The "Encourage Others Challenge": Post a picture of your layout...how many will post???

Some really good stuff!

im enjoying it!

Some scenes around my layout 

Eric C Lindgren--stunning photos!! Here is my (still unfinished) BuffalO31 Central Terminal....working on my photography skills....John A

How about a quick video I just found of my original layout !!

Great video Alex. 

WOW!!!...all of the picture posts have been so great to look at.  So much variety and different approaches in the spaces available!  Again, thanks to all of you for sharing your pictures...please keep it up!! 

Here are some pictures that I may not have posted before...

Alan

Erik C Lindgren posted:

Some really good stuff!

 

im enjoying it!

Some scenes around my layout 

 

Stunning pictures, amazingly real! 

John A posted:

Eric C Lindgren--stunning photos!! Here is my (still unfinished) BuffalO31 Central Terminal....working on my photography skills....John A

Magnificent!

Peter

Finally got a Ross 031 switch to my layout. Here's a closer view of my 5x9 layout.

I've been concentrating on finishing Soap Creek, our logging area, with scenicing. 

More layout pics.......these are from the 1993-2003 layout......for those of you who like a PostWar feel:

Thos layout was dismantled in 2003-4 for a move.

Peter

Where did you get that anhydrous tank sitting next to the elevator in the last picture?

tripleo posted:

Where did you get that anhydrous tank sitting next to the elevator in the last picture?

Acquired at least 20-25 years ago(maybe longer).....at a swap meet....no real idea when or where.

Peter

Thanks. 

I was thinking that it would look real nice behind a tractor and Noble blade in a modern farmyard or field scene.

A work in progress, building this in movable modules, takes alot longer, but I won't live long enough to start another from scratch if I have to relocate.   

tripleo posted:

Where did you get that anhydrous tank sitting next to the elevator in the last picture?

I received one just like that as a gift, probably 30 years ago now. I want to say it's an Ertl. I haven't seen it in a long time, but it seems like it was small for "O". Maybe 1:64. Could work in a background scene.

Consolidated boxes of freight cars to start taking them to the basement. Ran trains while doing that. Decided to take earlier cars, year wise to the basement and leave the more modern ones for the attic layout I may just get it cleaned up for my meeting yet..............Paul

Chris A, wow, nice track work, nice Western Pacific Passenger train...Thanks for posting...See my edge of layout...

Larry,   Great to hear from you.   Thanks for the kind comments, I must have redone that station track work, the crossover and the tunnel entrance 4 times before I finally arrived at the arrangement in the photo... Using 120 inch diameter curves in front of the station works really well with the 21 inch long California Zephyr passenger cars.  

I am thoroughly enjoying the Lionel Vision Line PFE Reefers you sold me last fall...  all 7 of them.  Best Regards.   Chris 

Excellent photos everyone!  Here are some of the latest developments on my temporary layout.

Nice idea, Alan, so, OK, here is a brief photo-sketch of the layout which, I hope, may help inspire other layout builders to keep-on-truckin' - to have a lot of fun and, from my perspective, really let the imagination soar and our skills grow as we go along. Lordknowz I had no idea what I was doing  but just plunged-in and kept on going until I had something my wife and I felt was something worth playing at and enjoying with guests...

The first photos are of what you see once you arrive at the foot of the cellar stairs and look to your left. The layout - called Moon Township - spreads from there in a zig-zag flow under one first-floor room after another. The final neighborhood was added a few years after the first layout was crafted, in room space added by removing square footage (approx. 20'x7') from the garage and including it in the cellar, which involved building walls and moving walls and moving a door. My wife actually suggested taking the space from the garage (!!!!!) and adding it to the basement. She said we needed more layout (!!!!!) She did not have to say that twice. The door you can see, just above, was around the corner from itself, where those hi-chairs are now; the new wall was built to contain those ZWs and re-separate the garage from the basement anew.

(I just discovered,) left-click on each photo and you get a very nice blow-up of each, should you want to see them more closely.

FrankM.

Hello Frank, layout looks great.

I like the use for the build in for the transformers along with the doors.

Nice !!!!!!!!!!

Moonson, WOW, What a Really Beautiful Layout you have, and such Detail. One day, I would really like to see your layout in person...Great Pictures, Years of Hard Work...Thank You..

Frank, I, too am quite impressed with your work!

a couple of shots and a recent build

WP posted:

I've been concentrating on finishing Soap Creek, our logging area, with scenicing. 

Thank you for the "likes." 

Thanks everyone for posting your layouts. I get ideas and inspiration from all of them. 

WP, I have always loved timber lines. Your representation is fantastic.

Peter, That New Haven F unit is beautiful.

Chris, I love the WP passenger train.

Frank, What can I say? Simply Gorgeous.

Pat Kn posted:

Thanks everyone for posting your layouts. I get ideas and inspiration from all of them. 

WP, I have always loved timber lines. Your representation is fantastic.

Peter, That New Haven F unit is beautiful.

Chris, I love the WP passenger train.

Frank, What can I say? Simply Gorgeous.

Pat,

You always hit the nail on the head with your comments!

Ditto to what Pat wrote!

Pat Kn posted:

Thanks everyone for posting your layouts. I get ideas and inspiration from all of them. 

WP, I have always loved timber lines. Your representation is fantastic.

Peter, That New Haven F unit is beautiful.

Chris, I love the WP passenger train.

Frank, What can I say? Simply Gorgeous.

Thank you Pat!

Gents,  here is the latest paper mill. Still needs more details that I have for it plus sides and roof.. they are coming along. it is the Korber Office Kit with a loading dock made underneath the Korber Kits.. 

Take care! Dan

Wow Erik! Some fantastic modeling!!!! Thanks for sharing.. Dan

BXCXDAN, Very Cool!

Gents,   here is are two pictures of the candy factory.. 

whoopsie, here is the other picture.. 

BXCXDan posted:

whoopsie, here is the other picture.. 

Wow. Wow. And another WOW. And a Cooley-Dooley , too (that's a Pittsburgh expression ) !!!

chris a posted:

A work in progress, building this in movable modules, takes alot longer, but I won't live long enough to start another from scratch if I have to relocate.   

Chris,

Impressive! what is the size of your layout? Is it an around the walls setup and large curves for those Atlas cars? Any layout diagrams ? I'm trying to get layout ideas.

BXCXDAN,

Those are some magnificently huge factory buildings you have!  They defiantly need rail service!! 

Thanks Moonson and Pat for the kind accolades.. Have a great evening.. Dan

Seacoast posted:

chris a posted:

  

Impressive! what is the size of your layout? Is it an around the walls setup and large curves for those Atlas cars? Any layout diagrams ? I'm trying to get layout ideas.

I, too, would love to see a track plan from what I see in these photos. I'm not a 3-railer but I always like seeing overall designs for layouts.

Putnam Division posted:

More layout pics.......these are from the 1993-2003 layout......for those of you who like a PostWar feel:

Thos layout was dismantled in 2003-4 for a move.

Peter

There's something about the ruggedness of postwar stuff -- the track, the switches, etc,. that is so timelessly appealing, I'm sure your newer layout is more realistic and better, but seeing a layout like this just stirs so many positive memories. THanks for sharing these pictures!