If you are in the Baltimore Maryland area this week you may want to check out the Wise Avenue Vol Fire Co. Christmas Train display before it ends Sunday Jan. 4 at 9pm.
It is located at 214 Wise Avenue in Dundalk MD 21222. It is open 6pm to 9pm on weekdays and Sat. & Sun. 12 noon to 9pm.
Operating 9 "O" trains and many animated items including Baltimore's Key Bridge with 4 lanes fast pace lanes of traffic and a view to Fort McHenry and Baltimore's inner harbor on a 20' x 44' layout.
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Nice pictures. How are the cars animated on the bridge? They are neat.
Great pictures and video's. Thanks for sharing
Wow! Great layout and love that bridge. Is this layout operated by a club or just one person? Where does it all go the rest of the year?
Wish it could stay up all year!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It should be a permanent display somewhere like the layout at the Museam of Science and Industry in Chicago!!!
Wonderful pics!
Peter
Looks great more details please??
Streets vehicles on the bridge??
Looks great
Paul...that is a beautiful layout and...WOW...what a spectacular bridge!
Alan
Wow! Great layout and love that bridge. Is this layout operated by a club or just one person? Where does it all go the rest of the year?
It is all owned by the fire company. This is the 1st year for that bridge and I don't know exactly where it will go because of it's size. It's over 16' long but we have a few different storage areas, but we will figure it out next week.
Looks great more details please??
Streets vehicles on the bridge??
Looks great
Some more details, it is built within 6 weeks times and it is different year. The vehicles on the bridge are are about 3" long and they are different ages and from different makers. The display is 34 years old now and some vehicles maybe that age now. Some of the vehicles do take a beating at times since the belts that are carrying the vehicles are just as long underneath the display. In the past we never had a bridge carrying 4 lanes of traffic. All the bridges before only carried 2 lanes of traffic and the past few years we had 2 bridges going at one time.
There are 9 MTH trains and 1 trolley going at one time on 5 different levels. And over 150 animated items in the display.
Here are some more photos of the display.Feel free to ask me anymore questions you may have.
How did you do the harbor scene?it looks really good.
There is also a train display at engine 41 in Highlandtown on Conkling street that has an exact replica of the Natty Boh building, built by me. The volunteers and i set this layout up now for six years. We are going to be open till the third. Open daily 11-5.
Thanks for posting all this great information! Two area layouts that I still need to see.
How did you do the harbor scene?it looks really good.
Thanks for the reply. The harbor scene was done using a self leveling mixture, painting the various colors to show changes in depth and then covered with two part lacquer.
There is also a train display at engine 41 in Highlandtown on Conkling street that has an exact replica of the Natty Boh building, built by me. The volunteers and i set this layout up now for six years. We are going to be open till the third. Open daily 11-5.
Very nice display as always. The Natty Boh building looks great. We would like to have one with the matching set of Natty Boh refer cars. Maybe one day.
The Key Bridge over the harbor is very impressive! The whole layout is very nice! Having worked for a power company many years earlier in my career, I noticed the power transmission towers! Need lots of power for this layout. ;-)
Thank you for posting all the great photos!
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