Yay! Sw Sat is on!
This week I am posting some pics of switchers on my old layout. I am slowly getting enough track and planning a new layout in a larger spot. Some of these may be old reposts from past Sw Sats sorry for that.
Here is my Williams NW2
Here is my K-line Porter
Here is an old Karl Bub German engine
Here is my MTH RS3 shell on Lionel running gear.
My RMT S4
My K-line Plymouth
my Williams 44tonner
Here is a before and after I repainted my junker Lionel 520
Here are some overall views of my tiny layout after I had started taking it apart for the move. You get a sence of how small my layout was. The center was the opening in an O-31 oval. The shelves used to have all of my rolling stock storage. The lowest shelf I claimed was the mainline at an elevated passenger station so I could leave trains there.
Here you get an idea of the track layout there was a plug in curve that connected the left and right track to make a loop. So next time you guys complain about lack of space for a layout this was my layout in a walk in closet / hallway in Manhattan NYC. It is possible to do a lot in a tiny space. In a way it forces some creativity. I'm a big passenger train fan but my spacereally only allowed a little switching layout.
I had a drop in curve to allow loop running but it was such a tight spot with it in that I usually just left it off and with bumpers in place I just ran this layout as a switching layout. In places it was so tight I hand threw turnouts because the switch machines took up too much space. The run around track with the spur inside was tricky. It looked better with a building flat there. The whole thing was really only suited to one switcher. I liked running the tiny Plymouth with much bigger more scale sized cars.
