Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Some Great O Gauge Layout Photos












Sometimes you have to post something just because it's a great photo. That's the case with the photos on this page. They come from Rich Battista's Toy Trains on Tracks website.

 
 











Rich, an O scale modeller, has created a series of three videos about how he built his Black Diamond layout. Although not Canadian, it features these great CN models--which makes it Canadian enough for me!

The Black Diamond Railway a 33 by 13 foot layout. According to Rich, it took one year build the room, three years to build the layout and one more year to build a layout extension.  



 








When he started the layout, he found it difficult to find the information and ideas he needed to design and build a realistic model railroad--hence the videos.

The two units are a CN ES44 and SD40T.

Click here to visit Toy Trains on Track to learn more about the layout and the videos. You can also read an article about the layout in O Guage Railroading



2 comments:

  1. I had to do a search to see if CN had any tunnel motor engines. I guess they don't, per se, as these are sublettered for the DMIR, but it's really neat to see SD40-2T's painted with the noodle. Thanks for sharing

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  2. Actually, CN does have sd45s with the wet noodle. They're not authentic CN tunnel motors as they were accommodated with the purchase of dmir but they do exist.

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