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I spent some time yesterday at a model train club meet. This is a section of one of the trains that were there. It is 1.5 inch scale, and the track you see in 7.5 inches wide. My late husband belonged to this club, and they built a track to run the trains on.
Illinois Central/Illinois Central Gulf railroad dominates this fictional central Illinois city, 4ft. by 9ft. N scale layout. All diesel era rolling stock starting with the green diamond logo,split rail orange logo, ICG i rail logo, and the current death star logo. There's rolling stock of the Vermont Railway, Rock Island, Soo Line, Baltimore & Ohio(capitol logo and Chessie System), and Wisconsin Central.
N scale Tide water Junction layout. This layout is a Norfolk & Western flavored layout. It features a coal mine and a coal facility down at the harbor. Two trains can run on the layout one on a high line, and one on a lower line. This layout is for sale in June as well...
A Chicago-style angled corner building that is 3d printed and uses scrap kit remnants. Commercial on the ground floor with four levels of converted space into apartments, the top two are a modern addition. I built this to compliment a flat-iron highrise kit I already had.
The Park View Layout c1990. About 11ft x 8ft, minimum radius for running lines 3ft, maximum train length Main Terminus seven Mark Ones, Branch - four coaches. Note doorway opening into room, bottom right. High level branch terminus top left. Main terminus intermediate level top right. Intermediate station and loco facilities bottom at an intermediate low level. Hidden sidings and reversing loop at lowest level top right. No continuous run!
The Mercury, a custom-built, fully air-conditioned train, was New York Central Lines' first streamliner. Completed in 1936, it was "designed as a unit, inside and out, integrating everything from locomotives to dinner china." The locomotive was streamlined with a now-classic "bathrub" shroud, and the heavyweight 1920s commuter cards were refurbished. All the work was done in the railroad's West Albany Shops. The train was tested on the New York Central Line along the Hudson and placed in regular service on the Detroit-Toledo-Cleveland route in July 1936. The Mercury provided express service until the late 1950's.
This model of the Mercury, made by Louis Marx and Company in 1939, is part of the New York Transit Museum Collection. The New York Transit Museum, the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history, operates a gallery annex in Grand Central Terminal that presents changing exhibitions.