Autistic Savant
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Hello fellow members---I am new today to this forum. I am currently constructing an HO scale model train layout. Although many of my buildings are finished, the layout itself is in the initial stages. It is a lakeside resort. Here are some details about it:
The layout measures 26 feet by 26 feet---which scales out (HO) to 111 acres.
I have approximately 300 buildings that I have been collecting over the past several years. My prize buildings are both from Howard Zane---two houses.
There is a Main Street which measures 16 feet long which will have a trolley line. The models are mainly Walthers and DPM for this section of the resort.
There is an amusement park which measures 16 feet by 12 feet (in the center of the layout). I am scratchbuilding several of the rides from actual historic plans. One of the roller coasters is nearing completion and is from actual blueprints dating from 1928. I am also using IHC amusment rides and a Faller Wilde Maus---those are built.
There is a mountain which will have a sky lift to the top on one side, and an incline railray on the other side. At the top is large Vollmer station. A large cavern goes through the mountain. A railroad tunnel also goes through the mountain. (The mountain has not been started yet).
There is a circus consisting of of 9 circus tents from Gem City Amusements. (I have not put the tents together yet).
There is a DooWop motel district consisting of DooWop style motels. I have already built these (though they are not landscaped yet). Three of the motels are built from the Bachmann motel kits. Each motel consists of multiple kits so they have around two dozen rooms a piece. The largest motel occupies about three feet by three feet of space---a typical U-shaped motor inn surrounding a swimming pool.
There will also be a Victorian village, a Western town with an N-scale steam train (although HO scale layout, the N-scale train is the right scale for a Huntington model amusement park train). The locomotive pulls several flat bed cars with HO scale park benches on it. They will be covered with canopies like at an amusement park.
The HO scale trains that operate throughout this tourist resort include the Bachmann Dewitt Clinton, Lafayette, and John Bull. There are also two Jupiters, and a diesel that pulls a Royal American Shows passenger train. And there are the trolleys.
There are other themed areas to this resort. But the entire resort is like a giant theme park with the trains offering transportation to the other areas.
Anyway, that is a little bit about my project which will occupy a lot of work. I already have most of the boards up to hold this. Now I will begin placing the structures where they belong and laying the track.
Thank you for reading, and I hope to learn a lot on this forum.
The layout measures 26 feet by 26 feet---which scales out (HO) to 111 acres.
I have approximately 300 buildings that I have been collecting over the past several years. My prize buildings are both from Howard Zane---two houses.
There is a Main Street which measures 16 feet long which will have a trolley line. The models are mainly Walthers and DPM for this section of the resort.
There is an amusement park which measures 16 feet by 12 feet (in the center of the layout). I am scratchbuilding several of the rides from actual historic plans. One of the roller coasters is nearing completion and is from actual blueprints dating from 1928. I am also using IHC amusment rides and a Faller Wilde Maus---those are built.
There is a mountain which will have a sky lift to the top on one side, and an incline railray on the other side. At the top is large Vollmer station. A large cavern goes through the mountain. A railroad tunnel also goes through the mountain. (The mountain has not been started yet).
There is a circus consisting of of 9 circus tents from Gem City Amusements. (I have not put the tents together yet).
There is a DooWop motel district consisting of DooWop style motels. I have already built these (though they are not landscaped yet). Three of the motels are built from the Bachmann motel kits. Each motel consists of multiple kits so they have around two dozen rooms a piece. The largest motel occupies about three feet by three feet of space---a typical U-shaped motor inn surrounding a swimming pool.
There will also be a Victorian village, a Western town with an N-scale steam train (although HO scale layout, the N-scale train is the right scale for a Huntington model amusement park train). The locomotive pulls several flat bed cars with HO scale park benches on it. They will be covered with canopies like at an amusement park.
The HO scale trains that operate throughout this tourist resort include the Bachmann Dewitt Clinton, Lafayette, and John Bull. There are also two Jupiters, and a diesel that pulls a Royal American Shows passenger train. And there are the trolleys.
There are other themed areas to this resort. But the entire resort is like a giant theme park with the trains offering transportation to the other areas.
Anyway, that is a little bit about my project which will occupy a lot of work. I already have most of the boards up to hold this. Now I will begin placing the structures where they belong and laying the track.
Thank you for reading, and I hope to learn a lot on this forum.
