I have been building this layout for over a year and now it is somewhat photo ready. I took a few pics today and wanted to share with you. Let me know what ya think.
I know there are a few things I need to do still as there always is on a layout. I am not so sure I like my lighting on some of these. I do professional model portrait photography on the side but it was hard to get the angles I wanted, and I need to add a couple of lights…I didnt have a lot of time, and my layout room is cramped. I tooke the best of the best shots here.
Great work Chuck, you do some really nice detail and scenery work. Hard to believe it is only a year old. I’d love to see a track plan, looks interesting.
Hi Chuck, very interesting photos. Looks like you enjoy the modeling and urban details as much as the trains. I especially like that two-story red brick building that shows up in several photos. Very nice.
Thank you Larry! a while back I had a thread here about the track plan but I dont see it any more… but its pretty simple… just a big dog bone with a couple of industry spurs and a small holding yard… the upper part of the bone with the yard/spurs is shown in this pic:
tomorrow ill try to post a few wide view shots of the entire room…but its a complete mess! paint bottles, and tools and all kinds of crap all over the room hahah so look for a few pics posted to this thread tomorrow.
ya I think I started the layout early 2009 and just do a little bit at a time.
bulldog, yes indeed, I enjoy the scenery almost more than the trains. I have this layout set up for pretty much continuous run, with a hint of yard operations… I enjoy just watching them go by and looking at my perceived realism. I envision constantly adding detail, or maybe blowing up a section of scenery and adding a different scene… while keeping the trains running.
I still would love for a seasoned model railroad vet to come to my house and tell me how to make it better, I believe my track work is sound as the other night I ran it for about 3 hours un attended with no mishaps, all the while with a 2 loco consist. and 22 cars…so …so far so good. I know my first layout that is now in some landfield would not run more than about 5 minutes without something derailing, uncoupling or other horrors.
here are some overall pics of the layout…(are all train rooms this messy???) and a couple more scenery closeups to compliment the slide show. I hope this is not toooo many pics. Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!!!
Thank you very much!!! I still have a lot more to do on it, but im enjoying it a lot. I need to add trees to that long section of track … possibly add some DCC switch machines, but not sure how feasable that is after the track and scenery are all in… I want to weather the vehicles, and that lumber mill building, add people and animals, and im sure many other things lol
Thank you all for the compliments! ill update the slideshow as i make changes over time. probably my next addition will be more trees on that long run. also i have a square of dirt in the town with nothing in it… not sure what to put there… a park…no, its too industrial for a park… it could be a parking lot for the freight office… or a storage yard for the office…
