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.

Moonson posted:

I have often wondered who, and how many voices active on this forum, have, or have had, or are planning to have, or are in the process of constructing, an actual layout.

Several of us have been active on the "What did you do on your layout today" thread, and that is surely a good thing. But overall, given all the voices participating on OGR, I wonder who is active in that way in our hobby.

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

Hi FrankM,

Your layout is outstanding! Do you have a YouTube page? Also, I do have a layout but most of the layouts I see on here are nearly complete. Mines is just in the beginning stages of scenery. Many parts still are showing bare plywood

I have a work in progress, photo from 2 years ago.

Working on it.  Long way to go and slowing down this spring/summer

Here are a few from my layout...

My layout is my club layout, the GOLDEN GATE LIONEL RAILROAD CLUB. A modular layout that is displayed throughout the San Jose/San Francisco bay area a dozen times or more a year. Here are some recent photos, including those at the Hiller Aviation Museum "Planes and Trains" show this past week.

Ray

 

It is simple, but it is mine and I have fun with it. The first few shots are underneath my bridges, which explains the poor lighting. My first real attempt at scenery, so I may start doing more of that around the layout. Or, I may knock it all down and start over. Just never know.

Yes, I have a layout. Here's a photo.

dorfj2 posted:

RickO

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

Thx

Joe S

Thanks Joe!

3 or 4 boxes with the flaps cut off turned upside down and openings were cut in the ends just large enough for the trains to pass through to retain the box strength. ( Obviously if you cut the ends all the way off  a box just flattens.

The boxes were then glued to the layout top/pink foam with hot glue.

Newspaper wads were taped to the tops of the boxes, to remove any "boxy" shape and the tunnel portholes were hot glue to the box ends and layout top and any gaps were filled with styrofoam pieces.

Then Woodland Scenics plaster cloth was laid over the newspaper and boxes down to the base of the mountain.

After drying, I watered down some drywall spackle into a paste and brushed it onto any of the holes showing through the plaster cloth. Then let that dry.

With the exception of the areas I wanted snow on, the whole mountain was painted with Woodland Scenics c1218 stone gray liquid pigment.

Rocky outcroppings were accentuated by brushing them with Woodland Scenics c1219  slate gray liquid pigment to give some contrast.

The nice thing about these liquid pigments is that they're water soluble. I diluted them fairly well and they become more of a wash that absorbs into the plaster leaving a nice flat earthy finish. A little bottle goes a long way diluted.

I brushed on some white glue and added woodland scenics snow to the desired areas. I sprayed  50/50 water glue mix and added a second layer of snow as needed.

Then a little hot glue on the pine tree bases and poked them through the plaster cloth as desired, and spinkled them with snow as well.

On the right side of the tunnel porthole in my first photo you can see some black felt sticking out I didn't secure properly.

The whole right side of the mountain is not sceniced, and has  a piece of removable black felt going across it secured with push pins into the boxes and plaster coth. This allows me to be able to clean the track within the tunnel as well as fix any derailments that occur inside.

NOTE: The portholes visible in my photos 8 and 9 are too close to the curve. This is one of those " I would have done that differently" learned from my first layout experiences. STRAIGHTS ONLY IN AND OUT OF TUNNELS.

If you look closely you can see where I had to "modify" one of the portholes to keep the cab of my scale berkshire from hitting it

All in all, it may sound like alot of steps, but the mountain was easy,  went up fast, and  ended up looking much better than I expected. Its far from the most realistic, especially when compared to some of the real scenery experts on the forum, but I think it gives the desired effect.

 

and mine

 

corsair29 posted:

corsair29, layout looks nice. What's the dimensions?

I can't even imagine having a home without a train layout!

Here is a section of my layout in my last house in PA:

Here is my current layout in CA:

Here is a section of my layout two houses ago in PA:

wrawroacx posted:

 

corsair29, layout looks nice. What's the dimensions?

Thanks Tom,

It's about 25 X 36

Posted these over on "Photo" section.  Hope cross post is ok.  Wife and I enjoy the flexability of changing all the Lego stuff for different seasons.

Eddie

It's not 3-rail, but here's a few of mine. I have posted these shots elsewhere on this forum, so some of you will have seen them before:

After viewing so many magnificent layouts posted by so many of our extremely talented O Gauge brothers and sisters I hesitate to post anything but in the interests of offering some examples of rudimentary layout construction I offer the following: 

The first is my 8x20 O gauge layout; the second is my 4x8 S Gauge layout, while the third is my tiny 3x4 all tinplate layout.  The fourth and final entry is our family Christmas 6x12 combination O and Standard Gauge layout.

www.njhirailers.com

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! 

