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Posted by gatefive on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:30 AM
Here is my under construction Arrow Creek and Western yard. The scenery in the background is still awaiting plaster cloth etc......

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:59 AM

These are older pictures of my layout.  I can't get the entire table into one shot.  These are obviously work in progress shots.  The lower area is turning into a town as we speak. 

 

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Posted by sfrailfan on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:03 PM
ok heres what we have at the club (though these don't come close to covering the whole thing)

http://empirevalleyrr.org/aerial.html
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Posted by Driline on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:13 PM
 tstage wrote:

Since I have a rather low ceiling in my basement, this is about as "aerial" as I can get:

A bit flat, I know.  It will look nicer when I'm finally able to put down road bed, ballast, road, and some ground cover.  I'm not sure I can really do a whole lot with the terrain, without altering the layout plan.  The roadway is just paper templates so far.

Tom

Tom, that has to be the "cleanest" looking layout and train room I have ever seen! Not a speck of dirt or anything out of place :).

I'm guessing the rest of your house is immaculate as well Smile [:)]

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Posted by pcarrell on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:16 PM

Not much to see here.  Just working on the backdrop.  It's hard to get an aerial view of my N scale double decker, but here it is so far.......

Here's as you walk in to the room.......

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-22-070.jpg

And here's the other side of the room.......

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-22-072.jpg

Then back in the far corner...........

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-22-073.jpg

And then the other side of the backdrop from the first shot.......

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j319/pcarrell/Autumns%20Ridge/7-22-075.jpg

 

And that's the Autumns Ridge Railway & Navigation Company so far.

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Posted by GAPPLEG on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 12:37 PM

 TrainManTy wrote:
Sorry, none of mine. Mr. Beasly; from your photos, I would've thought your layout was huge!

I was thinking the same thing , from all the pix's I've seen of Mr. B's layout I thought it was gigantic , sure fooled me . All the detail I've seen out of him. Still in all a great layout.

These are left to right looking in from the doorway into my trainroom.

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Posted by SilverSpike on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:01 PM

Here are a few of my still under construction layout. These are all from the lower deck.

Wye track:

Passenger siding track:

Classification Yard track:

Passenger and Wye sections:

 

 

 

 

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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:20 PM

I took a stool, pressed the camera against the ceiling:

Over Third Street Industrial District: 

The curve between Third Street District and Plywood District: 

 

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Posted by UP2CSX on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:29 PM

Man, lots of nice layouts under construction here. Hoople, mine is HO and it's actually not much bigger than a 4x8 in total are, just stretched out and with a dog leg so I can still reach things on the back on the two ends. The nice thing about this style of layout is it LOOKS bigger and you also get a longer mainline run in the same space.

So much of the work here looks so neat compared to mine when I started. I had junk everywhere. I know some things probably got cleaned up for the photos but mine still would have looked like a mess. Smile [:)] One of the lessons I've learned is the first thing to do when building a layout is to have a place to put everything when you're done for the day. Keeps everything much neater and I can actually find things!

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Posted by UP2CSX on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:32 PM
Yeah, Altoona Railroader, it was you that made the aerial view suggestion. My brain just doesn't work too well remembering things like that. Great suggestion and I'm glad to see so many modelers participating.
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Posted by UP2CSX on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:35 PM
LOL, Wolfgang, you take instructions seriously if you were on a stool with the camera pressed to the ceiling. Great results though. They look like shots from Google Earth, very realistic.
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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 1:58 PM

This is an old shot from the Pink Period.  You can see a lot of the subway tracks which have not yet been scenicked over.  The subway runs in an oval around the edge of the board, in the lower two-thirds of the layout from this picture.  There's a passing siding in the station on the right (Penny Lane.)  The station on the left (Saint Anne Street) has already been covered.  There are tracks which come up to the surface and join the surface mainline, starting at the bottom and coming up on the inside of the oval on either side.

Sorry, it's not a very good picture, but I'm not going to go back and re-take it!  For comparison, here's the original posting from Page 1 of this thread.

This is a table layout, so I can do a full walk-around and take pictures from a lot of angles.  Most of my photos are close-ups, so you only see small parts of the layout in any single shot.  I'll look around for the layout diagram when I get home, and see if I can post it.

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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:20 PM

You wants an aerial view?

You gets an aerial view!!!

