Do you have a layout? Photos?

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

I have one, and I imagine that a majority of us here do - of one kind or another.

I do also imagine that a substantial minority - but still a minority - do not.

I wonder what the figure is? Maybe that has already been properly researched. Don't know.

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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 have a layout, still working on it, "not quite a complete redo" thread.  Spring is here, summer is closer than you think, and I have lots of chores, traveling and fishing and sailing to do.  So, I will rerail in the fall. 

Old photo before start of redo.

Another part before redo.

One part of the redo, mid way in the process. Kind of.

Yes.   and    Yes.

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

Frank

Yes I do and have a train room  layout with many projects under the table to complete. I spend winter in the train room and this year ;

I'm actually going to abuse myself  further this summer and work on a G scale train in the yard .

I can (Hopefully ) have trains in the summer and the winter

Larry.

You know Larry, I can look at your train room and layout everyday and still just says WOW!

Here are some photo's of my layout.

Mark: Very well done winter layout!

No indoor layout at the moment, but I do have a garden railway.

https://youtu.be/LLJ_XIW4Qr8

A work in proogress:

RickO posted:

A work in proogress:

Wow I think its the first time I have really seen pics of your layout.  Summer to winter cool. Nicely done.

My first ever, the Appalachian, Tampa, & Santa Fe was started in fall of 09 and dismantled in Aug of 2012 due to a move. Had a lot of fun with it as you can imagine. 

Am now working on our club's new layout that is housed in a 'Train Station' in the western NC mountains,  Buffalo Creek Vacations where folks can come stay in a caboose or nice log cabin and soon run trains with us on the premises!

suzukovich posted:

RickO posted:

A work in proogress

Wow I think its the first time I have really seen pics of your layout.  Summer to winter cool. Nicely done.

Thanks for the compliment suzukovich.

I still have a long way to go with the scenery adding more trees, details, structures, signals etc.

Still a novice, I find my more recent work more "convincing" to the point I will likely tweak things I did at the beginning.

Scenery has gone at a s.l.o.w. pace which has been interrupted by running trains and my 3 kids and what they bring with their lives.

As the're getting older I'm finding a bit more time for the layout. Having said that, I kinda like the  idea of the layout never really being finished. It seems the added details are endless.

I've recently made more significant progress  making it a bit more photo worthy.

Your winter layout is well done, and fitting as we all know model trains go hand in hand with winter.

All great photos above as well. I'm always inspired by other members work, getting ideas for scenes I may not have thought of.

RickO posted:

suzukovich posted:

RickO posted:

A work in proogress

Wow I think its the first time I have really seen pics of your layout.  Summer to winter cool. Nicely done.

Thanks for the compliment suzukovich.

I still have a long way to go with the scenery adding more trees, details, structures, signals etc.

Still a novice, I find my more recent work more "convincing" to the point I will likely tweak things I did at the beginning.

Scenery has gone at a s.l.o.w. pace which has been interrupted by running trains and my 3 kids and what they bring with their lives.

As the're getting older I'm finding a bit more time for the layout. Having said that, I kinda like the  idea of the layout never really being finished. It seems the added details are endless.

I've recently made more significant progress  making it a bit more photo worthy.

Your winter layout is well done, and fitting as we all know model trains go hand in hand with winter.

All great photos above as well. I'm always inspired by other members work, getting ideas for scenes I may not have thought of.

Scenery has gone at a s.l.o.w. pace which has been interrupted by running trains and my 3 kids and what they bring with their lives     I can really identify with that one and at times barely keep my head above water or at least it how it feels at times. Isn't  being a parent fun?.

As for photo worthy. I think we have all been there. We can be our own worst critics.   The ballasting of the fast track really sticks out. Many others have done it here and done right can really blend in to the point of hardly noticing it.

Thanks for the compliment on the winter theme. Reality there are some better ones out there. SIRTs winter module is great. Same as Mark Strittmatter layout and I like what you did with the mountain. I think reality is that winter themed layouts are tough  to create just due to the variety of conditions. Partly frozen ponds and streams, Ice effects, Slush and packed snow on roads, and so on to be really convincing..  

RickO

Love your corner mountain / tunnel --- How did you build paint weather it etc

Thx

Joe S

I had numerous layouts from 1994 to 2015.   Now I'm planning a tiny 3 X 12 layout with  0-27 curves, This layout was in 2008.

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate and admire the efforts you all put into your layouts. I'm confined to an 8' X 10' space for now but hope to gain more when the kids are all gone and we move into a one-story home (ranch) with a big, long basement.