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Sun City Model Railroad Club

Been watching this one grow for a couple of years it looks complete but not finished.  This is outstanding work for a public model railroad group. 

 

HO 1950's/60's NYC-ish 7'x17' Layout

Building a layout for a client in his 3rd-floor game room based on Monticello, NY in late 1950's/early 60's:

More layout pictures

First a little heads up on the structures on the layout.Mostly all are scratch built using either DPM wall units,sheet styrene or wood. I also tried to scratch build as many other things that I could including truck and flat car loads,and other details. I also kit bashed a lot of my truck details such as adding wood decks and on trailers various lengths and wheel arrangements.

Some pictures of my layout

When I first designed the layout I had intended freight cars in and out to come off the main line but then I got interested in car float operations so I add one to the layout. the float and tug are scratch built with the addition of some commercial castings

My HO Hobbs End switching layout

The industrial park had it existed would have been located in Warren County,NJ alongside of the Delaware river. When I first designed it I had intended for freight traffic to be handles from the main line but as time went on I discarded that idea and instead installed a small (4 railcar) car float.

The first tw pictures are of the track plan and a long shot of the layout looking north. Please excuse the grainy pictures.Have yet figured out how to get rid of that.

PRR Manifest

PRR ManifestPRR Manifest

To All: Today I present two photos of a PRR Manifest freight on my layout on the A&S Belt Line passing Jack Mall Potato Co. and Horse Shoe Lake. Yours, Elvin Howland/E. St. Louis Rail Group Layout

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The Sierra Lines HO

Operations session at Art Cunningham Sierra Lines during Hograils 2015. This is really one of the great operational layouts I have been on.  Best part is hearing the whole story of what happened to get the five RRs into one track. Part I and II

 

 

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Sierra, El Paso & Northeastern Railroad HO

Lou Adler's Sierra, El Paso & Northeastern Model Railroad. Great layout is a limited space. Lots of operations. It does not have to be big to work. 5 guys keep busy for over 3 hours and we did not finish the schedule.

 


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