A European model railway to sell a prescription drug to North Americans?

Snipped from ENBREL's 2022 tv commercial

Michael alerted me to a tv commercial he recently saw for ENBREL as it opens with an interesting model railway scene, which is something of a rarity in mainstream tv. What struck me is the layout looks European, and I only note this because the commercial is being aired on American tv. I haven't seen it yet on tv, but now I'm on the lookout. My assumption is that a European commercial was repurposed for US tv to save some money, but that's all just speculation on my part. It looks like quite a good layout. I especially like the water feature seen in the lower left quarter of the image. It appears to be cast resin so you can see what's under the water's surface. Has this layout appeared in Continental Modeller magazine? Was it custom built for the commercial? If anyone out there knows anything about this layout, please leave a comment.

Prototype loons

We went out on the weekend to see if we could see some loonar prototypes. We were lucky and did. Although, we didn't see the Space Hopper :-(

E. L. Moore's little layout stand

1" = 1' model of the stand for E. L. Moore's EHRR

Paul pointed out the layout stand bares a resemblance to the stand E. L. Moore built for his Enskale Hoentee RR. I had forgotten about the EHRR stand, but I did have a couple of photos of the model Mr. Moore made of it. They can be found in this post, and over on the left for convenience. These days I think the stand would be a nice piece of conversational furniture in the same vein as Bill Baron's mid-century coffee table layout. These sorts of tables could possibly make model railroading a little more convivial. Hmmm, but first it needs some wheels :-)

Scenes from a working day

Before the day gets going.

Clearing away windfall.

A quiet time for a few test loops.

What the drone saw.

We'll have your money today. I promise.

Sunday swim

My first attempt at digitally replacing a background with a photograph. I gave this a try because I realized the lack of trees in the distance was giving me a problem. More practice, more practice.