Now we're getting the OLD stuff!!!

[N Gauger]

Hi there.....

Thanks fer lookin'.. The Next Challenge is: your OLD STUFF!!!!!!

It all started when I had too much time on my hands.......

I was asked to put my Ugly Mug on a forum:
A Face Behind the Name

http://www.the-gauge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3168

Then I posted Pics of a rail Car For the gauge railway:
http://www.heatherandmichael.com/prb/GaugeOER.html

Then I was requested to place my Workbench pic on:

http://www.the-gauge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=4715

So In the thread Below - I was asked To change my name to "AllGauger" LOL
And I was also asked why No O gauge
(Robber Barons take note: I was and AM being corrupted by the "Robber Barroness" herself!! ~~~ ROFLMAO

http://www.the-gauge.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&postid=44830#post44830

It occured to me that we have a Huge amount of members here now:

So Lets see your Old Work, YES ! the First Layouts You All built Or helped build or Run!!!!!! That's the only rules it has to be the first or the second!! And hopefully it'll be "old"

 

[philip]

I'm in! 1959 ???

philip

 

[N Gauger]

Of course I HAVE to but my "Neck on the block" first

This was new in 1982 it's HO The Mountain is 8 Ft long
The Blue box is my idea of Tethered control, All direction and switches were wired in to a 20 ft long cable.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldho2t.jpg

This was new in 1983 it's HO and the Turntable is in it's new position. The Mountain is gone, we decided it wouldn't work
The Wire mentioned below is the phone wire curving upward to the Left of the green line that marked the end of the mountain. (Overspray)

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldho1t.jpg

I was also the only one out of the 3 of us that understood the tethered control. The blue line is the trolly - it had a wire that ran upstairs to a relay triggered by computer to have it run & stop at different times around the perimeter of the layout.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldho3t.jpg

Some of the rolling stock waiting for the track to be completed.

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldho4t.jpg

Now for the Second One: We tore down the HO & built the N gauge (This is how I got my Moniker)

First you start with nothing:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldn1t.jpg

Then you start building:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldn9t.jpg

Her it is about 6 months later:

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/thegauge/photos/oldn8t.jpg
Well hope I didn't bore you too much Lets see some more

 

[N Gauger]

Originally posted by philip
I'm in! 1959 ???

philip

That's cool B&W too!!!! Great!!!!!!

 

[sumpter250]

I've posted this before, but, this is late fifties, my first HO layout.

 

[kettlestack]

1st dabble into USA outline in N gauge. Built circa 1975.

Errol

 

[interurban]

First English L/O

Only shot I can find.

 

[interurban]

First Traction atempt

 

[N Gauger]

Oh Man - this is turning out to be a really good thing - Thanks Guys

Great Pics!!! <---- All of you!!!!!

 

[Clerk]

After 3 attempts at loading a jpeg photo and receiving a note that says it is not I give up.

 

[Gary Pfeil]

Here are a couple of shots of the railroad I shared with my older brother back in the mid sixties. He built the table and laid the track when I was nine. Then he went in the service and I scenicked it. These pictures were taken when I was fifteen. In the lower right of the horizontal photo is a tower made from part of a Lionel pipe unloading accessory I thought looked like a tower for a hump yard I had seen in a photo.

 

[Gary Pfeil]

Here are acouple detail shots. Note the Plasticville building! Hey, I was a kid.

 

[aartwmich]

WOW great old photos!!


Well I won't post a pic of my (dads) layout here as I don't have any 'old' photos of it and *I* didn't build it, but he built it in the 1950's before I was born. It hasn't had much done to it since then but I will change that one day, there's a pic of it in the face with a name thread.


HEY CLERK, email me that pic and I'll fix it and post it or send it back for ya.

aart@cybersol.com

 

[Clerk]

Last try at posting this pix.

This is the layout I was working on last. It shows part of the old one at the bottom and the construction of the addition .

Thanks aart. It worked this morning. Maybee gremlins??

 

[interurban]

Team effort

well done Dick

 

[shamus]

First N-scale American layout

Here's my very first N-scale layout in American style. all the rest were either Swiss/German & British outline.

Shamus

 

[Clerk]

WOW Shamus. That is fabulous, Great, Wonderful, Fantastic,

 

[sumpter250]

The arched retaining wall in the first shot is spectacular!!!
The second shot involks memories of John Allen's Gore & Daphetid!
Pete

 

[N Gauger]

WOW - that makes it worth askin for "old pics!!

Shamus - I guess you don't know the meaning of "half-way"! LOL

Great Stuff!!! ------ as always!

 

[RailRon]

My first layout in N-Scale: The Trim Creek Southern

Two pictures - before and after:

Before:
Basic benchwork finished, track on the left half is laid. The whole right half with the two holding tracks will be covered by the main station (Trim Creek).
In the foreground: First attempts in scenery making (hardshell with plaster-soaked paper towels.