How About Building a Dual Gauge(O and S Gauge) Polar Express Christmas Layout? Ideas Welcome.

The first thought that came to my mind was for a dual layer "forced perspective" layout.  One could design the home town in the fore ground with the O-scale set with houses, people, streets, etc. trending toward the beginning or ending of the movie.  The background or maybe "higher" elevation could be the "S" scale and could be either the north pole (lights, Santa, Tree, etc) or the Mountain where the PE climbs up in a circular motion.  The complete circuit of each layout could be partially hidden under or behind to create a visual "forced" perspective of just one train.

Hi Ed,

Well we are adding an S/O gauge loop to our modular layout.

I will have to see about purchasing the P.E. for our holiday runs.

John

i had similar thoughts as Ironhorseman with the forced perspective etc. 

When you are setting up the scenes from the movie, don't forget the Caribou. There must be a million of 'em!

I think you guys have covered this one nicely.

Reminds me of an O layout I saw that used S, HO and N gauge in the background for that distance perspective.

I have never seen the whole movie but will probably need to in the next couple of years as soon as my 2 yr old grandson discovers it.

 not my intention to hijack this thread and possibly I should start a new thread, but does anyone know of a simple way to rescale/convert the dimensions of the Henning's "O-gauge Fastrack in the Christmas tree PE display" built last year (his how to do it article soon to be published in an upcoming OGR article) into S-gauge Fastrack? By using S-gauge the tree would be smaller and likely fit in a house with standard 8 foot tall ceilings whereas his O-gauge one won't. Any ideas on coverting O-gauge Fastrack dimensions to S-gauge Fastrack?

At first I read this thread and there was a break through in a new type of track. S and O dual gauge... would be an interesting layout. 

Plenty of new ideas needed! A dual gauge layout with LionChief tech begs for both recycled ideas and new approaches, so let's hear them.

The O Gauge Christmas layout in a Christmas tree is the lead article in the December issue of OGR  and adopting its methodology for S is a great idea!  Folks need to see the complete article so they can weigh in on this in detail.  Good one.

Ed Boyle

Hi Ed - Does  GarGraves Track or any of the track manufactures have a duel purpose track, 3 Rail and two rail "S" Gauge, in the same track sections and the switches?

Gary

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Neat idea.

I will check with the Gargraves folks.  I vaguely remember something like that, but I will have to do some checking. Whoever did it, did it a while ago.

Ed Boyle

Yes, that's what I was thinking too. The "S" gauge train representing a Narrow Gauge PE