is the layout your currently have/building your dream railroad?? I am only 13 so definetly not. My dream layout will be way in the future. It will be New England themed it will model all of New england with great scenery and lots of track what about yours??? Tim[:D]
B&M Fitchburg Division from Boston to North Adams-Major Focal Points being Boston, W Concord, Acton, Ayer, Leominster, Gardner, Erving, Millers Falls, South Deerfield, Greenfield Junction, Shelburne Falls, Hoosac Tunnel Station at Florida (East Portal), and North Adams (West Portal). In the near future I’d like to model from Acton to the Hoosac Tunnel Station, using most of the focal points in between. I would say get rid of Leominster/Fitchburg, but that is the current end of MBTA commuter service, so i’d like to model that point. If service is extended to Gardner as proposed, I’d more strongly consider removing Leominster/Fitchburg. (sorry trainfreek…how amusingly coincidental this is)
yoshi thats ok i dont think leominster has that great railroad action to be truthfull i would NEVER consider modeling it. i ment 2 say that i would model all of New englands states not all the town/cities for example i would like to be able to be able to run like a Boston and Maine train from Boston Ma to BUrlington VT. (on the layout of course)
A FINISHED layout!!![:D]
A huge club layout in a 1000 x 500 foot warehouse with 3 levels and all in HO scale except for the British portion which would be in OO. Ahh. It would have a port scene 200 feet long and 50 wide, ahh yes.
C&O New river and Allengheny sub divisions.
The layout would exit staging at Prince Wva, at Prince I’d model the bridge that crosses the New River to connect to the mines on the Piney creek sub, the Piney creek sub staging yard would have stub ended tracks that all ended into a turntable, To turn doubleheaded H-5 and H-6 2-6-6-2’s.
Around the corner from Prince, there would be Quinimont, the coal marshaling yard for the Larel creek branch, the Larel creek branch would be connected to Quinimont via a wye, the wye would connect to a helix that would go down to a lower level that represents the Larel Creek branch. The line would continue into Hinton, the head of the New river line and the beginning of the Allengheny sub. Smaller power would be switched for H-8’s and other mountain climbing power.
The Allenghany sub would continue up to Allenghany and down all the way into clifton forge, there would be seperate staging yards for the Peidmont and Mountain Sub divisons at Clifton Forge.
My dream layout will be in the future as well. I am 15, and I have my dream layout planned already. It will be O gauge, around the walls, about 50 by 50, and will have scenery from the floor to the ceiling. It will be Altoona, PA around the 40s, all vintage diesels, and steamers, with a lot of freight and passenger cars. Buildings, stations, coal mines, coal towns, sidings galore and so forth. The engines and cars will be a mix of PRR, NYC, N&W, and a lot of the eastern roads. They will all be command equipped. As for my garden railway, well, too many things to list here[:D][:D]
Well, my layout is nonexsistent. Being in an apartment sucks, but one step at a time, I wanted to get a small N scale layout up on maybe 4’ x 6’ but we’ll see. My dream layout would be like the ones you see at the big hobby shops…trains…trains…and more trains. Just trains after trains, tracks upon tracks and great views. The dream layout where you always have space, time, and money to add more…
I don’t know if this is my dream layout - but it’s my current dream… it’s the first time in over 20 years I have space to have a real layout.
Well, my future is a former gym/auditorium about 90 x 60 two stories, viewing gallaries on the second level on three sides. Normally I’m pretty good at track plans but every time I’ve put pen to paper for this one I am overwhelmed.
I have a lot of dream layouts, but if I could have anything I wanted, I’d go with the biggest model scale there is in steam era, and I’d build it around the D&RGW of about 1900.
