Beginnings-Where we started

[cnw1961]

Good idea to start this thread!

Here is a pic of my first attempt at building a layout about 6 years ago when I got back into the hobby after being away from it for 35 years. I did not finish this layout and it did not get far beyond the stage you can see in this pic. Unfortunately I don’t have any pics of the layout that I had when I was a child.

[Roger Hensley]

Well, as long as we are talking a few years back. here is one from about 1990 amd then two showing the same area today.

[toptrain]

Here's my Americanised version of a Beyer-Garrett. I did it when I was about 14 years old (I think). She still runs.

I remember it. It was a good use for a old American Flyier hudson boiler.

[toptrain]

A photo from a 1980s layout of mine.
frank    

A Aristo Craft Columbia is nose to nose with a Mantua Mini Roller. Behind it is a ANNA Varney Little Joe, A ANNA Mantua General, A ANNA ahm Boker, A ANNA ahm or bachmann 0-6-0t, A Triang 4-4-0, and out of sight is a Tyco 4-8-0 in very early ANNA paint.

   

Here is a upgrade to a longer turntable and a stick built roundhouse in progress

[toptrain]

Another old photo of a long gone layout. A kitbashed B&O Hayes 10 wheeler.
frank, DAD

   

[Sumpter250]

Happy to see this thread back again. We've got some new members here, and the "beginning shots" are great incentives.
....................and we all are still learning, and improving.