Let's see your 50's era layout!

[West Virginia Midland Man]

I love the 50's, so if you have a 1950's era layout, how about some photos? Transition era is a great time to model, late steam and early diesel come together.

 

[flyboy2610]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INcflt9zdwc&feature=related
Couldn't resist!
I don't have my layout built yet, still have work to do on the room where it's going to go. But I agree with you that it's a good time to model. I just love those big steamers!

 

[Southwest Chief]

All of our layouts are 50s themed. Gotta love the 50s

Here are some photos of our Santa Fe HO layout:

More photos can be seen on our layout website. There is the D&RGW G scale layout set in the late 40s to early 50s, the Santa Fe HO layout set in the mid to late 50s, and the Santa Fe O scale layout set in the mid 50s. Here's a link:

Snowshoe & San Juan Model Railroad

 

[West Virginia Midland Man]

With multiple layouts, I am guessing that the above are a club? Nice work, no doubt.

 

[Southwest Chief]

With multiple layouts, I am guessing that the above are a club? Nice work, no doubt.

Nope not a club. Just my dad and I. But thanks for thinking these are club layouts. It's been a lot of hard work.

 

[West Virginia Midland Man]

Actually, I was thinking club because of the apparent size. The layout(s) look(s) huge.

 

[Southwest Chief]

Actually, I was thinking club because of the apparent size. The layout(s) look(s) huge.

Selective photography angles They are pretty small by layout standards. Only the G scale one is large, but it is outdoors so it can be.

 

[logandsawman]

impressive photo's. I am new on the website and still don't have the thing entirely figured out.

 

[zoegraf]

I love the 50's, so if you have a 1950's era layout, how about some photos? Transition era is a great time to model, late steam and early diesel come together.

Not much, but it is 1955 on my layout.

 

[West Virginia Midland Man]

Well done Zoe Graf, are you from Canada by chance? (The crossbuck reads Railway Crossing rather than Railroad Crossing, and the station name appears French Canadian.)

 

[zoegraf]

Well done Zoe Graf, are you from Canada by chance? (The crossbuck reads Railway Crossing rather than Railroad Crossing, and the station name appears French Canadian.)

Thanks.
I'm going to switch the green bottles on the trunk of the car with brownish bottles to represent beer bottles.
Yes I'm from Canada, but live no where near the area I model, which is Atlantic Canada. I grew up there in the 1960's. I wasn't around in the 50's, but the look is similar to the 60's because not much changes back there. The name on the Station is fictitious to give it a northern New Brunswick feel. I'm trying to get a bit of every aspect of the Atlantic Canada feel into my freelance layout. Have you seen my other shots under the post "Scenes from a narrow shelf layout"?

 

[West Virginia Midland Man]

Yes, all nice work.