UPDATE: Track plan posted as requested...Mickey Selligman's layout...pictures new to the forum!

Alan i think i got it figured out. 2 layouts at your house plus the outdoor layout plus working on your neighbor's layout........... i think your wife must be making your sales calls. no wonder "you" are getting so many new sponsors. just hope rich doesn't find out!

Marty.....ssh!!  Rich doesn't know yet...and...he has already threatened to hire her and make me her assistant!!..

Alan

Excellent layout & photos form Alan, "Leavingtracks"

We all need neighbors like this......

Cheers from Michigan

Very nice layout.

What are the auto models?   I am struggling to find late 1940's cars in 1:48....

thanks

Excellent!!!!!!!!!!!

Who influenced who? 

Alan; beautiful looking layout. You must have a 1st class layout in order to live in your neighborhood!! )LOL) Seriously though, thank you for posting this.

We hi-railers can learn so much from our 2-rail friends.

Art

Two amazing layouts right next door to each other and in a small town. That would be great and to also be friends would be even better. You are both very lucky. Did you two plan this before moving there? We live in an area of about 2.5 million and I can't even find an O gauge train club in town. At least we do have a LHS (actually even better, it's a train store) that has O gauge trains to be thankful for. Next you will probably tell me you have three O gauge only train stores in your area.  

rtr12....thanks!  Actually we have quite a few model railroaders around here!  We have at least three more O-gauge/scale folks with layouts and I will be sharing some pictures I took recently at one of them.  I'll do so over on the 3-rail forum since the pictures are from a 3-rail layout...but...it is done to a very high level of detail. 

We live in Mountain Home Arkansas which is primarily a retirement community and thus we have folks from all over the country that have come here.  Many of them were model railroaders before they moved here.  There is a local club that when first formed, had around 50 plus folks that showed up for the first meeting!!

Unfortunately, we don't have any train stores in the area...we do have a large Hobby Lobby so that helps as far as supplies locally.  But in today's world with the internet, the large list of OGR advertisers and sponsors fills my needs completely!

Mickey and I have known one another for over 30 years and our being neighbors was more or less planned...an interesting story but for another thread at another time.

Alan

The retirement community explains a lot. I didn't know that was a retirement community. That's great you have so many model railroaders there. It's also great to have friends long term like that and especially to have the same interests like O gauge trains. I wish I could find an O gauge club around here, all we seem to have is HO & N or G size (garden), train store owner doesn't even know of one. Sounds like the only thing you all are missing is a nice train store (maybe someone should open one?). Of course with everyone retired and having been model railroaders for many years, they probably already have a lot of stuff and the store may not do real well? Still it would be nice if you had a place to go to look at the new offerings as they become available. Sounds like you all are having plenty of fun anyway though. Will be watching for your other layout posts.

rtr12...it is not too far from Kansas to Arkansas.....you may like Mountain Home!!..

Alan

VERY impressive layout. Could you post a track plan of sorts, or dimensional information?

WOW. I too would love to see the track plan!

Nice thought, but I have lived here all my life and family is here, grandkids etc. My wife's family is also here. We just moved last year to a home requiring less maintenance and I vowed at that time, never again! Not sure I could survive moving one more time. I have been to Fort Smith, it seemed like a nice place. Very neat drive between Rogers and Fort Smith, pretty country down there.   

rtr2...you are always welcome to visit...the invite is open, just let me know!

Alan

Well done!

Peter

Thanks for all of the kind words. The overall size is about 19x24. I will make a sketch and post it showing the track plan.

Brad the vehicles are a mishmash accumulated over the last 50 years or so, 1/50, 1/43, 1/48.

Mickey (Mike) Selligman

Maybe we can get down that way someday. Thank you for the invitation.

Really nice shots Alan of a beautiful layout.

Thanks for sharing.

This is very nicely done. Usually when I see a bunch of buildings on a layout my ADD kicks in. The backdrop with the big city merging with the edge of the city foreground buildings is very convincing.

That's a beautiful layout. Thanks for posting the pictures. I saw some things that will help with my little 3 rail layout.

Guys...here is Mickey's track plan...

Thanks,

Alan