Layout at a glance.

[NECRfan]

Name:  New England Central Railroad

Scale: N

Size:  21' x 9.5'

Height: 52"

Style: around the room with lift bridge at door and duck under at one end of room to access staging and workbench

Period: 2000

Locale: Connecticut River between White River Jct., VT and Bellows Falls, VT

Theme: Variety - prototype New England Central, Guilford, Amtrak, Vermont Rail (Washington County and Green Mountain Railroad), Claremont and Concord, plus a freelance tourist/dinner train, the Otter Creek Wine Train

Scenery: foam insulation board with Woodland Scenic product, and ground real maple leaf for groundcover (matte medium preserves Fall color)

Control:  Digitrax DCC

Roadbed: cork, or direct to foam

Track: Atlas flextrack, Peco switches

Max grade: 0%

Minimum radius: 18" mainline, 14" industrial

Backdrop:1/4" masonite, or painted wall

Fascia: 1/8" masonite

The layout is fully operational, with scenery now 10% complete. 

 

Geof Smith

Cumberland, ME 

[larak]

 (I added two categories)

Layout at a glance

Name: Saint Remy & Atkarton
Scale: 1:87.1 HO
Size: overall, 27' x 16',  100' main line, 118' mountain line complete - more to come
Height: 42" lower 54" upper with some variation
Style: G shaped
Period:  Late 1950's -  1960's
Locale:  Mid-Husdon Valley / Eastern Catskills
Theme: Freelance  interchanges with  NYC, U&D, Walkill Valley
Scenery: Structolyte, Foam,  Paper strip,  didn't try glueshell yet

Roadbed: Combo of foam covered plywood and cookie cutter
Control: Straight DC for now
Roadbed: WS foam
Track: Code 83 and 100,  mostly shinohara TO's
Max grade: 2.1%
Minimum radius: 30"/33" double track main, 26" mountain
Backdrop: Wall and 1/4"  Masonite || Scene divider 1/4" plexiglas
Fascia: none yet. Will probably use masonite.

Overall Completeness: probably 25%, track 50%

Isn't building it half the fun?

 

Karl 

 

[RR Redneck]

My layout at a glance

Name: Corando County Lines

Scale: 1:160

Size: 25"x48"

Height: 1" (Not on legs yet)

Style: Stand alone (when I can get some legs on it)

Period: No set era

Locale: North Texas

Theme: Fallen Flags

Scenery: Mostly Woodland Scenics

Control: 12 Volt DC Power Pack

Roadbed: Molded onto track

Track: Life Like Products Power Loc

Max Grade: .2%

Minimum Radius: 9.75"

Backdrop: N/A

 

[eric719]

Construction is in early stages.

Name: Burlington Northern Genesee Branch
Scale: N
Size: Overall room size 14' x 14'. Will run part way around the walls on a shelf.
Height: 45"
Style: Around the room shelf, 12" to 16" wide. May add a peninsula later.
Period: Early 1970's
Locale: Palouse region of Eastern Washington and north Idaho.
Theme: Grain branch
Scenery: Foam
Control: DC
Roadbed: Cork
Track: Atlas code 55
Turnouts: #5
Grade: 0%
Minimum radius: 15"
Backdrop: 1/4" hardwood

The ex-NP Genesee Branch started at Pullman Junction just south of Pullman and ran for 27 miles to Genesee, Idaho. It was the original south end of the Palouse & Lewiston Branch until tracklaying continued to Moscow and on down to Lewiston. Like most of the Palouse, the primary commodity was grain. It was abandoned in 1984.

Eric

[oldyardgoat]

(Sorry, this thing wants to double space). 

Name:  Ardena District. 

Scale:  1:160 

Size, overall:  3' X 34' 

Height:  46-50" 

Style:  Along the (one) wall.

Percent completed:  About 15%; started construction Jan., 07.   

Period:  1947-1953 

Locale:  High plains of Colo., Kan., Neb., and portion of Dent Line of UPRR in Colo. 

Theme:  Semi-freelance. Dent line prototype; Ardena, freelance. 

Scenery:  Mostly flatlands. 

Control:  Straight DC, but considering DCC. 

