Model Train Pictures
Send me a picture of your model trains and I’ll post it here for the world to see!
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Attach your photos and include your name, your location and tell us about the picture. Here are some photos that have been sent in to Model Trains For Beginners.
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Owner: Bob Fallier Location: New Hampshire, USA About: The Royal Morovian Railway is loosely based on an area from Bavaria to the Swiss Alps. Circa 1930-1960 with a mix of steam and electric. Panoramic scenery in a room 34’ x 18’ (11m x 6m), towering mountains, deep gorges, quaint towns and villages. |
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Owner: Bob Fallier Location: New Hampshire, USA About: The Royal Morovian Railway is loosely based on an area from Bavaria to the Swiss Alps. Towering mountains, deep gorges, quaint towns and villages. |
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Owner: Bob Fallier Location: New Hampshire, USA About: The Royal Morovian Railway is loosely based on an area from Bavaria to the Swiss Alps. |
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Owner: Bob Fallier Location: New Hampshire, USA About: The Royal Morovian Railway is loosely based on an area from Bavaria to the Swiss Alps. Circa 1930-1960 (Era III-IV) with a mix of steam and electric. Panoramic scenery in a room 34’ x 18’ (11m x 6m), towering mountains, deep gorges, quaint towns and villages. |
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Owner: Eric Location: tba About: This is a photo of my layout (pre-board). It’s taken me a while to come up with a preferred layout as I am limited by space… 4×8 and Lionel 027 guage. I have my MDF 4×8, the felt to put on it and the contact cement. |
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Owner: Ernie Miller Location: tba About: 6 diesel engines, 8 steam engines, 1 electric, 8 passenger cars, 50 freight cars, 70 buildings, 23 turnouts, 20 cars & trucks, 26 trees, 250 people, 18 telephone poles, 6 water storage tanks, 8 oil storage tanks, 25 street lights, 20 dead end storage sidings. |
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Owner: Ernie Miller Location: tba About: As you can see this model railroad keeps me off the streets and it’s a lot of fun. |
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Owner: Ernie Miller Location: tba About: As you can see this model railroad keeps me off the streets and it’s a lot of fun. |
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Owner: Alex Kanarek Location: Canada About: Work in Progress. 2 bridges – one a commercial kit, the other made from tongue depressors. |
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Owner: Alex Kanarek Location: Canada About: Work in Progress. Hills built with fine-gauge chicken wire on wood, covered with paper mache. It will be finished with plaster of paris where more rock detail is required. |
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Owner: Alex Kanarek Location: Canada About: Work in Progress. Hills with 2 tunnels, 2 bridges and a mine. HO scale on 14ft x 8ft table. |
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Owner: Philip Location: tba About: Model Train Station |
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Owner: Philip Location: tba About: Model Train freight cars |
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Owner: Peter Coburn Location: Victoria, Australia About: Scale: On30 Website: www.PJCwasHere.com |
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Owner: David Howarth Location: Bridlington, England About: My Loft Model Railway. OO scale and started just 2 years ago after visiting a model rail show. It is dcc and most loco`s now with sound. |
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Owner: Mr Jan Nielsen Location: Denmark About: I have a trainhouse for my CSX system. Everyone can learn from others experience (the sum of all mishaps) |
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Owner: Mr Jan Nielsen Location: Denmark About: I have a trainhouse for my CSX system. Everyone can learn from others experience (the sum of all mishaps) |
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Owner: Mr Jan Nielsen Location: Denmark About: I have a trainhouse for my CSX system. Everyone can learn from others experience (the sum of all mishaps) |
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I want more information on Alex Kanarek’s layout.Look’s like the kind I want to build.
Hi, I am really interested in seeing more of Phillip, TBA, layout. The pics I see are so life like and detailed. I am a beginner with trains but no layout yet. I would like to see a larger view of this layout. Thanks Skip
Me to.I hope to start a layout soon. And it looks like the kind I want.I would like to see his track plans!
For a beginner, I am probably looking at something way over my head. However, Mr. Jan Nielsen’s layout is terrific.
I would like to see his layout plans and the materials that he used to build such a beautiful and realistic site.
For Larry Gasaway,
Are you still interested in knowing more about my layout? If so, let me know and i can send you more information.
Do any of the Model Railroaders that posted such great and beautiful pictures have e-mail addresses that they could be contacted directly? I guess I should first ask if it is allowed to contact them?
