Special Features on Your Layout

Model Railroader General Discussion (Model Railroader)
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So what are your special features?? Mine would have to be my old caboose thats gettin’ covered in growth on the side of my track.

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Got a picture?

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My chopped up GP40. 3 seperate pieces!

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I’ve got subways, and I’m going to have real loading and unloading of coal hoppers at some point.

Not much of a railroad feature, but my layout is 5x12, free-standing and moves around the room on casters.

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A small Fairbanks-Morse coaling tower:

Tom

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MisterBeasly,

I am thinking about subways for my n scale layout, do you have pics? (even if its HO)

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My mini scenes. Here is my abandoned station with the ghosts and the old lady remembering the last kiss

Here is my pheasent hunting scene. There are more in the planning stage

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This video is a little dark, but you get the idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=dOV9NSqrQlc

There are a number of subway shots on my Rail Images page:

http://www.railimages.com/gallery/bruceleslie

I’m using the Life-Like P1K R-17 subway train (4-cars) and I’ve also got a Bowser PCC car. The subway is just a single loop with a passing siding, plus a couple of ramps up to the surface. I built the subway first, and now I’m building the rest of the layout above and around it.

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Mongo

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We’ve got a redneck renegade by the name of Billy Bob running around our layout. No street sign is safe.

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On my Halfpint Tram I have a repair shop, with a guy welding a tip car.

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I have a scratchbuilt cardboard beehive burner minus the smokey, rusty screen atop it. Alas, no picture yet.

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It’s not much and needs some detailing still but I have a cattle pen and loading chute scratch built from tooth picks.

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My son had a modular unit that the theme was Mars. Red dirt, red craters, etc. It had a “working” vespine gas well. A smoke unit was mounted under one of the craters. The gas was drawn off into a “containment” unit. The containment unit was the bottom of a plastic container for cookies or donuts (I don’t remember which) turned upside down. It was a big hit at the shows.

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I guess my best feature right now is the 8.4% grade coming out og an inner loop onto the mainline. No scenery yet, but it’s coming.

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At this point a special feature of my layout will be just getting some track laid. Still have all the backdrops to paint and some more lights to install. Bruce

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Not on my layout per se. A few years ago we built a 4X8 HO scale layout for a raffle. We had a quarry on one end and a road leading up to the top of the quarry. One of the guys decided to have some fun, put a fence along the edge, then a broken gate. Next to the gate was a bush with a sign saying “Dead End” hidden behind the bush. He took a plastic car, mangled it up a bit, even put a piece of the “gate” sticking through the windshield. We got the digital camera and staged the wreck with the car going thru the gate, down the cliff, and landing upside down in the quarry. We printed the pictures and had them next to the layout as we sold tickets for it. The driver survived by the way.

Rick

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I guess bridges. In fact I have so many bridges that one of my friends on the forum (Steve Blackledge) calls me “Bridge” Tom. The Yuba River Sub is 24x18 or so, and at last count I had 15 bridges of various kinds. The 4 biggest are a steel arch bridge over Bullards Bar lake (bashed from a Kibri kit), a long curved steel viaduct bashed from two Microscale Tall Steel Trestle kits, another steel arch bridge bashed from KIbri and Central Valley components and a bridge based on an SP Donner Pass prototype bashed from a number of Atlas kits. The rest are ‘as produced’ kits from Walthers, Atlas and Central Valley. What can I say? I like bridges.
Tom [:P][:P]

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The first thing I thought of when I saw the photo, before reading the description, was Ghosts… Good job!

Here’s my contribution… Definately the most prominant feature on the layout.

[image]http://www.rolleiman.com/trains/shaytrain1.jpg[/image]

Jeff

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Whoah, Jeff–now THAT’S what I call a BRIDGE!!
Tom [bow][bow][bow]