Your dream layout?

[Anonymous]

So what is you guys dream layout? Mine is the C&O Alleheny Sub in HO, I would need a big space so I wouldnt have to use much compression, there would be a double ended staging yard that connected Hinton and Clifton forge behind the scenes for roundie running and easy restaging of trains. There would be hidden staging tracks on the layout to simulate traffic coming off and going onto the Greenbrier and Mountain subs. The grade outside of Hinton would be a helper district, anything over 30 cars gets a Allegheny cut in behind the caboose. The focus on operations would be bridge traffic across the sub, with local switchers and mine shifters working along the way. Every steamer would be sound equiped and the few deisels on the layout would also have sound.


*Sigh* One day.

[Anonymous]

Revisionist history....The Nickel Plate was never absorbed by the Norfolk and Western, and via strategegic alliances and mergers, survived to the modern times, even making it to the Pacific Northwest, having taken over the ailing Southern Pacific, .... where it interchanges with my 'never existed in reality' freelance narrow gauge that serves a few costal villages [ on the Oregon coast, Pacific Ocean] and the industries on the way to the coast. gravel mines, lumber and logs, fruit, dairy, paper, etc. O scale, of course!

Jennifer

[kelticsylk]

A Pennsylvania road in the 19th century, loosely based on the anthracite carriers and the Pennsy.

[ClinchValleySD40]

Mine is in my basement. Something I've always wanted to do.

[AntonioFP45]

I'm simple minded.

Would enjoy a 1960s theme, HO scale. Size: 25 feet long, 4 feet wide, "dogbone" style.

Mainline: Double track
Trains: Long haul freight, local freight, and long distance passenger.
Setting: U.S, mid-sized east coast town, generic.


Unusual Goodies: Faller cars and trucks running by themselves on streets.
All buildings would have lighting.
Green Frog tape playing city background sounds.

Impressive diesel locomotive service building, complete with interior
lighting, moving cranes, and industrial type sounds.

Hey, we can dream!