My Little Town

Here are a few views into a little village I made. The groundcovers, RR-crossings, roadways, traffic, population, ballasting, and walkways were not completed, at the time of the photo, but you get the idea....

I was trying for a variety of neighborhoods among the landscape.

FrankM

Arnold, Nice little town, with cattle on the hills.

Frank, It is always a treat to see your town photographs.

I don't have much at this time.  I'm just starting to move buildings around, but when I posted a photograph of the new to me switcher, someone commented on the town.

Moonson posted:

Here are a few views into a little village I made. The groundcovers, RR-crossings, roadways, traffic, population, ballasting, and walkways were not completed, at the time of the photo, but you get the idea....

I was trying for a variety of neighborhoods among the landscape.

FrankM

Frank, I was hoping to see a few of your Little Towns, and you have certainly delivered. Drop dead gorgeous as usual. I don't know if you have the formal certification, but I regard you as a Master Model Railroader.  Arnold

Mark Boyce posted:

Arnold, Nice little town, with cattle on the hills.

Frank, It is always a treat to see your town photographs.

I don't have much at this time.  I'm just starting to move buildings around, but when I posted a photograph of the new to me switcher, someone commented on the town.

 Mark, I think your Little Town is adorable.

Frank, when you have buildings that are a few feet or more from the viewer, do you use HO instead of O scale buildings? Arnold

Downtown terminal on my layout.

Lou1985 posted:

Downtown terminal on my layout.

Very nice, Lou.

One more thing, Mark. I think your Little Town would have great appeal to children. What more important purpose do our creations have than to entertain children. They will want to play with your structures, little people and trains when they see your town.

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Moonson posted:

Here are a few views into a little village I made. The groundcovers, RR-crossings, roadways, traffic, population, ballasting, and walkways were not completed, at the time of the photo, but you get the idea....

I was trying for a variety of neighborhoods among the landscape.

FrankM

Frank, I was hoping to see a few of your Little Towns, and you have certainly delivered. Drop dead gorgeous as usual. I don't know if you have the formal certification, but I regard you as a Master Model Railroader.  Arnold

Arnold - I second everything you said ... I too regard Frank as a Master Model Railroader!  Frank's work inspires me and I'm sure inspires many others here on the OGR forum.   Thanks Frank!  

Pat, your glorious modeling in autumn colors also inspires me and many others. Arnold

Views from Patsburg neighborhoods.  

West Side...

East Side...

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Frank, when you have buildings that are a few feet or more from the viewer, do you use HO instead of O scale buildings? Arnold

Everything is "O" scale, Arnold. I try to place everything close enough to the visitor that full-size is apparent. I like people to be able to walk up close to just about everything, as much as the available platform dimensions will afford.

For example, these two rather intimate views of parts of two different neighborhoods are right up at the edge , along aisles. I wanted folks to have a good view of everything made visually available to them.

FrankM

Trumptrain, As soon as I saw your latest photos of Patsburg, I smiled immediately, with enjoyment. There is a consistent, wonderful sense of playfulness to every scene in the village-scape. Your work brings happiness to those with whom you share your vision. Congratulations on your success with all of it!

FrankM

Hey!; That's me!;  No. 7

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

One more thing, Mark. I think your Little Town would have great appeal to children. What more important purpose do our creations have than to entertain children. They will want to play with your structures, little people and trains when they see your town.

Thank you Arnold!  We hope to have grandchildren someday who will come to see my trains and run them.  I plan two towns, one based on a valley town Parsons, West Virginia.  The other based on Thomas, West Virginia built on a hillside.  They are the two main towns at the top and bottom of the Blackwater Canyon grade of the old Western Maryland.  I will add some operating accessories like coal and lumber loaders and unloaders, fitting for the region.  I'll spruce them up a bit to look more realistic for my benefit, but still sturdy enough for grandchildren to use.  Of course, at the rate we are going, I may be 70 before we have grandchildren old enough to operate, so I have some time.    My wife already likes to put improbable items she gets at the thrift store and see how long it takes for me to notice.  Therefore, I will never have a layout true to realism, but it is more fun that way.  

Thank you for starting another great topic! 

Adriatic posted:

Hey!; That's me!;  No. 7

Okay Butch, I'm trying to figure out what No. 7 you are referring to.  Photograph 7? Something else?  As often is the case, you have aroused my curiosity, but I am to dull to figure it out!!   

Moonson posted:

Here are a few views into a little village I made. The groundcovers, RR-crossings, roadways, traffic, population, ballasting, and walkways were not completed, at the time of the photo, but you get the idea....

I was trying for a variety of neighborhoods among the landscape.

FrankM

I like the chain link fence in the third pic down.  Would you share where you got it?

Forty Rod, The fence is a "Dept56" product.

FrankM

My Little Town:

The other side of the tracks:

Woah, Arnold!  You have a double decker bus on your street!!  That's neat!  I am glad the fire department has such great equipment to douse the flames in the office building!!

