Let's see your postwar style layouts

Hi Guys, Thanks for nice comments now lets keep this topic alive !!!!!!!   Lenny J

Here's my auto recycling center, or junkyard as it would have been called in the fifties.  The staff and students at the Marx schoolhouse probably don't appreciate all the hammering, revving and cussin' they must hear.

Dreyfus Hudson rounds a bend...........

736 takes on water......

Here is my almost 20 year old remake and modified Lionel D132 layout from 1954

It was a father son's build but that lasted only for a few years. Now it seems like I am the only one in the family that has any interest in trains.

Charlie

Fine, fine-looking layout, Charlie.  It takes you right back to the splendid department stores of yore.

Here's one more shot from my layout.

The layouts are GREAT !! Here's some more photo's of my layout.    Lenny J

Here's a couple, plus a video, of my D-192 copy.  It's been worth its weight in gold as a daily stress-reliever!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA4Qf_pnXbo

Here's my CBL:

Jon

Jon,

How large is your layout? It's hard to tell by the photos. Have you posted more info in the layout section that I could take a look at? I'm trying to come up with a layout design to fit in a 10x17 horseshoe. Do any of the trains crossover others or are they just on different levels near each other?

Oh, and what curves sizes are you using?

It is a 12' X 12' L shaped layout with five-foot widths.  The outer curves are O-42 and the inner are O-31.  The switches are all either O-22's or the O Gauge switches from the late 90's.

Jon

Thanks for the info Jon.

Postwar style layouts should include at least one turntable and roundhouse.  This is a picture of my 30 plus year old scratch built turntable and roundhouse.  Turntable is moved with a hand crank on the control panel via a clothes dryer drum belt.  Works like a charm.

Charlie

I really like it and the fact that it's tucked into a relatively small space with the spur going around the back. And I see what looks like my first locomotive, the red center-cab diesel. I've been avoiding a turntable because of the cost and space usually dedicated to them. I may rethink the idea as I play with my designs during the coming year.