I always enjoy seeing pictures of your railroad @John Bartolotto . I never knew the LIRR owned a 44-Tonner. Your model looks great!
I think I was in my late fifties before I read what those were. Been seeing them since childhood on my Lionel gon.
So I started finishing off my 12' x 16' train room back in 2018 and I finally finished it this weekend. I still have to organize the shelves on the rear wall but it's finished and I'm really happy with it. I have enough room for my LIRR Z scale layout, my N scale layout (which you can see that I have started) and then a small HO layout. It was a long process but very fulfilling because I did it all by myself. Enjoy, John
John your room is very well done and I truly love that overall shot of your layout. The compression and detail level in that size is just fantastic! And I have to admit I have N scale as well myself.
Indeed a small escape/hobby room of this nature is ideal. Heated in the winter and cooled in the summer I am assuming. Not everyone has the luxury of being able to partition off a small room like this. But happy to see those that do have the ability, taking advantage of it. And to me that’s the beauty of Z-scale, because one does not necessarily need a room of this size in order to have a modest layout. Indeed I encourage everyone to build the biggest layout they can afford in the space they have available. Therefore all in favor of John selling his N-scale and HO-scale gear and expanding his Z-scale layout, say “aye”!
John, Your room looks WOW and super organized and neat. I wonder what treasurez you have in the safe. Kim
No disrespect intended, but I'd bet money you where US Amy, armor. Nice sabot. As a kid I had an empty mortar round. I don't know what ever happened to it.
So its been months of work (a few minutes here and a few minutes there) but I finished the NYPD precinct building. The building was designed and produced for me by Charlie T at Z&US Models https://zandusmodels.wordpress.com/contact/ It was ground breaking in some aspects especially making the Cold War air raid siren for the top of the building and finding a small enough flag for the front of the building, I used a small N scale US flag JP5953 from Woodland Scenics https://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/item/JPFLAGW which came out to be a 5' x 8' Z scale flag, perfect for this building. I slowly added details and modifications to try to simulate a NYPD precinct circa 1960s like the 64th Precinct below. However, I decided that the precinct number for my model would be the 12th in honor of Barney Miller and his crew. Enjoy, John
While us BAZ BoyZ run 100 car trains on 25x35 show layouts, NOTHING beats a excellently constructed 2x3 !!!! That looks so good, even from 10’ away ! after moving to a LARGER house nearly 3 years ago, the train room has nothing but layout ideas on the wall and a single bay ‘extra’ garage, just for trains (modules hanging on the walls, trains and such in boxes)
