Liz has been in touch with Mr P’s Halloween themed model railroad.

But first, some background.

You’ll remember Liz’s fantastic layout from this post: HO scale small layout.

Sadly, she’s now taking it down, as you’ll read:

“Greetings from Texas, Al.

As always I can’t say enough about how much I love your blog and the community you’ve built around it. I, like everyone else here, look forward to finding your emails upon waking in the morning. Bless you for all you do!

Since my previous correspondence in July, a lot has transpired. My father (Windsor of Windsor Valley fame) sadly passed in August under the tender care of a wonderful hospice care team that took wonderful care of both him and myself.

I dismantled much of Windsor Valley (carefully and saving every single part of it) so that I could move it from his apartment to my home. One of the benefits of using a folding ping pong table as my platform was that it made the layout much easier to transport without damaging it.

My plan is to rebuild, improve, and expand it. It’s his legacy and will always carry the memories we shared together. I miss my dad…and I miss Windsor Valley. Reconstruction will hopefully begin soon. Here are a few photos of the tear down and moving process:

As for the Halloween treat…

Last year my husband and I started work on a Halloween layout in O Scale which quickly became our permanent year-round layout.

My husband (Mr P) hand built the platform using wood bending techniques he learned just for that project. What he created was a beautiful multi-level platform with a fun and interesting track plan that allowed for lots of continuous runtime.

He did all the wiring and also used Arduino to manage the timing of the lighting, Halloween village structures, and even a couple things that aren’t even on the platform. I’m wowed by all his hard work.

I created all the scenery and even built a few structures for the layout. There’s an old western train depot that I scratch built last month which I was pretty pleased with. We still have more work to do on it, but we’re enjoying every moment of it together. I’ve included a few photos and a video.

And here’s the link for the video I made (forgive my shaky camerawork):

(Watch it on youtube here.)

If anyone is interested, Mr P has photos of the process of building the magnificent multi-level platform which I can share in the future.

Thank you again, Al, for your wonderful and inspirational blog. And thanks to everyone here for all the work, creativity, and encouragement they share!

Happy Halloween, everyone!

Cheers,

Liz P in Texas”

A huge big thank you to Liz and Mr P for sharing their Halloween themed model railroad.

It reminded me of John’s: HO scale haunted house.

And there’s Jim’s too. I get sent all kinds of stuff, so I thought I’d start putting it somewhere, on another blog. Anyhow, turns out I was barking up the wrong tree with that one.

But I always remember Jim’s Halloween decorations – they are amazing – have a look and see: Jim’s halloween fun.

Having said that, I adore all the car pics some of you sent in. So if you have an old classic sitting in your garage, please do mail me. I really enjoy them.

That’s all for this time folks.

Please do keep ’em coming.

And if today is the day you get started on your layout, the Beginner’s Guide is here.

Best

Al

PS Latest ebay cheat sheet is here.

PPS More HO scale train layouts here if that’s your thing.

Need buildings for your layout? Have a look at the Silly Discount bundle.