What's the one item you want on your layout, but don't yet have (and isn't a train)?

more room, bigger layout, etc, etc

Millhouse River Studio Turntable but that's coming in April!

Someday perhaps I will have the space to have two of those lift bridges installed side by side so I can have a representation of the Jersey Central RR crossing Newark Bay.  Someday, maybe never, but perhaps that will happen.

Any kind of industry.  I got some coming though!!

Jim

Just me to get off my butt and do more scenery.

One thing I want is the Millhouse river turntable, haven't been able to get that yet.  One thing my wife wants is Abraham Lincoln's House on my layout. Haven't gotten around to that either.

A hoist to raise the layout when not in use.

A turntable and roundhouse... just don't have the real estate to add them   

Apples55 posted:

A turntable and roundhouse... just don't have the real estate to add them   

I was just looking at those Millhouse River Studio turntables mentioned by @MartyE and @tcochran. They're mighty fine. The transfer tables look sweet too, and I'd probably go with one of those just to be different, but like you, I don't have the real estate and likely won't for the next two decades (until my kids move out and I can move the layout into the house). Actually, until they're out of college, I might not even have the funds for it!

I'll put this in two categories - 1. Likely to Happen Within 1 Year and 2. Dream Scenario

1. Likely to Happen Within 1 Year:

American Flyer Oil Drum Loader

2.  Dream Scenario

Scale version of the St. Louis Union Station - It Scales down to 12.5 Feet Wide

COMMAND CONTROL GANTRY CRANE

I'd like a coffee can full of assorted grave stones (I have three cemetaries planned), all the way from simple markers to some of those architectural marvels you find sometimes.  Maybe 1/48 or 1/64 would do just fine.

A BREWERY!!!  I'd love to have a turntable and roundhouse but don't want to give up the real estate.  

Well, have set aside room for the needed turntable, but may have to go with a transfer table instead ( have the Lionel PW version) and build my own turntable for the savings, upgrade in detail over time, and install on upper level planned service and classification extension.  More time and funds to work on the layout, overall.  Really need more room, never enough, right?

JD, I agree on the St Louis station...  Have been there many times when in town for a Cards game.

Jesse   TCA

 I just want a White Castle with a big parking lot to display classic cars and seagulls stealing French fries !

Mountain #2....11' dia.        

I thought I'd like to scratch build a Steak n Shake. With the building style from the 40's through the 60's, those black and white floor tiles, also loved the roof marquee style sign with the logo and chase lights when I was a kid.

I might have room for a turntable, but, would have to scratch build that, too. I can't afford the cheapest one available, that I've found so far from any manufacturer. I think it would be enjoyable to just build my own, anyway.

I seen on the Weekend tinplate photos-videos 2-8-18 thread earlier where forum member "Steamer" scratch build a turntable, I thought it looked pretty cool! That's just one of the reasons I joined this forum, to see what others have done, and, learn from members here.

Rusty

John Graser posted:

COMMAND CONTROL GANTRY CRANE

Me too! Or the crane car.

I'd like a number of those operating passenger stations from MTH.

Some 1:48 scale automatons.  

I have not seen a passenger station that I really liked. Most of what is out there is post-Plasticville-inspired junk--like the MTH and Rail King stations. I'm not asking for Grand Central. But there were thousands of beautiful stations for medium volumes of traffic that no vendor has given us kits to build. The best book I have seen as a prototype reference is Down At The Depot by Edwin P. Alexander.  Go through that and drool at all the great modeling potential that has been missed--at least in O Scale. 

Don Merz

JD2035RR posted:

I'll put this in two categories - 1. Likely to Happen Within 1 Year and 2. Dream Scenario

2.  Dream Scenario

Scale version of the St. Louis Union Station - It Scales down to 12.5 Feet Wide

 

 

An ambitious scenario, with an equally ambitious track plan...

It seems to me, with the responses thus far, that most of us don't have the room to include everything we want. Honestly, the forum doesn't help our plight because daily we see some awesome creations on each other's layouts. There's so much out there! I guess if you're one that believes a layout is never completed or at least you don't want it to be completed, you could rip things up and add something else you would like. 

With that being said, what I would like requires more space and I am currently in the process of planning another section of the layout in the adjacent room by cutting through the wall. Once that project is started I should have what I need to get my train fix and feeling of satisfaction. Plus there is still a ton of work to do on the current phase of the layout which is hardly done. 

wild mary posted:

A BREWERY!!!  I'd love to have a turntable and roundhouse but don't want to give up the real estate.  

An Operating Brewery...with a tap in the fascia of the layout.

Tom

Something like this but not on such a grand scale. Have a master modeler coming over to do some surveying of my layout.

