After much reshearch for pictures of other people’s short line layouts i thought i’d share mine in the hope you will share yours.
i model the Freelanced Western Michigan Railroad(WMR)
size 4x8
era Modern
this small short line runs in between the fictinal towns of Dayton and Burr oak somwhere near Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids. In Burr oak there is an intercahnge with the CSX, a grain elevator and a gravel co. dayton has Cenex fertilizer and the biggest industrie along the line central michigan sand.
I am modeling the Maryland & Pennsylvania RR in the early 1950’s. The Ma&Pa ran from York, PA to Baltimore, MD up until 1958. 77 miles long. It interchanged at both ends with the PRR, at Baltimore with the B&O, and at York with the Western Maryland. There are 2 historical societies.
The layout is S scale, 12x31, but will eventually expand to more of the basement. Currently, I have almost finished the benchwork stage and hope to be laying track this month.
Upload picture to some picture sharing site (e.g. photobucket). Your choice, but I would suggest uploading a picture in a format most people can view (e.g. jpg), and ensure that it is a reasonable size for web use (say 1024x768 or something like that).
On your picture sharing site, find a URL to the picture. On photobucket, click on “direct link” to put link on your Windows clip board. If you use some other photo sharing site, follow their routine for getting a direct link to the image (a URL starting with http:// and ending with .jpg)
While writing post here, click on “insert media” icon in editor window (looks like a film strip with green squares) to pop up window, paste in direct URL, click on insert or ok or done or whatever the button says.
There are many other ways of doing this, but the basic idea is the same. Upload a picture somewhere on the web, get a link to it, post that link here.
For photobucket, you can instead of clicking on “direct link” on photobucket and then use “insert media” here also choose to click on “img code” on photobucket and just paste your code directly into your text here. In that case, you will not see image until you click on post.
Upload picture to some picture sharing site (e.g. photobucket). Your choice, but I would suggest uploading a picture in a format most people can view (e.g. jpg), and ensure that it is a reasonable size for web use (say 1024x768 or something like that).
On your picture sharing site, find a URL to the picture. On photobucket, click on “direct link” to put link on your Windows clip board. If you use some other photo sharing site, follow their routine for getting a direct link to the image (a URL starting with http:// and ending with .jpg)
While writing post here, click on “insert media” icon in editor window (looks like a film strip with green squares) to pop up window, paste in direct URL, click on insert or ok or done or whatever the button says.
There are many other ways of doing this, but the basic idea is the same. Upload a picture somewhere on the web, get a link to it, post that link here.
For photobucket, you can instead of clicking on “direct link” on photobucket and then use “insert media” here also choose to click on “img code” on photobucket and just paste your code directly into your text here. In that case, you will not see image until you click on post.
I model a fictional short line in Detroit – the Detroit Connecting. My layout is a switching layout, 30" x 14’ with a soon to be added 20’ section. It is all inner-city Detroit with a small yard and a couple of interchanges to move cars on and off the layout. The main industry is an auto plant, but I also have a meat packing plant, team track, news plant, cold storage, warehouses, a foundry or two, city supply yard, and an “offline” salt mine spur to name a few. I’ll try to post some photos later of the “finished” area.
The SJSRR or “The Silver San Juan” (That nick-name is certainly not original with us but more commonly associated with the Rio Grande Southern.) is a “freelance” layout based on what little RR and prototype knowledge the builder has at any given time. The time period is 1940’s and the SJSRR serves regional mining and lumber industries and interchanges with the D&RGW which is the source of many of the necessities of life and commerce for the San Juan area.
