First completed scene on my new layout

@Allan Miller posted:

My train buddy, fellow VN vet, and Forum member, Chet Lichota, created this farm scene for one corner of my under-construction layout. Chet brought it to our weekly Tuesday Train Team get-together in Mercer, PA, last night, and I brought it home and placed it on the layout this morning. I think he did a first-rate job with this, including the painting/weathering touches applied to the Woodland Scenics barn, farm house, and outbuildings.

That looks fantastic Allan!  All I can say is I need some buddies like that!   I have a ton of scenery to create, and that's way out of my wheelhouse, so it should be interesting to see the result.   A few dioramas like that to drop into place would really hit the spot!

Congrats on getting going on your new layout, I sense you'll be finished a long time before me!

Great to see that folks appreciate the scene that my pal, Chet, created. He is already chomping at the bit for another one to work on, and I sent him some of my thoughts this afternoon. I think he has an idea for one of my stations, which would be great because, in addition to the U.S. Army and Ohio Central, Amtrak will also be represented on the layout. I have way more trains than the layout can handle at any one time, and most reside in nearby glass-fronted display cases when they are not being operated. Problem is, I have already run out of display case space. Nevertheless, I do try to rotate things on a fairly regular basis.

You touched a nerve! Please elaborate on how it felt to see items you had purchased over the years finally operating on YOUR layout!  A lot of us arm chair modelers and collectors could be encouraged to get started with our dream layouts. Your precise ability to put words to paper has always been admired. Perhaps a future article in the magazine?

The home near the barn reminds me of the scenes in the tv show Lassie. All well done.

Allan, that’s a great scene, Congratulations on starting your layout, it’s looking good. Please keep us updated like Gunrunner John does as it’s an educational process for the folks reading this forum. We love pictures. Living in Clarksville Tennessee, 3 minutes from Ft. Campbell, seeing your army engines is amazing.  (41+likes, wow) Happy Railroading Everyone

(Earlier I misspelled Gunrunner John dies, instead it should have read does, I apologize very much for that typing error, forgive Gunrunner John)

Beautiful scene, Allan. I’m really looking forward to seeing your Army based layout progress. I’m also planning on building a military based layout in a newly accesible spare bedroom for my considerable military collection. Hoping to get some great ideas from your future posts/ogr magazine articles.

Very nice scene.  Looking forward to your layout progress.  
 Interesting that you have so many Army engines.  

@leapinlarry posted:

Allan, that’s a great scene, Congratulations on starting your layout, it’s looking good. Please keep us updated like Gunrunner John dies as it’s an educational process for the folks reading this forum. We love pictures. Living in Clarksville Tennessee, 3 minutes from Ft. Campbell, seeing your army engines is amazing.  (41+likes, wow) Happy Railroading Everyone

I'm sorry (GRJ) John!  I did not know you were dying.
(I just couldn't resist, Larry.)
D.

Gunrunner John, forgive me for my typing error earlier, I did not mean to say dies, but does.... Wow.... I had a Senior moment.... Happy Railroading Everyone

@leapinlarry posted:

Gunrunner John, forgive me for my typing error earlier, I did not mean to say dies, but does.... Wow.... I had a Senior moment.... Happy Railroading Everyone

I was certainly hoping that it was a typo!

I love a good farm scene and your buddy did a great job.  You mentioned that you were on the list for a new puppy.  Please consider adopting an adult dog from your local shelter.  There are lots of great dogs just waiting for a loving family to give them a forever home.  Thanks.    
                              By the way, I am a volunteer at the Humane Society of Missouri so I have first hand knowledge that there is a special dog just waiting for your family to bring home.

    Allan, that is a wonderful scene. One of the things that gives me great pleasure with this hobby is seeing the expertise and creativity of others building their models with their unique interpretations of reality in place and time. Really well done!

    Congratulations to your friend Chet and to you, on what looks to be a great layout.

Jerry

Very realistic terrain. Your friend did a good job with this scene.

Allan,

That looks so realistic, beautiful work !

Alex

Nice Job!

@Strap Hanger posted:

I’m really looking forward to seeing your Army based layout progress. I’m also planning on building a military based layout in a newly accesible spare bedroom for my considerable military collection. Hoping to get some great ideas from your future posts/ogr magazine articles.

Here's a not-very-good photo (I was too lazy to take the glass doors off) of a portion of my U.S. Army motive power roster. I only keep a couple or three Army trains on the layout at any one time, and have several conventional-power engines that don't see any running time at all because everything I currently operate is DCS and TMCC/Legacy.

That is an incredibly well done scene.  I am not used to seeing so much attention given to barns, or to the pump windmill.  I suspect on close inspection the grain silo roof will be just as good.

Alan, great farm scene. Captures everything. I have seen many farms just like that in my travels. Looks so real.

Tom

DCS will run conventional locos. So will Legacy/TMCC. You just need a Powermaster or TPC300/400 for Lionel's systems.

Very nice!