RGGG....The Man With The Trains

Fun Fact: RyanGamerGoneGrazy is an avid model railroader

I've finally finished my 4th, and 1st N-scale model railroad
Its been a long time coming, i seem to recall starting this back in october, but things take time, not to mention a hell of alot of drywall compound..anyways

Its a small layout, at most 16"x25", its built upon some 2" thick pink foam, and alot of plaster, ballasted track...hand painted track..yada yada...get one with the pics you say?


Look..its a blue house.....and a tree

a station, some road,....and a house

Funny seeing a grand trunk car, on a canadian layout

My prised 0-6-0....entering one of the tunnels

The city side of the layout......note the 10 year old lichen moss

A shabby looking hotel, with what appears to be a servicing line heading into a tunnel

A top down view..shows how small it is

More of a top down view.....do you KNOW how agrevating building those tree's are?

Its a Dash-8 40CW...aint she a beaut?

hmm.....looks kinda infested doesnt it?

nice little station...and yes its suposed to look like dirt

telephone polls.......and a road

another hotel shot

Trees and a water tower

Lifeless Hotel....and....errr...a road

Look at that track...I SAID LOOK....That ballast job is the sign of a profesional dammit

Oh so Pretty

an overview

Sky view provided by the Goodyear Blimp

looks a bit barren

Passing near a tunnel

tankers....

tankers........ ...and a road

Its a church...........and a road

gondolas...... ...and a road

an overview...... ...and....a...wait...its not there

Track...and some grass

a 0-6-0T and an Alco RS-1

Dash 8 40CW

Russel Snow Plow

Phew......if your not asleep yet.....

Well i Hoped you enjoyed my layout,.. and yes i know i have no life

Ryan

 

wow rg3, you put alot of time and effort into that. Looks awsome !!!

 

Nice trainset, it must have taken a lot of weekends to put together. I used to enjoy model trains back in the day, but lack of space money and time put a stop to that (along with my first NES :icon_bigg - the rest is history.)

The UK has a lot of railway enthusiasts don't you know?

 

Nice work RGGG! ^_^

 

Kick ass train set. Is that the same set they used for Mr. Roger's Neighborhood .

 

Wow, really nice work. I've been known to dabble in model trains myself...but your table looks a lot more complete than any i've ever done.

I can't tell--is the table lit?

 

Needs some Gundams causing havoc.

Nah, seriously, good work, Ryan!

 

LOL..Gundams on it?..maybe if it were a japanese hi speed train..

nah the table aint lit...its just a really strong flash lol

..now....what do i build next...

Ryan

 

Create a mock metoer shower causing the whole place to catch on fire! Make sure you videotape it all, too!

 

Seriously, add lights. Your transformer probably supports it, and it's really easy.

 

Yea..my friend did that to his actually, with small LED's...i remember for about a month he went around to every classroom to look for electronics with LED's in them...im pretty sure one computer classroom is missing the power LED on all the computers

im glad everyone likes it

Coming next: The Gundam Meteor Shower Japanese Hi-Speed New York layout.....

Ryan

 

Nice Layout. I am also into N scale trains. My layout is in transistion I have some of the mountains built but a long ways to go.

 

Definitely love your train set. Really shows skill and dedication.

I almost got into trains when I went to hobby lobby to buy fake grass for a project. They had some neat train accessories, but they were sort of pricey.

 

0_o i'd love to see some pictures!

I know i've said this alot...but a comapny (overland models) imports brass trains, that usually retail for over 2,000, and sometimes exceed 4, 000 bucks...pricey isnt the word for it lol


Ryan

 

Wow....just awesone, thinking about how much time and money you have spent into it.

 

I will try to get some pictures posted this weekend. We have a family business that makes brass On3 train parts for most of the manufactures in the industry. I would have loved to make a layout in that scale but I just do not have the room.

 

I envy you macwest......On3 is a great scale, I've had my eye on a bachmann 2-8-0 in On3 for awhile....then again i would love a 3 truck shay even more

You make a valid point though, as These things take room, thats one of the reason's why i switched from HO to N-scale...sure i had several thousand invested in HO-scale stuff...but i was limited to only at maximum a 6'x6' layout...which for HO is nothing...so i made the switch to N-scale, its amazing of the size difference 1 scale makes, more so you don't need alot of room to do some really great layouts, http://www.carendt.us is maybe my most favorite site, as it features on nothing but micro and small layouts...

It's not unlike game collections, members here spend hundreds maybe thousands on games a year...everyone has a different hobby, and choose to spend their money and time on it, i split my time between the 2, it took, between October and last week to get it done, granted i didnt stick to it every day...but its not uncommon for a person to build a full room layout and take several years if not several decades to finish

err, actually a railroad is never done, they will always continue to elvolve as time moves on, see example The Utah Belt

Ryan

 

Would you believe it, that after more than a month, I'm bringing back the dead?....


Well, i got some better photo's anyways,...and no, none of them contain any videogames in them, i Know, i'm sorry





























Ryan

 

It just keeps getting better and better!

Keep up the great job RGGG, stay motivated! :thumbsup:

 

Mark!h: ..i thought you had gone for good!....

..anyways.., yea, it looks ALOT better in natural light, i basically just fine tuned it added a few little things here and there, painted all the tree trunks etc, looks really nice now

The coolest thing however, is that this layout is now a part of Carl Arendt's Micro layout gallery, for all to see..

http://carendt.us/scrapbook/page49/index.html



I think my next layout will be....... smaller....yes smaller


Ryan
P.S.Mark, meet me in msn when you get the time