Hi everyone.
I am just starting in the hobby and I am curious to see your layout if you don't mind.
Post plenty of pictures and explanations if you want.
Stéphan
I haven’t taken a picture of my layout, only different sections of projects. My layout is rather small at 10’ x 14’. It is built on caster so that I can move it around to clean the garage.Here’s a few.This is one I took after putting up my backdrop. The back drop is from Backdrop Warehouse, it is 12’ x 4’.I think I will still be working on scenery when I croak. My layout is 33 years old.
I worked 49 years and 10 months in two-way radio communications so I had to have a mountain top radio site on my layout.My layout is rural as you can see, the houses are scratch built, a house for each of our children.When I started my layout I made a “must have list” and a double crossover was high on the list.I make as much removable on my layout as I can, this is a 2’ x 4’ module built up on my workbench. For the most of it I use Woodland Scenics trees, the WS tree armature has a mounting tab on the base that plugs into a base plate. I hid the base plates under the flocking. All my trees and power poles are removable, that way old Clumsy Mel doesn’t screw things up while working in an area.
I use Neodymium magnets to anchor my structures in place for easy removal. I like to have everything easily removable so that I can work on it on my workbench.A roundhouse and turntable was high on my list too.I left my control panel for last. I use the MRC 7000 for operating in DC mode and the Prodigy for DCC mode, one or the other not both at the same time.Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
You can see mine through the You Tube link below.
Mike.
My You Tube
No pictures here, but there are lots, taken over a span of many years, showing a Layout (room) tour, with lots of pictures.
There are also some threads showing individual sections within the same sub-forum.
Wayne
It is a slow work in progress as I am retired and have too many other things on my plate.
The main bench is 18' x 6'.
My yard/RH is supposed to be a Rocky Mountain pusher station. This way I don't need to justify lots of locos and not much rolling stock. I do have designs on under layout staging that should not be too difficult to do when I get to that point.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
The layouts look fabulous gentleman
I can tell you all, I have learned things from all of you through the years here.
Pink foam, pink foam, pink foam I love working with the stuff but I will be glad when it gets buried by other colors in the scenery.
A little over three years into it. Most of my bridges are built but not finished and have been removed from the layout and replaced with Temps. so I can lay my track soon.
I'm a slow modeler but I do feel by sometime next winter things will start to gel and take some shape.
It's a good thing I'm patient because I love model railroading
TF
Here is a video made of my layout a few years ago.
Here is a link to my website:
http://thewilloughbyline.com/
There has been more progress, epsecially since the website went up.
Guy
see stuff at: the Willoughby Line Site
I have not had a layout since late 2016.
Before that, I have built five different versions of the STRATTON AND GILLETTE railroad.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
I have WAY too many photos and explanations of my layout, more can be found on my "Layout" tab on my blog:
https://northcountrytrains.wordpress.com/category/layout/
To put things simply, I model the D&H in 1978 on the north end of the line in HO scale. My current layout is 4x8 feet, but I will be tearing it down sometime soon to begin building a new around the corner point to point layout focused on prototyical operation. Another thing you may not know yet is I am 15, along with my friend who helps me work on things sometimes.
Many of the buildings on my layout are kitbashed (or scratchbashed, such as the GP mill building above). As I move forward in this hobby I want to become better at scratchbuilding and custom painting. Here is a mockup I made of a local service station.
I also enjoy taking the time to focus on small details and projects, such as this scratchbuilt chain-link fence around the GP mill.
Well I've went on longer then anyone probably wanted, but I hope it gives you some ideas xpRR's.
Harrison
Homeschooler living In upstate NY a.k.a Northern NY.
Modeling the D&H in 1978.
Route of the famous "Montreal Limited"
My YouTube
doctorwayne No pictures here, but there are lots, taken over a span of many years, showing a Layout (room) tour, with lots of pictures.
Your photos are, as always, an inspiration! And it's fun to see familiar names of towns, etc. The TH&B used to have track 500 metres from my house.
Layouts looking good, everyone. I intend to get some photos later
Under construction.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
Lookin good Jim, I was wondering how things were progressing.
Here are a few shots of the old layout:
That layout came down for a move to a smaller house with a bigger layout room.
The new layout:
Will be built in this space:
Construction begins as soon as some small home improvement projects are completed.
Sheldon
This will be my first picture post within 4 years. Its been in this state for 3 years hopefully I can try to finish or work something else.
