Your Layout Vignettes

Navajo Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn and Officer Jim Chee investigate a theft.

Lee, you do come up with everyone.  There must be an awful lot of crime on your layout to keep all these detectives employed!

Great Job again!

Southern E6 #2800 cruises through the yard...

Local SMALL lumber yard, but big enough to have rail service!

- walt

A smaller lumber yard.

Thanks Jon, Mark, and Gary....and all of you with your very encouraging comments!

Alan

Papa - Love the schedule sign.  Very nice work.

Art

Alos, sometimes the wording is poetic, too.

Few more.

Andre.

Fantastic photography. Love the grainy look and the discolor to make it look like a vintage pic. The scenery provides an excellent subject too. Well done. 

Today's delivery....fresh milk!!

Alan

Always nice to be greeted at the door after a hard day at school.

- walt

Walt, is this your current layout? It looks different than the one that's been giving you all of the tin plate grief.

Andre,

I agree, modeling and photography both are very well done!

A very small town has a very small town square.  Still, its a nice place to set a spell and talk with friends. 

Thank you to all for the  kind comments and likes!

pretty motivating.

Andre.

A few shots around Mathews store

I guess, OK, I know, that I'm sort of cheating.  I've been using pictures from various years of Christmas layouts.  I started using some from 2007 and am advancing thru the years, now on 2010's layout.

I obviously can't share "permanent" vignettes like others are doing so I'm picking and choosing.

Thanks for noticing!!!!

- walt

More cheating

Looks like a pretty dangerous place for a wedding!!!

- walt

In this not-so-clear shot with my iPhone, the horse-drawn Oak Hill Village fire wagon is being readied for a future call while the northbound Polar Express passes behind The Post Dispatch on an elevated track.  The southbound Santa Fe Super Chief is passing by just beyond the bridge on this cold, winter's day in Department 56ville.

Just want to add to my prior remarks. Spence, your trailer court is much too classy for Lee's. AG, Your camera work alone is gorgeous. This Forum has tons of talent that hasn't even scratched the surface of what is out there. How about OGR sponsor a special edition magazine featuring one or two pictures from all the Forum members and make one big Book of Vignettes! Would it sell yes. Would it be work, yes. Rich and Alan, is that something that could be done?

If you like Model Railroad Photography, this is the Tread to Check Out

     Great Model Railroad Photography on eveyy page of this thread. A lot of skilled modelers on this topic.

Cheers from Michigan

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!  Nothing beats freshly delivered milk!

- walt

At the Angels Gate Club:

Station stop for the lost PRR gas-electric.

Green light

Shop at engine servicing facility

before there was the car there was a substation

An appropriate building to hide an access hole

Canoeing 'neath the trestle

Club members making moonshine

Rex,

The Angels Gate Club layout looks really nice.  Thank you for posting the photos!

Knowing the early history of the electric power industry, I like the Tesla Light and Power Substation.  

Good modeling all round.

I completed this small scene this morning.  I was finishing a chapter on converting diecast model buses to 'Streets, and wanted a pretty scene to open the chapter.

All Model Power figures bought at the recent sale from CharlieNassau.

Many small towns did not have a bus station, per se.  In San Beattadaise, the Greyhound stops and loads at The Premier Hotel. 

I find myself coming back to this thread and finding more great scenes to check out.

Here's are few more from my layout.

Pittsburgh, PA history.

- walt

more pictures of the bridge in this scene it's a b54 correct

If you look closely you will see a boater and a sunbather on a rock to the right. (R Click and open up in new window)

Very nice scene, Papa. I sure like the bridge and what you did to make it more interesting underneath it.

Railfanning from the water - a second Santa Fe F3 in a short time!

(click the thumbnail below for a much larger view)

Ah....I can smell those "sliders!!!" ( a scene from my friend Vernon Hart's layout)

Alan

I don't see any customers in the White Castle, maybe the onion smell is too strong?  Great scene.

Art

Papa - I love the scene under your bridge too.  Especially like the picture of the rest with the lights on.

Art

Roger is a friend of mine, this is somewhat of a prototype inspired by some tables he built with legs that looked like the arched bridge.This was custom made to fit my layout it sits atop my roll out section.

This is a scratch built Baby Ruth Factory made from Precision Board