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When I moved to Florida with my job, Dad assembled
the framework for a set of modules based on the Thomasville layout in Model
Railroading magazine (and the book Building Your Next Model Railroad). When
I linked up with a modular group here in Florida I modified the design a
bit to mate with their standards. The scenery was designed to be more
specifically New England than in the articles, with a large mill, hills,
and a barn and long wooden office reminiscent of
Danbury yard.
This is really my first layout to come close to
being complete. I did share a fairly large table top
American Flyer layout
with my Dad in our basement in Connecticut. It used toy train scenery techniques;
Lifelike grass mats, Plasticville and cutout cardboard buildings and toy
vehicles. When I wanted to work in HO, I started with a six by four foot
sheet of homasote with a large "S" of track (sort of the bottom half of a
figure eight) and one siding at one end. It was certainly "Point to Point",
but not very interesting to operate and never got any permanent scenery (although
a did set up some dioramas using loose soil and various structures, trains
and people). My second attempt with my Dad’s help was a two level folded
loop with (I think) two sidings. This never got beyond beachwork, track and
two wires and ended up holding up a good deal of "stuff" in the corner of
my bedroom. I planned a number of other layouts; even cutting and fitting
track for a two foot by eight foot scene based on the Essex, Connecticut
yard (with the trackplan derived from a topo map of the area) after visiting
the museum there.
This is an overall view of the two main modules.
A large mill is to the left, and the barn and long structure suggesting
Danbury are behind the station to the right.
This is a picture of a brass NH mogul taken at this
time, posed to match a shot in The New Haven Railroad, A Fond Look
Back. The barn is an old Plasticville, covered with individual weathered
wood strips. The long building is a Heljan Edison's Lab kit.
This picture shows the main yard and town section
of the sectional layout built by our club.The layout was finished and appeared
at several shows in South Florida, but has now been dismantled.
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