nycjeff layout

[deemery]

Is that a slide-out drawer for holding freight cars, in the distance on the left?  

Very nice, overall!  I love seeing layout room photos, helps give me a sense of 'model RR in context' and how people finish their train rooms.

dave

[nycjeff]

Looks grand Jeff.....

Hello Greg, thanks for looking in and for the kind words

Is that a slide-out drawer for holding freight cars, in the distance on the left? 

Very nice, overall!  I love seeing layout room photos, helps give me a sense of 'model RR in context' and how people finish their train rooms.

dave

Hello Dave, the slide out tray that you are looking at is a control tray for the power and block switches for the classification yard and engine service areas of my layout. I have two walk around throttles for the main lines and an MRC power pack for the yard area. I agree with you on train room photos. We all try to just have train related areas in our pictures, but it's nice to see how other modelers set up their layouts in their train rooms.

[Jerry]

Really like that scenery.  Great job.

Jerry

[nycjeff]

I see that it has been quite a long time since I posted on this thread. I definitely plan to continue on here. Now that my build thread for the Winter Challenge is done I will get going on my layout tour once again.

[nycjeff]

Really like that scenery.  Great job.

Jerry

Hello Jerry, sorry for the very late reply, but I want to thank you for taking the time to look in and for the nice compliment.

[friscomike]

Howdy Jeff,

The layout looks nice.  I love those long stretches with the border trees.

Have fun,
mike

[PRR Modeler]

Very well done Jeff.

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...

My last posting in this thread covered the narrow shelf at the lower left portion of the schematic drawing above. Now we have come to the corner scene at the lower left.



Below we have a distance shot of this corner. This is an area of the layout that still has what I call my first generation of being finished. I intend to refresh this area with higher quality either scratch-built or craftsman kits and a little better level of scenery work. I've been replacing plastic kits with craftsman kits and using better scenery techniques that I have learned over the years.



There are two distinct scenes in this corner area- first we have a three house residential street scene. Here is a drone view of this area. The two outside houses are from Rix with a little kit-bashing. The middle house is scratch-built. We'll take a closer look at the houses in my next post.



Behind the houses on the other side of the track is a corn field. Since I model rural Ohio, you can never have enough corn fields. They are like barns- they're everywhere.



Here's a closer look at the corn field. I think that the corn rows came from Busch and the wooden fence is from central Valley. As you can see I stopped ballasting the tracks here.



That's it for now, more later.

[nycjeff]

Continuing on...

The residential area was raised up a bit from the plywood base. I used some of the Homosote, which Home Depot calls sound deadening board, which I usually use for my track sub-roadbed. I shaped the sides and rear edges with a metal scraper to get a natural looking slope.



Here's the first house. This is one of the Rix houses. I believe that these houses, of which there are three styles, are still available for a very reasonable price.. The rabbit hutch with the figures is from Woodland Scenics. The lady on the porch is waiting for the milkman. You know what they always say about the milkman.



This is a scratch-built house. The fence is from Central Valley. The street is just some of the Homosote painted with a chalk paint and then slightly weathered with pastel chalks.



The third house is another Rix house. I forget where I got the milk truck. Since I model the late 1940's this truck fits in. It's almost hard to believe that you used to be able to get fresh milk delivered right to your door.

The power poles and streetlights are from Walthers. I can't remember where I got the dog and doghouse.



I wanted to include some houses on the layout instead of just all business structures. This little corner scene which also tells a story with the figures  and the milk truck delivery fits in well.

That's it for now, more later.

[nycjeff]

Next to the residential area is a cow pasture. Again, this is rural Ohio and all that corn that they grow is to feed the cows. Here's a drone view of the pasture.



The fence is again from Central Valley and I can't remember where I got the cows from. Another senior moment I guess. The grass surface is just some ground foams spread over a brown paint base color. The mud areas are some joint compound that I thinly spread out and allowed to crack and then painted a mud color. One detail that I forgot to include was to model the cow droppings- I'll have to work on that.



The water hole is from a water kit I picked up at my LHS, when it was still there, from Woodland Scenics.



The water tank is from Walthers and I scratch built the wooden tower. This was one of my early scratch builds and I think that it's a little out of scale. I might have to re-build it someday.

 If you look back at my layout drawing you can see that the track behind the houses and the pasture leads onto my central peninsula. The turnout leads onto a short track that allows for continuous running around my upper level if I just want to run a train.



That's it for now, more later.

[ACL1504]

Jeff,

Nice farm and residential area.

Tom 

[PRR Modeler]

Great scenes Jeff.

[Mr. Critter]

That dried-up mud-puddle is an exquisite little detail.

[nycjeff]

Jeff,

Nice farm and residential area.

Tom

Hello Tom, thank you. This area is one of the scenes on my layout that I hope to improve upon, but I appreciate the kind words.

Great scenes Jeff.

Thank you Curt

That dried-up mud-puddle is an exquisite little detail.

Hello Critter, thank you. As I said in the notes, all I did was spread a thin coat of drywall joint compound in a little area and then let it dry and crack. After drying I painted it a brown mud color. Simple and it looks good.

[Rick]

Jeff, thanks for all the pictures.
You've created many good looking scenes.