Autistic Savant
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Hello again from Ohio---I last logged in 2 years ago, so it's like I'm new here again since I only made a few posts to begin with. I am working on a HO scale layout. I should be laying down the first tracks by August. I have just secured a room in the house for my layout since my wife is taking a different room for her quilting. The layout will occupy an area of 24 feet by 15 feet (though I could go 24 feet by 24 feet---but some things need to remain in that room).
The theme of the layout is a resort town by a lake. There will be a Main Street stretching close to 15 feet with a trolley. There will also be an amusement park occupying around 90 square feet of layout space. Two mountains will look down on the resort community. Summit Hill will have a Bavarian style resort hotel with access provided by a sky lift on one side and an incline railway on the other. A Victorian village will occupy the sky lift side. Two of the houses on it I bought from Howard Zane. International Mountain is to be a higher mountain located in the distance---so the hotels on its summit are in N scale---very modern 1960s International style structures from Faller, etc. A cable car provides access to its summit. Other sections of the resort include a theatre district and Doo Wop district (with 3 sprawling motor courts in the Doo Wop Style). On the lakefront will be a section of hotels with access to the beach. The town has plenty of museums, restaurants, shops, etc. There will also be a circus in the area with 8 circus tents.
Trains are to be an important part of this town. There are two heavyweight passenger trains. One is a Royal American Shows 8 coach train, and the other is a more traditional passenger train. Then there are the historic passenger trains including the DeWitt Clinton, John Bull, and the Lafayette. And there are a couple Baldwins with passenger cars. The amusement park has its own miniature railway (an N scale with open air coaches with HO scale seats).
Well...that is a brief intro to my resort town in HO scale. I have approximately 300 HO scale buildings---some built, some not built. One of the big challenges is the construction of the wooden roller coasters. I have a collection of genuine roller coaster blueprints from the 1920s so that I can construct true to scale replicas.
Anyway, nice to meet all of you.
The theme of the layout is a resort town by a lake. There will be a Main Street stretching close to 15 feet with a trolley. There will also be an amusement park occupying around 90 square feet of layout space. Two mountains will look down on the resort community. Summit Hill will have a Bavarian style resort hotel with access provided by a sky lift on one side and an incline railway on the other. A Victorian village will occupy the sky lift side. Two of the houses on it I bought from Howard Zane. International Mountain is to be a higher mountain located in the distance---so the hotels on its summit are in N scale---very modern 1960s International style structures from Faller, etc. A cable car provides access to its summit. Other sections of the resort include a theatre district and Doo Wop district (with 3 sprawling motor courts in the Doo Wop Style). On the lakefront will be a section of hotels with access to the beach. The town has plenty of museums, restaurants, shops, etc. There will also be a circus in the area with 8 circus tents.
Trains are to be an important part of this town. There are two heavyweight passenger trains. One is a Royal American Shows 8 coach train, and the other is a more traditional passenger train. Then there are the historic passenger trains including the DeWitt Clinton, John Bull, and the Lafayette. And there are a couple Baldwins with passenger cars. The amusement park has its own miniature railway (an N scale with open air coaches with HO scale seats).
Well...that is a brief intro to my resort town in HO scale. I have approximately 300 HO scale buildings---some built, some not built. One of the big challenges is the construction of the wooden roller coasters. I have a collection of genuine roller coaster blueprints from the 1920s so that I can construct true to scale replicas.
Anyway, nice to meet all of you.
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