Blimp's eye view of a layout representing the on-base trackage aboard a "U S Naval Air Station LTA" (lighter-than-air) ie. for blimps.  This loop is NOT intended as a mainline but as a switching loop for accessing various parts of the base-- the helium containment vessel at top left, the Naval Stores warehouse along left side, the end-loading ramp on inner track left and open-loads outdoor storage area on inner track upper left, and the fuel dump, inside track right.  The track leading off the layout at lower right is the connection to the mainline.  A switcher makes runarounds for facing point movements by running all the way around the loop.

Links to some detail pix:

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/ScratchLTA.JPG

http://www.trainboard.com/railimages/data/548/LTA_Admin.JPG

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 4:37 PM

Here are some aerial views as requested in my other photo post (found here):

Great idea for a topic and I love seeing the variety of layouts. Nice job everyone.

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Posted by simon1966 on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:03 PM

A great idea for a thread.

 

Here is my layout room as of 10 minutes ago.

 

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Posted by mikesmowers on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:31 PM

   Dang nice looking arial views everyone!!!

  I  will try to get some pics up later, but don't expect to much after looking at yours, makes me wonder if I should even bother. LOL      Mike
 

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Posted by UP2CSX on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 5:41 PM

Cool! Subways and blimps bases. How many times do you see those on the same page? Smile [:)]

Mr. B, I can see how you did the cut and cover for the subway now, kind of like the real thing. Whatever got you into subways and gave you the idea to model them?

Same quesion for you, Leighant. I assume you must have been in the Navy and been on one of these bases to develop this interest. What made you decide to actually build a model? I'm pretty sure you are the only guy on this forum with a blimp base. Wink [;)]

Simon, those are some great shots, really gives me the idea of what you've (more or less) finished and what you're still working on. Thanks for posting that one pic with all the construction materials in the scene. I showed it to my wife and she agreed there's at least one other modeler that's as messy as me.Shock [:O]

Matt, great shots also. I'm a structure guy so I like to see how other people have arranged their towns. I'm also a believer that structures and scenery should be the predominant factor in a layout since that's what the real world looks like. You've got a nice mix of just enough trackage and just enough scenery to make it look very realistic. The fascia board around the layout also looks like a neat job. That's one thing I haven't started on yet but a woodworker I'm not. As long as I still have the same number of fingers I started out with, I'll call it good. Smile [:)] 

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Posted by jfallon on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:58 PM

Thank you for the advice, Jim. Let's try again:

This is the staging module behind the scenes. 

Looking west from where the staging comes in. 

 

This is the opposite end, a corner module. 

 

The west end, with a grain elevator and a brewery. 

The east end, with a fuel dealer (oil & coal), scrap yard, and the engine house. 

I run these with our NMRA division's module group, scenery is progressing slowly but surly, oops, surelySmile,Wink, & Grin [swg].

 

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 9:23 PM

If it's not to late I like to show a few shots of my 2 level under construction HO.  It's in a 11 by 13 bedroom and it's both the running and building site so if you see construction materials or wires it to show the work in progress.  It's basically a folded dogbone against the back wall on the lower lowel and a loop on the upper lever. 

Currently I in the process of completeing the top section and then I will have to complete a bridge and two tracks to run trains from the lower to upper sections.  If you look closely behind the Co-op on the lower section you will find track that lead to the upper deck.  And on the section showing the two deck where the train will go down.

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Lower deck

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Posted by mikelhh on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:22 PM
 Well it's sort of an aerial view

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Posted by UP2CSX on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 10:29 PM

JFallon,

Unfortunately, Flickr is not a very user friendly uploading site. I use Photobucket and it's a snap to do inline photos from there - just paste and copy. What you're missing is an image or IMG tag. Let's see if this works:

The correct tag looks like this: 

{img}http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1285/1262517860_9cb2153a81_m.jpg{/img} You'd replace the curly brackets with square brackets. I'm using curly brackets here so you can see the correct usage of the IMG tags.

Notice the difference is adding the "img" (without the quotes but with square brackets) at the beginning of the link and "/img" at the end of the link. This makes the photo appear in-line with the text here. This is a pain with Flickr but really easy with Photobucket so I suggest you give them a try for your pictures. 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:08 PM

 UP2CSX wrote:
Mr. B, I can see how you did the cut and cover for the subway now, kind of like the real thing. Whatever got you into subways and gave you the idea to model them? 

