Which is your favorite building or scene...

I'd say you found a really creative way to use those items in your collection that wouldn't go anywhere else. Not sure whether it's an old west parade, a pre-Christmas parade or something else, but it works and I'll bet a lot of visitors comment on it.

 

BTW, Frank, I really love that Imperial Wok building. Great detail. What I can't figure out is whether I'm correct that it somehow became Shaunessey's in another photo. Or, do my eyes deceive me? 

 

Jerrman

Sometimes it's hard to get subtext from Internet writing, but in your case Frank, I'd venture to say that based on your anecdotes and comments, you're having more pure fun with trains than just about anyone I know (although Jim Policastro is right up there with you). Jerrman

Frank,

You really came up with a good thread. I love looking at all these things to get building ideas.

 

Alan Graziano

Ok, here's mine from the Christmas layout, nothing fancy but enjoyable to look at. Should have had the smoke on in the diner.

A few pictures of mainstreet.

A summer storm approaches as a 49 Monarch waits at the crossing

for a Canadian National local to pass on its way to Hamilton Ontario.

 

Anyone have an interest in continuing our conversation, here, further?

I like this thread so thought that I’d have another go at keeping it alive.  This scene is my interpretation of two different photographs that I came across---one on the net and one in a train book.  The first was of a boxcar cut about like I divided my caboose, and used to house a (I think) large compressor.  The second showed a woman milking a cow with a train in the near background.  I think the advertising slogans from a local creamery clever, so robbed them of two that fit my cow shed.  My late uncle had a dairy farm which I loved to visit as a kid.  It was a Grade B dairy so slopped some mud around this section of my layout.  The mountain on my backdrop is suppose to be Mt. St. Helena, Sonoma County, California.  Early one morning I pulled to the side of the road (used to be Northwestern Pacific tracks) and took snapshot to use for inspiration.  Jim