One side is desert the other industrial. This layout wasn't really planned but it has potential to become a interchange junction.
Its serves the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe railway with SP trackage rights. The location can be anywhere in California, Arizona, or New Mexico.
The layout was planned as a throwaway layout after I build the real one unfortunately I'm starting to get inspirations around it.
Another inspiration was the Salt Lake Route but in a very small way. Not bad for a layout that's roughly 2x4 feet.
Amtrak America, 1971-Present.
Mel - the radio tower and shack look great. I plan on doing something similar. Also, I'd like to scratchbuild one of those analog microwave towers with the massive horn antennas, like I used to see scattered around the country. I always thought they looked interesting. The AT&T long lines site has lots of info on that system: https://long-lines.net/index.html
riogrande5761Under construction.
Wow, looking great! I was wondering how you were doing on the layout!
And Sheldon, nice area, and anticipating follow your build as well!
ATLANTIC CENTRALConstruction begins as soon as some small home improvement projects are completed.
Be careful with that statement! I said the exact same thing 12 months ago... and still no layout.
SeeYou190 ATLANTIC CENTRAL Construction begins as soon as some small home improvement projects are completed. Be careful with that statement! I said the exact same thing 12 months ago... and still no layout. -Kevin
ATLANTIC CENTRAL Construction begins as soon as some small home improvement projects are completed.
I know, but some major issues have been resolved, so I am optimistic. Working on the home improvements today because we are snowed in. Took a little lunch break to check in here.
Back to work,
Thanks for your kind words, speedybee. The town names are indeed based on real ones, but none are intended to ressemble the real ones, as it's more of a nod to fond memories from childhood. As for the TH&B, my early years were spent about 100' from the TH&B tracks on Hunter St., in Hamilton, and I could watch steam and diesels while sitting on the front stoop (porch). Just curious, but might you be involved with a CFL team in that city?
ATLANTIC CENTRAL Working on the home improvements today because we are snowed in. Took a little lunch break to check in here.
Me too. I am installing pre-hung doors today.
Back to work...
Oskeeweewee, Wayne! But actually I'm not much into sports, for the most part. I've gone to a game or two, but just as a thing to do with friends, rather than a personal passion.
Hunter St seems like a nice neighbourhood; close enough to the busy city areas, but not too close, and a healthy distance from the industrial sectors. I go to the shops on Locke sometimes. And that section of the escarpment nearby is probably the finest in the city.
Wow, thanks guys for accepting to show your layout. It is very inspiring even thought I will not be able to create a layout as big as most of yours. But it's better to start small and increase in size later.
I model Detorit in ther 60s/70s - here is a link to a video I put together awhile ago... https://youtu.be/tKDhTLsup6Q
Chuck
Modeling the Motor City
Wow, you have a GERN mill. Was Dr.Wayne your inspiration?
I don't know if I'm all that inspirational, but Chuck is on the list of GERN modellers, and gets all the new GERN ads as my brother creates them. He's currently doing a reno project, so not much new from GERN for the last little while.
I didn't know there was a list of Gern modelers !
mbinsewi I didn't know there was a list of Gern modelers ! Mike.
I have been invited to ad a GERN facility to my new layout. I am honored and am making those plans now as I work on more details of the new plan.
Invited? As in, you didn't have to ask? You were invited ? Well that's just fine, I'm so happy for you!
xploringrailroadsI am just starting in the hobby and I am curious to see your layout if you don't mind.
Somehow in 40 years in the hobby find myself perpetually without a layout, so I just take my trains to friend housues or the museum to run them there.
At the Greeley Freight Station Museum.
ROCK MILW Mel - the radio tower and shack look great. I plan on doing something similar. Also, I'd like to scratchbuild one of those analog microwave towers with the massive horn antennas, like I used to see scattered around the country. I always thought they looked interesting. The AT&T long lines site has lots of info on that system: https://long-lines.net/index.html
ROCK MILWThe tower is made out of Scale brass ladder stock #142 from Oregon Rail Supply. The guy wires are .01” Music Wire, the building is GClaser #1901, West End Shack. I sized some pictures of Motorola repeater cabinets of the 50s and wrapped them around a small piece of basswood.You can’t see it through the door but I made an Onan Generator the same way and the stack on the side of the shack is the Onan exhaust. Mel My Model Railroad http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/ Bakersfield, California I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.