My Lazy L Creation "inside" the Tunnel

Now, that is just cool! A great idea I have never seen done before.

Nice! Perhaps some aliens could assist?

Very nice. Different.

Cool, I like it but how do you see it?

Clever mix of N & O Scale.  Well done. 

That's what a call detail to the interior of a tunnel. Beautiful job.

Brian,

That crew inside your tunnel looks excellent!!  A great idea!

Great  scene. Well done.

Thank You ALL for the great comments.

This is the 1st time I have ever tried my hand at landscaping in such a small way. When I made the tunnel I thought, what can I do with all that space in the back corner. Lots of tossing nights thinking and this is what I came up with. Now I am going to sprinkle some granite pieces mixed with some course ballast and cover the floor so that is done. I have to make one more thing. It is going to be a burning barrel for the "guys" to warm up in the damp tunnel.

I am having the time of my life building this setup.

I just wish I could take the complete basement now instead of a few more years.

Gottagogotacall..

BTW..You can only see inside the tunnel from the edges of the layout. You gotta PEEK In.

Good idea of using N scale.  It has been a few years but I need to find the pic of our inside tunnel, my sun set up some Dinosaur bones in it.  I will look in our photos on the computer and see what I can find.  Nice work and its good to have lights inside the tunnel.  Now put a camera with video and set it on a flat car and run it through the tunnel.  Makes for a good movie.  Nick 

Re: You can only see inside the tunnel from the edges of the layout. You gotta PEEK In.

This Easter Egg (semi hidden work) of your layout is interesting.  Video from a passing train would be icing on the cake.  

I'd like to borrow your idea for my subway tunnel.  What make/model of the N Scale did you use?     

Outstanding idea!

Creative ideas like this is what makes OGR so great.

The scene is very creative, I love the story!  Great job.

Thanks again you guys..

Anyone can borrow my idea. It's not patented..LOL

Every once in awhile even the "newbies" in this hobby come up with a good idea.

The "men" in the tunnel were all painted by me!! I painted them White, Red and Yellow so they would stand out under the dim lighting. I used a LM317 Voltage regulator to dim the 12v lights down to about 7-8 volts.

Tonight I just picked up a few more N Scale Load cars.

Now I can set them all together so you will see a few from each end of the portals.

I am working on the Burning Barrel and then the ballast goes in.

All the N scale cars are mixed brands from a junk box at my LHS. I paid $2.00 each for 5 of them today. One does not even have trucks, but you wont notice that in the shadows. "jus don't tell anyone"

OGR and You Tube is where I have been getting most of my ideas and Help from.

Soooooooooo

Thank You all once again.

Great job!

Peter

Brian,

Both the idea for the scene and it's implementation is outstanding. The N scale is a perfect match for the scene.

I have been thinking about making a coal mining scene on a mountain. Based on your photo I am thinking the N scale might look good as a small coal moving train coming out of the mine or just moving coal from one area to anotheretc.

I sure hope you post photos when it is finished. 

Thanks for the photos

Ed

That is a great idea.  Very cleverly and realistically done, too!

Clever! I'm going to have a corner mountain and it may need a repair crew too. Thanks for the excellent idea!

Wow! Very creative and unique.

I am sure we will see more of this on other layouts.  

Brian, that looks great.I have not seen anything like that before. Really nicely done.   Steve

What a great idea!!  Railroads have to maintain, inspect, and repair tunnels all the time so this is perfect!

Thanks...

Alan

All these comments are making me blush...
I have Never done this before.

I am surprising myself with some of this work.

It's ALL your layouts and ideas that keep me up at night thinking of my next move.

Here are a few pictures of the Mountain and Slopes Finally Painted and Ready for trees and stuff.

Keep you posted as things progress...

Hi Brian,   The pictures look grate.  The layout looks to be coming along very nice.   Steve

Hi Steve,

Thanks..

We just laid out all the trees and shrubs we purchased. Holy cow we have lots to plant. This has been the most fun and total enjoyment for me in years.

I have waited over 15 years to start this project.

Keep ya updated.

Brian,

That is one of the neatest looking, small corner-tunnels that I've seen. You have taken what is not normally realistic, and made it so, by adding those long tapering sides to the mountain.

Dave