Anyone built or plan to build a mountain dominated layout?

An excellent example of "mountain" railroading (though not in O scale) was John Allen's "Gorre & Daphetid RR."  That's pronounced Gory & Defeated.  There is a Groups.io group with tons of pictures showing how his railroad wound through the floor-to-ceiling mountains, often crossing the same chasms multiple times.  The effect is just stunning!

Chuck

These two layouts come to mind.

https://ogrforum.com/...-s-the-little-things

https://ogrforum.com/...lan-goldman-s-layout

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

In my opinion, terrain-height variation is an important feature for model railroad scenery, but an O scale layout would need a very large footprint to model the height of a mountain. However, it is possible to model hills, and I have done that on my 12’-by-8’ and 10’-by-5’ layouts, which were intended to look like the hills of Connecticut.

12’-by-8’ layout completed in 2004.

10’-by-5’ layout completed in 2019.

MELGAR

@NJCJOE posted:

These two layouts come to mind.

https://ogrforum.com/...-s-the-little-things

https://ogrforum.com/...lan-goldman-s-layout

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Joe, those just link to the 3D printing files.

When I click the links they open the video pages. You may have to be a digital subscriber.

I've sketched a layout for when/if I ever clean up and finish the loft over my garage that would be a bit mountain dominated.  I liked some of the ideas from @jdstucks layout where there are hidden reversing loops and ways to continuously run without just doing circles.

Speaking of which, it looks like his layout will be fairly mountainous. 

@NJCJOE posted:

When I click the links they open the video pages. You may have to be a digital subscriber.

Agreed.  If videos you would definitely need to be a subscriber to view them.

Mike

So, I sort of did, at least at one end of my layout:

Pinnacle Peaks State Park was a 4'x8' peninsula addition to my old layout:

Jim