The first smile of the season!
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
A babe in wonderland.
Ralph
Since these are high res, and I have Dial-up...
This is the bestI could do for a pic of the majority of the layout.
The only line in the park (so far) is at the Astro Orbitor in Tomorrowland. You'll probably recognize that the structure the ride sits on started it's life as a 35mm film reel! From 20th Century Fox no less!
Here's my Polar Express:
In reality it's a 2036. I replaced the 4 wheel trailing truck with a die cast 2 wheeler and added handrail stanchions. Otherwise the headlight and number boards are just hot glued and the name and number markings are paper labels held on with water based glue.
The passenger cars are repainted MPC issue 2400 series versions. Again with paper label markings. I also added a red LED to the tail of the observation.
Becky,
You are really talented.
Great work, as usual.
Take care,
Wow, great looking layout. I see I have my work cut out for me if I want to come even close to that
Nice looking custom polar express too. What type of engine did you use for that?
It's a postwar Lionel 2036 2-6-4 with the 4 wheel trailing truck switched to a die cast 2 wheel truck.
WOW. That sure turned out nicely.
Thanks for sharing.
Becky........absolutely beautiful.
PJ
IF IT WON'T COME LOOSE BY TAPPING ON IT, DON'T TRY TO FORCE IT. USE A BIGGER HAMMER.
Thanks Guys! It's been a lot of fun!
"Next year" or "Phase 2" will be fun too!
Absolutely fantastic! Great layouts that didn't cost a small fortune.
But the big question is, "WHAT is in Phase 2?" Are we going to get a tease?
Keep up the great work.
Ron from Frankford Junction (OGR: Frankford Junction)
There are several planned projects that I just couldn't get finished this year for various reasons. These include:
1: An operating Monorail System built from Marx M10000 streamliner cars.
2: The Skyway System.
3: Paving so my mini park guests will stand up without taping them to the carpet!
4: Better Tomorrowland structures.
5: Better Fantasyland structures.
6: The rest of the Small World kinetic sculpture. (I only have the central clock done)
7: Matterhorn Bobsleds.
8: Parade floats.
9: A lot more people!
10: Background flats.
11: More landscaping.
12: And whatever I come up with between now and next Thanksgiving.
In fact, I'm still working on it. I need to replace all the palm trees I "permanently borrowed" from my Thai layout between now and February when I start wanting to put that layout back together. So, the work goes on!
Whew! I'm out of breath just reading that list. I'll be tracking your progress. Good luck.
Wow looking good! That's a long list. You do like I do, I start making lists of what I want to add for next year and sometimes I'm able squeeze something in during the season if it doesn't require too much of a mess. Well good luck with your list.
And that's exactly what I've been doing! I've been making and plopping down trees like crazy the last couple of days! I'll get some new high res pics soon!
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