Is there one scene in particular that you wanted to have on your layout come h*** or high water? Mine was always a double track tunnel portal on a curve. I remember seeing them on firehouse Christmas gardens as a kid and it has stuck with me since. My current layout sort of has them but the double track portal one is on a straight section and the one on the curve has 2 single portals. Next one I’m planning has several on paper but not sure yet if they will work out in real life.
I wanted a “working” 1950’s Drive-In Movie, but my layout is too small. So I joined a modular group, and now I have one…which, by the way, is a very big hit with people attending the shows. Joe
A stone via duct. I plan to make one from foam insulation for our HO layout.
An interesting question. It occasionally changes for me. I used to want a tall mountain with a tunnel. Built one (Mt. Seaman). Now I want a longer or elevated bridge which is tough to do (balance) as everything on the layout sits or floats atop a rock-filled raised crawlspace.
Anyone make “working” telephone poles that carry the power to building lighting and also have lights mounted on them? I’m debating doing this, but I’d have to figure out how to build it. It’s a “small” item, but I think it would be a stand-out.
You could use 3/8 or 1/2 inch wooden dowel rods for the telephone poles and run 16 gauge wire on them, also want to mount dowel rods to layout from the bottomside by drilling a small pilot hole in the dowel rod and a hole in the layout and using 1&1/2 inch wood screws put in from the bottom. How to wire the lights may take some fancy work or just try to figure out something.
Lee F.
Via duct, why not a goose? [:-^]
I don’t really have any awesome new scene in mind… I just wish I had more space. There’s not much more I can do with my existing layout, really. But whenever I start a new layout, I will do everything in my power to get 0-72 curves!
I already got mine: a personalized version of the Kay’s Ice Cream Parlor just behind the Bristol TN/VA sign (I loved that place)
Scale replica of Ohio Stadium because Im also a big college football fan and fan of the buckeyes. Seeing that model would be around 15 feet long and seeing I dont have 15 feet for a layout this is just a fantasy.
I would have stadium lights, sounds of people chanting O-H-I-O, and the smell of beer and brats coming from the parking area.
Nice ideas guys…
Miller Eng. makes a replica of Boston’s famous Citgo sign. That sign can be seen from every seat in Fenway Park. I’m thinking of buying one for the Jumijo.
I just installed a working campfire, so that’s checked off my list. That set me back just under $1.00. I wish everything in this hobby was that cheap!
A humongous factory of some type is on the to-do list near the top; maybe 8x10 feet and 7 feet tall
I stopped by their booth at York to inquire about an idea I sent them about a year ago… they had already had plans to do it and it will be coming out next April, maybe in time for York… so I hope to have my building ready for it when it is available… The sign is the Domino Sugar sign that can be seen in the Baltimore Harbor… they are going to animate theirs, where the original is not animated… can’t wait to see it!
There were a lot of ‘must haves’:
I wanted a Town, Coal Mine, Oil Field, large Passenger station, a RR yard, and a deep valley with bridges.
I asked Fife to design something for me and his initial plan called for an elevated passenger station where the RR yard is. Then the more I got to thinking about it I really like the elevated passenger station, so I modified things abit and it can slightly be seen above the passenger station. I got to keep the RR Yard too! The large gray areas are place holders for what will eventually be placed there (RR-Track doesn’t have every o-guage structure in its inventory). The double track arch bridge was something that came about last week and after the elevated passenger station was in place it made it possible to add the double track bridge too. So the single track arch bridge is in the background now, where a Lionel Under Arch bridge used to be located, that will now be placed under the double track arch bridge. The long straight track along the river will be a stone arch bridge similiar to the bridge in the picture below.
The plan is a bit crowded, but it really packs a lot into the space and allows for a lot of action and scenery and operating accessories (the red baron pylon is actually the WLLC Radio Station).
I may do the stacker/display tracks that are shown in more detail here:
Hi baltimoretrainworks
my must have scene will only really work with the Hogwarts Express I have the Hornby version and hope to get the Lionel one
That is the Glenfinnan (spelling) viaduct with some sort of flying stand attached to the side with a Ford Anglia attached to the flying stand so, the car looks like its flying and the support is invisible.
Have yet to find a drawing of the viaduct so I can work out how much compression would be needed to build it on a layout of either scale and if a compressed version would look right.
At least there is no brick or stone work to worry about on the viaduct
regards John
In the I got to have it it is for me the Lionel Hobby shop. I passed on a few buy iy nows for $350. I think I can get it cheaper?
laz57
I really want a subway line that goes from underground to an elevated track. I too had to join a club to get that. My layout is way too small.
An “operating” missile train like Reagan came up with in the 80s. Program it to hit the house of one of my enemies in town.
[#ditto]
I want a bigger layout.