Recent retirement allows me time to work on a 19’ x 20’ basement toy train layout, with O-31 perimeter main line, O-27 double dog bone inside, three powered sidings, and three elevated display sidings. The present layout reuses tabletops that supported aN HO layout for three decades. A residential area with houses, school, church, and passenger station, and a downtown area with police, fire, diner, grocery, gas station, bank, hospital, town hall, hardware, and freight station are all Plasticville kits. A classic ZW transformer powers four bus lines. I can choose to run four different passenger lines (engine, 5-8 cars) and twenty-two different freight lines (engine, 8+ cars, caboose). Almost everything (except my surviving childhood Lionel set) was purchased over the past decade on eBay or through Craig’s List. Plans for future work include: traffic markings on roads, telephone wires, LEDs inside buildings, cork roadbed, concealed feeder wires, plaster-over-screen mountains with tunnels, concealed overhead LED lighting, sky blue Masonite backdrop, skirting to hide storage boxes, and an elevation portion of the O-31 mainline.
Missouri & Pacific Passenger
New York Central Passenger
Pennsylvania Passenger
Santa Fe Passenger
Atlantic Coast Freight
Baltimore & Ohio Freight
Burlington Freight
Boston & Maine (New England) Freight
Canadian Freight
Chesapeake & Ohio Freight
Chicago & Northwestern Freight
Conrail/Central New Jersey Freight
Denver & Rio Grande Freight
Great Northern Freight
Minneapolis & St. Louis Freight
New Haven Freight
New York Central Freight
Norfolk & Western Freight
Penn Central Freight
Pennsylvania Freight
Santa Fe Freight
Southern Freight
Southern Pacific Freight
Union Pacific Freight
Virginia Freight
Western Pacific Freight
