New Train layout 6-1-23

[PMW]

Just finished Building an Executive Airport on top of 1 of my mountains today. Lego Buildings & 1/87th scale planes. The Airport is 89" long by 10&1/2" wide. 7-20-24

Wow! The only thing I ever did with Legos is step on them in the middle of the night and curse the inanimate plastic with bottomless rage

 

[Larry Creel]

Wow! The only thing I ever did with Legos is step on them in the middle of the night and curse the inanimate plastic with bottomless rage

I had never done lego's when I was a kid because back then there wasn't any. I started building lego Kits in Jan. of 2023 at age 84. I was waiting for my Train Room to be finished & needed something to do. I moved up here to Covington, Ga. on Oct.13th 22 after my wife died in Jan. of 22. I now live with my Sister. My building was finished in June of 23 & started building tables 2 weeks after that.

 

[Larry Creel]

Rebuilt the Hospital on the layout this week. 10" wide by 10" long by 8&1/4" high. 7-26-24

 

[Larry Creel]

Also built some walls next to & across from other buildings today. 8-2-24

 

[Larry Creel]

I haven't posted anything on the group for quite awhile. I have been real busy doing other things like building Lego WW2 Planes & now I have too many 17 to be exact & I have also been rebuilding quite a few of my layout Lego Buildings which I have 88 of those. Now, I'm getting back to work on the layout. I've added another mainline which I have to wire up a mess of drops. Then in about 3 or 4 months or less I'm going to add 2 more mainlines to a raised section around the outside of the layout. Anyway here's some pictures. The 1st picture shows my supplies, #2 is the 3rd track on the left, #3 is the rail on the right,#4 is the rail all the way over against the front of the mountain, #5 is the rail on the far right, #6 is the rail where the yellow box car is sitting & #7 shows some of the layout. 1-25-25 What I did was remove a bunch of sidings that I hardly ever used & then moved track over & took at the turnouts where needed. I only have 1 turnout that goes into 1 Yard. I bought 3 new MRC Transformers for the 3 new mainlines. I have been running 2 old MRC Transformers for what I have now. I might move back to Arcadia,Fl. this year if I can find someones property,to put a metal building on. Hope I can get a 24 by 40ft again like I had before.

 

[Larry Creel]

Been Building a lot of structures for Railroad maint. & Engine Shops, etc. I use Lego's for all my structures. Just this week I built 9 buildings. 4-1-25

 

[Larry Creel]

Last week I've added about 6 more structures to the downtown area. 3-28 to 3-31-25

 

[PMW]

I'm lovin' your Leggo skills

 

[TheXModelRailroader]

This is so cool how you mixed Legos with the HO models. You should build a locomotive shell (Like for a f7 or something). I have done this once or twice.

 

[Gary B]

Cool stuff. I've used Lego (the plural of Lego IS Lego) as structural components in several of my own builds, using ones left by my sons.
Christmas 2023, knowing I'm also a fan of commercial airliners, the wife surprised me with the Lego Concorde. Heck of a kit. Gear is retractable and nose can drupe.

 

[Rico]

Larry good to see your progress!
Gary, that Concorde is awesome!

A friend's wife has an amazing Lego collection, lots of the expensive stuff.
I asked him what some of those kits were worth and all he said was “it’s cheaper than a divorce!”