An attic layout is great! You guys inspired me to scan pics of my first layout in the attic of our first home. My father had built two in the basement of his first house. We both built the table and mountains in this one. There are 8 full 4X8's and pieces of three more. These pics are more than 30 years old. You can see how rudimentary things were in those days. My craftsmanship, available supplies, and budget were certainly issues that affected this pre-DCS and TMCC layout.
You can see the effects of no paneling on the attic walls. Backdrops? OGR forum? Never entered my mind. Roadbed was dried coffee grounds. Computers were useless at that time, and a cell was something found at your local police department. Nevertheless, that layout was huge and enormously fun. At the end, I could run eight engines independently. Everything was Lionel, and it included a bunch of the old operating accessories. Though I now have a large table layout, plus a large overhead layout in our basement, I still miss that great attic layout.
When you're in your 30's, it's easy to crawl under and pop up through that access hole...
It took me weeks to build that bridge in the background. The cool thing was that you could see the trains running across it from outside that small dormer window.
This pic shows the only surviving section of that old layout. We carried it into the basement of our current home. Twenty years later, I began a new layout with what was left over from the old one.
This is the first of three rooms for the newest table layout. It pretty much shows what that section looks like today. Of course, this one has multiple large backdrops, DCS, and LCP's. It requires 3 PWZW's, a Z4000, and a CW80 for a trolley line. I run 9 separate trains at a time.
Good luck on your new attic project, Southern4501. Try to keep posting on your progress.
Jerry
