Anyone have videos or pictures of their 2-Rail Scale trains and layout?

That's what I get for scrolling too fast. Thanks Chris.

The Worlds largest Two Rail Scale  Layout

Is located in Commerce Twp., Michigan

See there web page for photos and a lot more.

http://www.chi-townunionstation.com/

Wow Gary,

 "On March 20, 2010, Chi-town assembled and ran on a permanent          indoor model railroad layout, with grades and curves, a train          1,112.06 feet in length consisting of 1205 cars and 26          locomotives. The train weighed almost 1400 pounds. "

WOW!!

That place is just an amazing thing to see.

Your welcome Matt...I do that all the darn time...

Ha ha - yes I thought I'd already answered that question!!!

I suppose Portway Center is a Micro layout by O Scale standards - certainly by American standards anyway - here in the UK we often have to make do with smaller spaces; as I said on another post here somewhere, "A lack of space is merely a challenge to the Imagination"

Anyway here's another pic of the layout, and I'll start a seperate Thread about it & post the link...

Here it was being closely inspected at an Exhibition back in June this year. My lad was operating at the time (peering over the backscene) I'm beyond him, and looking quite relaxed about the fact he's operating!!

 Link to my Thread about this layout, with more pics - https://ogrforum.com/t...small-o-scale-layout

Thanks! No, but someday I'll snap, hold my cat up in the air and scream "I just can't take it anymore!" and fix it.

On the center beams, they are good cars but I wouldn't advise on getting them. The undercarriage is very wrong

That track undulation is very impressive. It's a lot harder to do than some would think because most modern rolling stock has sprung, but not equalized trucks and locomotives are even more rigid. They tend to want to walk out of the track on low spots (I've found several of them on the club layout). You did a great job.

I like you! I love that static grass! Also, don't know if you have said anything on the subject but, how is Europe feeling about MTH offerings these days? From their euro line-up I only have some Shell kesselwagens that I got because they look so awesome to me.

Thanks for the complements guys!!

I have to admit that R-T-R 6-axle locos won't even look at that rickety track - the rigid frames mean the middle axle will lift the outer ones off the rails going over the uneven bits (which is most of it on this layout!!)

Re MTH "Euro" offerings, must admit that here in the UK, modelling EU-outline in O scale is about as rare as US-outline in O as well - I was unaware MTH did some EU models. I know they have produced a British Railways Mk1 Coach, and seen one in my local model shop. I thought it looked pretty good and compared to prices of UK O scale models it's really rather good value at just over £100. The experts have found detail faults with it I think, but if I was in the market for such an item I'd buy it!

I'm rather more miffed that MTH hi-cube boxcars are fairly hard to come by, actually!! The prices the yellow TTX/TBOX versions are fetching are eye-watering!! I missed a ready-converted 2-rail one on here as well recently; part of the problem is also due to reluctance of US modellers to ship anywhere beyond the Lower 48.

Ha ha....yeah I know what you mean.  I had heard that about the center beams before but haven't really looked at one closely...thanks for the info.

Here a short video I took when I visited Cherry Valley last year.

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...GIJ64Gd2GfCSyuJlSFAQ

Ken

Am under construction but here what I have to date.

      Bob

Good Day Gentlemen,

Great videos and pictures! Thank you all for taking the time to share.

Best Regards,

Frank

Wow, looks great!

Do you have a track plan to share?

Love the mountain work. I really need to get started. I spend too many hours looking at others!

 I had the chance to go to the Cherry Valley club a while back. I couldn't make it as my girl wanted to tour NYC. Looks like I really missed out. What a nice layout!

Bob,

that is some terrific work. I really like your rock work and the DLW style concrete bridge.

Great thread; special thanks to those who posted pictures and video.  Terrific to see the modeling skills and imagination represented.

Thanks for sharing.

What an incredible layout you are building

Fantastic!

A small tour on my switching layout

On my garden layout I also run 2-rail scale trains:

And another one from my layout...

Great photos and videos, guys. I'm glad to see this thread kept going.

 Christopher N&W,

Awesome work.

May I ask about your trees,

commercial?  Custom?  Super Trees?

They look fabulous.

any pointers on covering large mountain areas as you did?

any help would be greatly appreciated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZ_WjCrtmgk

 at 1:32 in the video eastbound NS..although 3 rail..i run both.enjoy

Thanks David. The trees are Super Trees with Noch leaves on them. I wrote a pretty detailed article about the scenery in the March/April issue of 0 Scale Trains magazine. You might be able to download it from their site.