The pictures show such great and interesting layouts it would be hard to decide which one I would like to imitate to some degree. I would incorporate my own ideas into a layout so I would not have an exact duplicate of their hard work and ideas.
Hi Richard
Just post your question here and the owners will respond. We don’t give out their email addresses for privacy reasons.
Regards
Dan
Still want to see Alex Kanarek’s track plans !
Enough of the yankees – - – surely there are some great layouts of Southern Systems – - – Central of Georgia, Seaboard Airline, RF&P, etc, etc, etc
Although, a great model layout is a great model layout and much appreciate your sharing the photos.
Thank you! Hope to see more.
Jan Nielsen has done a great job with his scenic backdrop. Looks like he’s a pro with paints.
I love how Philip made his pictures look so real. That layout is a total inspiration.
Don:
Great photos. Gives me some ideas what I want to do with mine. Have not started yet. Getting information re: couplers, DC vs DCC, HO or N, etc.
Thanks for the tips,
Grant
Wow – those layouts are very impressive! The time spent and the detail on them is truly amazing.
I do like Eric’s layout as he seems to be like me – cram as much as you can in the space provided. I do not have the room so my Lionel trains are on the living room floor, encircling the entire room, going behind or under furniture where possible.
I still manage to find ways to change sections here and there to always try to keep it fresh. Great modeling guys, fantastic.
not yet.
Seeing some stunning sites I am embarrsed to send you my outlay, until I am able to show my friends something that they may think is worthwhile.
I am delighted that our friends have given us beginners the chance to try to be better.
Still trying.
Jim (NZ)
Love the bridges on Alex’s layout, and the Mountain! I would use the bucket of trees effect to cover your mountains! I think it is the easiest way to cover a mountain with trees and it gives it a great realistic canopy effect.
Cool
Just a quick over view of the COAL BELT & Subsidiary Systems: aka Coal Belt Lines (CBL) and a bit of back ground on the layout. The layout, if you are wondering is over 26 years old this past Memorial Day weekend. The CBL operates in the antracite region of central Pennsylvania and the anthracite fields. The era I am working with is around 1985. The CBL is the successor to the Reading RR and Lehigh Valley in this region, just west of Hazelton and White Haven.
The model railroad I am emulating is the current day Reading and Northern based out of the former Reading Division point of Port Clinton, Pa. The CBL operates from Allentown, Pa. to Wilkes-Barra, Pa. with through trains over CNJ trackage east to Elizabeth Port, NJ.
The CBL and layout is not all about long black trains and diesels fighting the grades from Allentown to Hazelton and back, there are seven towns which the CBL services on a schedule. The second major town of South Palmerton, which is also the sub-division point, has several industry among them the Farmers Co-Op & Market which receives bulk covered hoppers, boxcars, and refeers of produce. The second is Porterville and the coal mines the PN services between Porterville and Hogan’s Creek.
On the prime movers end, the CBL has a healthy roster of EMD, GE, and Alco units. The CBL’s roster represents a cross section of the eastern roads at that time: Reading, Lehigh Valley, Central Railroad of New Jersey, Penn-Central, with third-hand hand-me-down units from Southern Pacific, ATSF, and Burlington Northern and Denver & Rio Grande Western..
The roster looks something like this: SD40′s SD40-2′s SD40T-2′s SD35′s SD50′s F45′s, SD45′s; SD45-2, SD50′s; GE U28C’s. A healthy roster of six-axle monsters, not to mention the Alco side of the house with RS4′s assigned to the Porterville Northern. The road switchers is much larger but more narrowly represented more by EMD than the other two builders.
Considering the time period of the late 70′s in to the 80′s: I put together a set of commuter trains based pretty much on the New Jersey Transit system. I literally kit bashed a CNJ GP7P engine and a F40PH with push-pull cab control coaches and two Budd railcars joined the roster making up the: Northeast Transit Authority (NETA).
That pretty much puts the CBL in to some perspective (I hope). Questions? Don’t hesitate to e-mail me. Pictures: I have hundreds.
Take care and hope to hear from you all soon
Hed
Hi, I have a question, when making hills, what type of styro foam you use?
And do you use white and how do and what you use to form them?
Thank you
Russell
No comment…yet…but will, with photos, yet…of an N-scale that circles a stone makeup – that features a water wheel, with H20! My Wife, bless her heart, contributed a pink embroidery circle! Soon!
LARRY I’M IN ARIZONA WHERE ARE YOU FROM. NICK