Tracklayer
I dont really have the blue-prints yet but I have a pretty good idea of what it’s going to be. I’d like to model the BNSF Aurora Sub or the IC&E Chicago Sub. I’m 16 so I still have many years left(or do I???) to build a layout. My first dream is to become a railroad engineer so after that we’ll see if I have time for a layout. I’ll probably get a friend to help out building and designing it. I know of a model railroad club near me so maybe I’ll join and help out with their huge layout.
it would be my ficticous railroad, the conecticut river valley(see my bio) and set in the early 90’s.
i would have it be around the wall, 30’’ shelves, going from the conecticut coast to newport in vermont, with huge yards at each end and several industurial areas in the middle. most of it would be double track mainline, crossing the big CT river every 20 (scale) miles or so.
the scenery would be mid fall, with some bare trees and a light coat of snow near the canada border.
the trains would be fairbanks morse, baldwin, and alco, piulling bridge traffic for cadian national and CSX and new england central; and local/switching jobs along the mainline, with occasional excursion trains.
the buildings would be typical new england suburbs, industurial, and cities, with big yards outside the major cities.
all in the big 60’x100’ whare house that doesnt exist. [:p]
Happy Dreaming! lol
GEARHEAD426
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I would model the Gainesville NorthWestern as it may have appeared in 1957 had it survived. I would model it inch for inch in 2 50x500 foot buildings connected by a corridor on one end resulting in a “U” shaped configuration.
Brad
My dream layout is a Layout based on the WSOR Reedsburg Sub, modeling exactly all 50-60 miles of foot by foot. But, thay will never happen, so my actual goal is to model the WSOR Reedsburg sub, with the scenery in between towns condenced but the towns modeled as they are.
Noah
Wabash RR… Single level (none of that stacking stuff for me), Car Ferry operation from Detroit to Windsor with operating ferrys of course… Okay, there would be some staging representing the run through Ontario to Buffalo NY… From Detroit west, Montpelier OH where it would branch off to Chicago and and to Decatur Ill. Leaving both of those areas and on into St. Louis Union Station… AND… The Ann Arbor RR, which the Wabash owned at the time, running from Toledo, through Detroit, up to Frankfort Michigan… With those locations, having tracks cross in various appropriate places, I could run just about any power I wanted to. Hey, you Did say Dream layout…
Actually, this layout exists, just WAAAAAAAAAAY scaled down to fit the space and wallet and the true dream would be to fini***he layout I have…
Jeff
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The Illinois Central Mattoon to Evansville line thru Toledo, Greenup, Newton and southSingle track With big yards at both ends…Cox 47
I’ve thought about a big around the walls shelf layout, that all comes together at a double ended yard, that would function as visible staging. It would have three or four cities on it, that could each be done as a stand alone switching layout. It would be large enough that a train running laps on the mainline could easliy stand in for scheduled through freights.
What I think I really want, is a smaller shelf layout along one or two walls. My current 4 1/2x1 would be the “West” (left side) end, with unscenicked staging to the left, and two more towns to the “East.” There’d be a stretch of mainline between the current layout, nad the other two towns. The other two would be physically close, but at different elevations, preventing a direct rail connection between them. Any cars moving between the two, would require an interchange at the current section. (I really need to name that town.) I’d probably put more unscenicked staging out past one of the new cities, but leave the other one as the end of it’s branch.
It would probably be no more than 12’ long sans staging, and only two feet deep, at it’s deepest point. This is N scale, btw.
I think I’ve said this before but…
An HO replica of the entire Northeast Corridor. Starting at South station, in Boston and ending at Washington DC. MBTA from boston to providence, which would be a couple hundred feet of track in itself. Also featuring: CSX, Guilford, Providence & Worchester, Metro-North, NJT, Septa, 100 car unit trains, Point to point operation with hidden staging, DCC, CTC signaling, full automation ability, all housed in an old warehouse. Oh yeah, and it would be a club layout too, to prevent one person maintanence nightmares that would happen with such a complex layout.
Yes and no. I am building sections that I hope to incorperate into my dream layout and I am working on a final plan for it.
An airplane hanger or abandoned Wal-Mart would be nice if I had unlimited time and funds but I like the house I am in now and even if my wife disagrees I have other intrests.