Your Layout Vignettes

An old veteran truck enters the junkyard on its last run

A hot day draws a crowd at the ice cream stand.

Firefighters practice for a car fire.

Road kill.

Just seeing more and more great stuff!  Here's a few more from my layout.

 

 

Nice kitty.

Business district, 1950s.

Frat party about to be busted up.

 

 

Small businessman.

Public delivery track.

The old swimming hole.

great view from here

 

Card Stock built warehouse in this shot.

Here's a few more:

 

Those are very nice scenes, Johnny!   They hit me as very complete, full.

Johnny, I really like that 1st one.  Nice photo work to show off a nice scene.

 

- walt

Thanks TrainsRMe and walt for the complements and to those who liked my posts. 

 

Here are a couple more pictures of the city area.

 

 

You know how to make scenes realistic, but not overwhelmed by details.  Very, very nice.

Its Thanksgiving and here at the "Humble Hotdog"...we serve turkey dogs!!

 

Alan

The Christmas season is now here and the Lionel Factory is churning out those sets that Santa will soon be delivering....

 

Alan

The view from an upper platform looking out of the trainshed....

 

Alan

Its going to be a busy day in the yard tower...

 

Alan

A little milk to go with the donuts for the guys that serve and protect us..!!

 

Alan

More milk trucks here, too.  Love those Divco trucks - and the delivery man could drive them standing up.  How cool is that?

 

From 2012

 

   Just Married.

From Jan 2013

 

 

Feb 2013

 

In between trains

 

 

one more

 

 

 

The peacefulness of 3 AM.  

 

 

Hi Alan • The Turkey Dog, sounds good to me.

Cheers from Michigan 

Spectacular ! To paraphrase Andrew Wyeth,  we like the realism of such a scene because we can sense the emotion. A beautiful presence, indeed. Congratulations, sir!

FrankM

Thank you.  This thread has many pics from layouts that are so much better then mine. Night shots are my favorite. Everybody's layout has vignettes, and all tell a story wither we realize or not  our selves.

Doug

A few scenes from my neighbor's O-scale 2-rail layout....

 

Alan

Here are couple showing a new backdrop we installed...really made a BIG difference!  Looks like a ideal Appalachian community in the distance....

 

Alan

 

 

Here is a downtown scene.  We need to sink the buildings into the foam core we are using for the streets and then paint the streets...

 

Alan

Here are a couple more....right now we have a traffic jam since we had to move vehicles around in order to work in certain areas of the layout...but the scenes when completed will be nice.  Notice the trolley wire.  Mickey will have live trolley wire so that his street cars will run from the wire!!

 

Alan

A couple of pictures that better show the trolley poles and live copper wire...

 

Alan

This is a scene we are working on that fits inside of the window in Mickey's layout room...This is elevated above the mainline and a tunnel goes under the scene...

 

Alan

Mickey will have plenty of industrial scenes.  I made a retaining wall out of 1/2" pink insulating sheet and painted it a concrete color.  It needs to be weathered but we will get to it eventually....  The power/refining plant backdrop was raised and tucked just behind the top of the retaining wall so that it looks like it is off in the distance....

 

Alan

Another picture of the retaining wall and backdrop....

 

Alan

Another angle looking toward the big scrap warehouse/storage building.  We will continue the backdrop to the corner behind the warehouse to give it some depth...

 

Alan

Here is the warehouse and scrap yard....

 

Alan

A nice scene of the gas station and surrounding area....pay no attention to that big straight crack in the pavement....the street crew will be dispatched to repair it soon!

 

Alan

A large row of industries and warehouses are on the other side of the divider that is shared with the city....

 

Alan

A final scene of the west end warehouse district.....

 

Alan