Aerial Views of Layouts

[doctorwayne]

Wayne, the easiest way to post photos here is to join a site like

photobucket

It's free and easy to use, just follow their step-by-step instructions for placing your photos there in your own albums.  When you want to place one of those photos into a post here, simply "Copy" the "img" line below your picture in photobucket, then "Paste" it into your post here.

Wayne

[sfcouple]

I'm brand new to this forum and am having trouble trying to figure out how to post photos.  Can anyone please help or point me in the right direction so I can figure out how to do this?

Thanks,

Wayne 

[gear-jammer]

   

I can"t believe that I missed this thread.  You guys have some great layouts. 

Tom,  Great shot of the logging landing.  BC would be a good reason to have some logging.

Sue

[Driline]

I know it's not exactly what you meant but I couldn't resist when you said "aerial views"!

 

Jim Policastro

Thats a cool looking perspective. You almost had me looking for spiderman there

[BATMAN]

Tom it's lookin good. What did you use to mount your backdrop on and was it easy to make that curve? Also what is your curved facia board made out of and what is it screwed onto. Thanks

Brent

PS; Is that whole in the benchwork for a turntable?

[Don Z]

Here's an overhead shot of my yard after the tearout and rebuild.....

Don Z.

[jimsrpo]

I know it's not exactly what you meant but I couldn't resist when you said "aerial views"!

 

 

Jim Policastro

[Tom Bryant_MR]

I really hate posting shots when I have a mess but I thought this "aerial shot" idea was kinda of cool and it would be interesting. I have about 6 ft more space on the left side where my workbench is. Then to the bottom and right of the picture is another 6ft or so. That island is 10 ft long x 5 ft wide to give an idea of size.  It's HO.  Just started on scenery in the far back corner. I have a   l  o   n    g  way to go.

There has been several discussions on lighting. This overhead really shows the difference. The back side by the garage door is lit with daylight (6500K) pigtail 75 equivalent watt CFs. The forefront has the soft white CFs, also 75 watt equivalents. Note the yellow tinge. I'm slowly replacing the soft white lights.

 

Regards,

[dragenrider]

Here's an overhead view of Hawksbill Yard from a year ago.  Sadly, it still looks this way!

 

[canazar]

Here is my world.  This picture is about a year old.  I really need to update it.  Soon as it stops being a 112, I will get out there!

 

This is more current shot of the KVR  Shops.  The MOW train has been pulled out of the back of the yard getting prepped for some work.

[CSX_road_slug]

Jim, thanx for the kind words!

My interest in ore boats came from my childhood in a suburb of Detroit.  My family often took Sunday drives over the Ambassador Bridge and back; my 4th-grade class went on a field trip to the Ford Motor Co. steel mill (now Severstal Steel) in Dearborn and, being a pyromaniac, I fell in love with the place.  Fire + heavy machinery + ships, a magic combo!  Later, I watched an ore boat being unloaded by one of these bridge cranes while sailing on a Bob-Lo excursion boat past Great Lakes Steel.  [In fact, my ore bridge is a compressed model of one of the Zug Island machines.]

I spent roughly a year of evenings and weekends on the ore bridge; 6 months on the enlarged version of the Walthers blast furnace; and another 6 mos. on the kitbashed ore boat.  Then it occurred to me, I should probably build a layout to put these on <LOL>.  That took another 18 months.

[UP2CSX]

Tom, even the bad and ugly look good. . I really like the way the loggin camp islaid out - looks like it will have a lot of area for scenery when it's done. I like the labor dispute too although the cops better get between those two groups before they start belting each other with 2x4's.

Ken, we were just posting on the ore boat thread and I'm glad to see more of your layout. As I wrote, I worked on an ore boat for a summer and that dock looks like the real thing to me. Between the boat and the dock, you must have spent hundreds of hours scratch building and it shows. How did you get interested in ore boats? I think yours is the only layout I've seen with a real unloading dock.

[CSX_road_slug]

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

Careful what you ask for <LOL>....!

My layout has all these view-dividers so it doesn't really lend itself to ariel views, but here are some more wide-angle, under-construction shots of the mill area.

A harbor-side view of the coke ovens and blast furnace, before scenery was applied:

Moving slightly toward the right, we see the ore dock with a lake boat being unloaded.  This was a temporarily-staged scene where I put some brownish-gray painted Dow board under cellophane, to make it look like an actual river:

When the photo-shoot was finished, I removed the Dow board to restore a 2ft-wide aisle. The cellophane just hangs down until the next time I want to stage some photos.

This is my track plan.  The solid-black areas are permanently off-limits to my trains; the blue track is for staging, the teal-colored areas are walkways, and the cyan stripes are the view-dividers.  The two yellow-background sections toward the right are lift-outs, but I usually just duck underneath them.

[tommyr]

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

[secondhandmodeler]

, we want the bad and the ugly too.

What do you mean? I aleady posted my pictures.

[UP2CSX]

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. 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. Let us see how a real layout room looks with work in progress.

[AltoonaRailroader]

Me too, it was a better response than I could have asked for............wait, I did ask for it. LOL

[Medina1128]

Did you ask for T-rex shots ===>>> 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...

[tommyr]

Hi There;

             Ashot of Briane St. in downtown Kelton.

            

 

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

            

                         Enjoy Tom

[UP2CSX]

Bump!

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

[UP2CSX]

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. 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). 

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.

[MisterBeasley]

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.

[UP2CSX]

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. 

[mikelhh]

 Well it's sort of an aerial view

[Anonymous]

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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[jfallon]

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, surely.

 

[UP2CSX]

Cool! Subways and blimps bases. How many times do you see those on the same page?

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.

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.

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.  

[mikesmowers]

   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
 

[simon1966]

A great idea for a thread.

 

Here is my layout room as of 10 minutes ago.

 

[Southwest Chief]

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.