Thnx Rich. Yes, it’s an island layout with 26”-32” isles. Enough for me and maybe one other operator (the 2 closed corners allow for passing by) though it’s only me running usually. There are a couple of interior spaces (no track, just scenery) that are tough to reach but they don’t have trains running thru. In hindsight I should have done around the walls with a peninsula. Oh well.
Regards, Chris
From the photos, it does look like a reach on a couple of spots, but really a great looking layout.
Rich
Thnx Rich, appreciate the kind words.
Regards, Chris
Lovin the trainroom shots. Chris that is one inviting looking layout you have going, well done. It looks much larger than 15’ x 16’.
My room is 15’ x 24’ and the progress has been glacial. I think this is 19 years in, however, I got the trains up and running pretty quick when I started and that’s the important thing.
More trainroom shots, please.
Despite having limited space, the layout has been occupying half of the room.
More trainroom shots, please…
Thnx Brent. It took retirement to finally graduate the layout from a plywood empire to what I have now. I’m in awe of how folks can build an essentially finished layout in just a few years. But as the saying goes, it’s more about the journey than the destination.
Regards, Chris
Show me more train layouts / train room shots!
Ghosts of layout rooms past…
I’ll be getting back to work on the summer layout soon. 
Need to get back after that water tower I started last year and I want to start some bridges. My goal is to make just a few low relief scenic panels I can fully landscape but store easily.
More more more!
“And, but, and or: they get you pretty far!”
We now return you to your regularly scheduled train room posts!
We can switch if nobody objects. How about an unreal train you always wanted to model for your layout?
I have 2. The first is the “Sundown Limited” from the Our Gang film of the same name.
The other is a parade vehicle I think. I spotted it once driving down the street past the Big Boy restaurant I was walking into. I was probably 5 or 6 at the time.
Anyhow, those are examples of projects I’d like to do. Here’s probably the best one I actually DID do. It’s based on the junction at Latty, Ohio.
Unreal train I’ve wanted to model? Oregon Pacific and Eastern 19 - Shack’s train - and all it’s freight cars from the classic hobo vs. railroad film ‘Emperor of the North’. I could never possibly do it justice in LEGO myself, though I’ve seen it done! As for one I DID do:
Show me another flight of fancy!
That’s the ‘999’ of the New York Central Veteran’s Association. It resides in Painesvile, Ohio these days:
NYC 999 Legion by Edmund, on Flickr
Cheers, Ed
Cool! 
. Seeing a locomotive going north on Pearl Road in the mid 1970s certainly made an impression on me! I think the black and white photo I found might have been taken at the Beach, which is entirely possible since so many companies and organizations held their company picnics there.
PS forget Lambos, Porsches and Ferraris. That’s MY dream car!
From what I gather the ‘999’ was used in several ‘4th of July Kamms Corners Parade’ in the 1980s so that may have been why the engine was in your neighborhood? One fact sheet says it was stored at W. 103 and Madison for a while.
Well, imagine going from 0 to 60 behind the wheel of this beauty!
999 Cab Window by Edmund, on Flickr
Don’t forget to blow the whistle, or the fog horn?
999 Cab Roof by Edmund, on Flickr
999 Right Side by Edmund, on Flickr
Here’s some background on the 999:
http://www.painesvillerailroadmuseum.org/PDF/press%20release%20999%20tp%202-5-20.pdf
Cheers, Ed
Definitely would have been mid to late 1970s. The Big Boy restaurant I remember seeing it pass by was on Pearl (42) just south of the old La Siesta Motel in Strongsville around dinner time. And I definitely heard the whistle!
Blessed and cursed with a nice sized train room. The curse is that it has taken me 55 years in an apartment and three houses to finally drive the last spike on the mainline last week. I still have a classification yard and two staging yards to build and nearly all the scenery, but I can run a train from one end of the visible railroad to the other. The last photo is me driving the final mainline spike. Yes, it is virtually all hand laid.
James, that’s quite a feat to get that much completed by yourself. We’ll done!
Regards, Chris
