Sunday Photo Fun - 2/6/22

[Flintlock76]

Nice Becky, a great and clever use of available space!

And instead of a Christmas theme it's a Cleveland tribute theme! Very appropriate considering who the artist is. I kind of did a North Jersey tribute theme with the layout I've got, or the most I could manage in the tradtional 4x8 space.  I just couldn't fit in a pizzaria or a bagel shop, but it's got a bakery! AND a diner! 

Gents, give yourselves a treat and click on the photo to enlarge it, then enlarge it again to see all the fun details.

[pennytrains]

A quick peek at what the "standard" or non-Christmas version of my little 5 by 7 rug railroad will look like.  Besides new trees that aren't ready yet, I added the Cessna, the Bachmann highway lights (9 for $15), an Amtrak bucket truck, repainted my HoJo and made the building flats.  About those, the Terminal Tower was there at Christmas, so the other 5 from left to right are 75 Public Square (The Illuminating Company Building), The AT&T Huron Road Building (aka the Daily Planet Building), the Society for Savings Bank Building, The Keith Building (W. B. Keith was a Vaudeville producer) and the May Company Building, which at one time was Ohio's largest store.  (I chose classic buildings that are still standing rather than the modern glass towers that replaced so many examples of classic architecture.)  I had wanted to add the Halle, Higbee and Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers buildings but I couldn't find good high res photos of the first two and the third one is gone.  As it is, the 5 I chose required extensive photoshopping to remove trees, street and traffic lights, and in the case of the Ohio Bell/AT&T Building I had to center parts and flip-flop cut and paste the left side to get it to look right.  Then I printed them on cardstock using my printer's poster function, glued them to foamcore with a Crafter's Glue Dots dispenser (waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than any spray, stick or liquid adhesive) and then I cut away what wasn't a skyscraper.

Getting ready to start wiring the lights, I also put more powerful lighting in several buildings (432C's vs grain of wheat bulbs), and then I can place figues, vehicles (including a 1:43 1966 Batmobile) and plant some trees. 

[fifedog]

Glad you like it, thanks.

[Demay]

Fife, it looks great and the video was fun as well.  I agree that you should definitely be in the magazine.  

[fifedog]

Flint - My goal for this year is to install some type of paneling and shelves to hide the benchwork. There is a nice closet in the room, and it's waiting for those boxes...after I empty the boxes inside same. 

[Flintlock76]

Fife, it looks like you've got as much hardware stuffed under the train table as I do!  Maybe more!

Personally, sometime I think the stuff's breeding.  "WHEN did I get THIS?"  

[fifedog]

Northwoods - Thanks. Looking forward for the next Blueboard Central as well. Tip of the ol' fedora...

[Northwoods Flyer]

fife,

Great video of the layout over on the Coffee Pot. Has anyone from CTT contacted you about doing an article on the current layout?  I have enjoyed watching your progress.  Keep posting, watching what you are doing keeps inspiring me to get going on mine.

Northwoods Flyer

Greg

[fifedog]

Been putting off relocating the Z4000 long enough. I had sat the controller there (where Winery is now) several years ago, just to get the trains up-and-a-runnin', and after the wires were hooked up, inertia set in. When the grandsons were here last week,  I (or eye) witnessed a couple near-misses with arms and hands reaching across the main line.

This now reveals the final stretch of benchwork left to be covered. You can still see the bare Pergo floor boards that I used for subroadbed on this layout.

Lowe's has these fancy black metal brackets, and I used them on the shelf that holds my AF15B and Lionel LW, on the other side of the layout, as well.

Operators will also have a place to set a beverage, instead of the finished scenery.

I will try to post a video of what was on the Coffee Pot. (sofware permitting)