The Lego / Lionel O-Scale collaborative project of 2007, at Xana'02 Laboratories, after the development session of 02 May 2007. I'm proposing the name "Legoburgh, PA", with all of the Pennsylvania RR rolling stock and the use of the suffix "burgh", which seems to characterize the central and western portions of the state. I realize there is probably some significant terrain you should be modeling, but this is just starting out. I've heard rail modeling to be the "greatest hobby in the world", only I suspect I have others, like coin collecting, that interest me even more. It is good, to find exercises of leisure, of course within limits. At times, the 'Burgh consumes me whole.
That is a Wilesco D6 in the pic, where Lego Mini-Figures and 1:48 strict-scalers are standing about. Maybe it's some sort of Lego-milling or stone-dressing device. It just makes a decent scale accessory is all. I'm beginning to wire in some street lamps and yard lights. And yes, I was once absent-minded enough to push two of those passenger cars right off the edge of the table on the right side, which is 115 scale feet up. They are Lionel; they survived.
The 6 x 8 foot site was chosen and cleared over the night of 17 - 18 February 2007, and later moved across the space, when I had it pointed out that I was blocking the main path for moving things up and down. There is a decent argument for keeping the 8 x 6 foot size, in being able to reach everything, with the maximum being a manageable 36 inches from the edge.
My circa 2000 Wilesco D6 steam engine sits where Plant has been situated, waiting for its chance to be run again. A scale accessory, that engine? It might not look bad, with the chimney being 25 scale feet tall, the boiler being 60 scale inches in diameter, the water volume being approximately 2800 scale gallons (1 scale gallon = 48 actual microliters) and the piston bore being 11.9 scale inches.
This shot is where I'm starting to figure out how to run enough wires under the table to get to all of the growing number of accessories:
These last couple are of the trial project I did of building a 1:38.2 scale model of my home, which is an approximate fit for O-Gauge, I suppose, by taking 1 brick horizontally is one scale foot (though a 7 mm foot would be better). A Lego brick is 7.98 mm on a side and 9.06 mm high.
The den illustrates how I might have looked prior to the March 2007
move to the basement, as the character putzing about on the scale model
of the layout, which has its own scale model of the scale model, as might
go on forever...