Show Your Mixed PostWar MPC Layouts

A couple of shots from earlier layouts.

The layout I used to take to train shows in the 1980's:

Rusty

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Hang on guys...the Lionel / MPC era may be over but not the layouts!  Here is my "Leonardtown and Savannah", named for two places we lived.  It is all Lionel tubular track, O and O-27 track and switches, ZW power with toggle switch controlled blocks.  The buildings are a combination of Menards, Lionel pre-war, and AF from the 50's.  The Flag pole is Lionel from 1957 (it's a 48 star flag) and the cars etc are from everywhere.

Here is the AF tower from the post war period.  Theoretically it's "S" scale but it works real well with the somewhat less than scale sized Lionel/MPC trains.  The Crossing sign is Marx as is the yard tower.  Tree's and such are post Christmas sales from our local art supply store.

Here is the Menards, "Main Street" buildings and a ceramic McDonalds from one of the various Christmas building sets you see in the stores .  The kids are looking at the racoons in the garbage...they are enjoying lunch too!

My "Small Town" suburban station, a Lionel pre-war station (forget the #) and my footbridge over the town stream.  Commuters await the morning run to work.

Here is most of "Small Town" it fits inside my 0-27 loop and works ok although the clearances for much more than switcher engines is too tight.  The Williams 44 ton GE engines (I have 2) work great here but so do my MPC small steamers.

Well that's it, thought I would let you know that for some of us the Lionel / MPC period still goes on !!

Best Wishes

Don

Great stuff so far!

MPC box cars were so colorful and so affordable! I still have many of them.....

Peter

Yes, they were.

Here is 1971.

From my MPC days.

Great topic! Love those layouts. I'll see if I can find some pics of my old layout.

Did somebody say Postwar and MPC?

These are all MPC era locomotives - all great runners!

Two different layouts, from around the 1978-1979 time frame.

My Post War 773 Hudson is treated to a smoke pellet while an MPC era GG-1 looks on. The rest are more MPC era models. Post War and MPC mix very nicely!

Really great pics and even greater memories.......thank you to all who dug pics out of their “archives”!

Peter

Here is my contribution circa 1977ish. I would routinely run items like my 1957 Rio Grande consist, 736 Berkshire with mixed postwar freight, MPC Spirit of 76, Pennsy Little Joe with baby Madison cars. They blended very well together. My one regret from that period is that I didn’t take more photos of this layout as it had evolved from the initial 5x9 table to this final version.

You fellows are trying to age me.  My current layout is postwar/MPC, uses mostly 1950s building techniques, was started in 1977, and it still going strong.

With New Wye added in 2020

Scratch built turntable and round house.

Details of how I built it are here on OGR forum

https://ogrforum.com/...ra-027-layout?page=1

Charlie

Lionel, with a few accessory exceptions, Postwar to the present.

A lot of great layouts. Everybody take a bow.

@Rich Wiemann posted:

Here is my contribution circa 1977ish. I would routinely run items like my 1957 Rio Grande consist, 736 Berkshire with mixed postwar freight, MPC Spirit of 76, Pennsy Little Joe with baby Madison cars. They blended very well together. My one regret from that period is that I didn’t take more photos of this layout as it had evolved from the initial 5x9 table to this final version.

I especially love seeing the Super O track!

Peter

@jim sutter posted:

A lot of great layouts. Everybody take a bow.

Here! Here!

I agree, Jim!

Great fun here!

Peter

Here's a little bit of everything - Lionel pre-war, Lionel post-war, Lionel MPC.

Any of you wish you still had that neat old postwar/MPC layout you took pictures of with a film camera?  That is if you have enough space to have it up and running!

Charlie

Charlie - that's one thing I don't have to worry about. I'm a member in good standing of the Broadloom Conspiracy and the O&O has always managed to find running rights on the floor somewhere.

This is the only picture I can find of my old layout.  It was a great babysitter.

Tom

@Rich Wiemann posted:

. My one regret from that period is that I didn’t take more photos.

Truer words have never been spoken.

Tom

Great layouts and trains everyone.  ChooChoo glad you are still up and running...so am I and I like the MPC / modern trains, they work on small radii curves and just keep going.  Some of the newer ones, like the Williams 44 tonner's also have great sounds.  I still run a few old "sound of steam" tenders with the circular plastic container with pebbles inside ... What a hoot!

Here is a bit of my MPC "motive power" mostly from the early MPC days in the 70's and 80's.  First the #8300 unnamed Santa FE 2-4-0  from 1973-74.

The Denver & Rio Grande 2-4-0 from 1976-78  I think this was the "Black River Freight" set.

The "Southern Streak"  2-4-0 from 1983-84

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Great fun folks, Probably never have a lot of collector value, but I always found them fun to run and fun to collect

Don