Pictures of your village

some more recent shots of the station area

A little older.

Out of hundreds of laudatory features on your club layout in all those pictures, I would draw attention to how effectively you folks have accentuated and enriched and embellished the whole village-scape by the presence of that fully foliated, verdant hill behind it. As in life, plants soften the hard edges of a vista of buildings, for the better.

FrankM.

here are some pictures of the village on my previous marx layout...old school toy train style...all cardboard structures...

howard...

Here's a link to the site about making most of the tin-look structures in the above post...

http://bigindoortrains.com/pri.../lackie/tinplate.htm

Howard...

Changing things around a bit before scenery work - I still need to come up with another building for the right-end (the Menards building is now gone)

All those scenes of your layout - bright, cheerful, and clean, in a way, how I remember my childhood neighborhood in Duquesne, PA being, back in the 50's. You did a splendid job, done clearly with a philosophy of fun in mind. Congratulations on your success at this.

FrankM..

Al Galli,

  I love your Classic Tin Plate Village, Great stuff done correctly!  Wish like the devil I still had our original Tin Plate village and Farm for the Christmas layout.

PCRR/Dave

Inspired by Phill to think further about parking (or the lack thereof) on a layout, here are some more Village Scenes for your thread, Wood...

(He's really got me thinking about this aspect of a layout's features.)

FrankM.