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Dan:  I liked that "Scenic Overlook" , great idea and really innovative.  Also, I bet that lady with the Cobra is going to be real popular!!

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Don

Donald P. McErlean

Don

Thanks this is all my first attempt at a layout. I retired in 2018 and started playing around with trains. The engineers never fail to blow their horns as they pass by! I call her my Bathing Beauty;

Dan

@Dan Kenny I love your scenery! Big foot is a big draw around my place here in Washington State! I also am attracted to your scenic view platform! The gal with the cobra isn't bad either, very cool you have lake front parking!

Mike

USMC 5/11 Battalion Oscar Battery 155 Big Guns/ US Embassy Guard  Sofia Bulgaria and Vienna Austria!

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Mike

I'm a fan of the big guy too. I was able to piggy back on one of my wife's business trips a few years ago to the Pallyup area. I was on my way to see the Mt. Raineer Railway Museum when I saw theses tree stumps along Alder Lake. Had to stop as it was amazing. The tree stumps are much bigger then the pictures may  seem to show. Some are over eight foot tall. That would be something to model some day. Then I noticed these foot prints, I'm a size twelve shoe. Glad it was gone before I got there! Thanks for the compliments on my layout. It is fun to try and make the different places like the lake but also a way to get there, seems to make it more realistic. And the Babe never fails to wave at the trains as they pass.







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Hi everyone, your layouts and scenery is just terrific and very well done.  I'm afraid, I am on the opposite side of the scale.  I tried to make scenery but my efforts seem to fall short.  Oh well, now I'm retired maybe I will try some more.

Here is an overview...space was a premium as room has other uses,  Its only 40" X 17' I nicknamed it the "long and skinny"

Layout Overview

Here is the Tower guarding the two lines entering the yard.  (Note layout is most Lionel when it comes to trains but the tower is an American Flyer - so called "S" gauge from about 1950)

layout scene 1

Here is downtown "Small Town" with the McDonald's of course.

tlayout scene 2 McDonalds.

Here is the town center, showing the Suburban Station and the Town Flag Pole...note its 1957 so the flag is a "48 star" flag.

Layout Small Town Center

Best Wishes

Don

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Hi everyone, your layouts and scenery is just terrific and very well done.  I'm afraid, I am on the opposite side of the scale.  I tried to make scenery but my efforts seem to fall short.  Oh well, now I'm retired maybe I will try some more.

Here is an overview...space was a premium as room has other uses,  Its only 40" X 17' I nicknamed it the "long and skinny"

Layout Overview

Here is the Tower guarding the two lines entering the yard.  (Note layout is most Lionel when it comes to trains but the tower is an American Flyer - so called "S" gauge from about 1950)

layout scene 1

Here is downtown "Small Town" with the McDonald's of course.

tlayout scene 2 McDonalds.

Here is the town center, showing the Suburban Station and the Town Flag Pole...note its 1957 so the flag is a "48 star" flag.

Layout Small Town Center

Best Wishes

Don

The city is crowded with shoppers or is that a protest blockade…..

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@Bigboyrich:  Thanks for your comments and here is some answers.

1. I can get around it (barely) because I l left a minimum of 2' open space along the walls with the bookcases.  It was a compromise as I just didn't have any more space and couldn't make the layout any thinner (Full radius for 0-31 curves)  Advice...if you have the space, even just another ft, I would make the aisle at least 2.5 ft or 3 ft.  The 2 ft width means when I go down the aisle by the bookcases I have to decide which way I want to face (layout or bookcase) because turning around in 2 ft does not work at least with me.

2. No protests...just a sale on Big Mac's at McDonalds...after all its a small town and it doesn't take much to get folks excited.

Again thanks for your comments and questions.

Best Wishes

Don

Good afternoon fellows, I think this thread is really neat, Don McErlean your layout is post war at its finest, with a few Marx trains added for nostalgia, Your McDonalds is neat, Wow, Obxtrainman, welcome to the OGR Forum and your layout is very nicely scenicked, Cool, Gunrunner John, you may not have scenery, but you’ve come along long way, it’s a beautiful layout, it’s a Wow. Happy Railroading Everyone.A1476177-8202-4ABA-816B-7D84F06677467581973D-DC0E-4089-86CE-CD695E35205E1FB330F1-9599-4BD0-9E52-A2B5518AA6A73E439E9A-C4CE-424D-9524-835F195508E64520D184-3E46-479E-A139-01D91C0FC023EFBA1224-9C5B-42E1-9E9D-C56B8C5C2B8D

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LeapinLarry :  Thank you for your comment on my little layout.  Coming from a "layout master" like yourself it means a great deal.  The McDonalds was a lucky "under the table" train show find and its mostly ceramic like Dept 56 although that is not the brand.  By the way, I saw in the latest issue of "The Lion Roars" that your layout is on the tour for the LCCA convention.  I am hoping I can make that and have a chance to meet you and see the layout.

Best Wishes

Don

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