D-264 Factory Layout Details
Below are pictures of an original Lionel D-264 factory layout. I acquired these photos about two years after I completed building my copy of this layout. I had planned on making all the appropriate changes to make mine look more like an original. After planning this for about two weeks, I decided that it simply would be take too much effort to make it worthwhile. Therefore, my layout remains intact.
When you compare these pictures and the bill of materials you will see that the pictures show a #264 Operating Fork Lift Platform, located close to the 192 Control Tower, but is not included in the bill of materials. I acquired my bill of material and pictures of the layout by scanning a page from a catalogue of Lionel factory layouts. This catalogue is no longer available to me and when I attempt to scan the picture that I have it becomes illegible. Therefore, to provide this information, I will simply type it in:
| 40 No. 31 curved Track | 1 No. 110 Graduated Trestle | 1 No. 192 Railroad Control Tower | 1 No. 364C Controller |
| 46 No 32 Straight Track | 4 No. 110-A "A" Piers for 110 | 1 No. 195 Eight-Bulb Floodlight Tower | 1 No. 494 Rotary Beacon |
| 4 No. 34 Half Straight Track | 1 No. 112 R. C. Switches Pr. | 1 No. 197 Rotating Radar Antenna | 2 No. 920-2 Tunnel Portals |
| 1 No. 36 Operating R. C. Set | 1 No. 128 Animated Newsstand | 1 No. 199 Microwave Relay Tower | 1 No. 1047 Switchman with Flag |
| 1 No. 37 Uncoupling Set | 1 No. 140 Banjo Signal | 1 No. 252 Automatic Crossing Gate | 1 No. 3662 Operating Milk Car |
| 3 No. 49 Insulated Curved Track | 1 No. 151 Automatic Semaphore | 4 No. 260 Bumper | 1 No. ZW 275-Watt Transformer |
| 2 No. 71 Lamp Post | 1 No. 157 Picket Fence Station | 2 No. 310-3 Billboard | |
| 2 No. 91 Circuit Breaker | 1 No. 175 Rocket Launcher | 1 No. 332 Arch-Under-Bridge |
A few notes that were not included in the catalogue.
The trestles should be the black versions. (I used gray but am converting to black ones.)
The bumpers should be black. (I used the red ones but I am converting to black ones.)
The two tunnel portals are on the side of the mountain that is closest to the control panel. The portals on the far end of the mountain were hand made with of wood with a paper 'picture' of concrete blocks. There was no way that I'd be able to duplicate that so I used the 920 portals on both sides of the mountain.
You will have to figure out where the half straights go. I don't remember the locations. When I spoke to the person that owned the real layout pictured below, I found that there were also some 'cut' sections of track. I built my layout without these sections because I didn't know of them at the time. I also forget where these go.
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