Roadbed:  Traditional cork; may do a little foam (Woodland Scenics). 

Track:  Code 83 Atlas and Peco staging; code 55 Micro Engineering main level. 

Max. Grade:  0.75 to 2% (to/from staging). 

Min. Radius:  17.5", except some industrial spurs. 

Backdrop:  1/8" hardboard. 

Fascia:  1" X 4" w/ 1/8" hardboard as needed. 

 

 

 

 

[pennwest]

Layout located in West Windsor NJ

Name: Penn Western
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 40' x 25'
Height: 50"
Style: around the room with two switching peninsulas
Period: Contemporary
Locale: Northeast US
Theme: Freelance - created with sale of Conrail to CSX/NS
Scenery: Wire/plaster and foam
Control: Digitrax DCC - radio and plug-in
Roadbed: Homasote
Track: Handlaid code 70 where visible, code 100 in hidden and staging
Max grade: 1.5%
Minimum radius: 48"
Backdrop: 1/8" masonite
Fascia: 1/8 & 1/4"" masonite

Northeast switching rr. Mainline trains with 25-27 cars, 2 6-axle diesels, deliver cars to the
classification yard for distribution from staging. Classified cars distributed, empties picked up and
assembled into outgoing trains. One peninsula is an auto plant with its own dedicated 24 car train,
the other is a port container terminal with 2 10' container tracks plus other industries. Track &
scenery complete.

Roger Thomas

[PennValleyRR]

Name - Penn Valley RR Co.

Scale - HO

Size - 11 x 12

Height - 53", with 58" branch line

Style - Around the room with two duckunders

Period - 1950s - 60s, but very loose in this area when it comes to motive power

Locale - Eastern US

Theme - Freelance east-west bridgeline

Scenery - Rosin paper with white glue and plaster castings

Control - DC

Roadbed - mix of EZ trak, and Woodland scenics trackbed with code 100

Radius - 18", and 22"

 

[skip-nscale]

1. Railroad: Fonda Johnstown & Gloversville (a real railroad)
2. Locale: Upstate New York
3. Scale: N (1;160)
4. Size: 12' x 10' U Shaped
5. Height: 3 levels 36"/48"/64"
6. Min Radius: 12"
7. Max Grade: 2.3%
8. Track: Atlas Code 55 mains, Peco Code 80 staging yard
9. Turnouts: #10 on mains #7 in yards
10. Roadbed: Cork
11. Layout Type: U shaped with 2 helix
12. Scenery: foam and plaster cloth
13. Backdrop: 1/4" masonite
14. Facia: 1/8" masonite
15. Era: 1950s
16. Control: Digitrax DCC

 

[EL PARRo]

Name: Westside Railroad  (tentative title)
Scale: HO
Size: 5' x 9'
Height: mainline: 42", logging line: 52" 
Period: 1930's through 1950's
Locale: far northern California
Theme: frelance, using western railroads
Control: analog (I plan on converting to DCC. Someday.)
Roadbed: cork
Track: Atlas code 83, Micro Engineering and Walthers Shinohara turnouts
Max grade: no grade on the mainline, 7-8% on the logging line
Minimum radius: 24" on the mainline, 15" on the logging line

[ShadowNix]

Layout at a glance

Name: South Cascade & Sound
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 16' x 9'
Height: 48-42 (room is old garage so on a slant)
Style: around the room - folded dogbone with reversing loop on one end 
Period: 1948-1958
Locale: Puget Sound

Theme: Freelanced SC&S interchange with UP and GN (some MR too!)
Scenery: plaster shell with castings and sculptamold
Control: DCC  [NCE Powerhouse Pro (5A)]
Roadbed: mixed; mainline is Woodland Scenics Foam; yard and siding 3/32 cork
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: 3.5%
Minimum radius: 28" upper, 22" lower
Backdrop: 1/4" masonite
Fascia: 1/8" and 1/4" masonite

[Anonymous]

Name: Falls Valley
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 10' x 11.5', two stage expansion in future to roughly 12'x22' and second stage TBD.
Height: TBD"
Style: Wall shelf w/ duckunder section
Period: Varies with era of equiptment on layout
Locale: Mid Atlantic
Theme: Freelance
Scenery: TBD
Control: Digitrax Super Chief DCC
Roadbed: Testing rubberized roadbed
Track: Kato Unitrack
Max grade: None, Main not yet complete
Minimum radius: 28 inch main possibly 34.
Backdrop: none.
Fascia: none.

