of a model railroad.