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finally, after some helpful advice, I am able to put some pictures of my layout up.
Here is the trailer depot and lumberyard, part of my new trailer fleet, the rest is loaded onto flatcars.
Closeup of the Bekins.
The mountain with the rest of my trailers on flatcars and my 2 Chessie engines.
The gas station.
The construction site and neighborhood, my personal favorite area.
And finally, my HO scale car bin. There are some tyco, life like, cars and then tons by all sorts of other manufacturers.
That's just about everything on my layout. I will continue to post here when I add something new, or take better pictures.
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Posted - June 10 2012 : 6:31:05 PM
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| nice layout,keep them photos coming ken
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Posted - June 10 2012 : 7:07:20 PM
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Chessie, looks good man! Very Nice.....What for Chessie motive power you run?
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Posted - June 10 2012 : 9:33:18 PM
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quote:Chessie, looks good man! Very Nice.....What for Chessie motive power you run?
Originally posted by EM-1Â -Â June 10 2012Â :Â 7:07:20 PM
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Thanks everyone!
I have 2 chessie engines and they are both in the picture of the mountain, an Athearn GP-35 and a Bachmann F9.
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 Posted - June 11 2012 : 04:31:16 AM
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Hi ChessieRR,
Nice work! I really like the house.
Post more pics. when you can.
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Posted - June 11 2012 : 11:06:47 AM
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quote:Hi ChessieRR,
Nice work! I really like the house.
Post more pics. when you can.
Mytyco
Originally posted by mytyco - June 11 2012 : 04:31:16 AM
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Thanks! The house came out very well I think, it's a kit by rix products.
/tyco/forum/uploaded/chessierr/20120611105200_screenshot_01.jpg
Here's another view. The driveway is made out of light cardboard.
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Hobo camp, an old Bachmann Chessie caboose. Used to be the railroad's yard office, but they moved to an atlas shed in the middle of the yard.
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The town's bank, a junk box project. I am not sure what kit this is, looks like the life like plumbers but no loading doors.
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The construction site, made from a life-like kit which is not being made anymore, but strangely enough the same girder and I-beam pieces are being made by a company called bridge street toys, under the name tekton. Here is the link:
http://www.bridgestreettoys.com/index.html
Some of these spray painted dark red could make a good addition or substitute for the life like kit.
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The whole layout. It is a standard 4x8 size board.
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Finally below my layout, lots of boxes down here, I really need to clean it out someday. You can see over to the left the boxes the trailers came in, most are original. The rest are boxes for all of my Athearn blue box kits and locos, and my personal favorite engine, Athearn SD40 MRL #250, an engine I have seen running.
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Posted - June 11 2012 : 1:33:52 PM
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will their be any steam speciala? 
I buy, repair, and collect
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Posted - June 11 2012 : 3:18:32 PM
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quote:will their be any steam speciala?
Originally posted by SCVR66Â -Â June 11 2012Â :Â 1:33:52 PM
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Occasionally! I have the bachmann j class so that will make an appearance.
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Posted - June 11 2012 : 5:26:43 PM
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I likes it & I want that construction site made by Life-Like someday
I used to have one on another layout once 
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Posted - June 11 2012 : 8:38:48 PM
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quote:I likes it & I want that construction site made by Life-Like someday
I used to have one on another layout once
Originally posted by microbusss - June 11 2012 : 5:26:43 PM
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Thanks! I got mine in the box at a train show, minus a few parts. You can see the crane in the photo of the whole layout. It seems to have fallen over though. In another picture you can see the AHM bright orange crate loader thingy by the trailers. That is a kind of fun accessory, it seems like it would go well with the tyco trailer loader.
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Posted - June 11 2012 : 10:34:23 PM
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| Nice pictures and layout! :P What are the sidewalks made from?
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Posted - June 12 2012 : 06:11:34 AM
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God you guys......I only wish to have the small enough space to have a single 4x8.......(PLEASE I'm not bragging!) I wish it were that simple for me.....I have a HUGE Articulatged steam collection which is how I based my B&O and Western Maryland layout......mid to late 1950's......With the size of those locomotives, well you see were this is going...... my mainline run has to be some enormous length to make up for the trains length......to look somewhat prototypical......SO, what I have is a 4x8, with another 5x7, the 4x8 makes up most of my mainline (even tho just under half of it will be under a mountain!) and then the outside mainline will extend all the way around the outside edge of the 5x7, which will have an engine facility in the middle, and hopefully have a "lower deck" under the 5x7 thats not seen, unless under the layout for a staging type yard as the opposite end of the 5x7 will have a the entrace or yard lead that will go sub-level, as the 4x8 and 5x7 are separtated by a deep river, which will have some N scale down below as the mountain will have some N scale as well, above the main level of HO scale..... 
Thats if I ever get to making the 5x7 frame work! (I have the 4x8 up and almost running), as all I need to do now is finish the wiring up of the control panel.....(I'm not running DCC)
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Posted - June 12 2012 : 09:36:50 AM
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quote:Nice pictures and layout! :P What are the sidewalks made from?
Originally posted by DaCheez - June 11 2012 : 10:34:23 PM
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Thanks! The sidewalks are made from thick (not corrugated) cardboard painted light grey. It looks pretty good, I think.
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Posted - June 14 2012 : 3:59:04 PM
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Nice work Chessie! Wow, but that reminds me a ton of my first serious attempt at a model RR some 20 years (ugh) ago. There's pics of it somewhere. Your truck terminal is pretty similar to the one on my current layout too.
You're off to a great start there... just keep experimenting and enjoying and see where it all takes you...
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Posted - June 14 2012 : 4:50:12 PM
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Nice layout, it's way ahead of mine.
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Posted - June 15 2012 : 5:23:07 PM
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Thanks everyone!
Since I last posted pics, I have some new equipment A tyco flatcar with crawlers, a flat with pipes, a railbox car, and a lionel ho up hi-cube.
I will post pics of them running sometime.
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Posted - June 15 2012 : 5:52:16 PM
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Chessie :
* Very nice layout. Trains should look good going around it.
toptrain
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Posted - June 16 2012 : 10:53:23 AM
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quote:Chessie :
* Very nice layout. Trains should look good going around it.
toptrain
Originally posted by toptrain - June 15 2012 : 5:52:16 PM
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Thanks! As you can see my favorite engines to run are the chessies and of course my walthers alco FA which you can see in the 3rd photo next to the mountain. I almost always run it with my quartet of streamline athearn coaches.
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