I consider this railroad in planning in excess of 30 years. It might take me another 30 to finish it.

[mononguy63]

Layout at a glance

Name: Notyme & Munee RR 
Scale: HO
Size: 16'-8"x9'-9"
Height: about 46"
Style: folded dogbone plus loop w/ duckunder
Period: early diesel era 
Locale: Eastern Kentucky 
Theme: Freelance shoestring short line
Scenery: plaster of paris over cardboard strips 
Control: DC - two old MRC throttlepacks 
Roadbed & Construction: cork on cookie-cutter plywood 
Track: Atlas code 00
Max grade: 2.5%
Minimum radius: 24"
Backdrop: Looks a lot like the basement wall

Based on a "what-if" scenario - assumes that the Monon determined to expand eastward by acquiring and daisy-chaining small lines east of Louisville in order to market itself as a direct link between the eastern coal fields and Chicago. 

[jims trains]

Chicago & South Forest Terminal RR 

Type: Switching / Industrial / Point to Point Layout
Scale: HO
Layout Shape: 'U' shaped frame 14 feet along one edge, 8 feet along the next edge, and 17 feet along the other edge. Layout width is mostly 2 feet.

The layout has been designed so that it can be expanded in the future by simply adding extra 6 foot modules as space permits. The layout can also be configured in various sizes of 8 x 6 feet 'L' shaped, 14 x 18 feet 'L' shaped, 17 x 10.5 feet 'U' shaped, and various other configurations.

Motive power: All diesel, GP's, SW's, RS's and FT's
Rollingstock: Mostly 40 to 60 scale feet in length.
Control System: ROCO LokMaus 2 DCC, although most turnouts are Peco Insulfrog turnouts which means DC can be used on the layout and have locos isolated from track power.
Setting: Located between Indiana Harbor Belt (IHB) and Elgin, Joliet and Eastern (EJ&E) lines, near Illinois / Indiana border, mid 1970's to mid 1980's.
Layout Construction: Pine frame, with either MDF, Masonite, Chipboard, or no base (depending on what the scenery needs). The layout is constructed of modules 6 feet or less in length and 2 feet or less in width
Amount of Track: Approximately 150 feet. About 50 feet of that is classified as 'mainline'.
Scenery Contruction: A variety of methods including polystyrene base covered in plaster bandage, and cardboard meshing covered in plaster bandage. Because of the 2 foot wide baseboards, the scenery is mainly concentrated on those facilities the railroad serves, and the landscape features closest to the railroad itself. The layout is mainly flat, but there are some 'ups and downs' in the scenery to add a little scenic interest. There are also some trees and other features which give a more scenic dimension to the layout.

Website: http://www.stanfordnorth.com/jimsjunction and click the C&SFT link in the menu.

James Stanford 

[hogheadmt]

NAME: Shenango & Allegheny Valley RR.

SCALE: 1:87

SIZE: 7'x11'

HEIGHT: 42" - 56"

STYLE: free standing "island" with 3'x7' pit in center

PERIOD: Fall 1953

LOCALE: Western Pennsylvania

THEME: Freelanced version of Bessemer & Lake Erie's Hilliards Branch, focusing on section of RR between Goff Jct & Goff (roughly 2 miles).

SCENERY: Plaster gauze over cardboard web/supports

CONTROL: Analog DC with block control

ROADBED: Foam track bed (Walthers), cork, artist foam core board.

TRACK: Atlas & Peco code 100 flex, Shinohara & Peco turnouts, & (future) handlaid code 83 with Central Valley turnout kits.

