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I ran in to two forum members/readers at a LHS this weekend (and I apologize i am terrible with names and I forgot) and one reminded me I had promised in a thread a few weeks ago to post pictures of my layout. My layout is smaller than many I visit and see here, but I have a lot of fun and frankly it is all I can really handle. 

 

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Great looking layout, Lee.  Thanks for sharing your work and your memories.

 

I'm amazed that you have used only two switches in all of that sprawling layout!  I'm slowly amassing what I need in HO to create an "around the walls" layout with an urban switching theme within a room only 9'6" x 12"9" (plus a 2' x 9' 6" closet)... and my track plan has already used around 50 switches!!!

 

Anyway, good work!

Last edited by laming
Originally Posted by laming:

Great looking layout, Lee.  Thanks for sharing your work and your memories.

 

I'm amazed that you have used only two switches in all of that sprawling layout!  I'm slowly amassing what I need in HO to create an "around the walls" layout with an urban switching theme within a room only 9'6" x 12"9" (plus a 2' x 9' 6" closet)... and my track plan has already used around 50 switches!!!

 

Anyway, good work!

I had 22 switches on the layout eight years ago, and a nice trainyard.  However, I never operated them: I like to set locos moving and let them cruise for hours, so when I rebuilt it I removed all.  The two I have are not "operable" in the normal sense: they are remote control Fastrack switches but I cut the control cable at the switched - I have one at the head of the reversing loop on each end of Loop 2, where is anti-derailing feature operates as the train comes back around the other direction.  

Your creativity and inventiveness are to be applauded!  I am always amazed at how you take what some would condsider big risks in kitbashing and locomotive modifications to come up with one of a kind models that suit you needs.  They always seem to work out beautifully.  You're a great operating "model" railroader in my book.  Your detailed how to/progess update posts are also much appreciated.

What a layout and presentation of it. Your imagination and creativity is just amazing. Very well thought out and well done. Every square inch of space is used very wisely, including in the workshop.  Nothing looks just right, with nothing over done. It's a great layout and great setup you have there. Some of the stories you have to go along with the detectives are great too, lots more imagination there. And the best part is that you are enjoying it all and sharing it with us!  

"Either way you get your dog back." Best layout signage ever.

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OK, your layout: it's too nice and too neat. It's too well done to occupy only very little more space than my backyard "train building" (mine is 12X24), because I always make the "...if I only had more room..." excuse. (In my defense, I do not have the eve-space and my "workshop" must share the 12X24 room with the layout.) The layout is complete, so far as I can see, and mine...isn't (understatement of the millennium).

 

Where, oh where have i gone wrong?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee, your layout has untold stories throughout its square feet. I love your puns and use of all of the detectives. I too have multiple vignettes on my layout and as you well know, add so much to the layout and makes the visitor look at the entire layout so as not to miss any little detail. Thank you for sharing it.

Originally Posted by Mike welkie:
Hey Lee, the layout looks great!
Is that the Williams b-unit between the Lionel a-units on your B&O train? The colors appear to match quite well.
Mike

Yes, it is Williams.  I discussed it in another thread.  I had to: a) cut down the body, I cut 3/16 inch of height off the body, on top, and b) repaint the light gray a lighter gray.  It matched okay as was, but is much better like this. 

Originally Posted by lpb007:

Lee, What (other than Veranda Turbine) attracted all the detectives?  Has there been a crime wave?  There does not appear to be anything for all of them to do except for the arrest underway at Tacky Trailer Park.  Pat B.

I think they are hanging around the layout to protect their cars.  There are only a handful - Holmes, Wolfe, Hammer - who don't have a car - even Joe Friday and partner are there with their black unmarked police special. Many of these detectives like Morse, Bullitt, etc., cared alot for their car, and most of them don't trust me to take good care of their cars, so I think they hang out to look after them themselves.  

 

And actually, San Beattadaise is rife with crime. In addition to the crimes at the trailer park, Friday and partner are downtown to check out the Polar XXX Press for possible obscenity charges - that is their black Ford in the last photo and they are on the sidewalk just behind it.  Columbo is at the brewery because of the theft of the turkey on the employee Thanksgiving Day festival.  Folye and his driver are arresting a black marketeer.  Dagliesh and Barnaby (Midsomer) are cooperating, have a grisly murder with a corpse next to an empty hole in the ground where something was buried, with a trail of blood leading to some tire tracks by the side of the road. Inspector Nardone has uncovered smugglers hiding drugs in race-car tires, and there is a stakeout of the motel where alot of working girls - well . . .  work . . . ,  

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