The scale is N which is about 1/160 real life. Excepting the actual trains and tracks, 99% of everything else is constructed and then painted plastic or wooden kits from various sources, ebay being a contender along with numerous hobby supplier stores.
There are 2ea 4x8 sheets of plywood upon which the layouts are mounted. The themes are as follows:
1 and 2 are "Anywhere USA" depicting a city with things people do /need (before the days of the big box stores) and places they work, with USA, USAF and USN defense installations that are part of the landscape of many American cities. Servicing railroad is Santa Fe and in particular the Chief silver and red paint scheme.
3 and 4 are my tribute to Willy Nelson's version of "A train they call The City of New Orleans". The train was a day passenger train of the Illinois Central Railroad running between New Orleans and Chicago back when trains were paramount and as the sad part of the song goes, as trains were being replaced with "planes".
So I have "NOLA" on one end and "The Windy City" on the other with what one might to expect to see in and between the two cities. The second passenger train is the "Panama (from namesake Panama Canal...connection?????) Limited" which was the night train between the two cities.
The orange freight is the IC-Gulf, a late comer to IC railroading and the other is more SF Chief paint theme engines pulling general freight cars with which most of us grew up.
No doubt YT was thoroughly represented in the themes linking the two cities and surely most of you can relate to something contained therein. I wanted to get something in there for everybody.....including the junk piles (of which I am truly fond of mine...in real life).
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