MAX GRADE: 2% - 3%

MINIMUM RADIUS: 20"

BACKDROP: 1/4" masonite

FASCIA: 3/16" birch paneling

OPERATING SCHEME: Interchange from mainline at Goff Jct., with Goff at end of Goff branch.  Layout will have 2 levels with staging for mainline trains underneath upper level. Access to staging is through central 3'x7' pit. Backdrops will hide central pit. Track elevation will be gained by attaching single track roadbed to vertical supports of upper level/backdrops thereby creating an "extended" helix. Length of branch "main" will be around 25ft; almost a half mile in HO. Upper level will have same 2 prototype industry types as original Goff: Martin Stone quarry (limestone) & Butts Mine (coal). The structures will be freelance/ scratch/bash & I plan on adding a freight house/team track to add a little variety.  Goff Jct has at least 4 industry spurs & is on a 2'x8' segment & 50% complete: track, wiring & ballast-done. Structures, scenery, details remain on the "to do " list.

[Anonymous]

Name: CSX Lowell Subdivision
 

Scale: HO (1:87)
 

Size: 10' x 30'
 

Height: About 36", going to extend it to 48 hopfully

Layout Type: Protolanced

Layout Style: Peninsula based

Locale: Southeast US

Era: Late 90s to present

Railroads: CSX, Amtrak

Motive Power: Diesel, mainly GP38-2s and smaller road diesels

Scenery: None yet, but going to be foam

Control: The ORIGINAL MRC prodigy.

Track: Bachmann EZ track and flextrack

Turnouts: #4, a few #6, and two #6 crossovers.

Min. Radius: 18" in some spots, 22" and up in most areas

Backdrop: None yet

Fascia: None yet

Start Date: Hopefully soon

[Snodriver]

  Heres mine it it under construction in a 12ft by 16 ft shed with a 4 foot section in the front of the shed for sitting and work area.

Name: Maine Central RR and the B & B RR.  B & B is the branchline. It interchanges with MEC as an independent division.

Scale: HO

Size: 12'x 12' around the room with a pennisula as part of the back wall for a 4'x 6' fishing village. One swinging walk thru from the sitting area.

Height : 42" to 48"

Style: "C" shaped with a center pennisula for fishing village. With swing gate installed becames full circle for continuous run.

Period: 1959 to 1970

Locale: Coast of Maine east of Portland.  1 yard will be in South Portland where Maine Central and Boston and Maine shared the Rigby yard.  This will be my interchange with the MEC and B&M.  The B & B will also interchange with the Grand Trunk, the CN and the BAR.

Theme: Branchline running on old well maintained MEC trackage, so speed limits are in the 50s.

Scenery:Foam, hydrocal, hard shell, and Woodland scenics materials.

Control: CVP Easy DCC

Roadbed: Woodland Scenics, sheet for yards

Track: Atlas code 83 for mainlines and code 70 for yards and sidings. all switches are to be 4s, 5s,& 6s

Max Grade: 3%

Minimum Radius: 22 inch on main 18 inch yards

Backdrop & Fascia: 1/8" masonite

Rolling stock and power: 40' cars and 50' cars.  44 tonners, 70 tonners, SW 4, GP7s, 2-8-0, gas electric, RS3 and RS11

  The layout has been designed and I am finishing the shed with insulation and sheetrock to get ready to start to build the railroad.  Electricity has been run to the shed so I am hoping to have trains up and running here in Orofino, Idaho this coming winter.  Anyone in the area who wants to stop by to visit my layout email me at [e-mail].

[C&SH Railroader]

Name: Clarenville & Shoal Harbour Railway
Scale: HO (1:87.1)
Size: 22' x 13'
Height: ~40"
Layout Type: Prototype
Layout Style: Around The Room
Locale: Clarenville, Newfoundland, Canada
Era: Early 1980's
Railroads: Canadian National, TerraTransport
Motive Power: Diesel
Scenery: Carved Foam
Control: Lenz DCC
Roadbed: Foam
Track: Atlas Code 100
Turnouts: Switches, #4, #6
Min. Radius: 18"
Max Grade: 0%
Backdrop: TBD
Fascia: TBD
Start Date: TBD

Description: I first began the designing of my model railroad in 2002.  But with no place to build it, I have been concentrating on purchasing all of my known required items (locomotives, rolling stock, track, scenery, etc.).  My 22' x 13' layout is currently designed in AutoCAD, but depending on the size of space that I hope to eventually get, the design may have to change.  The design currently consists of the Clarenville Station and Yard, Bonavista Branch Junction, Shoal Harbour River Trestle, and Balbo Drive Crossing.  Though, the Newfoundland Railway (1881-1988) was a narrow guage railway, I have chosen to model it in HO scale to simplify things.  Much of the Newfoundland equipment was unique, thus, there will be a significant amount of kitbashing and customization to make the equipment look like their prototypes.  Wish me luck!   

