Micro layouts

"Layouts" like these are very cool.  I love what can be done in a lunchbox or a briefcase with a z-scale set up.  I had one in my office twenty years ago and got lots of comments.  It was fun if distracting.  

Now, those are really cute, Bill!  Where in the world did you locate that collection?

 

Paul Fischer

How about this one that I found at a local antique market...??  I bought it for $3.00.  When one slides it out of the matchbox-like cover, the train and handcars go around the Christmas tree in the center.  There are houses, street lights, and trees and landscaping as well as people on this "micro-layout".  I have included the penny in the pictures so that you can get an idea of the size....

 

Alan

Here is an old one I made for a contest here on OGR Forum. An Easter themed micro. O16 Super street track.

One more

What exactly is shown in the last post above? 

This...

Thanks, Bill. 

 

Now, if I can just get my eyes to re-focus!!

 

 

 

Here's a video about a really minuscule layout. 

 

Staying right on topic I got an Email saying that Carendt .com has just finished updating their webpage. They are the most interesting  small layout blog/ group/ community I've ever seen.

Here's a video of one I made for my Mom as a Christmas gift out of a cigar box.  

 

http://youtu.be/Qbq_e0dQO84

 

when my boys have their weekly sleepover at grandma's they beg her to run it for them. Not sure who enjoys it more, her or the kids.  

 

I have an attorney acquaintance who has a steam engine and three cars plus a caboose in a slightly oversized hunter cased pocket watch with a mountain and village in the middle.

 

Stingy SOB won't sell it to me.  

Here is a Lionel key fob of a Santa Fe train that I got last year.

 

Using O-Gauge as Perspective.. here’s a little itty bitty layout.







Fun Thread…

K.C.

K.C. - where did you find that layout?  It's great looking!

 

--Greg

Man, someone ought to set up an O gauge micro layout contest on the forum!

 

Oh wait.....

 

       
       

I grabbed a few frames from the Lionel Christmas Display (12/07/2009) on the Today Show.



K.C.

Thanks! 

 

--Greg

In 1984, I was a a newly appointed junior manager in Westinghouse and returned from a trip to Germany with the first Z-gauge train set I had every seen.  I set it up in on this tiny little credenza behind the desk in my office - it was something like a ten by thirty-six inch loop with a very cool little 2-6-2 loco and three passenger cars.  Several friends and I were watching it and just oblivious when we noticeds the "big-boss" down the executive floor standing behind us watching, no trace of a smile on his face.  He looked me in the eye and asked "Do you know what happened to the last engineer here who set up a toy train in his office?"  I just shook my head.  He replied, "He retired twenty years later as Division Manager," laughed and left with a big smile.  To this day I have no idea why he came down to my office that day . . .  

How long before Lionel and MTH introduce a micro line of engines and rolling stoc. ant wait to see the articulated engines including the "Not-so" Big Boy 

But will it run on 1.5" radius curves? 

These tiny little layouts are cool. Makes me feel like rail baron with my door layout!  lol

If you REALLY like Micro Layouts in any and all scales, you'll likely want to bookmark the new Carl Arendt website (replaces the original site operated by Carl prior to his passing).

 

This is THE premier site for micro-layout fans.

Just as a concept, I've often envisioned a G scale setup with scenery that would

include a lift-away house with a Z scale railroad in its 'basement'.

 

     Hoppy

In case you missed it, here is a video of my Marx Portable/Storable Layout.

 

I like your portable/storable wind-up Marx layout.   Thanks for sharing!

K.C that looks like my Lionel key fob with the dome removed and placed on a mini square table.

James

       
       

Good Eye, James..

I think I’m going to pick up a fob, like yours.
That would be an easy bash, to make a Layout scene with.
If it’s good enough for Lionel…it’s good enough for me…lol

K.C.

Great idea. Just grabbed on on the Bay for $4.99. 1999 with a Santa Fe.
Not a winter scene. But I do not do winter scenes except around the tree.
I will put it in a house.
Fmh

The key fob is the layout in the TW designs Grand Central Terminal  Holiday layout. If you look in the window of the IHC hobby shop it is running away.

I started an N-gauge "pizza box" layout a few years ago but never completed it.  It is a holiday layout with a train going in a circle through a mountain on one corner and a village in a valley in the middle.  I even got a sound controller with a button to blow the horn, whistle, etc.  But just never got around to finishing it.  My intention was to have something I could put on my desk at work during the holidays since that time of the year I am addicted to trains 24/7 and can't be without them for even a minute.

 

I need to finish that this year!

Well,the smallest I know are these, and I love 'em.  the tiny layouts on the Lionel's Cowen's Corner Hobby (same as Madison Hardware).  1:48 models of toy trains: how cool is that?  I know there are smaller layouts, but I have never seen them.  This I see every day - and just love it!