Steam layouts, a dying breed?

[AndyGif]

Thomas the Scrapped Engine 

Hmmm, the island of Sodor must be the equivalent of limbo for transportation, where all things transportation go to serve out their penance for past misdeeds, until called to Preservation(Heaven) or consigned to the Gas Axe (Hell).
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[EtchedPixels]

steam layouts dying out...   Cant wait to see all the accurate N gauge Barry Island layouts.....

A Barry Island scrap line would be a pretty impressive diorama. Even better if it's done as a working layout with engines being shunted into the lines etc.

The stuff wasn't generally moved around as I understand it.

For moving stuff around and an excuse for lots of weathered stock of all kinds and a layout consisting mostly of sidings full of trains on display it would be hard to beat Long Marston however

[MinZaPint]

A picture speaks a thousand words, you wont convert me but try showing me a D/E picture with that sort of atmosphere!

As for exhibitions I enjoy well executed layouts in all gauges and eras.

Happy modelling to one and all.

[BernardTPM]

A picture speaks a thousand words, you wont convert me but try showing me a D/E picture with that sort of atmosphere!

I'd say this one isn't bad http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnel_one/5576089571/#sizes/o/in/photostream/

[moogle]

Now if only some of the manufacturers would take a risk and start producing some RTR pre-grouping stuff...

I agree with you there! An N gauge 'Rocket' and coaches would sell well I'd have thought. 
Add in a few 'locomotion''s and some wagons and before you know it there'll be 'period costume drama' inspired layouts everywhere! 

[BernardTPM]

I did scale of drawing of the 'Planet' (the next type on from Rocket/Northumbrian) to 1:148 and it is _TINY

[MinZaPint]

A picture speaks a thousand words, you wont convert me but try showing me a D/E picture with that sort of atmosphere!

I'd say this one isn't bad http://www.flickr.com/photos/tunnel_one/5576089571/#sizes/o/in/photostream/

Not a bad effort but

Apart from people doing what they remember from the steam era,I think it's down to what you see when a steam loco runs.
A diesel goes past it's just a box on wheels,a steam train goes past with all the big wheels turning and the complex motion that's attached to them it's more visually rewarding.

Allan

Sums it up! All that smoke has made me thirsty

[longbridge]

Stupid names like Thrash and Clag are enough to put me of diesels for life    give me steam and smoke any day 

[Lawrence]

I said before that seeing steam loco in full steam is a sight to behold but I would never go back to modelling them, because no matter how hard I try, I would never be able to replicate that in a model environment, whereas I can do that with electric and diesel ( to a lesser extent, until someone comes up with an N gauge clag generator  )

[longbridge]

N gauge clag generator  )

[Donkey]

Wow two cracking pictures there guys   

Marty

[MikeDunn]

I'd say this one isn't bad

Yuck, you can almost taste the pollution that thing is pushing out ! 

[Donkey]

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Which one? The one with the smoke and soot or the one with the diesel fumes?  I think they both look great 

Marty

[EtchedPixels]

I think its the diesel spotters I find dire not the trains. Claggy certainly describes some of them

[longbridge]

This has been a good thread for me, as I am currently building a new layout "Longbridge" which is the area I did most of my train spotting back in the steam days.

Because I had a few green diesels in my collection I thought I would model the transition era, I have shelved that idea mainly because I left Birmingham before diesels came into being, I have decided to enlarge my steam collection and concentrate on the loco classes that were popular in the mid to late 50s, 9fs, Jubilees, Patriots the occasional Scot, Black 5s, 4fs and and various BR Standards were regulars.