 

 

[carknocker1]

Name: Port Destiny

 Scale: 1:87

Size: overall, 30"x 120": 46"

Style: shelf

Period: 1970's

Locale: gulf coast

Theme: Freelance --Southern & L&N

scenery :    foam covered in plaster

Control: Straight DC

Roadbed: traditional cork

Track: Atlas code 100 Max grade: .05%

Minimum radius: 18"

Backdrop: 1/4" masonite Fascia: 1/8" masonite

 

[Lakeshore 3rd Sub]

Name: 3rd Sub of CNW Lakeshore Division
Scale: HO, 1:87
Size: 19' long x 8' double deck
Height: Lower 42 inches, upper 60 inches 
Style: Around the room with elevator between levels.
Staging: 3 tracks on perimeter of lower level and 2 track on perimeter of upper level 
Minimum aisle width: 30"
Period: 1949-1954 - Fall 
Locale: Sheboygan to FonduLac, WI
Theme: Proto with license, operation of a secondary mailine with interchanges at mailine of CNW and MILW 

Scenery: Sculptamold over foam with city and country scenes in fall colors.
Control: Digitrax DCC 
Roadbed: Cork on 1/2" plywood on lower lever and cork on 2" foam on upper
Track: Atlas Code 100 flextrack on heavy mainlines and staging, Atlas Code 83 on secondary.
Turnouts: #6 mainline, #5 turnouts for industry.
Minimum radius: 20"

Grade: 0  all track is level with scenery rising and falling 

Backdrop: Painted back side of vinyl flooring
Fascia: painted 1/8" masonite

 

[Crooked Creek]

Name: Crooked Creek
Scale: 1:87
Size: portable, 4'6" x 3'
Height: variable, depends on where I put it
Style: walk around
Period: 1880-1920
Locale: TBA
Theme: Freelance, Short Line
Scenery: foam, glueshell, plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: none, sparse ballast only
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: 3%
Minimum radius: 10.5"
Backdrop: none
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

[RRCanuck]

Name: to be determined (run mainly CN and CP)

Scale: 1:87 Size: 29’ long, half is 16’, half is 12’ wide, around the wall with duck-unders

Height: 42”

Frame: ¾” plywood on L-girder

Period: transition to present…campaign by changing scenic details. Will run steam when the mood strikes

Locale: Eastern, Southern Ontario

Theme: urban/heavy industry at one end / rural / uninhabited at the other

Scenery: plaster on screen

Control: 6 cabs, DC

Roadbed: cork

Track: Atlas code 100 flex, Shinohara or Peco switches powered by Tortoise

Grade: 2%

Radius: mainlines: 24” minimum, 32” typical

Backdrop: commercial photo back drop mounted on masonite

Fascia: 1 x 4”, painted

Cheers everyone.

[marknewton]

My layout at a glance...

Name: Toyama Chiho Tetsudo - Toyama District Railway. Railway
names in Japan are often abbreviated, so my line is also known simply as
the "Chitetsu". Like many electrified interurban railways, Chitetsu
started out as a number of independent local lines, and was consolidated
during WW2 in a government mandated merger. The company has an
interurban division, a town tramway, and a subsidiary railway. It also
connects with 762mm/30" gauge narrow gauge lines, and Japan's only
remaining trolleybus line.

Scale: 1:80 - Japanese HO, or "HOj". Uses 16.5mm gauge track to
represent 1067mm/42" gauge prototype track. 42" gauge is the de-facto
standard gauge in Japan. All of the JR system except the shinkansen
lines, and much of the private railway network, is built to this gauge.

