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

My best corner of my "Texas" layout......

Steve, Lady and Tex

where did you get that nice looking Alamo?

I don't have any pictures because everything is still under construction, but for the museum tinplate layout I am building a drop-in plot containing a tinplate diner, parking lot, some shrubbery, and roads leading out. Everything including the cars in the parking lot will be secured to a triangular piece of Masonite so that I can build the whole thing at home and then truck it to the museum and drop it in place.

On my own layout, one back corner will have a 236 Power House elevated on scenery above the layout. There will be a small parking lot for the workers and wires leading out to old-style Lionel tinplate power poles. The outer loop of my layout is Standard Gauge so all the corners will have tinplate buildings, such as a 124 station, a 155 platform, and an Ives style water tank. 

Scratch built from photo's the Alamo preservation society sent to me.  Not exact scale but my footprint size was limited.

Steve, Lady and Tex

I have a problematic corner on my layout (below).  It is difficult to get to.  any time I want to work on the corner I have to remove the brewery (20 minutes), and the lake surface which covers a duck under access hole (5 minutes) and the crawl under (ouch! 2 min) and position a step stool so I can reach far enough across (5 minutes) and then stand on it through the hole (ugh), and then put everything back after (30 minutes).  so mostly, since I built it, I've ignored it.  but it is an eyesore.

Right now it is neglected.  You can see I ran my backdrop up near it but not to it.  

My plan is to make a triangular piece of foamboard mountaintop that fits as shown, all fitted with snow and trees and rock surfaces, and then slip it back there. This project has been on my to-do list for ages but is nearing the top now.  Probably do it in the next month.  I have thought of putting a big Palomar type observatory on the mountain top but sort of like the pure nature look of it without.

Very creative work, gentlemen. 

Corners? What corners? I  wish I had the space to include corners on my display. I've always been fascinated with the creativity every one shows in utilizing this bonus real estate and will enjoy following this thread.  

Squeezing  an 8 x 5 display into an 8 1/2 x 5  space, corners are dangerous to certain parts of the anatomy. So I have to cut them off or run the risk of having them do onto me first.

I don't have any corners. I round them off with backdrop and fascia.

I find that a up-front corner is a ideal place for a tall Ameritowne building with all the interior rooms and stores detailed. People need to get close to view all the work you put into it. Having it on the corners does not block the view of the layout very much.

Just a plain old tunnel a small hill for the #1 main track and a cut in the hill for the newer #2 main track.

 And in the other corner, just an old farm house. Looks like it's time for me to purchase some skirting for around the layout.

Great Thread, Alan! Lot's of ingenuity.

Here are some of my corners (three outside, one inside)

• Neighborhood Picnic

• Archery Range

• ALARCO Granery

• Logging and Woodsmen

Alex

not a corner anymore, bu when it was

In one corner located a hillside and industry.

In the other is a coal mine.

Just started this area.

Created this farm scene last weekend.  I used an HO building to simulate distance.

Andy B.

It's in work, but a James Bond museum (fully detailed interior) and an Annex for Q. Lots of vehicles from the movies, hit a button and the James Bond theme song plays (from underneath a radome - picture in another post).

OCSMR

Some Nice Work Done!!!

I have large rocks that look like small hills and trees. Working on the other end with a park and a few buildings, a hardware store and a corner building with several business a barber shop and ice cream store with housing up stairs. I am thinking real hard on a gas station. 1950 or 1960 gas station. Money is short right now but I am looking.

Great ideas and pictures everyone!!

Alan

In the old lay out that I have taken down I put a military base in one corner.

Excellent thread you started Alan. You surfaced some mighty creative folks that have been lurking and keeping their corners a secret.

Great farm scene Andy B, I love your groundscaping.

I too agree that this is a great topic!

For me, I suppose I never thought of moving the curve inward because I'm always trying to maximize mainline run length and one smallish way to do that is to push the track as close to the edge of the layout as possible.  But then my max curve is only 54" and usually smaller, like 42", so that doesn't leave too much room.

But I am going to think more about it for this coming year's layout and see if I can come up with some ideas (4 corners, 2 in the back, 2 in the front)

Thanks for the topic Alan!

- walt

Here's what I've done with three of the four corners on my layout. The fourth corner is part of my yard which isn't done yet.

Ken

Some really great ideas and pictures here!  This is an issue that everyone has. Good thread!

Art

Thanks everyone that has posted a picture and/or made comments.  It is apparent that we have a lot of folks that have done some great modeling in their corners!!  Here is a corner of my layout in which the track goes behind and around the corner with the refinery in front.  I filled in the corner with the refinery which is about 9 feet across...

Alan

i was hoping to see a perfectly round layout posted in here!  

Mountains make good corners. 

Here is what I did in two of my corners:

Here is a filler for one of my corners. Someday I'll put the Cadillac Mountains behind the buildings.

Sorry for the blurred picture. I missed with the depth of field.

Chris

LVHR

I've got that tow truck!  I like your Greyhounds!

Funny, your layout is the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread.

Love the greyhound bus!  What model is that?

Some fantastic pics in here everyone!

Agree there are some really neat scenes here.  Here's my contribution.  On an outside corner, with a curved backdrop I did this scene and created the best train watching spot on the layout for the "boys".  I had the scenery slightly dip towards the backdrop to force your eye towards it.  

Great ideas and pictures!!  Keep em coming.  Lots of good information here...

Alan