What do you do with the corners of your layout??...pictures!

Very, very, very nice.  I had to look twice to make sure it wasn't real.  Looks like an Oregon farm I blasted past on my motorcyle last year.

r0d

Eric.....great pictures and I love what you have done with your bench work!

Tom

Here is a corner where I put a distribution warehouse....

Alan

Our layout is set in a beach town which offered us some scenery challenges.  The most challenging was the very front corner where people stood.  In this scene, we created Lighthouse Point using a Lionel lighthouse with riprap (#8 gravel purchased from the local sandpit).  While the "sandy shoreline" is in place (used one of Brennan's sand products) with a "shell line" showing where the water laps against the beach (used a different Brennan sand product), I still need to place some long "punks" or "water grass" between the lighthouse's riprap and the shoreline.

Pat...that will make a great water scene!!

Alan

Great topic Alan! I was always short on creativity in the corners, some of these photos will be a great reference for when I build my new hi-rail layout.

Great shots and ideas everyone....keep them coming!!  This is very helpful

Alan

Beautiful work everyone.... 

Ted...I really like that tunnel detail..WOW!!

Alan

What a great idea! "Dual" purpose corner......

On one corner I re-purposed a Lionel switch tower to a forest fire lookout tower. These were common in western PA where I grew up.

The other corner is a beach area with a coast guard training facility inspired by Cape May,  NJ.

I still need to get photos of the other two corners where I have injected a little humor with my Gateway Farms scene. The other corner is a hilltop observation area.

Wow! Lots of really great ideas for corners!  Good topic Allen!

Here are two corner shots from my Free State Junction Railway.  One is a track crew working on an old dilapidated siding which extends out of a tunnel next to the mail line.

The other is the Beer Depot where, since it is located on the "other side of the tracks", everyone in the town of Patsburg comes to get discount beer.

great thread some really nice work!!

Love the creativity, great photos!

Andy B.

I agree with all the positive inovative ways that corners have been utilized. It would be hard to pick a favorite. But ideas are forming for my layout. Keep em coming.

A corner treatment on the AGHR layout, with the bonus of aPRR RF-16-headed train coming 'round the bend.

Scott Smith

Great corner pics a lot  of awesome work.

nyclines....I like your hedges....what are they made of?

Alan

Allan in the picture below the bridge resembles a Roman Aqueduct. Where did that come from? Do you have picture of that bridge from another angle? I'd appreciate any information about it you could provide.

Alan,

Those hedges look like the ones I use on my layout and are from Scenic Express.

Ken

Here's a few of my corners, just finished the hobo's in the first shot's yesterday.

Guy

Alan, in the second photo from the top - with the Rock Island engines - the

highway underpass is awesome.  Where did you find it, or is it scratchbuilt?

     Hoppy

Wigville, love the shots and the weathering detail on all your buildings.

Matthew and Hoppy.....I will answer your questions and post more photos for you this evening....am working with OGR clients today...

Thanks!

Alan

Here are the other two corners.

An observation area at the top of a mountain,

Also a little humor with the "Gateway Farms" scene .

TexasSP thanks for the compliment, there are a lot more pictures of buildings that I have built on my saw mill post in Scenery and Structures .

Guy

Matthew....the bridge is a combination of modular sections available from Jim at Bridgeboss and my design which I had Jim make for me.  I added moulding to simulate art deco design.  The actual bridge sections are the lower half of the bridge you see in the pictures with the upper sections of arched "concrete" the extra sections I had Jim make for me.  There is a reason why I did this....  I had already built the benchwork in this area and there was 1 x 4 fascia in place which was part of the structure of the benchwork.  I decided I wanted a big bridge in this area BUT did not want to have to cut out all of the benchwork to make the gap for the bridge to span.  So....I decided to use Jim's modular bridges UNDER the front fascia and then cover the fascia with what Jim and I called "fascia arches".  These rest right on top of the edge of the modular sections.  This resulted in what you see now which makes a very nice bridge and actually looks like it is supporting the track.  Behind the bridge I am installing rock panels which will look like a bridge spanning in front of a rock ledge.  The project is not complete yet but it all ended up looking fine so far and I added a bridge without having to cut out a place for it!!  Here are a few more pictures...some of the last ones shows fairly clearly how I placed the structure right at the edge of the layout benchwork...If you right click on any of my pictures, then click on "open link in new window" you will get a huge full page view plus you will be able to click again and enlarge the picture for further details.....

Hoppy....the highway underpass is a kit that TW Design / trainworx makes.  It comes completely cut out of a pressed board material that you have to assemble, paint, and modify if needed.  I wanted something unique for that particular corner since I am going to simulate a street/highway that goes under ground and ends up going to the upper level where the city is.  Here are a few shots of the beginning stages of setting it in place and then a few with some of the scenery installed...another project not complete yet!!

Alan, thanks for your reply and for the additional photos.  Beautiful work!

That underpass reminds me of one on Trumbull St. in Elizabeth, N.J. that

ran under an old CNJ station there.

Beautiful job on the arched viaduct too.

     Hoppy

What...no more corner pictures guys???  Great submissions so far...don't stop now..I know there has to be more of you that have done something neat in the corners of your layout..

Here is a inside corner that I spanned with a bridge and tied it in to a Lionel lift bridge.  You can see the corner go on beyond the span so instead of filling in the corner and laying the track, one can span the corner and take advantage of a scenic opportunity...

Alan

Here is another couple of pictures of the distribution warehouse on a corner...

Alan

Lots of great ideas guys....I am hoping that more of you will share!!  Here is a picture of my neighbor's 2-rail O-scale layout still under construction.  He has modeled a scrap yard in the corner and is working on large warehouse flats in the background.

Alan

Made some acquisitions recently into my first steamers requiring 072 curves. These acquisitions has forced several modifications to the layout, some rather challenging, some minor in nature, but all fun. This is what have done for one inside corner going from 054 to 072, work is in process.

jim r

Jim...in your pictures just above this post, instead of filling in the corner with a triangular piece to support the track you could use a short bridge, girder, viaduct,etc. to make it more interesting and create an area below the span for scenery....and who do I know that produces such things???

Alan