Hi gang. I’ve been trying to spruce my layout up lately, and just added a grave yard to it -among other things. I realize not everyone out there would want a grave yard on their layout, but I wanted my layout to be as close to a “real world” community as possible, and such things (as depressing as they might be) are very much a part of the real world…
Tracklayer
I’m going to put a little one behind my church when I get to that stage. I saw a club layout that had one. If an operator wrecked a loco during a session, they put his (or hers) name on a tombstone and planted it in the graveyard. They where barred from operating for a week after the incident. Thought that was kind of funny.
Hello loathar. As a matter of fact, mine is next to my church. I got the idea from the Baptist church that’s just down the road from my house. It was either that, or I’d have to had built a gate and put a fence around it if the location had been some where else on the layout. As for the club loco wreckers. That’s a good idea. I’ll have to remember that…
Tracklayer
Don’t have room for one on my 4x8, but when the time comes…I’ve just gotted the Jordan horse drawn hearse, and I have a Busch Caddy hearse, the funky hearse & funeral parlor from Life Like/IHC etc, the WS graveyard service figs, and several sets of headstones! I AM NOT MORBID!!![xx(][:P][8D]
Mine is next to a church and has a nice fence around it. It fit into a small corner where there really wasn’t room for anything else.
Here’s a picture of my graveyard scene (a lot of Woodland Scenics components):
So you’re saying that you’re using a graveyard to fill in some “dead space” (har!)
Here is mine. I added a funeral, though I have not decided who died, but I am sure it is not a funeral for the hobby itself.
Mine is probably least attended and the preacher man is uh…indisposed.
Hi tracklayer
Yes
Complete with grave side funeral service never did get the horse drawn hearse put together.
And was never able to find the MR?CR hearse van kit for rail transport to the cemetery.
The layout is now gone but I would do the same again and try a bit harder to capture the spooky sort of feeling I have about grave yards, not sure the right kind of head stones for that are made By MRR manufacturers
I found because the layout was exhibited once that the funeral was a lot more controversial than I would have expected
regards John
We have three on our club layout – Boot Hill at a western town, one behind a church at the other end of the layout with a funeral in progress, and a small private cemetery.
I have the Grim Reaper looking down from a hill at a funeral in my graveyard. I’m going to remove it though. My wife has had a few close relatives pass away over the last 6 months and now I kind of feel like its morbid.
I have had the Busch’s graveyard set over 3 years and i have been wanting to put that up for a longtime as soon as I get everything else set up I will be putting it in but I dont know where. i was thinking by the church like everyone else but then I want a weddng reception going on. Maybe I should have that pluse the feneral. Have a meaning behind it " getting married is like being dead". I even think I WS graveside service not sure have to check.
Nope, no graveyard on my layout. The closest thing is the “dead line” over by the enginehouse.
On my old layout, I had a Woodland Scenics cemetery in place and I saved the pieces from that and it will be reinstalled in the town a the end of my branchline that has yet to be built. I think a cemetery is an easy way to add a lot of character to a layout and is a great visual effect. It probably wouldn’t make sense to put in a large cemetery but a small church yard burial ground is easy to do. I’m dying to put this on my layout (Sorry!!!). [D)]
Hey did you know that a graveyard is behind or beside a church and a cemetery
isn’t associated with a particular church…a friend of mine has a hearse, family cars…gravemarkers and is looking for a backhoe to open the graves…
I know it’s an each to their own kind of thing, but in my opinion the Grim Reaper was a little over the top… Of course some people might also feel that way about having a grave yard on a layout.
I just wanted a small, quiet, peaceful and old looking little cemetary like the one next to the church down the road from my house to give my layout a more realistic look.
Sorry about your wife’s relatives.
Tracklayer
I’m thinking a city named Grave would be a good division point. Trains would then arrive and depart from, of course, the Grave Yard…
George V.
EPITAPHS AND EPIGRAMS
From a graveyard in Ribbesford, Worcestershire
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna.
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife
And the Devil sent him Anna
A headstone in Nova Scotia
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, aged 102.
The Good Die Young
William Wilson Lambeth
Here Lieth W.W.
Who never more will
Trouble you, trouble you
Sir Christopher Wren’s tombstone in St Paul’s Cathedral
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice
(if you seek my monument, look around me)
Thomas W Campbell, a travelling salesman. Burlington, Iowa.
My Trip is Ended.
Send My Samples Home
The Gaelic words on the headstone of Spike Milligan, in Winchelsea, East Sussex. They were inscribed more than two years after his death
Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite
(I told you I was ill)
In most large cemeteries, you will probably find an epitaph that goes something like this one found in Waynesville, North Carolina:
Effie Jean Robinson
1897-1922
Come blooming youths, as you pass by ,
And on these lines do cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so must you be;
Prepare for death and follow me.
Which is not funny at all. But underneath, someone had added:
To follow you
I am not content,
How do I know
Which way you went.
Death in the West
Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona
Here lies Lester Moore.
Four slugs
From a forty-four.
No Les
No Moore.
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EPITAPHS AND EPIGRAMS
From a graveyard in Ribbesford, Worcestershire
The children of Israel wanted bread
And the Lord sent them manna.
Old clerk Wallace wanted a wife
And the Devil sent him Anna
A headstone in Nova Scotia
Here lies Ezekial Aikle, aged 102.
The Good Die Young
William Wilson Lambeth
Here Lieth W.W.
Who never more will
Trouble you, trouble you
Sir Christopher Wren’s tombstone in St Paul’s Cathedral
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice
(if you seek my monument, look around me)
Thomas W Campbell, a travelling salesman. Burlington, Iowa.
My Trip is Ended.
Send My Samples Home
The Gaelic words on the headstone of Spike Milligan, in Winchelsea, East Sussex. They were inscribed more than two years after his death
Duirt me leat go raibh me breoite
(I told you I was ill)
In most large cemeteries, you will probably find an epitaph that goes something like this one found in Waynesville, North Carolina:
Effie Jean Robinson
1897-1922
Come blooming youths, as you pass by ,
And on these lines do cast an eye.
As you are now, so once was I;
As I am now, so must you be;
Prepare for death and follow me.
Which is not funny at all. But underneath, someone had added:
To follow you
I am not content,
How do I know
Which way you went.
Death in the West
Boot Hill Cemetery, Tombstone, Arizona
Here lies Lester Moore.
Four slugs
From a forty-four.
No Les</