Aerial Views of Layouts

[leighant]

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

[MisterBeasley]

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.

[UP2CSX]

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.

[UP2CSX]

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.

[UP2CSX]

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. 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!

[wedudler]

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

Over Third Street Industrial District: 

The curve between Third Street District and Plywood District: 

 

Wolfgang 

[SilverSpike]

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:

 

 

 

 

[GAPPLEG]

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.

[pcarrell]

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.

[Driline]

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

[sfrailfan]

ok heres what we have at the club (though these don't come close to covering the whole thing)

http://empirevalleyrr.org/aerial.html

[secondhandmodeler]

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. 

 

[gatefive]

Here is my under construction Arrow Creek and Western yard. The scenery in the background is still awaiting plaster cloth etc......

[ondrek]

Nice thing about smaller layouts is you can get the whole layout in 1 arial shot.

Here is my son's and mine, this photo is old, there have been adds since, but not much.

expansion is planned.

 

 

Kevin     

[AltoonaRailroader]

I had posted something on the WPF thread about seeing more of the layouts besides the close up shots. Thank you, thank you thank you everyone for posting some great pics. Keep'em coming and I promise that as soon as I get mine started I'll share also.

 

[CSX_road_slug]

Here's an under-construction view of the center peninsula of my layout, shot from ~10ft outside my garage door [at night].  It's impossible to see every square inch of the layout in one view, because of all the partitions.

[0-6-0]

Hello here is mine and it is getting rework added a 4x7 to left side . Here is a drawing of my first idea thanks Frank

[wm3798]

Thanks, you can find the layout diagram at my website:  www.wmrywesternlines.net

There's also a link showing how I did the river.

Lee 

[marknewton]

Not an aerial view of a complete layout, but of a module intended to be exhibited. I've scrapped this module since - I learned the hard way that you can't sacrifice rigidity to save weight...



All the best,

Mark.

[doctorwayne]

Wayne, I'm just...well...I don't know...speechless. Forget the fact that the layout is not only massive but beautiful and you've made so much progress on everything. I'm just drooling over the boxes you have stacked on those shelves beneath the layout. You've got more inventory than most hobby shops.

Thanks for the kind words, Jim, and thanks for taking the time to have a look. too.

Wayne

[ShadowNix]

Man, nice shots everyone!  You guys are going to make me clean off the layout and take some pictures tomorrow....!!!!

Brian

[Hoople]

UP2CSX: Looks pretty good, and don't call it small. I have a 4x8', and your layout looks bigger. If it's N, theres more operating still.

Misterbeasly: That is a pretty well designed layout. I like how the main doesn't cram itself by the edges and follow the board. I think its neat when there is room to build that section of mainline surrounded by buildings and have sidings on both sides. It looks definatly like a fun layout to operate in a small space.

Selector: WOW! I thought your layout was some 30'x30' basement empire, and it turns out to be a medium sized home railroad. From all of your wide curve shots and how you use perspective, it really fooled me. Now that you've posted shots of it, I can tell its medium sized, but from most shots, that is one well designed pike. It really fools the eye.

Bapou: I have the same variety, except my desert is blue. Don't be afraid to post pictures, I just don't have a camera on me at this moment.

[perry1060]

Thanks Jim.

I've always been interested in dinosaurs since being a kid. I was at Costco looking at books when I came across a dinosaur book that included a plaster dig kit of a T-Rex. I'd been looking for one for over a year that was 1:48 scale, and this one came close.

After digging out the bones and 'planting' 1/2 of them on my layout, I thought it would be fun to add a 'living' T-Rex to roam my landscape and use in some funny skits. Wal-Mart had just what I needed --- after a slight repainting of the model and adding blood and spears.

My kids and their friends were also fascinated by the T-Rex's, and their imagination took off --- they will remember model trains now forever --- a good thing.

I understand there was an old show in the 50's or 60's that had a T-Rex in a cowboy town but in truth, I never even heard of it until someone on the OGR forum pointed out the story line.

My rider is a cowboy roofer trying to slay the beast --- but something tells me that T-Rex shall never die...

 

 

[UP2CSX]

Perry, You've really got that desert color down right. How did you ever come up with the idea for dinosaurs on the layout? I think they're great, especially that T-Rex getting ridden by a cowboy.

Tom, you can do a lot with that flat space just using some foam blocks and drywall mix. Mine is just a flat table but I'll have a fair amount of hills when I'm done.

Lee, I'm really impressed with all the work you've done with your layout. It's even more amazing when you get the big picture and see all the ground you had to cover to get to where you are today. Gives me inspiration to keep working on my details.

CR92, your sea of blue will someday be your own little world just like some of the other layouts here. Just keep at it and let us see how it's going from time to time.

Wayne, I'm just...well...I don't know...speechless. Forget the fact that the layout is not only massive but beautiful and you've made so much progress on everything. I'm just drooling over the boxes you have stacked on those shelves beneath the layout. You've got more inventory than most hobby shops.

[selector]

Stein's signature tells us to smile.  I am smiling because I detect a double slip nestled nicely in his track plan.  

Stein's my hero 'cuz he's so big and strong.

Here is mine, taken through a window outside my basement.  I am told it looks quite large, but it is 9' across and 13'9" in length.  The central pit, to give you some idea of its total surface, is 36" wide and 9' long.

[conrail92]

That layout is pretty amazing.

[doctorwayne]

Rather than clog things up with lots of photos (like I often do ), here's a link to a 

Layout (room) tour...with lots of photos

Hope you enjoy it!

Wayne

[conrail92]

Here's mine not much too see pretty much a sea of blue.

[tstage]

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

[perry1060]

Lee,

Your river looks fantastic in the pictures you posted!!