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I've had about a dozen visitors to my layout in the last couple of years and many suggestions I do a magazine article about my layout or provide more photos, etc.  I finished my town yesterday - the last building, a municipal parking garage, went in late in the day.  Seems like a fitting time.  A magazine article would be too much work so here are some photos I took in the last hour and some description of the layout.

 

Edit 08/25/13: I changed the date on the first slide to the actual date, not as when first posted, the date I had expected to get my downtown done.

 

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Last edited by Lee Willis
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Lee - Awesome! There are so many things that I love about your layout and your approach to it. The realism is top notch. The stories and meaning that you have associated with your scenes makes them come alive. You haven't jammed so much scenery into your space that it looks like a spaghetti bowl. Scenes such as your "open country" are missing on far too many layouts. Lee, you have set your "stage" beautifully and that makes it a pleasure to watch.

 

Art

Having carefully gone back and paged through your photos, the little, often humorous

vignettes catch your eye, like the cow on the wrong side of the fence (on the right of

way) but eating grass (always greener on the other side of the fence).  ENGINEERING

has definitely gone into much of this, to get the various things to operate, such as the

magnet boats, and operating street vehicles.   And it seems as if you have accomplished all this in record time, for I have read many of your previous comments about many of the scenes, as you worked on them, and I haven't been on the forum very long.  I think your layout will incentivize some attempts to replicate by others.

Originally Posted by coloradohirailer:

I, too, was concerned the Oct 25, 2013 dating, meant that I had missed York, which means either I have saved money or that I had missed out on a find.   Really looks well

planned to gain the most from the space available.


I wondered who would notice the joke.  I'll miss York this year, but, in a way, because I have so much to do on this layout, not miss it too much.

Lee, what's wrong with the other semis? Maybe adding a tad of weight over the drive axles...

Are the trailers detachable?....maybe a center dump trailer, tanker, logging rig or something different like loosing a trailer and making a dump bed, delivery van or garbage body attachment?

Swap out a conventional cab for a COE{cab over engine}...you like to tinker...right?

I have bult a few 1/25th scale rigs, and my resources are just 1/25th, but my favorite one has pics of alot of old '50s semi trucks for ideas...email or Pm "if" your interested. 

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