Pictures of the layout you may never have seen...!!

Very nice photos Alan. Keep up the GREAT work.

Beautiful!!!

Alan beautiful layout and great pictures of the layout and trains.

Solid and beautiful.  That's a great combo for a layout!

 

Great photos. Thanks for sharing. I love that huge trainshed.

Looking Terrific Allan!!

That is impressive work.  Lots of room for trains, that is for sure!

Alan

Impressive how big is the layout?

steve

Alan, I have seen these areas before.

Very nice. L.I.TRAIN b eat me to the question. How big is the layout?

Just beautiful !!!!!!

 

 

Thanks, Alex

Very nice, Alan!

 

Peter

WOW !!!

 

Brent

I second that.

Man o Man what a layout. I'm going have to get over to Mountain Home one of these days to see the layout in person.

 

Great layout 

 

WOW WOW and HOW

Thanks so very much guys!!  It has been and is still a labor of love!

 

Steve and Spence....the layout is above my garage.  When we planned the addition onto our home (we live in what was originally a church) I knew I was going to build an urban themed layout with tall buildings.  Thus....a large garage for the 4 cars and then a second floor with 10.5 foot tall ceilings.  There are no columns in the garage or on the second, train room, floor due to using 18 inch engineered beams between floors and 16 inch engineered beams in the train room ceiling.  The layout is almost 1200 square feet spanning multiple levels.  The wall you see in the pictures above where the freight yard is located is 40 feet long. 

 

Alan

Neat.

YOUR LAYOUT SHOULD BE PROFESSIONALLY FILMED.

 NICE WORK

STEVE

 

Steve....that may happen soon!

 

Alan

I'd love to see a DVD of your layout, in detail, because there'sa lot of really nice stuff to see. I'd say at least 90 minutes worth

Absolutely amazing!  Are those skyscrapers kitbashed or scratchbuilt?

 

Aaron

nice touch with the use of Erector Set girders, ...even the Hunter Green finish.

cheers...gary

Thank you for posting all these pictures of your layout.

Your passenger station is a favorite.

for me it is the center piece of your wonderful layout.

I have a feeling folks will be seeing lots of photos of Alan's layout in the magazine in the near future. 

Your layout looks great from every angle! I especially enjoy the pictures you have posted with the sun shining on the city.

 

Jack

 

Alan, thank you for the response. Great layout & tremendous planning on your part in the construction of the garage & train room.

Thanks again everyone...wish I got paid a penny an hour for all the time I have spent during this build!

 

The erector set bridge is a highway bridge for city traffic spanning the "city canyon" where the underground passenger tracks are exposed....a great idea that my good friend Mike Burnside contributed during the build.

 

Jack...one of my favorite areas of the layout is the copy I made of your fantastic idea on converting parts of the Korber power house into a parking garage...thanks!

 

Aaron....the skyscrapers are a combination of kits, old building sets, and some are completely scratchbuilt.  Thanks!

 

Alan