Testing...1,2,3

[Boss Boomer]

This is only a test to see if I figgered out how to post a pic here.

OK, looks like it worked! Ta-daaaaa!

Here's a pic of my old layout. This photo was taken about 1990, at Hendrickson Junction on my Howell & Marquette Northern. This was my first layout attempt where I tried to incorporate all I had learned up to this time--scenery, track-work, wiring, and operations. Obviously, I "still" have a long way to go with all of them, but I was real happy with how things worked.

The guys in my old train club came over to my house and I put them to work with a switching list and they said they all had a lot of fun switching and traveling around the lay-out. I was trying to introduce "operations" to the club because, up to this time, almost none of the guys had done much more than run their trains around in a circle.

Hendrickson Junction was my interchange with the "outside world." Trains would enter in the background on two tracks. There was a small passenger cover, a section foreman's office, an interlocking tower, the County Co-op and a Farm and Construction implement dealer. The trains had to enter through a three way turn-out to get on the main here. The three way turn-out was a work of track art! It was a Shinohara and the movement and operation was smooooth.

The County Co-op, as seen in this pic was my first attempt at scratch-building, too. This was the mock-up I made out of cardboard to test dimensions and appearance and loosely based upon some grain elevators near my home in Michigan at the time.

Unfortunately, my lay-out never progressed much further than you see here because we moved and divorced within two years after.

I'll post more pix and commentary as I can to show the rest of the lay-out. Yah, this is ancient history now, but I need the practice and I don't guess you guys will object to seeing a few new pix, even of an old lay-out, h'uh?

[domiluk]

Looks like a real good picture to me

[Boss Boomer]

This is the center of the scene at Hendrickson Junction. Across the tracks are the section foreman's office and the Interlocking tower protecting the main at the Junction switch.

Just barely at the lower right you can see the front of the Farm and Construction Equipment dealer.

In the background, the south side of town.

[Boss Boomer]

OK, last photo for a time--gotta get up and move around a while.

Here's the last view of Hendrickson Junction overlooking the Farm and Construction Equipment dealer and, in the background, is the first curve next to Nudist Hill. It's called Nudist Hill by the Trainmen because some of the country boys and girls in these parts like to come out and sit on the hill overlooking the track and sun-bathe "au naturel!" They get a kick out of it when the trains go by and blow their horns like there ain't no tomorrow!!!

That, and the engine crew wants to be sure the way-car men are paying attention to the hill as they go by!

Sorry, the day I took these pix was a little chilly, so no girls sitting around starkers today! Hope ya like my pix anyway!

[Nazgul]

BB...
You keep posting those pics!
That looks like it was one sweet layout!!

[ak-milw]

Looks like you did a real nice job on that one Boss!! To bad about being chilly out.

[TallDude]

Nice layout Boss!!! I throughly enjoyed reading this thread and it is a shame about the temperature..lol