I live in the Houston area near Woodlands. I recognize the Livingston fire station, court house and the Trinity River Bridge. I also have property in Lagrange. This is an outstanding layout, detail, realism and operation. All of your videos are excellent.
Livingston, Texas! Wow! Livingston isn't a town you hear much about. I grew up in the Beaumont/Port Arthur area and spent a lot of time visiting family over the years in Livingston and Leggett. My grandfather (KCS for 38 years) would always stop to let me look at W.T. Carter & Bros. #5 at heritage park.
This is one of the best layouts I've ever seen Great job of modeling. The only thing I noticed that makes it not look real world is the herky jerky railroad crossing gates. Otherwise watching these vids you would think you were watching 1:1 scale.
I absolutely love the layout and the realism! I just have a beef with the Tomar crossing signals. They are just a little bit above 1:87 scale! IMO, the most realistic looking signals with gates and at 1:87 scale are made by NJ International. Tomar does have longer gates to get across two lanes of traffic while NJ only has gates to get across one lane. But the NJI signals, IMO, do have the more realistic look to them. Plus they come with resistors already prewired!
Love the Graffiti on the rail cars,,, now if you could weather tge buildings and the street bound vehicles !!!! It would add to the realism,,,, all the detail looks very good !!!
The traffic signals are scratch built. The flashing red ( or red/yellow) is a function on the controller you turn on with an input from the grade crossing controller. The traffic light controller is from Bakatronics and the grade crossing controller is Grade Grossing Pro from LogicRail Technologies.
Hi Ryan, The concrete crossing panels are made by me, the crossing signals with gates are Tomar Industries H-863 (they come with all the needed hardware and motor), ITTC bell Circuits and LogicRail Technologies Grade Crossing Pro controllers.
I got vehicles from several places - whoever had them. The modern Chryslers and Mustangs were made by Chineese Ricko, but I haven't seen them the last couple of years. The best source for vehicles is www.american-excellence.com
You could buy them from Walthers and others about 5 years ago. They are made by a Chineese company by the name of Ricko. They also made modern Mustangs and Escallades. Try search on www.american-excellence.com, if it exists, they will have it.