Rollingstock: Some is RTR from Kato, Tomix, MicroAce and Endo,
some are kits from a variety of Japanese manufacturers, a couple are
kitbashed from US models, and some are scratchbuilt. One thing that
makes life easy when scratchbuilding is that Japanese carbuilders were
early adopters of all-welded construction - no rivets!

Size: overall, 10' x 14'. I was reluctant to use a lift-out
section on a layout which has overhead catenary, so I went with entry
via "nod-under". I have an office chair on castors, which I find makes
using the nod-under very easy - I just roll under the layout.

Height: 58" is the benchwork datum height. Just below my eye
level, and just at my wife's. The layout room also accomodates my
workbench and other modelling gear. With the layout at this height there
is ample room for everything, plus a sofa bed for guests. This height is
good if I want to operate standing, or I can sit on a tall bar stool I
acquired from my local bloodhouse when they redecorated and went upmarket.

Style: Around the walls, with centre peninsula. The centre
peninsula is portable, and can be taken to exhibitions, without
too much grief.

Period: 1975-1980. I chose this period as there was new*
rollingstock delivered to the railway then, and also the eventual
closure of the Shasui line. Goods/freight traffic was still a major part
of the railway's business at the time. In addition to loco-hauled
trains, there were box-motors, and passenger cars would haul one or two
freight cars for high-priority loads such as fish and cut flowers.

*New to the Chitetsu, at any rate. There is a huge market in secondhand
interurban and tram cars in Japan, and much of the Chitetsu fleet are
older style cars acquired from larger companies such as the Nagoya
Railway - "Meitetsu", and the Keifuku.

Season: Late autumn, early winter. This was the season when I
first visted Japan, and the leaden skies and snow flurries made a
lasting impression on me. Also, I though it would make a nice change
from all the layouts set in perpetual spring or summer, with their lurid
green grass, lush foliage and blue sky backdrops. In my part of
Australia winters are a rather mild affair, so I wanted to capture a
season quite unlike anything I'm used to.

Locale: Toyama Prefecture, Sea of Japan coast of northern central
Honshu. The countryside around Toyama is quite scenic, ranging from
coastal plains to the Tateyama Mountains.

Theme: Chitetsu Shasui Line, and Kaetsuno Railway connection. The
layout is built as a number of separate discrete scenes, or connected
dioramas if you like. The operating theme emphasises the work carried
out by the train crew at specific station stops or yards, rather than
getting the train "over the road" from one end of the line to the other.

Benchwork: "Qubelok" aluminium section and fasteners, topped with
9mm ply to provide solid base for catenary poles. Qubelok is an
Australian-made system of extruded aluminium sections and
injection-moulded plastic corners and other fasteners intended for the
shop-fitting trade.

I initially used this product for the portable layout. It's strong,
rigid, doesn't warp or expand with humidity, weighs bugger-all, is very
quick to assemble, and is cheaper than the equivalent in timber or
plywood. I was so happy with it's performance on the portable layout
that I used it on the permanent layout as well.

Scenery: Extruded foam, real dirt, natural ground cover, natural
and wire tree armatures, and scenic products from Noch, Heki, Auhagen,
Silflor, Busch, GPP, and several local producers. Some very nice pines
were made for me by the wife of a workmate, others by my wife.

Structures: Mainly scratchbuilt, from styrene, ABS,
acrylic/perspex sheet, timber, cardstock and sheet metal. All are models
of actual Japanese buildings, most from the area modelled.

Control: NCE Powerhouse Pro DCC. Decoders are a grab-bag of NCE,
Soundtraxx, ESU and Lenz. I have a few vehicles fitted with sound, I
like to have horns and bells on my electric cars and locos. To expand
the use of sound, I use cheap MP3 players to provide crossing bell and
platform departure songs and chimes.

Track:Again, a grab-bag of Peco, Micro-Engineering, Pilz, Tillig,
and some handlaid. Most is code 75. I was very disappointed with the
appearance of my handlaid track, and won't be doing any more.

Catenary: An ugly concoction of home-made, Viessmann,
Sommerfeldt, Bemo, Hornby and Electrotren parts. It is purely cosmetic,
and the least satisfactory feature of the whole layout. I may rip it all
out and start over...

