Back in the late 50s, Dad and I built a 30ft x 15ft Lionel gauge train table, with transformers, cities, towns, parks, roads, vehicles people, street lights, landscaping etc etc etc.
He was a highly-decorated WWII Army Combat Engineer w/ Patton’s 3rd Army, all thru France, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and Battle of The Bulge, so he could build/blow bridges, build airstrips, buildings, bridges, do electrical, woodwork, masonry etc. He just passed at 94, last October.
I operated it from one end w/ 5 transformers. It was a massive undertaking and cost a bundle, and the Lionel trains would be almost unaffordable today.
When I left HS and went to college in Iowa in ‘67, I gave it all away to his sister’s sons, who still have it to this day, in CT. I’ve driven up there to visit and played with it.
I feel Dad is there, when it’s running and I’m operating it...
Way AWESOME !!!
My Condolences.
Back in Elementary School one of My (used to be) Friends Dad had a bunch of Trains an HO on a 4’ x 24’ that folded down from the garage wall that was landscaped as an old European scene.
In the Attic We setup the O all over the place including a Trestle and Bridges going uover the Heat/AC unit, a functional Roundhouse. The Bus Stop was at the end of his driveway so we would start at 5 or 6 AM and stop when the Bus got there. All we had to do was flip 2 switches that shutdown the System and Lights then down the folding aTTic steps and close the garage door and force ourselves to get on the Bus.
Then We started chasing the Wimmenfolk...