Even smaller o scale layouts...

[Jordan]

Withyn Reach, in another thread I've posted, is considered a very small O scale layout at 6ft x 1ft scenic section plus 4ft fiddleyard, but I have even smaller O scale layouts..

Lyddlow Goods

Lyddlow Goods is a whopping 5 feet long in total.

It's called "Lyddlow" as it's a "Little O" layout... geddit?!? Yes, it's terrible isn't it
It is just two short tracks serving a warehouse and loading platform- there are no points, it is served by a simple 'cassette'.




Someone has found a spare corner of the yard useful as a dumping ground ...
Observant viewers will notice the "moggy on a Moggy"...


The view from the gateway into the yard is quite impressive, for such a small layout, I think...


Finally, I was going to do one of those "gratuitous Silly pics" with a 57ft US Reefer at the platform. The good old British loading gauge defeated me however; there wasn't enough clearance...


...so I had to make do with this as the "silly pic"; D6320 fills up the yard...


Okay it's not going to take any Westerns with ten on, but it provides a very relaxing half-hour or so of gentle shunting, shuffling a few wagons around, and is quick to set up.
It also has more road space on it than Withyn Reach, so is proving very popular with my lad, although his ideas of what looks realistic have yet to be 'fine-tuned'... :shock: :lol:



Unfortunately his grasp of "realism" is a bit different to mine...



My attempts to run US stock failed... he's managed it though...(sort of...)!!

 

[Jordan]

As small as Withyn and Lyddlow are, they aren't the smallest O scale layout I have, oh no!

Un-named Boxfile Layout

There's been something of a trend in the world of Micro-layouts to build them in standard A4-size Boxfiles. Someone rather foolishly suggested that they didn't think it could be done in O scale...

Well, just for a bit of fun, I then did this:-

..Cheers, Jordan - Somehow I don't think you'll manage to squeeze an O Gauge version into the boxfile, though!

Wanna Bet ???

Now will you lot please just pack in all this boxfile nonsense...?!?! :twisted:

NOW look what you made me do.... :x :x :x

Yes, that's O scale track.... :shock:


WITH O scale stock.... :shock: :shock:


AND IT GETS WORSE>>>>>


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US O SCALE...


AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I also posted these pics in RandyWales's "Maenol Mine" Layout thread, where the reaction, shall we say, varied somewhat between members... but some obviously wanted to see this little project move on, so from being a bit of a prank it's now actually becoming a 'proper' layout (I use the term proper' quite loosely...) and has also actually given me the chance to do some of the scenery with my lad, to get him involved.
So... suspense over; here's a few pics of work so far...

I'm going to try and use the lid as a loading dock, for vehicles to back up to wagons & tip their loads (scrap most likely, coal/ore/ballast possibilities) into the wagons on the straight track.

From the opposite side we see a small loading platform & office (now permenantly on Withyn reach!)

A higher view shows a bit of the track- two old Lima Setrack pieces that could've been made to measure!!! They sit on a piece of MDF cut to fit, and ballasted with building sand...

The Boxfile sides are thin chipboard, and as Yorkshire Pullman said, this end needed cutting right through for O scale models. To retain some rigidity I have faced the opening with plastic angle, over a plasticard 'L'-bracket glued to the lid-side bit. Inside this corner is also a small steel angle bracket actually bolted through that side.

This pic is a bit dark- the steel bracket should just be visible in the corner by the opening.

I've finished the sides of the Boxfile with 'brick walls', taken from a free Internet "Textures" site ( http://www.cgtextures.com ), printed onto ordinary paper and laminated to keep out the damp. These will be matt-varnished when the glue has dried fully...


I need to make a small cassette 'fiddle siding', which will have the power supply.
I'm not attempting the usual backscenes, or at present even any way of 'hiding' the exit - after all, no-one will mistake this for the real thing, but I'll try to add some sense of space by finishing the inside of the lid as roadway, as mentioned earlier. It's certainly taken off rather more than I anticipated when I first stuck those bits of track inside it for a laugh...

Oh, and finally, US 40ft Boxcars now foul the platform, by quite a way, due to overhang on that curve... so, yes, that was being a bit silly...

The "cassette" is made (thin MDF), it has some Peco Code124 BH track pinned on it, there's a hefty bit of wood for an end stop and also a Diode protecting it, for the nervous or the wild Driver... Belt'n'braces maybe, but once bitten ...



The power is fed to the cassette; and from there to the rails by brass rod soldered to the outer edges of the rails, that slide onto the other tracks- aligning them & powering at the same time...


Okay chaps, use your imaginations...
The Dinky Ford D Tipper is tipping something into the wagon from the loading bank, which needs a row of old sleepers along the edge to stop keen or dim drivers from reversing right over it...


The loading bank was scenicked with various grey & black sawdusts and some Woodland Scenics turf, with dilute PVA... this caused the cardboard lid to warp dramatically, but fortunately it was easy enough to bend back fairly straight once it was dry. A bit of wood holds it up roughly level for operating - I have not discovered Anti-Gravity...

There you are, an O scale layout in a Boxfile! Who needs a garden, eh?!?

:lol:
Of course, given the choice, which would I prefer?.... :scratch:

 

[rosspeacock]

Thats Brilliant! Made me chuckle :lol: :lol: :wave: Ross...

 

[28ten]

But at least you have a layout (s) of some description
I have come to the conclusion that it is easier to build stock that layouts in 7mm, whereas in 4mm I think it is the opposite.

 

[Jordan]

I'm not the only one to have put O scale into a Boxfile... here's one called "Foxbile Brewery" (can't imagine what the beer must taste of!?!) posted on the latest page of the famous Micro Layouts Website of Carl Arendt (second layout down)...

http://carendt.com/scrapbook/page94a/index.html

Mindyou, operating it as an Exhibition layout must surely get a bit mind-numbing after a while... (like the first 10 mins...!!!) :shock:

 

[Jordan]

Talk about resurrecting an old Thread..!!

I realise the PhotoBucket Fiasco has deleted a few of the photos in this Thread but via another Hosting Service, here's some pics of Lyddlow Goods taken yesterday (Sat 14th Oct 2017) at the 5th Cradley Heath Show.

Okay it was the "silly half hour" near the end, hence the congestion, but also shows my new Minerva Pannier Tank loco, heavily weathered to look like 3675, in it's last few months of service in the Forest of Dean, circa late 1965.