Do you have a layout? Photos?

WOW! All the layout pictures are really beautiful!

Yes, I have a layout. It is unfortunately asleep in Picasa. But I enjoy viewing all of the new and older layouts.

I have an extra room for my trains, used to be a bedroom. These are some of my set-up photos from a few months ago, however layout is almost finished.

I am using tubular track and switches, mostly 042 track on the lower level and 027 track on the upper level. Have gone over to Ross Custom switches as they seem to work better with my large steam engines I have. Still have some Gargraves switches but am working on replacing them with Ross Custom switches as time goes by. I have a few MTH engines so I am using MTH Z-1000 transformers with my MTH & Williams trains.

Lee Fritz

p51 posted:

It's not 3-rail, but here's a few of mine (which will be in the On30 Annual, coming out any day now to better model train stores everywhere). I have posted these shots elsewhere on this forum, so some of you will have seen them before:

 

 

All great layouts with too many outstanding images to repost!  Lee, nice work!!

Though I don't watch the Wizard of OZ because of the scary scenes in the fields and forests!

Here are some of mine under construction 

Here's  mine, one is Menardsville , the other  is Lionel

Nice stuff guys really enjoy it!

suzukovich posted:

Frank

I have always enjoyed pics and story line from your layout. Yes I have one. Nothing like yours. New one in the works but for now this one has to do. As for updates other then Kadee conversions I am pretty much at my left and right limits as what I can do to it. Ok some minor things, but I trying to give myself more incentive to build new one by doing nothing to current one. At least that's the idea. If any thing just been doing vids

 

 

 

    

This's is awesome Doug!

KRM posted:

WOW Guys. We have a layout but, I give up.

 Your stuff is so nice compared to my table for running trains for me and the 3 year old grandson I am using on a LOW budget.

 I am blown away by some of the work. Makes me want to do more. 

 Bet you would not want Jordan to come over and run your trains! 

 

don't be shy! if I can show my green painted plywood in my crappy basement...so can you!

cabinet Bob posted:

Here's  mine, one is Menardsville , the other  is Lionel

I'm thinking that Menardsville is going to be as big as Lionel if not bigger!

Erik C Lindgren posted:

suzukovich posted:

Frank

I have always enjoyed pics and story line from your layout. Yes I have one. Nothing like yours. New one in the works but for now this one has to do. As for updates other then Kadee conversions I am pretty much at my left and right limits as what I can do to it. Ok some minor things, but I trying to give myself more incentive to build new one by doing nothing to current one. At least that's the idea. If any thing just been doing vids

 

 

 

    

This's is awesome Doug!

Pictures are worth a 1000 words, but your videos really tell a story! Thanks for sharing!

Erik C Lindgren posted:

suzukovich posted:

Frank

I have always enjoyed pics and story line from your layout. Yes I have one. Nothing like yours. New one in the works but for now this one has to do. As for updates other then Kadee conversions I am pretty much at my left and right limits as what I can do to it. Ok some minor things, but I trying to give myself more incentive to build new one by doing nothing to current one. At least that's the idea. If any thing just been doing vids

 

 

 

    

This's is awesome Doug!

Coming from you that means a lot. Thanks

mike g. posted:

Erik C Lindgren posted:

suzukovich posted:

Frank

I have always enjoyed pics and story line from your layout. Yes I have one. Nothing like yours. New one in the works but for now this one has to do. As for updates other then Kadee conversions I am pretty much at my left and right limits as what I can do to it. Ok some minor things, but I trying to give myself more incentive to build new one by doing nothing to current one. At least that's the idea. If any thing just been doing vids

 

 

 

    

This's is awesome Doug!

Pictures are worth a 1000 words, but your videos really tell a story! Thanks for sharing!

Mike thanks.   Not sure about story lines other then about the engines. I know some would rather here engine sounds. Steam is cool but for the most part I like listening to music when I run them. Music to the vids depends on mood. The hard part is syncing the music with the video, or should I say the vid with the music.  Now if I can only figure out how to add effects like Erik does with his pics or come close to the quality of his videos. Then I am getting somewhere. Ultimately its about having fun and working with what you have.. 

phillyreading posted:

I have an extra room for my trains, used to be a bedroom. These are some of my set-up photos from a few months ago, however layout is almost finished.

Nice..   So the question is where are the previous occupant of the bedroom. Now on a mattress in the garage?    At least Mark married off his daughter to get a room..

BobbyD posted:

p51 posted: 

All great layouts with too many outstanding images to repost!  Lee, nice work!!