Roadbed: Australian-made closed cell foam on extruded foam or WS
risers subroadbed. Ballast is fines collected from my local full-size
ballast quarry, or similar fines obtained from when I've worked ballast
trains from there, secured with matte medium.

Maximum grade: A short pinch of 1 in 15 in the street at
Yonejima-guchi.

Ruling grade: 1 in 75.

Minimum radius: 24" on open track, 15" on street track.

Valance and fascia: 3mm extruded polystyrene sheet.

Backdrop: 3mm extruded polystyrene sheet. I've taken many photos
of the sky in winter, then used them as a guide to paint the backdrop.
It features an overcast, cloudy day, the sort with no real shadows or
highlights.

Lighting: The portable section uses cool white fluorescent tubes
to be consistent with the modelled season and type of weather
represented. I tried using low-watt mini-fluoro bulbs elswhere, but they
are still too directional and cast unwanted shadows. Also the colour
temperature isn't consistent, so I'm replacing them with more fluoro tubes.

Cheers,

Mark.

[GAPPLEG]

Layout at a glance

Name: Southern Pacific  and Ficticious Texas Mining and Industrial RR.

Scale: 1:87

Size: overall, 12' x 16'

Height: 42"Style: around the room w/ duckunder

Period: absoulute present

Locale: El Paso to Lordsburg N.M.

Theme: Freelance --Southern Pacific and ficticious short line meeting in New Mexico

Scenery: Mostly plaster castings and desert sand 

Straight DC

Roadbed: W/S Foam

Track: Atlas code  100

Max grade: 4%

Minimum radius: 33 mainline , variable on shortline tracks

Backdrop: Finished walls painted and some walthers backdrops

Fascia: 1x4

[wm3798]

Name: Western Maryland Railway Western Lines
Scale: N
Size: overall, 16 x 16 (ultimately)
Height: 42" generally.  I'm building in an attic, so I have to deal with sloped ceilings...

Style: L-girder along the wall tables with a peninsula
Period: 1967-72
Locale: Cumberland, Maryland and west to Connellsville, PA and Elkins WV.

Theme: Reasonable Facsimile of prototype operations.

Scenery: Foam over plywood with Sculptamold finish.

Control: MRC Prodigy Advance DCC
Roadbed: Midwest Cork
Track: Atlas code 55 for visible track, Atlas Code 80 for staging
Turnouts: Visible track #7, #5 in yards and switching areas

Minimum radius: 15", 24" generally

 

The grey areas show the sections that are yet to be built.  The yellow line indicates the current boundaries of the layout, and the red lines indicate temporary trackage that allows the layout to be operated while work progresses (and funds accumulate!)

Lee 

[vsmith]

Layout at a glance

Name: Borracho Springs RR
Scale: 1:20.3 large scale
Location: Garage
Size: overall, 8 1/2 ' x 10' w/ one access aisle
Height: 36"
Style: traditional benchtop wedged under a storage loft.
Period: 1950-60
Locale: Somewhere in the monument valley area of the southwest
Theme: Small time narrow guage serving a mine and small town.
Scenery: not yet started, to be carved foam with some hardshell castings
Control: Straight DC with Aristo Craft Basi Train Engineer
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: LGB, AristCraft
Max grade: 0
Minimum radius: 48" R1 diameter
Backdrop: sky blue paint, may try to paint backdrop
Fascia: to be paint over 1x6 framing

Lets update this, since my layout got demoed to makeway for a new garage I have been sans layout, no date on restarting the replacement so I'm going to do this...

