The layout in the photo is my 50 year old “William’s Town” layout. I started building it in my teens. The baseboard is in two parts. 6ft. by 4ft. Setup so the size is 8ft x 6ft. the sections are joined by four loose pin but hinges. The electrical connections are courtesy of Telstra surplus parts.
Basically the layout has a hump yard with five roads. A loco shed with four roads and a station with three platform roads and a dock platform. The Jinty with the three coaches is on the station run around road. The main line is double track. There are three controllers. Two of the controllers operate the main line while the remaining one works the shunting yard.
The fountain you can see is in the town park. There is one street plus another that goes to the station. Rose’s café is on one corner and the local servo on the other. Heading down the street from the servo and past the park on the left is a modern brick house. Next door is the local church. Then on the right is the goods shed and office. On the left is a double story house with a detached shop. Around the corner is the post office.
All the main line has electric points. The yard has hand operated ones. The loco shed has electric points. Signalling is both colour light signals plus the older stile upper quadrant semaphore signals. The track was laid on cork. The tables are pine frame with quarter inch marine ply base. I used this because I was afraid it might get wet. At one time storage was a problem.
Scenery was what I could get my hands on at the time. It really needs a revamp now. All the buildings are lighted as are the station platforms and buildings. The loco shed is also lighted in the yard. Not in the shed itself. The goods yard is lighted.
It was just a quick tour. I could describe how it was built. I choose not to. It has been on display. During this time I made trains up in the shunt yard. The locos were changed out occasionally for variety. Work continued in the shunting yard as the arriving trains were put away. All this activity made it interesting for the visitors as they watched the goings on.
