Reply to "SCARM Layout & Image File Sharing"

Hi,  

I'm Paul and I'm new to the forums.  A few years ago, I found my old O-27 Lionel train set in a box in my parents garage.  It's from 1960 (when I was 2).  I think my dad got it for himself at the time.  He had purchased new track back in 2004 shortly before he passed away.  I stored the box containing the set in my garage as my home at the time didn't have the room for a layout.  

This past Christmas, while looking for the Christmas decorations, I stumbled across the box with the train set.  I set it up on the dining room table with a very small loop, hooked it up and found it ran like it was new!

Also one of the bedrooms has became vacant and I decided to build a more permanent layout on a 4' x 8' plywood sheet. (I have quite a few of those for when the Hurricanes come to town here in Tampa Bay, more than I need for the windows.)  

Being a software engineer in the mapping GIS industry, I was going to use AutoCAD to design the layout.  Then I discovered SCARM and what you see here is an attempt to model a scene that was painted on a tin-tunnel that my set had. This painting fired my imagination as a child and so I decided to try and model it with most of what I have available or can obtain/make on the cheap.

Here is what I plan to build. It will about twice as much O-27 track as I currently have, but being on a tight budget, I can't upgrade to some of more realistic tracks like Atlas or Fastrack or ScaleTrax. (Everything is to be done on the cheap for now)

Well, here is one of the layouts, and the painting that inspired it.

Let me know what you think...

Paul