O Scale (1.25” gauge)
Dick Bell built this tiny 36x28” O scale railroad, theDelaware Valley
Traction Company, almost 30 years ago. The small layout features
private right-of-way, street trackage, working overhead wire, and a
curved turnout leading to a spur that serves as a team track.
“I originally built the layout to learn the various skills needed to
build a working trolley layout,” Dick comments. “Today, I use the
layout as a photo prop (the scenery can be varied by changing out
the buildings), as a loop to test run and work out the bugs in new
cars, and most of all for fun. It has survived the construction and
subsequent destruction of two large trolley layouts. I call it my ‘first
and lasting’ trolley layout.”
You can find still more example layouts at
an appropriate mountaintop airport for cavorite-powered
planes, complete with an office and an outhouse that is guyed
down to avoid being blown over by departing flights. Cavorite
can be shipped out either by rail or by air.
