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paul 2 posted:

Nice scene Johan.................Paul

Paul: Thanks.

Johan

another personal favorite of mine.......

An early photo of our K-Line No.5344 with PS2 and MTH smoke.  The lower shows the beautiful proportions of the Hudson with it's large drivers that just reek 'speed'!

trumptrain posted:

Here's my favorite of this day.  These views are looking west on my layout.  I call the elevated section above the tunnel with backdrop " Westend".  The area just below is "Brewtown" because of the brewery complex and wholesale outlet.   I enjoy sitting on a stool ( placed at the east end of the layout )  and gazing at this end of the layout quite often.... while the trains are running.... and letting my imagination go.   No matter how simple or complex, our layouts are works of art.  Our imagination creates and completes what is not yet there on the canvas. ... the same as it did when we were young lads and lassies with Lionel and American Flyer trains running around the Christmas tree as our parents looked on and smiled.  

I'm sorry I'm redundant here, but...

This conjures up visions of the Old Neighborhood.  The Erie, Pennsy, and Newburgh & South Shore all went under Union Avenue in Cleveland; just down the road the NKP crossed East 93rd.  There was a station where the stationmaster would take orders by telegraph and set the order board semaphores.

Refreshing to say the least.

Lou N

Here is my favourite place to take pics on my layout   

Its also the most detailed thus far lol

  Excellent posts Everyone!

Al

Here are a couple more favorites. This Burlington E5 has been repainted into #2800 Southern E6 and the 'New Orleans' car is an early MTH car that I had decaled as SR.

Threw in the R.O.W. PA's as they were always a favorite in any scene!

Yesterday evening's favorite view. " Viewing the layout from the northeast side looking southwest ... while sitting on a low stool ... putting me pretty much at eye level, almost the viewing height when I was a kid."

It's all about baseball and trains for me:

The monuments in center field at Yankee stadium in the 1950s:

Here's another favorite shot:

These autos are at an RR underpass after which the road curves around a gas station where Jeff Gordon waits as the mechanic works on his Ferrari. 

trumptrain posted:

my fav. 

Patrick, your glorious autumn scene makes many of us year for the cooler weather, which will hopefully come soon.

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Great photo. Is that a Lionel 0-6-0? Appears detsilef.

Young Love:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

That's really a great scene! Did you weather the rails, or is that the way they came? They look great!

George

I've been enjoying this view today.  " The country road "

trumptrain posted:

I've been enjoying this view today.  " The country road "

Hi Pat - I think views like these should be blown up and made into wallpaper - pretty sure I've seen this service offered somewhere. But wouldn't that look neat on one whole wall somewhere?

GeoPeg posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

That's really a great scene! Did you weather the rails, or is that the way they came? They look great!

George

George: Thank you. Yes i weathered the rails.

Johan

gandydancer1950 posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

Great photo. Is that a Lionel 0-6-0? Appears detsilef.

Gandydancer 1950: Thanks. Yes, that is Lionel 0-6-0.

Johan

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

GeoPeg posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

That's really a great scene! Did you weather the rails, or is that the way they came? They look great!

George

George: Thank you. Yes i weathered the rails.

Johan

It looks painstaking, but it also looks great. Perhaps sometime you could shoot me an email describing your technique?

George

GeoPeg posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

GeoPeg posted:

BAR GP7 #63 posted:

That's really a great scene! Did you weather the rails, or is that the way they came? They look great!

George

George: Thank you. Yes i weathered the rails.

Johan

It looks painstaking, but it also looks great. Perhaps sometime you could shoot me an email describing your technique?

George

George: No problem, I send you email when i am back to home. Today I visit in Estonia.

Johan

To date, that has been a lot of fellow hobbyists who have shared viewpoints on each others accomplishments, posted their own favorite layout places, and sent even more "Likes" since I said Thanks previously: Spectac; Pat Kn; trumptrian; lee drennen; BAR GP7#63; gandydancer1950; BLUELINEC4; DK122TRAINS; scale rail; Chria A; Adriatic; RSJB18; Dennis Holler; Tom Densel; Stevin; GeoPeg; Bobby Ogage; Patrick W; TrainsRMe; Dave C; J Daddy; c. sam; albertstrains; Arnold D. Cribari.

