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I think this is pretty guirky - I thought so even as I decide to commit and do it.

Having added space and layout footage, carved from the garage and added to the basement trainroom, two mainlines were extended into the new acreage. One mainline, on the first level, did not continue its original route on the first layout space, in favor of reaching into the new room.

I decide - this is the quirky part - not to re-craft mountainside where the Mainline#1 had entered a tunnel and, instead, simply walled-up the entrance (things like that must happen in real life, right?) and continued that mainline, seen on the right foreground, here, off into the new space. Then, I added a little scenery, esp. the work-shanty, in place of the removed and newly re-directed track to ...IMG_1498xIMG_1502_edited-1IMG_1503cIMG_1508oltrak1way

...suggest the walling-off had occurred some time ago.

Quirky, right?

FrankM.

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Moonson posted:

Hi Ace, I don't know if cutting holes through bookcases for a right-of-way is quirky or just plain cool, actually, but more importantly, may I100_4446b ask, what is this here, which seems to pass from one track atop another?

FrankM.

You are very observant. That is some quirky trackwork, essentially a drawbridge crossing which allows my inner mainline loop to access side tracks outside the outer mainline loop. I devised that setup for lack of sufficient O72 switches to do a conventional crossover arrangement. It's a piece of regular 10" straight tubular track with the middle crosstie removed, and the ends of the rail are opened up on the bottom so it can simply drop into place over track pins on adjoining track.

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On the left in the top photo, you can see the cordoned-off entrance to a community street fair, which I have to admit is pretty darn quirky. I'm not even sure where the inspiration came from, especially since I have never seen any other layout with such a feature; however, I have attended such fairs in places like Cortland, NY. Maybe, all the various odd-ball items I had been collecting all along had to find a place to be seen somewhere. So, I have the fair displaying some antique vehicles, even an old fire-engine or two, as perhaps some of us have seen in real-life. Anyolways, here are a few shots of my quirky street fair, sometimes billed as the local, village "Antique & Classic Car Show" and other times as the "Once in a Blue Moon Community Fair."

FrankMI hope you enjoy seeing this little detail in my Moon Township.

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Lee Willis posted:

I don't know if this is quirky or not.  I love trucks nearly as much as trains. 

 

I have scratch-built 18 wheelers I made for my Superstreets/EZStreets roads

Cohens Corner w 18 wheeler

And I have "fiddled with' a number of otherwise stock SS vehicles to make construction equipment, fire trucks, etc.  I run the 18-wheelers and construction vehicles as often as the trains. 

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I wish I had your skills, Lee

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