From the 1993-2003 layout....

From the current layout....started 2011....

Peter

Wow, just fantastic talent above. Thanks to all...

Andy

Delightful layout, Peter.

Ever notice that there are about 1000 times more Tucker Torpedo's in the O Gauge World that ever existed in the real one??

WOW...…….. a lot of really nice looking layouts posted here.

The first four pix are from my past layout.

The fifth and sixth pix are of my current layout.

Mike Wyatt posted:

Ever notice that there are about 1000 times more Tucker Torpedo's in the O Gauge World that ever existed in the real one??

Maaaayybeee. But there is only one in our little town, and even the kids know it's special.

FrankM

Moonson posted:

Mike Wyatt posted:

Ever notice that there are about 1000 times more Tucker Torpedo's in the O Gauge World that ever existed in the real one??

Maaaayybeee. But there is only one in our little town, and even the kids know it's special.

FrankM

Frank, I love your little people, little cars, etc., in your little towns.

I once had a "main Street" on the layout but it was ripped out for a Rolling Mill. I did want to build a large diorama using all Hot Rods and custom cars like a Gasoline Alley but life's to short I want to finish the layout before I die!

This is as far as I got it's all gone now gave the buildings to the local club if you look over the Ore Cars you can see it was finished. I can't find the proper finished photos might have deleted them accidently I'm not very good with computers.

It's good fun building towns but you need a lot of space if you start building Drive in burgers, car washes, Used car dealers, bus stations etc. Roo.

Moonson posted:

Trumptrain, As soon as I saw your latest photos of Patsburg, I smiled immediately, with enjoyment. There is a consistent, wonderful sense of playfulness to every scene in the village-scape. Your work brings happiness to those with whom you share your vision. Congratulations on your success with all of it!

FrankM

Frank -  Reading your words brought a big smile to my face!  Thank you sir! 

Arnold D. Cribari posted

Frank, I love your little people, little cars, etc., in your little towns.

Thank you, Arnold. I appreciate all of your comments here. They add to my enjoyment of conversing here about how we express our imaginations on our train layouts.

My Thanks, also, to these Forum voices who sent me "Likes" for my photos in my replies to this thread, overall: Gandydancer1950; Southern Mike; Mark Boyce; Trumptrain; Albertstrains; BAR GP7#63; Sean007; Murnane; Ericc; Steamfan 77; Lou N; Putnam Division; Trussman; wild mary; Rixster; Strummer; PUFFRBELLY; Jerry G; Danr.; Hudson J1e.

Thank you. Your approval is taken to heart and much appreciated.

FrankM

trumptrain posted:

Arnold D. Cribari posted

Frank, I was hoping to see a few of your Little Towns, and you have certainly delivered. Drop dead gorgeous as usual. I don't know if you have the formal certification, but I regard you as a Master Model Railroader.  Arnold

Arnold - I second everything you said ... I too regard Frank as a Master Model Railroader!  Frank's work inspires me and I'm sure inspires many others here on the OGR forum.   Thanks Frank!  

Great fun hearing that from you, Patrick W/Trumptrain ! You said a really nice thing there, which has meant  a lot to me.

Thank you,

FrankM

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Moonson posted:

Here are a few views into a little village I made...

I was trying for a variety of neighborhoods among the landscape.

FrankM

Frank, I was hoping to see a few of your Little Towns, and you have certainly delivered. Drop dead gorgeous as usual. I don't know if you have the formal certification, but I regard you as a Master Model Railroader.  Arnold

You certainly know how to say something nice to a fellow-hobbyist. Thank you for that. Your words are a big smile in my direction.

FrankM

Mark Boyce posted:..

Frank, It is always a treat to see your town photographs.

Thank you, Mark. Very nice to hear from you. I'm glad you continue to like my little scenes.

FrankM

From an old layout before I moved

Looks great, Joe!  The wooden truss bridge and the cellular tower provide a something old, something new life to the town!

Bordentown City, NJ was founded in the late 1600's. The John Bull was reassembled here in the early 1800s by a young man without a set of instructions. The first passenger service in the state, one of the first in the country, the Camden and Amboy RR, started it's journey from this tiny town on the Delaware River. The track still exists in Bordentown but was taken up a few towns north. Presently a freight train, lovingly called the Ghost Train by locals because no one ever really sees it, they only hear it in the wee hours of the morning, uses this track through town by passing under it's two main streets. The outside track sends passengers from Camden to Trenton on the Light Rail.

This small 4x8 layout was part of our annual Holiday Train Show in Bordentown City.

Mikki

Mikki, It is a superbly detailed town no matter the era, but one of the few I have seen in the one-horsepower days!  Excellent!  That is great you have captured a historic place in your modeling!!

Mike Wyatt posted:

Ever notice that there are about 1000 times more Tucker Torpedo's in the O Gauge World that ever existed in the real one??

Either because they all model the southwest suburbs of Chicago or the other 1948 automobiles are butt ugly?