To say that I keep busy at all sorts of hobby projects may be an understatement. I’ve been in model railroading since I graduated college. This is a shot of a mining scene on my reduced size Nscale layout. The angle seems almost real outside of my paint brush to your lower left. This layout is in the same area as my wood aircraft carvings.
That’s some mighty fine detail work. [Y] I sold all my N scale stuff. No room.
This has been an on going problem I’ve carried with me over the years. I do G scale as well but like the detail opportunity all my projects offer. Thanks for your kind words modelcrazy. All of my locomotives depict Washington state during the 70’s GP 9’s 40/2’s up to a pair of recent Kato Dash 8’s
I had a sweet Kato UP Dash 8 A-B-A unit with an 11 car matching set, yellow and silver with red striping. Man I wanted to cry when I got rid of that. Like I said, no room and my son-in-laws and grandsons aren’t interested. I dragged that set, and others, around with me for years, packed up, while I was in the Coast Guard.
G scale is huge, I would need my entire garage to make a layout for that.
Hmmmm;
Do you live nearby ? I need another rail modeler that can do scenery that looks real . I am good at power-plants ,bridges and ships , but the rest looks terrible .
Besides , your work would be on display to the public in the Museum where I am Vice - President of Modeling . Tanker - Builder P.S. the Museum is in New Braunfels , Texas , 45 miles north of San Antonio
Tankbuilder I’m in Washington State. Woodland Scenics has always provided colors and mixes to work up ideas. Even now I still make rubber molds of rock to emulate scenery from around our region. Lighting is a factor in making these scenes look their best. Modelcrazy my brother in law worked on the Great Northern Milwakee road and now retired BNSF. Much of my Geep fleet is Arnold/Rapido with matching dummy units. Much of this layout is switching with a lot of sidings to pick up and setout cars for logging and coal. we use high density foam to make layouts nowadays. Peco track is easy to get at meets. My wife is awesome at pine trees. They are made from bumpy scheneal the san for ballast is actually traction sand used on locomotives.
Darn and Double Darn !
But I do appreciate your skill . I went back up to H.O passenger units from the same in " N " . I like the heavy-weight and transition era. This is what we are running now .
My equipment I collected in Diesel the late 80’s are representative of BN early 90’s. This lay out is based on the modular way of building called Ntrak. The thing can be torn down and moved anywhere. This layout is for switching and two main line tracks. Once a guy gets through all the couplers and I really only put them on "transition cars with rapido or stock on the regular cars. BNSF runs some neat old equipment even today.Geeps SD-40’s/2’s. I run Montana rail link.oil trains, What ever I want pretend with as they say. Scenery is a lot of making sense of nature and woodland sceneic materials.
There is a high line in this same module in the above photo I’ll post a view of it. I do have Amtrak Concor rolling stock with F40 PH locomotives we see a lot of containers out here in the west. Micro trains parts and peco are so spendy today that I’m glad I invested in all their jigs and switches all those years ago. I’m still working on a section. Radius is an issue to layout size for me right now. 20 car trains with pushers… 
The mud dobbers 'wasp’s like eating my scenery as you can see so I have to touch up here and there. but who am I to argue…
That’s amazing. If I ever can afford a house with a basement, I was thinking of making a HO scale replica of Washington. I even know where to get a Sounder train.
Those layouts look great!
Mike