Thanks for your input! 

Here is another favorite place of my own...FrankM

Do you have more favorites on your layout you'd like to share?

temporary layout

Moonson posted:

To date, that has been a lot of fellow hobbyists who have shared viewpoints on each others accomplishments, posted their own favorite layout places, and sent even more "Likes" since I said Thanks previously: Spectac; Pat Kn; trumptrian; lee drennen; BAR GP7#63; gandydancer1950; BLUELINEC4; DK122TRAINS; scale rail; Chria A; Adriatic; RSJB18; Dennis Holler; Tom Densel; Stevin; GeoPeg; Bobby Ogage; Patrick W; TrainsRMe; Dave C; J Daddy; c. sam; albertstrains; Arnold D. Cribari.

Thanks for your input! 

Here is another favorite place of my own...FrankM

Do you have more favorites on your layout you'd like to share?

Frank, your layout is so beautiful, if there is reincarnation, I want to come back in the next life in O Gauge and live on your layout! 

LOL, Arnold

My favorite homemade thing on my layout:

Those are the monuments on the field of play in center field in Yankee Stadium in the 1950s, made of popsicle sticks and images of Lou Gehrig, Miller Huggins and Babe Ruth printed out from the Internet.

The comedian, Billy Crystal, has a hilarious skit in which he says that when he first went to Yankee Stadium as a little kid and saw those monuments, he thought they were gravestones and that Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth were were actually buried out there! I had the same thoughts when I was a kid and first saw those monuments! LOL

Arnold

A freezing night at Hanks Store. "it ain't a fit night out for man or beast." Don 

scale rail posted:

A freezing night at Hanks Store. "it ain't a fit night out for man or beast." Don 

great scene!

Scale Rail, Gandydancer is right. That scene is wonderful, totally authentic and cool (yes, pun-intended.)

It gets a WOW and a WOW backwards!FrankM

scale rail posted:

A freezing night at Hanks Store. "it ain't a fit night out for man or beast." Don 

Scale rail  -   astonishing!!  Very well done!!

Arnold D. Cribari posted:

trumptrain posted:

my fav. 

Patrick, your glorious autumn scene makes many of us year for the cooler weather, which will hopefully come soon.

Thanks so much Arnold! I'm thrilled that this scene bring a yearning for cooler weather.  Actually I'm feeling the yearning as well.  

My latest favorite view.

GeoPeg - thanks so much for your kind words regarding my " Country Road " scene.  Nice that you think it needs to be blown up and perhaps made into wall paper. I agree it would look pretty darn neat on a wall.  

 I really enjoyed creating this scene, using roofing shingles for the road itself ... plus I love the colors of the fall.  Even though I'm color blind ( or at least shade blind ) I probably don't see the world as folks who are not color blind, however I still love what I see during the fall.  I've tried modeling fall scenes on my layouts as a kid too. 

Don,   That winter scene is really impressive, I am still trying to "master" dry sunny day scenery work, the ice, standing water and snow in that scene is incredibly convincing, and the photography is exceptional as well....

Arnold,  very cool scene with the monuments in Center Field, Yankee Stadium.... I am pretty sure my dad first took me there in 1963, maybe 64....   I don't mind admitting that I also thought Gehrig and Ruth were there !!!

I am still making some final improvements on my "favorite scene" installing new weathered retaining walls below the Coal Mine/Tipple, and finally ballasting the "diamond" on the lower level....   Man,  I am really enjoying this new camera my son gave me for my birthday.....  

a personal favorite of mine.....

From my 12’-by-8’ layout completed in 2004.

MELGAR

Chris, love the entire look. What you did with the wall is amazing.

BAR GP-7, I can smell the grain bags, the detail is the best. The little white and green building with the flag is wonderful. Thank you for posting guys. 

Don