Though I don't watch the Wizard of OZ because of the scary scenes in the fields and forests!

Thanks, Bobby!

I bet you probably don't want to watch this movie, then!

Ok here goes.  Been at it for a year.  Learned a lot on here. My layout with 50 things started not much scenery done but hey I sure have fun running trains even if the plywood is all showing where I thought there would be trees and mountains already and when I retire in 19 months look out then!

Roger

027runner posted:

Ok here goes.  Been at it for a year.  Learned a lot on here. My layout with 50 things started not much scenery done but hey I sure have fun running trains even if the plywood is all showing where I thought there would be trees and mountains already and when I retire in 19 months look out then!

Roger

Hey Roger, as long as your having fun, that's all that matters! Don't get wrapped up in hype or this and that. Just have FUN!

Here are some photos of my present layout. I added the yard after Christmas. 

Needless to say, it is a work in progress, but here's what I've got so far.  I  posted these on another topic yesterday as well.

Chief Bob (Retired)

suzukovich posted:

phillyreading posted:

I have an extra room for my trains, used to be a bedroom. These are some of my set-up photos from a few months ago, however layout is almost finished.

Nice..   So the question is where are the previous occupant of the bedroom. Now on a mattress in the garage?    At least Mark married off his daughter to get a room..

I am in a 2 story condo on the first floor and don't have a garage, however there are 2 completed bedrooms and a room that looks like it could have been a bedroom but has no closet. 

Since I took the photos I have almost completed my track layout and put up buildings, mainly Plasticville buildings or some lower price Lionel buildings. My layout has a second level which has mainly 032 curves from Gargraves and has 2 tracks running on it.

Lee Fritz

My own little piece of heaven on  4X8 sheet of plywood.

Really jealous of the "Big" layouts on the forum but given the available space I'm having a blast building my first layout since I was a teenager. One side of the layout is much further along than the other but it is a work in progress.

Good afternoon,

I am working on the last section of the north end elevated loop. Roadbed, pillar paint and side rails.. Should have it done tonight and back installed tomorrow. Humid out so things are drying slow.

Then on to the south end. Slow but sure and getting better on every section. By the time I am done I will know what I am doing. 

 

My layout was started 14 years ago. It's a combination of O and standard gauges.

My layout is essentially complete.  (It was the cover article in the January OGRR magazine.)  Much of my enjoyment comes from the building process, so I'm considering totally dismantling the current bedroom-sized layout, and creating a new one.  Haven't made the final decision yet, but it appears likely that building will win out over running.  Here's my current track diagram of the new layout, subject to change as I continue to rethink the process. 

Operation on my layout in 12'x15' room modeling Coal and steel railroad / Pennsylvania railroad Lake division / central region /new castle pa / Conway yard / lum / Jacob coal Co and freedom pa.

Working on signal system right now and putting in tortoise switch machine in.

https://www.facebook.com/newcastlerailroad.cohen/

 

https://www.youtube.com/channe...cIJ_Un5Y1B-DQ/videos

 

 

Awesome thread!  Here are a few pictures from mine. 

I am currently on hold with a permanent layout. I have not had one since the '90's but had always done a Christmas layout(simple track under the tree) for a good number of years. I had gotten the need to remedy all of this last year but got extremely sidelined. My mother had gotten sick and was in the hospital in late October. Things were not good after a good bit, but she wasn't in bad health. I had resolved to work on a Christmas layout for last years Christmas even got all the lumber and other stuff for it. What wound up happening was all my time was spent with my siblings to go see mom. In December it was rough but she had been getting better, they had to do a trach and she couldn't even speak to us at Christmas. She did get the trach out and was able to speak to us once more. Eventually she had gotten transferred to a get better facility and went to rehab in January. She was doing so well, and we had actually had a nice Sunday out in the warm air February 19th. She died that Tuesday morning.

So right now sort of really tied up with estate stuff, what and where things will be moving to but I do plan on finishing that Christmas layout some time in the coming weeks, just to have something to run around on a few tiny straight pieces and some O42 curves. Until I get to a new place I won't know exactly what I am going to be building, but I can always dream of that. I am hoping to at least have something around 15'(or better) by 18'(or better) but naturally will be clueless until everything gets done. In the meantime, I will tinker with track plans, ask advice, and maybe even upload some of them to see what others think and maybe even inspire.

Here is my layout! It's getting to the point where I will be adding people and details to the layout. 

