a few scenes

Really nice layout.  VERY realistic.  

Love the water.  How did you make it and color it?

Looks great, very well done!

Exactly how "short" is your short line?

Thanks Lee. The water is a thin layer of plaster, sanded, painted a grey blue and added several coats of Minwax high gloss polyurethane.  It photographs pretty well but in hindsight I think that an olive drab color might have looked more realistic.

It's 20 x 15 and will be featured in a "competitors" magazine sometime in the near future. Thank you!

That's a decent size, what I see makes me want to see more.

It's actually a shelf type layout in the shape of a "J", that ranges from 5 feet to 2 feet in width and extends into my laundry room and around the furnace where it is not detailed. Occasionally I get lucky with a photograph or two.

Alex is jealous as he ripped his great layout up, and now he just has empty benchwork!

Wonderful scenery; and I really enjoy seeing PW LIONEL accessories integrated into a well-detailed, hi-rail layout.

Thank you, I attempted to put early postwar Lionel in a realistic setting.

That's great!  I was thinking of trying your method to make water and wondering how it might look, and your results confirmed it.  Very nice layout you have.  Thanks for sharing!

excellent work!

Thank you Steamer

Fabulous pictures...I love how you have blended traditional-sized trains and accessories into realistic scenes!

Peter

thank you Peter..... early PW Lionel is my favorite

Real nice job.  Where did you get the kayaks from? 

Very nice. Thanks for posting.

Very nice looking layout.

Very well done. Sure gives me ideas on how to improve my scenes!

Hope to see more of your layout.

Alex

Very nice layout!  Love your scenery.

Art

Gandy, in this day where the definition of "hi rail" is equated to scale only, your photos are a wonderful throw back to the original meaning of hi rail. Your layout photos certainly prove that traditional 027 trains can look even more impressive and realistic on a layout that showcases them in the manner yours does.

I'm still impressed with the photos from the "awaiting ice" thread you posted some time ago... https://ogrforum.com/topic/awaiting-ice

I'm so inspired by your 027 reefer car kitbashes, I want to do some of my own. I'm proud of many of the ideas I've come up with on my own for kitbashes and other layout ideas... but this idea of yours is one I'd never thought of until I saw your photos. I responded at that time, and am now searching for some beater car candidates for this process of turning them into 027 woodside reefers.

Here's a couple of pictures from that thread. Super work!

Very nice work and arrangement, thanks for posting.

Haha, good question. Those were toys that belonged to my kids years ago when they were little. I took two seated boy figures, cut them off at the waist and inserted them in the kayaks ...they've been paddling upstream ever since!

Thank you Art!

Thank you, I appreciate the comments and compliments very much. I've always been partial to the early PW Lionel cars and accessories, and I try t keep them in "scale relationship" to one another. That means short gondolas, box cars and hoppers, single and double dome tank cars, 2400 series passenger cars and of course, in looking for short reefers "with ice hatches", came up with the idea of kitbashing old beaters and installing some of those beautiful reefer sides of the era. Glad you like the idea and I would love to see some of yours.