Plan:

http://1stclass.mylargescale.com/vsmith/Large%20Scale%20Pizza%20layout_BTS_2008.pdf

Name: Borracho Springs RR
Scale: 1:20.3 large scale
Location: Portable
Size: Overall, 36" x 36"... yes, thats correct.
Height: 36"
Style: Pizza style micro-layout w/ removable legs for transport or desktop display
Period: 1920-30
Locale: Somewhere in the monument valley area of the southwest
Theme: Small time (very small time) narrow guage serving a mine and small town.
Scenery: not yet started, to be carved blue-foam with resin castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: Traditional cork
Track: AristoCraft rail handlaid on basswood ties
Max grade: 0
Minimum radius: 34" diameter, yes, thats correct.
Backdrop: To be Walthers backdrop over painted blue backdrop
Fascia: Painted wood

 

[Cannoli]

My layout is still well within the early stages of construction but here are the basics:

Name: Boston & Maine Dowe, NH Branch
Scale: HO
Size: overall, 14' x 12'
Height: 46"
Style: shelf with penninsula
Period: 1978-1981
Locale: Central New Hampshire
Theme: Protolance branchline
Scenery: Foam with plaster castings
Control: MRC Prodigy Express DCC
Roadbed: Woodland Scenics foam bed
Track: Atlas code 83 for visible track, Atlas Code 100 for staging
Turnouts: Visible track #6, #4 Staging
Minimum radius: 24"

[steamage]

Layout at a glance

Name: Los Angeles & San Fernando Railroad
Scale: HO, 1:87
Size: 23' long x 9' wide in an attic area
Height: 54 inches
Style: Around the room shelf. Inside operation with lift up.
Staging: Have several tracks in Sun Valley used to hold short trains.
Minimum aisle width: 6'
Period: Late 50's to mid-60s
Locale: Burbank, CA
Theme: Mainline junction of SP Coast Line and Valley line join into Los Angeles. CTC tower operation. Local switching jobs.
Scenery: Cityscape of one and two story industries along right-of-way.
Control: DC with walk-around control.
Roadbed: 1/2" soundboard on 1/2" plywood
Track: Micro engineering Code 83 flextrack, Code 70 on spur tracks.
Turnouts: Walthers #8 mainline, #6 turnouts for industry.
Minimum radius: 40
Backdrop: Painted drywall
Fascia: 1/8" masonite
Completion: Layout is finished to the extent of track, scenery and structures, however, there will always be more detailing to do. Was featured in GMR 2006. Nowadays I want to concentrate on the operating aspect of the layout!

[Medina1128]

What are the stats for your current layout? Or your planned one? Or whatever railroad your working on? Lets here it.

Layout at a glance

Name: Sierra Pacific & Eastern
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 11' x 11'
Height: 46"
Style: around the room w/ duckunder
Period: 1944-1956
Locale: California Sierra Foothills
Theme: Freelance --Southern Pacific meets Santa Fe
Scenery: glueshell with plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Atlas code 83 and 100
Max grade: 2%
Minimum radius: 26" upper, 22" lower
Backdrop: 1/4" masonite
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

Aggro, SOUNDS like a cool layout. You all should check out the pics!!

Name: Clinton/Golden Valley
Scale: 1:87
Size: overall, 27' x 18'
Height: 48"
Style: around the room folded dogbone                                                                                          Period: 1970-1976
Locale: West Central Missouri
Theme: Freelance --Missouri Pacific/Union Pacific meets Missouri Northern Arkansas
Scenery: insulating base under plaster cloth with plaster castings
Control: Straight DC
Roadbed: traditional cork
Track: Atlas code 83
Max grade: 2.5%
Minimum radius: 26" lower, 24" upper
Backdrop: will have 1/8 inch masonite
Fascia: 1/8" masonite

[tomikawaTT]

Ver-r-ry interesting!

Name(s):  Japan National Railways/Tomikawa Tani Tetsudo & others.

Scale:  1:80 (aka HOj)

Layout dimensions:  5.08m x 6.00m (16' 8" x 19' 8")

Style and construction:  walk-in, along two walls and across garage door with wrap-around end peninsulas; steel stud 'C acts like L' girder benchwork.

Rail height:  1067mm (3' 6") plus (a lot!) or minus (some hidden staging.)

Period and location:  September, 1964; Central Japan Alps.

Theme:  prototype JNR interchanging with freelance TTT.

Control:  analog DC, MZL system.

Scenery:  mountainous cedar forest, materials open to discussion.

Track:  flex and some hand-laid (including all specialwork) code 100, 83 (on concrete ties) and 70.

Minimum radius:  610mm (24")

Ruling grade:  25/1000 (2.5%)

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)