I've always liked subways and tunnels.  I grew up on Long Island, outside of New York City.  I just loved riding the subways, although a couple of summers as a daily commuter did reduce that enthusiasm somewhat.  Then I moved to the Boston area, and I enjoyed the very different subway system here.  And through all the years when my trains were packed away in boxes, I would occasionally dream of subways.

When I started as a born-again model railroader, I happened to see the P2K subway trains advertised.  That settled it - I could build a subway.  I ordered a set of those, and also a Bowser PCC car to emulate the Boston trolleys.

I found it a lot of fun to develop techniques for modelling the stations and tunnels.  I dove right in, learning to make my own molds for hydrocal, and improvising all the way.  Old dog, new tricks, no problem.  My stations are taken from memories of the New York and Boston systems, and also from suggestions on this forum.

I don't dream of subways anymore.  Instead, now I've got my own.

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Posted by UP2CSX on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 12:21 AM

Hey, Fred, it's never to late to post on this thread. I envision this as an ongoing thread giving people a chance to show us how the layout looks now and then what happens down the road. Gives inspiration to those of us who think we'll never get done. Smile [:)] You've got a very ambitious layout plan there and it looks like you're making good progress. My wife says you've got to get the wires out of that cow pasture because it looks like you've already electrocuted one cow. She's an animal lover, even if they are plastic (or "toys", as she would say).Big Smile [:D] 

Mike that's a good aerial view, at least of part of your layout. Now, let's see the rest once that storm that's brewing passes on.

Mr B., you're not the only New Yorker that seems to have a strange affection for subways. I've only ridden the NY subways a few times back in the 70's and they were a scary place back then. I understand things are much better now. You've certainly come up with a unique addition to a layout. I like interurbans and I thought about adding an interurban line to my layout but chickened out due to all the wire work. I console myself by saying my shortline is a former interurban that dieselized. I'm even lining the ROW with abandoned power poles.

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Posted by UP2CSX on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 9:16 PM

Bump!

C'mon, you guys, I know you have pictures you're holding out on us. Smile [:)] We want to see that layout with all the junk still scattered around.

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Posted by tommyr on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:47 PM

Hi There;

             Ashot of Briane St. in downtown Kelton.

            

 

           A pic of the log camp I built for the club layout.

            

                         Enjoy Tom

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Posted by Medina1128 on Thursday, August 30, 2007 5:48 AM
 perry1060 wrote:

Did you ask for T-rex shots Smile [:)] ===>>> http://home.mchsi.com/~ironmaster1961/wsb/html/view.cgi-image.html--graphic.html

The cowboy riding the T-rex reminded me of an old movie: The Valley of Gwangi... The stuff we would stay up late and watch...

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Posted by AltoonaRailroader on Thursday, August 30, 2007 7:51 AM
Me too, it was a better response than I could have asked for............wait, I did ask for it. LOL
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Posted by UP2CSX on Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:04 PM

Nice view of downtown, Tom. Looks like you've got the year down to about 1959 or thereabouts. Any other overall pictures of your layout? That log camp looks way too complicated for me to build but you did a great job, especially for a club layout. When I belonged to a club, I tried never to build anything with wires, strings, or any more projections than needed because we had a few ham-fisted members who would break something the very first time it was put on the layout without exception. Smile [:)] I hope your club is better - I'd have to give serious beating to anyone who wrecked that log camp.

AltoonaRailroader, you did suggest this, thank you very much. I wouldn't have thought of it and I just happened to post the first message.

We want more layout photos! Not just the good, we want the bad and the ugly too. Big Smile [:D] Let us see how a real layout room looks with work in progress.

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Thursday, August 30, 2007 1:09 PM
 UP2CSX wrote:

, we want the bad and the ugly too. Big Smile [:D]

What do you mean? I aleady posted my pictures.Laugh [(-D]

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Posted by tommyr on Thursday, August 30, 2007 2:26 PM

Hi There;

         Well you said you wanted the good the bad & the ugly so here goes.

        First the good? Arial view of Vance's Junkyard.

                

 

         Second the bad, Logging camp under under construction

                           

 

          Third the ugly. Labour dispute at Rogers plant

                             

                             

 

                                          Tom

Tom

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