New Pics ! I just bought this amazing layout...

[eja]

I'll share this much, the asking price was $1200.00 OBO.

Thanks for sharing.   I would have guessed much more.   Good luck with any restorations you have to do.  Can't wait to see it operational.

[Ed Kapuscinski]

Thanks for sharing.   I would have guessed much more.   Good luck with any restorations you have to do.  Can't wait to see it operational.

Layouts ARE like classic cars... never worth as much to the next guy as you put into them.

[JMaurer1]

We need more detailed photos, please. It looks amazing!

[mecgp7]

Although promised history of the layout by the seller, I have yet to hear anything. The layout is old as part of the story was it was built and operated for "years", then stored in a stable for "years", then given/sold to the seller's father who had it for "years" and finally the seller had it for "years". A lot of years in there.
I didn't see a date, but discovered that the builder used Christmas decorated boxes as bases, etc., for the landscape.

I promise to get the story together and get more facts and of course more pics. Right now it sits in my cargo trailer.

[MegaBlackJoe]

Would love to see the detailed pics and the plan. Thank you.

[mecgp7]

I have had a lot of interest in the dual gauge portion of the layout. Below are pics of where the narrow gauge merges with the standard. Impressive work. The pictures as listed go from right to left on the layout.
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[mecgp7]

I will get the layout design posted asap. Below are random pics with some commentary:
Random pic of a wrecked wagon along a road, a Saguaro cactus and a buffalo skull just beyond:
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The yard with turntable:
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View of the mines; one active pne abandoned:
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The played out Roosevelt Mine:
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What the heck, a hog farm!
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[NDave]

Cool! Thanks for the photos! In the pic showing the roundhouse, there is a little two stall engine house/shop on the far right of the image... I think I have the same model as an engine house on my layout (on old Bachmann kit purchased thru eBay, as I recall).

[nkalanaga]

That narrow gauge took some work.  I've added a third rail, on one direction, to a commercial code 55 turnout.  It was a real pain to do, I'd rather build from scratch.  Doing it with C80 track is something I wouldn't want to try.

[Doug G.]

A good old Bachmann signal bridge, signal, and crossing gate in there. Also, a Bachmann water tank near the roundhouse.

The two stall engine house is a Heljan. I have an unbuilt one. It's patterned after the old Revell HO engine house.

Doug

[Rossford Yard]

I like the layout a lot.  It gets you running trains right away, and the time to fix or improve what you don't like, which to me is the best of both worlds for $1200.  I know that was just the asking price, so it might be lower.....if I saw it, I would probably put in an offer above list price!

[mecgp7]

I like the layout a lot.  It gets you running trains right away, and the time to fix or improve what you don't like, which to me is the best of both worlds for $1200.  I know that was just the asking price, so it might be lower.....if I saw it, I would probably put in an offer above list price!

I paid more than the seller was asking as I felt it the right thing to do. I ain't much of a businessman. If one does the math just in building kits and vehicles it would be close to the asking price.

This is the third layout that I have purchased and I highly recommend those waiting for the right time to set up a layout to go out and find a completed layout for sale. One pays pennies on the dollar when you consider the actual cost in time and money to build your own. For example, I purchased an Atlas designed "Scenic and Relaxed" which was approximately 6' x 3.5' fully operational with powers sources, remote switches, scenery and structures, and several Atlas, Kato, and other locomotives and freight/passenger cars (pic below). The asking price was a paltry $300.00. One learns a great deal about layout design when they operate one. I know it has been a tremendous learning opportunity for me and I am way ahead of the game when I design my next layout. Plus, it is a lot of fun seeing your trains run through scenery, etc. If one looks on Facebook and Craigslist, there are layouts on there all the time. Some aren't much, some are, and some are masterpieces.

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[randgust]

Thanks for those photos.  The shots of the dual gauge left me open mouthed, as I made a dual-gauge turnout out of Rokuhan Z by splicing cut-up sections of Z track to widen it.    Back 'in the day' (70's) I made a custom 60-degree crossing out of Code 80 out of auto body putty as nobody made one until Shinohara did much later.... that was really hard to do with C80.   So considering the era of that layout, that's freakin' epic work.

I can't get over dual gauge turnout and above-table switch machines....

[peteski]

I can't get over dual gauge turnout and above-table switch machines....

I had to review those photos again, and you're right, there are those standard switch machines on the turnouts.  They blend into the surrounding ground cover/ballast so well that I didn't even  notice them first time I looked at the photos.