Any model train enthusiasts?
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My icelandic wife Jonina always wanted a train around the christmas tree. Just like all the american movies portrayed.So I picked up and HO Bachmann Silver Streak set. Got it all set up around the tree. Looking good..Until.....It was savagely attacked by Schatze. Our long haired Dachund puppy.
https://www.walthers.com/train-sets-w-e-z-track-system-silver-streak
https://www.walthers.com/train-sets-w-e-z-track-system-silver-streak
Chip Chester
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kpodolski
Active Member
It has a Bavarian version of the Stephenson valve gear.
kpodolski
Active Member
Latest acquisition. Marklin 39193. Class E 19.1 electric locomotive in a crimson basic paint scheme. Design in the museum version of the DB Museum in Nürnberg. Lettered as E 19 12 of the former German State Railroad (DR), Era II. The locomotive looks as it did in Eras II/VI.
MannyE
Exterminate!
Latest acquisition. Marklin 39193. Class E 19.1 electric locomotive in a crimson basic paint scheme. Design in the museum version of the DB Museum in Nürnberg. Lettered as E 19 12 of the former German State Railroad (DR), Era II. The locomotive looks as it did in Eras II/VI.
The level of detail on that is impressive.
Lou G
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I have been a model railroader since I had my first Lionel train set as a kid. Once I got serious into model railroading I switched to HO and modeled the Pennsy, having grown up in Pa and watching Pennsy steam as a kid. About 11 years ago we took a trip out West to tour several National Parks and along the way we stopped in Durango Colorado to take a ride on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge RR. After that ride I was bitten with the bug to model the Rio Grande in narrow gauge. So I made the switch to O narrow gauge. The first picture is one of my D&RGW K28s #478.
The second picture is the actual K28 #478 still running between Durango and Silverton. In this picture it has the snow plow and spark arrestor.
The second picture is the actual K28 #478 still running between Durango and Silverton. In this picture it has the snow plow and spark arrestor.
parman
Music Junkie
I sold a bunch of Atlas & Revell HO plastic model building kits on Ebay last year and was surprised how high the bidding went on some of them and I sold them all. They were in the original box and pretty much like new
70's Rockfan
Rough N Ready
I got to go here 5 years ago.
I put this little 5x12 where our antiques use to be so the kids (including the big ones) can run the trains we now exclusively sell. I wanted to put an HO in the center, but I am dispersing a massive quarter mil collection and need a place to stack stuff. As we re-shelve its a work in progress, this was taken about a month or so ago. the board comes in 3 pieces and is on rollers. I got some O42 curves to redo the inner loop as a lot of the MTH and lionel big stuff needs O42 or O54 as a minimum. Yes, those are packs of O72 on the edge!
I got 3 ZWs but have not fixed the whistle diodes yet - a nice crossover project where I can use mouser parts to restore a 70 year old transformer!
we have not built the layout at home yet but in the meantime, my 11 year old comes to the store with me on saturday and runs trains all day. I do need to find some O roadbed and relay the track....I just have it single screwed every 4-5 sections to keep it in place. The board amplifies the noise, with 2 trains running it sounds like a main water pipe has broken.
We are soft open but the grand open is mayfest, will have the walls painted with RR signs, have griff tellers hanging and that PRR system map you see. on the back wall are racks with old timetables and rule books etc. And I want to put a CD boombox down there that plays random all day songs about trains (driving that train, train train, folsom prison, midnight train to GA etc etc)
Kid stuff!!!
In 1997 I built and maintain one of the nicest privately owned garden railroads in the world. The railroad won the competition for garden railroads and is featured on the cover/centerfold/lead story in the 30th anniversary of Garden Railways Magazine.
Seven trains run themselves using automation that I designed and implemented. Also, there is a large degree of automation throughout the layout. And, the world's only lowrider train with dancing car!
All plants are real and to scale (1:24) with a lot of topiary work.
http://tortoiseandlizardbash.com/
In 1997 I built and maintain one of the nicest privately owned garden railroads in the world. The railroad won the competition for garden railroads and is featured on the cover/centerfold/lead story in the 30th anniversary of Garden Railways Magazine.
Seven trains run themselves using automation that I designed and implemented. Also, there is a large degree of automation throughout the layout. And, the world's only lowrider train with dancing car!
All plants are real and to scale (1:24) with a lot of topiary work.
http://tortoiseandlizardbash.com/
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