Mill City posted:

JD2035RR posted:

I'll put this in two categories - 1. Likely to Happen Within 1 Year and 2. Dream Scenario

2.  Dream Scenario

Scale version of the St. Louis Union Station - It Scales down to 12.5 Feet Wide

 

 

Ambitious scenario, with an equally ambitious track plan...

Haha - I'm glad you included this.  32 tracks under the shed.  I'd better start now or I won't live to see it in its completion

I may have to settle for selective compression. That building is stunning inside and out. A real gem of architecture.  I would have loved to have seen it in its railroading hay day.  It was repurposed into a mall/hotel/restaurants in the late 80s/early 90s. Most of the stores and restaurants closed in the early 2000s. Now they are planning to add a large aquarium attraction ($45 million) and a Ferris wheel in the next couple years.

I wonder if it's been done in HO, N, or Z scale? I tried searching online, but didn't find anything. 

For me I would love a really detailed stadium replica.  Being from Pittsburgh, Three Rivers Stadium would be my top pick.  The only problems are I don't have the skill necessary to build something like this or the money to pay someone to build it for me!  O well we can always dream.  

JD2035RR posted:

Mill City posted:

JD2035RR posted:

I'll put this in two categories - 1. Likely to Happen Within 1 Year and 2. Dream Scenario

2.  Dream Scenario

Scale version of the St. Louis Union Station - It Scales down to 12.5 Feet Wide

 

Ambitious scenario, with an equally ambitious track plan...

Haha - I'm glad you included this.  32 tracks under the shed.  I'd better start now or I won't live to see it in its completion

I may have to settle for selective compression. That building is stunning inside and out. A real gem of architecture.  I would have loved to have seen it in its railroading hay day.  It was repurposed into a mall/hotel/restaurants in the late 80s/early 90s. Most of the stores and restaurants closed in the early 2000s. Now they are planning to add a large aquarium attraction ($45 million) and a Ferris wheel in the next couple years.

I wonder if it's been done in HO, N, or Z scale? I tried searching online, but didn't find anything. 

When I visited Todd Architectural a few days ago, I saw one facade of the New York Penn Station model he is restoring... it would have stretched a Manhattan city block - if I remember correctly, Doug said it was 10 feet wide in H.O., so I assume it would be double that in O. Talk about not having real estate!!!

JD2035RR posted:

Mill City posted:

Ambitious scenario, with an equally ambitious track plan...

Haha - I'm glad you included this.  32 tracks under the shed.  I'd better start now or I won't live to see it in its completion

I may have to settle for selective compression. That building is stunning inside and out. A real gem of architecture.  I would have loved to have seen it in its railroading hay day.  It was repurposed into a mall/hotel/restaurants in the late 80s/early 90s. Most of the stores and restaurants closed in the early 2000s. Now they are planning to add a large aquarium attraction ($45 million) and a Ferris wheel in the next couple years.

I wonder if it's been done in HO, N, or Z scale? I tried searching online, but didn't find anything. 

I had the opportunity at the hotel when newly minted in the mid eighties and fell in love with that depot. It's a true beauty. The trainshed is an amazing 11.5 acres, or over half a million square feet. There was also some private varnish parked there and was offered tours, good times. It's sad that the hotel and shopping/restaurant concerns have enjoyed little long term success, and I'm not convinced that an aquarium and enormous Ferris wheel wil be the answer either. At least it's not in a state of derelict.

 An building with timed stops ..but I have an AF 799 already (a factory now)

A remote control crane  .....I've got one of those too  

A 175 Rocket launcher & gantry... check 

A transfer table has been tempting me for decades 

To go with my NASA cars, I'd like a 1:48 scale NASA Saturn V rocket, launch pad and crawler. At 7 1/2 feet tall it might tend to dominate the layout.

People! I’ve got cars and other detail scenery items, now I need to add people. 

The Lionel prewar tinplate power station would look great on my layout.

Been looking for a ski lift for quite a while.  I think I can fab the cables, buildings and wheels for the cables to ride on but have no idea how to make 10 or more identical chairs.  Great topic.

An O scale CULVER'S restaurant.

Lionel Grandpa posted:

People! I’ve got cars and other detail scenery items, now I need to add people. 

Yeah.  Them, too.  Lots of them at affordable prices.

Newbie posted:

Been looking for a ski lift for quite a while.  I think I can fab the cables, buildings and wheels for the cables to ride on but have no idea how to make 10 or more identical chairs.  Great topic.

Styrene or park benches and "pear shaped" curtain rings sniped to to a J ?

Thanks Adriatic for the tip.  I’ll order some benches this week

Could make the mother of all switching layouts with this plan

Spectacular architecture. Too bad the trains are gone. At least it didn't get torn down like the old NY Penn did.