 

Yes, and a lot of people here are aware of it too. It isn't all pretty and finished looking, but I'm working on it almost every day. It won't have a lot of buildings, lights or accessories. It won't even have that many trees or people. The layout is all about the trains. Over 3000' of track, more than 300 switches, on three levels.

Still have to do something with those walls. But the layout is good for now.

Tim

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

Here is a bit of ours over time.

 

That should do. 

 

ConRailFan,

   Yep every year at Christmas time, when we purchase our new home I intend to have a permanent layout up 365, similar to our prior Game Room/Office layouts.

PCRR/Dave

Mine is under construction after a few false starts.  So while the bench work isnt quite done yet, here is a collection photo on the part that is atleast far enough along that I will lay some track on it soon.    Mike

I am going to go ahead and add some pictures of my layout. I don't work on mine very often. I usually end up just running trains on it instead of doing anything else. Since the only time I really get to work on it is after my five year old goes to bed, and then I usually only work on it on the weekend after my wife goes to bed. I call is a semi-permanent layout, I am fairly certain I will be having to tear it down in a few years when we are able to get some work done on the house we own. 

I call it the J&SO Lines

Here are some photos of my layout. Click on photos at bottom to view captions.

Layout is 15X13 G shaped around the room.  Also two pics of previous layouts in the same house.

Trumptrain, I really like your pictures of your colorful and neat layout...It's bustling with activity and everyone's having fun....Amazing!  Thank You...

tcochran posted:

I am going to go ahead and add some pictures of my layout. I don't work on mine very often. I usually end up just running trains on it instead of doing anything else. Since the only time I really get to work on it is after my five year old goes to bed, and then I usually only work on it on the weekend after my wife goes to bed. I call is a semi-permanent layout, I am fairly certain I will be having to tear it down in a few years when we are able to get some work done on the house we own. 

I call it the J&SO Lines

Since the only time I really get to work on it is after my five year old goes to bed, and then I usually only work on it on the weekend after my wife goes to bed.   Boy I know that feeling well. 3 kids all school age and yes it doesn't get any better as they get older( Music lessons, Band, and other after school activities, nd other life issues) , . Some work while they were in school but mostly at night after everybody went to bed. Have a huge backlog of Kadee conversions now as lately all I want to do is sleep.  Layout looks good try to post some more pics to see what you have.

Here is my layout. It is a 10 x 14 . Love to have a bigger one but my kids needs room to play also. 

Some More pictures from last night. Took most of them while the train was moving.

Luvindemtrains mentioned (and thank you, sir, for your approval of my layout) his having bare plywood. My intention in suggesting participation on this thread was to encourage and invite a sharing of ideas and accomplishments that benefit us all by seeing what we have had and may still have, or have begun. Exposed plywood is part of the fun and accomplishment (see middle photo above).

The thread inviting "what did you do on your layout today" is popular because it has us all sharing what we have worked at presently. However, some of us no longer do work on a layout, aside from maintenance or operating, or have had one we don't change but enjoy just the same.

Sometimes, a layout is simply enjoyable to look at, realizing, "Hey, that's all mine!" Enjoy what you have. Or had. Then, come tell us about it here, if you please.

All of the layouts shown along this thread so far, are amazing in their diversity of creativity and enjoyment of our hobby. Clearly, a lot of guys are having a whole lot of fun. One of the many fine examples of loads of fun would be seeing Barry's layout, which was a particular surprise for me because I had never realized he had one. (May we see more, Barry?)

Shown here is, however, a place on my layout I did change not-too-long-ago, which was mentioned in a Run of OGR. As our editor pointed out, I wanted to open up the view from the aisle into the RR service yard, so I changed plenty of what was around it. "What was" is shown in the top two photos; then, you can see the same area stripped. Next, comes how it is nowadays.

FrankM, Moon Township

 

suzukovich posted:

  Layout looks good try to post some more pics to see what you have.

I will at some point, working on my other hobby is taking priority right know, Only really thing I recently did is finish wiring up all my switches. As well has drilled out holes for all my signals from custom signals.

Multiple levels...

hello Barry, can you post some more pictures of your engine area, transfer table views,

thank you, brian

here`s mine

luvindemtrains posted:

Moonson posted:

I have often wondered who, and how many voices active on this forum,have, or have had, or are planning to have, or are in the process of constructing, an actual layout.

