The HO Layouts collective...

RonP

Member of the WMRC
The-Gauge is an extremely active forum, it is not uncommon to see 300+ members and guest on any weekend in the winter (busy season online). For new users it is sometimes tough to find common things such as Layouts, newbie questions and don't forget tutorials & how-to's.
Admin's and mod's by all means edit this post to add your memorable layout links in the HO category...
Lets make a list of links to great complete or mostly complete layouts (in this post) for new members such as myself. If you post the links i will Update this post daily to make my first contribution to the site.


TomPM
a moderator here has some great eye candy in this layout and has produced a great progressional picture show into how he made the layout
Building the RK&M - The cement distributer
Building the RK&M II - hillside and grain elevator extension
Building the RK&M III - the mountain

Doctorwayne
The doc a local moderator can be described as no less then a real bonafide artisan. The numerous posts displaying his layout quite often are subject to a grabbing tale of yester years daily operations.

Stories
Seeing spots... - Extra 727 east - Sometimes, on a clear day, you can see... - Steam excursion trip
Becuase of a wreck...
Scenic Pictures
If it's GERN it's good... - Check it out!!! - Double headed mikes - Finally, the "Pictures at 11:00" or quick, Noah, get the boat... - Hope you get a lift out of this... - Oh great i was going to work on
When the CNR come to town, it brings with it the train nuts... - A mysterious movement of...
The cat came back, and she brought her camera...

TruckLover
This lad is a very active modeller and provides tons of pics.
HO layout - The extension - buildings - Trucks - Freight

green_elite_cab
This layout definatly looks awsome, definatly a tender load of TLC was given to this layout.
G.E.C.'s layout pics

TrainNut and Son
Check out our layouts here...
Home layout
Father/Son project
Coffee Table layouts - One - Two & Three

nkp174 -
Great pictures of "The old" layout

wickman -
Old Layout - New Layout

Nazgul's -
Layout

viperman -
Layout

MilesWestern -
Chronicles of a shortline

Interurban -
Building a traction layout - Snowing on my layout

Other layouts on the gauge...

Bad Western - Good start
jetrocks switching layout
trainsteve2435
Ray Marinaccio
Baseballrules
Chrisdapos
Grewsome

Non gauge links
Santa Fe Jack
 

TrainNut

Ditat Deus
Good luck with your idea. Your off to a great start! I had a similar idea that I suggested to the moderators (as it required the addition of a new topic in one of the forums)... 'cept it flew like a lead baloon. It would be neat if you included all scales... or at least the major ones.
 

RonP

Member of the WMRC
TrainNut said:
Good luck with your idea. Your off to a great start! I had a similar idea that I suggested to the moderators (as it required the addition of a new topic in one of the forums)... 'cept it flew like a lead baloon. It would be neat if you included all scales... or at least the major ones.

well i was thinking i'd start a bit of a trend. hopefully people interested in the differant subjects here will also make link collectives in each forum topic. Actually to extend on your idea a New topic with a collection of these posts would would be a great compliment.
 

TrainNut

Ditat Deus
Very cool. Thank you for including me. Something is wrong with the link for my home layout though. When you click on it, you get connected with the home page of The Gauge. Can you re-define the link? Thanks.
 

Russ Bellinis

Active Member
TrainNut said:
It would be neat if you included all scales... or at least the major ones.

Train nut, this is the ho scale forum. I think if the thread was expanded to include more than ho scale, it would get unwieldly. I think a better idea would be for members to start similar threads in the forunms for other scales, so this one stays ho, but sometihing similar could be started in the n scale forum, o & large scale forum, etc.

Ron, how about a link to Nazgul's "Don't laugh too hard...it's my first attempt" thread in the track planning forum?
 

RonP

Member of the WMRC
Russ Bellinis said:
Train nut, this is the ho scale forum. I think if the thread was expanded to include more than ho scale, it would get unwieldly. I think a better idea would be for members to start similar threads in the forunms for other scales, so this one stays ho, but sometihing similar could be started in the n scale forum, o & large scale forum, etc.

Ron, how about a link to Nazgul's "Don't laugh too hard...it's my first attempt" thread in the track planning forum?

Ok ill search it up now.
 

TrainNut

Ditat Deus
Russ Bellinis said:
Train nut, this is the ho scale forum.
Sorry, when reading, I never look at which forum the posts are in... I just click on new posts and read them ALL! Don't take this the wrong way, but frankly, I don't care which forum they're in. As long as it's trains, it's got my attention. RonP, looks like the links to my layout don't belong here as Russ pointed out. Thanks for the effort but please remove them. That's okay, as they're in my signature anyways. Sorry to get you in trouble. 2 strikes for me....
 

RonP

Member of the WMRC
TrainNut said:
Sorry, when reading, I never look at which forum the posts are in... I just click on new posts and read them ALL! Don't take this the wrong way, but frankly, I don't care which forum they're in. As long as it's trains, it's got my attention. RonP, looks like the links to my layout don't belong here as Russ pointed out. Thanks for the effort but please remove them. That's okay, as they're in my signature anyways. Sorry to get you in trouble. 2 strikes for me....

Yours are N scale ? if so i'll start an N scale thread then
 

sumpter250

multiscale modelbuilder
The-Gauge is an extremely active forum, it is not uncommon to see 300+ members and guest on any weekend in the winter (busy season online). For new users it is sometimes tough to find common things such as Layouts, newbie questions and don't forget tutorials & how-to's.

I couldn't agree more, and we're growing! Just something to think about, do you really want to re-invent the wheel? What you have here is a great idea, but it will cost you no small amount of time and effort to accomplish. If there's something you're interested in, simply go to the top of the page, and click "search", and enter the subject.
I once knew everything here, where and when to find it, and who posted it. But, two things happened at about the same time. The gauge got too big, and most of my memory became "write only". I have to use search to find most everything now.
Pete
 

Ralph

Remember...it's for fun!
I also appreciate your efforts with this thread. I've received requests to "sticky" the thread but, after some conversation with administration, agree that its good to limit the number of sticky threads so new threads can be easily seen on the first page. Threads have a life of their own based on the replies they get so I encourage those of you participating in this one to continue as you wish. As Pete mentions above, our SEARCH function (and the GALLERY) are nice resources for locating threads you may wish to find.

Regards,
Ralph
 

RonP

Member of the WMRC
well it looked like a good idea, im not going to spend all my time bumping thess threads though.
 

TruckLover

Mack CH613 & 53' Trailer
You could add my Blast Furnace thread to my collection if you like. Just click the link in my signature titled " building the Walthers N blast furnace" and it will take you to the thread.
 
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