There are some really nice layouts pictured above on this new thread....Ricko has a really nice layout and Sam.s picture of the War Bonnet Silver passenger train is beautiful...Many clever fun to run layouts....Thanks for posting these magnificent 3D moving pieces of Creative, Imagineered Art, full of thoughts of the Real Trains running right in front of you.....Fantastic....This is a Fun Hobby....

phillyreading posted:

suzukovich posted:

phillyreading posted:

I have an extra room for my trains, used to be a bedroom. These are some of my set-up photos from a few months ago, however layout is almost finished.

Nice..   So the question is where are the previous occupant of the bedroom. Now on a mattress in the garage?    At least Mark married off his daughter to get a room..

I am in a 2 story condo on the first floor and don't have a garage, however there are 2 completed bedrooms and a room that looks like it could have been a bedroom but has no closet.   Holy cow I would of never suspected the roof or that matter a storage locker!!!!!!       

Since I took the photos I have almost completed my track layout and put up buildings, mainly Plasticville buildings or some lower price Lionel buildings. My layout has a second level which has mainly 032 curves from Gargraves and has 2 tracks running on it.

Lee Fritz

Lee Looking forward to updated pics.

Yeah, I got a layout.  What's it to ya?

I post this in hope that the folks who may not have magnificently crafted and detailed layouts might be encouraged to post photos of their setups.  It can't get much worse, eh.  Lucky for me I got no shame. 

Layout was originally engineered to be a carpet central on a table with an ever changing track arrangement.  Then I decided I wanted something more "sophisticated," but I wanted to be able to watch a train go 'round while I work on a track plan.  So after I removed the track and accessories and vacuumed the carpet I set up a loop with a passing siding.  Unfortunately no horizontal surface is safe from my tendency to chaos.  Yes, the train can be and does run, and I enjoy watching it.

Pete

Texas Pete posted:

Yeah, I got a layout.  What's it to ya?      Ouch!!!!!!!  Someone needs to have their coffee

I post this in hope that the folks who may not have magnificently crafted and detailed layouts might be encouraged to post photos of their setups.  It can't get much worse, eh.  Lucky for me I got no shame. 

Layout was originally engineered to be a carpet central on a table with an ever changing track arrangement.  Then I decided I wanted something more "sophisticated," but I wanted to be able to watch a train go 'round while I work on a track plan.  So after I removed the track and accessories and vacuumed the carpet I set up a loop with a passing siding.  Unfortunately no horizontal surface is safe from my tendency to chaos.  Yes, the train can be and does run, and I enjoy watching it.

Pete

 

I am really enjoying this thread.  The posts have been alternately inspiring, encouraging and in some cases validating my meager efforts.  Texas Pete's picture motivated to me to post here as well.

Since I only have my iPad with me, and I don't have my photos in the "cloud," I am limited to what I have on this device.  The last pic is cross posted from another thread about messy work benches.  It was a temporary set up for my wife's Hogwarts Express and the visiting grandchildren on some of the benchwork brought from a layout I started in our previous home and cut down to cram into an extra bedroom.  Everything was intended to be kid friendly.  Still there years later.

The first three pics are of my S gauge "operating" layout that a good friend and I have set up in our state capitol building for over thirty years.  Don is the master builder, and I am his long time apprentice and the one with the trains.  We have also displayed it at local and regional train shows.  It allows me to get some of my AF and other S gauge trains out of boxes to stretch their legs.

Cheers!

Alan

D500 posted:

Building the turntable several years ago (a flat hides the electrical panel now).

Don't ever do this; write the check, order a nice one, and never look back. Horrible experience.

It does, however, work.

I like your advice above. I originally scratch built my first turntable like Mike CT years ago before I began manufacturing them. About a year ago I ripped out that first scratch built table to install one of my production units (it was painfull to do, after spending all that time building it) but having the production unit with all the bells and whistles was a no brainer to do. There is nothing like running a turntable that is smooth and accurate, plus looks great! 

Here is the Mass Central switching the Mills.. O-Scale 2-rail...

Wow! Great photos. Being a Clevelander, I liked the shots of the Higbee's building and the GLB Christmas Ale (though I contend Conway's Irish Ale and Eliot Ness are both better than Christmas Ale).

BANDOB posted:

Still have a layout in the basement as one of the CB&L Lines.......

 

BANDOB, That looks like an exciting place. I can almost hear that commuter train zipping by. And looking across that landscape, it is obvious you know how to play. Very, very nice!

FrankM