Several of us have been active on the "What did you do on your layout today" thread, and that is surely a good thing. But overall, given all the voices participating on OGR, I wonder who is active in that way in our hobby.

FrankM, Moon Township, USA

Hi FrankM,

Your layout is outstanding! Do you have a YouTube page? Also, I do have a layout but most of the layouts I see on here are nearly complete. Mines is just in the beginning stages of scenery. Many parts still are showing bare plywood

Thank you, Luvindemtrains.

Let me encourage you to post when you have anything to share, even the empty plywood platform. All of us, if I may say so, like seeing layouts, even when they are simple plywood with all the details still in the hobbyist's imagination. It would be fun for us to see, along with you, how layouts have been, are, or are becoming.

These shots, here , show you one particular neighborhood in my layout, named "V-valley," that changed distinctly several times...

trumptrain posted:

Here are some photos of my layout. Click on photos at bottom to view captions.

Beautiful layout but I don't know if they ever built that many Tuckers ?

trumptrain posted:

Here are some photos of my layout. Click on photos at bottom to view captions.

Hey, Maynard - That's a marvelous layout you got there and this truly is a superb photo.

Pete

Brian,

can you post some more pictures of your engine area, transfer table views,

Sure...

hello Barry again, thank you for your time and photo's, engine area looks great, really like you transfer table, i want to start on one for my layout, can't wait to get started, brian

leapinlarry posted:

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....

I've heard of "Man Caves", but that is a Man Palace." You have treated yourself to many treasures and a whole lot of creative play. Good for you, LeapinLarry!

PUFFRBELLY posted:

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)

And what's the status of your intriguing layout nowadays, Pufferbelly?

FrankM.

cabinet Bob posted:

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

How about some close-ups of those treasures, CabinetBob?

FrankM.

fl9turbo2 posted:

Here are some of mine under construction 

LOVE to see more angles and close-ups of this interesting treasure!

FrankM.

No photos readily available but how about the next best thing....a video!

Updated with lights

pennsynut posted:

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.

Would you like to share the latest views, Pennsynut, or is it too soon to ask ?

FrankM.

Not much, but it's Fun when I have time..

RickO posted:

A work in proogress:

RickO, You stated this is a "work in progress." Is there any further updated shots you would like to share? This is a really good looking layout already!

FrankM.

leapinlarry posted:

Trumptrain, I really like your pictures of your colorful and neat layout...It's bustling with activity and everyone's having fun....Amazing!  Thank You...

Just seeing your post tonight.  Thanks so very much for your very kind words about my layout!  I'm glad you enjoyed the photos!  FYI - I'm actually color blind so I don't see the world the way non- color blind folks do ... good to know you think my layout is colorful

Moonson posted:

Luvindemtrains mentioned (and thank you, sir, for your approval of my layout) his having bare plywood. My intention in suggesting participation on this thread was to encourage and invite a sharing of ideas and accomplishments that benefit us all by seeing what we have had and may still have, or have begun. Exposed plywood is part of the fun and accomplishment (see middle photo above).

The thread inviting "what did you do on your layout today" is popular because it has us all sharing what we have worked at presently. However, some of us no longer do work on a layout, aside from maintenance or operating, or have had one we don't change but enjoy just the same.

Sometimes, a layout is simply enjoyable to look at, realizing, "Hey, that's all mine!" Enjoy what you have. Or had. Then, come tell us about it here, if you please.

All of the layouts shown along this thread so far, are amazing in their diversity of creativity and enjoyment of our hobby. Clearly, a lot of guys are having a whole lot of fun. One of the many fine examples of loads of fun would be seeing Barry's layout, which was a particular surprise for me because I had never realized he had one. (May we see more, Barry?)

Shown here is, however, a place on my layout I did change not-too-long-ago, which was mentioned in a Run of OGR. As our editor pointed out, I wanted to open up the view from the aisle into the RR service yard, so I changed plenty of what was around it. "What was" is shown in the top two photos; then, you can see the same area stripped. Next, comes how it is nowadays.

FrankM, Moon Township

 

Is it real or is it the work of Frank M.??  Absolutely stunning work as always Frank!!!  AND as always, your work inspires me!!!  THANKS!!!  

This is my Xmas effort. Work still in progress. Learning alot from this forum.  The tunnel and mountain system is off site right now undergoing a pretty major change.  Ted