my ex-railroad

[doga]

Hello everybody.This is my first post in this community. I'm Doga and had my first g scale at the ace of 2 It was 1982 i had a pair of lgb's...Since then i never give up my interest on g-scale trains but i spend my time most on plastic kits, r/c cars and boats, ho-scale marklins etc... At 2006 my father became half retired and we started a gcale project. In the beginning we were about the put two lines on a table layout in our garage. But then we decided to take advantage of ''all weather proof''...The project started in 2006 summer and demolished in 2009.The pictures i'm gonna share belongs to different stages of our garden layout. I hope you will enjoy these and i'll try to find the videos of the trains as well...

In the beginning our lay out was that , what you cant see in the sheme is an house in the middle...
some more pictures from that days

 

[doga]

somepart of the layout designed as an american town and the other was industrial eupean...

 

[Tony]

Welcome to our little comunity Doga its shame it had to be dismatled............ any chance of a rebirth ?

Tony

 

[mike]

wow.. very nice, moreplease

 

[doga]

Using different kinds of themes on same railroad created some unrealistic scenes like this:

 

[doga]

Thank you for your comments Mr. Mike and Tony. Because our main motivation when building is just to relax watching the trains in our back yard creating unnatural scenes doesnt stopped us...

 

[yb281]

Welcome to the forum Doga, especially if you keep posting great photos like those.

From the trees etc. in the background I take it you're not in the UK?

 

[doga]

Last photo is taken from the roof of our house...Trains were almost having a full round arround the house...
Then we tried having live plants on our composition:

 

[garrymartin]

Welcome . You and your father certainly had so interesting ideas when it comes to using plants.

 

[doga]

this was the control office for main tracks

and another scene that is unscale (and somehow unlogical...but we wanted to have an mountainclimber...)

 

[whatlep]

What a fantastic layout!

Welcome to the GSC community and thanks for such an interesting first post!

 

[doga]

And then night comes...Every single building has lighted and used arround 50 station/street lamps on layout...

 

[steve parberry]

Nice Rule 8 railway

Welcome to our mad and sane world hope you find sometng here to keep you intrested.

Regards Steve

 

[annieshalt]

marvelous layout, cant wait to see your next project. allan.

 

[doga]

Thanks for comments Mr. yb281 , Garymartin and Whatleaf... For future ,offcourse i have some plans but i guess this was the first and last time for building a layout that big. I think it is much reliable to have a diaroma smaller. I really got upset when i heard its dismantled, but i realised it was hard to keep and run this... Anyway my future plan is to keep the ones i like and sell the others and build a layout that can be controlled more easilly...
By the way you are right yb281 the layout was in Dubai...We work with middleeast so our base is in Dubai...

 

[stevedenver]

welcome
youre photos make me smile
they just look like a lot of fun, built by guys that loved trains
even better that you did so with your father

 

[stockers]

A brilliant layout and also some great trains there.
Love the alpine express and that great Garrett. Did I also see crocodiles and a Harz 2-10-2 - Brilliant.
Hope to see more

 

[spike]

Now thats a backyard.

 

[ceejaydee]

To say that was an impressive layout is somewhat of an understatement.
To have dismantled it must have been heartbreaking but what an achievement to have built it in the first place.

 

[Gizzy]

Welcome to the forum!

Great photos too btw....