Progress on the roundhouse area...pics!!

Very Nice.  Looks Great.  You have some roster there.

No really helpful comments. But congratulations, a Turntable/Roundhouse is the major layout achievement. Now get it prototypically sooty and filthy

Alan,

Looks great! Looks like it takes up alot of real estate! Loll!

Mike R

Alan,

Very nice engine servicing complex!  You have a great stable of PRR locomotives.  Dewey, is right I think about adding the soot and filth.  I was recently examining some photos of engine facilities and found that in many cases they and everything around them was black or so it seemed from smoke, soot and cinders.  Thanks for sharing your work!  Bo 

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Hi Alan,

Looking  fabulous !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait to see it with ballast and a little scenery

Alex

Thanks so much guys!!

E-UNIT 79....the layout is about 30 by 40 feet but with the different levels, etc. it occupies just under 1500 square feet...

Alan

Lou...thank you!  The PRR roster is even larger if I consider the ones in boxes and on the shelves!!

Dewey...I will certainly take your advice and dirty up everything around the roundhouse scene.

Mike...thanks!  The scene is around 11 feet square...

Thank you Bo....I will be working on weathering more and more this year as I am close to completing the major scenes..

Alex...thanks so much!  I need you to get over here and help me tackle all of the ballasting!!

Charlie...always appreciate your nice comments!!

Thanks,

Alan

Interesting. Why are all the steam locomotives BACKED into the roundhouse? Must admit I've not seen THAT before on U.S. railroads back in the steam days.

Hot Water....GHEZZZ...don't you know a company photo shoot when you see one??

Brian...thank you!!  The "shop buildings" are two Lionel engine house kits.

Alan

Thanx for that observation, Hot.  I was thinking the same thing and just today saw some photos of another friend's roundhouse, again with the engines backed in.  I questioned it but wasn't sure if I was right in making a point of it.

Paul Fischer

Hey Paul and "Hot Water".....I even back into my garage.  Makes for a quicker "get away" in the morning

Alan

Very nice Alan, just still too clean....  But seriously very nice work there, it looks great.

Chris

If you have an attached garage, like all the houses in our sub-division, I hope you have carbon monoxide detectors inside your house. One of our neighbors started backing into HER garage, and set off both of the carbon monoxide detectors. NOT the smartest thing to do, in my opinion.

As far as "company photo shoots" the real railroads in the U.S. generally stopped doing that after the very late 1890s.   

OK...OK...Hot Water....I get your point.  Guess I am not very smart or very prototypical. 

Chris...thanks!  I promise, as I go along and add details, I will weather and dirty up everything...

Alan

I like the photos and the color combo on the roundhouse.  Good job.

Thanks Paul...I really can't take credit for the colors since this is the way it comes from Atlas!!  I liked the color scheme too so decided to keep it for now.  I may however paint the doors a different color since they pass light a little too much through the plastic....

Alan