HOn30 Layout Pulled Out Of Mothballs

I pulled a small HOn30 layo0ut out of storage after about 27 years. I first became interested in what RMC called HOn2-1/2 in the 1960s, when it first introduced the scale, and I had a small Minirains layout in my dorm. Then I discovered that while 2+ foot gauge was rare in the US, there was a lot of it in Europe, and I started a layout based on Austro-German prototype. I startted it in 1989 in a different home.

I eventually got the scenery to about 50% but put it on the back burner. Not lonmg ago I pulled it out again to try out some of the new OO9-HOn30 UK prototype items. The loco is a Bachmann Talyllynn Ry No 1. The UK modelers are a little lulewarm about this, since it's just a cleaned-up Thomas series loco, but I like it. The brickworks is an old Pola kit with some tweaks.