how about a "gold mine" for your layout....

@3rail posted:

An update from my pic I posted over 2 years ago.

Still no gold to see but I added a pack mule and miner at the mine entrance. The miner has his hands full trying to scare off the grizzly bear that decided to make the mine his home.

The 2nd pic is just a closeup of the first one.

Donald

Great use of a small space.

On a friend's layout, miners have wheelbarrows full of gold and right next to that, more miners have wheelbarrows full of diamonds! Gold and diamonds coexisting right next door. No wonder he is so rich.

Palallin, Where did you get your mine carts? I have the Lionel mine kit and I am going to add track to it and put some carts on it but I can't find them.

Although the topic is in regards to gold mines, I thought I would share some photos of the underground copper mine I built beneath the shaft house on my layout. I modified some HO scale equipment to create an operating underground mine railroad.

From the BTS website.  Bill's Train Shop.  

@Mike D posted:

Palallin, Where did you get your mine carts? I have the Lionel mine kit and I am going to add track to it and put some carts on it but I can't find them.

Mike, I got them both off eBay.  One was part of a somewhat non-politically correct set of miners--mostly pan but some obviously for bigger operations--and mules that I had to assemble and paint.  The other was a kit that I got from a well-known seller, but I am afraid I can't think of the names of either of them right now.  Sorry!  Try searching O Scale under Model RRs for "miners" or "mines."  That's what I did, but it was a few years ago.

Let see if I add a gold mine to the layout I will have to get some gold ore cars to transport the ore to a new gold refinery I built, then I can use my gold bullion car to transfer the gold bullion to the newly built gold mint or Fort Knox.  For more action I could use some gold coin dumping cars to transfer the coins for distribution.  This is where the plan falls down but I like it as I am always looking for jobs for my rail road.

Charlie