Model railroads
 

Anyone into model railroading?

I have a friend that is totally into it. My step father was also. Both have made really very cool settings. I can't believe the change in technology. I have a locomotive from my SF. I took it over to my friend and i guess it's completely different and can't use it. But look what he made for me with it...

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Had a friend who was into it, got me to buy an MTH "Nickel Plate Road" engine that smoked, had sound, etc. Wasn't cheap and ended up selling it back, that can be an expensive hobby. Maybe if I had a house with a basement. Sinatra was a huge train buff, so is Neil Young.

I knew a chick in college that was into trains and looked like a model, does that count.

Snap!

Not without a pic!

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That's really cool. can't quite make out the leading truck. Is that a 2-6-2 Prairie freight loco or a 4-6-2 Pacific passenger loco?

zero interest in trains. but have spent the entire weekend watching godzilla/gamera/mst3k movies. something about building a 1/50th scale japanese city seems like fun.

Does this count?
I made this last Christmas when we had the train set up.
Xmas train ride - YouTube

always have loved trains but i simply dont have the space for it now. im lucky enough to setup a little village and track layout for xmas time..

Scott, that really is way cool!

Yea Scott , You did a nice job on that video, good look at the set up, plus cool sounds as the other train pass.
Well done!!

Cheers Richard

OK, I'll play ... here's what we currently have in the basement. HO scale on top with slot cars going on the bottom. Has 3 tracks on the top with separate controllers. Built for the kids to use and enjoy.

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Of course this section is off limits to the kids :)

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nice!


Back when I was a teenager going to Riverside Community College I worked for these guys in their hobby store:

http://www.rfrailroad.com/about_us.html

I wasn't doing his trains though - he hired guys that actually worked for the railroad for that (usually union guys waiting for jobs to be available - things were slow in the '90s eh?). I was building and selling model airplanes for him.

Doug E that is fresh. Very nice setup, I take it you stand in the "infield" to race with head room provided by cut out in train table. Operating the train on the outside. Thumbs up man, thats a good one.

THAT piques my interest! When I was a little kid the Nickel Plate Road, New York Central and the B&O formed three sides of a rectangle in Painesville, Ohio, where I spent some of my early childhood.

The Nickel Plate was still running steam then, 2-8-4 Berkshire and 2-8-2 Mikado freight locos and 4-6-2 Pacific passenger locos.

I used to hang around the NP station and the NP switch tower a couple miles away at the NP's intersection with the B&O. I got to know the switchmen in the tower and they'd let me pull the switch levers. They were about as long as I was tall and the switchmen used to laugh at me as I struggled, putting all my weight into pulling them toward me then having to literally hang on them to move them toward me. I couldn't push them in the opposite direction because I couldn't hang on them.

I also got to know the engineers and firemen on the Mikado that made the short, local freight runs. They'd let me ride along. They were hand stoked and I'll never forget the first time I saw the raging, roaring inferno when fireman opened the butterfly firebox doors to throw in a shovel of coal. Great memories. :)

I was in Hamburg Germany a couple of weeks ago and spent several hours at Miniature-Wunderland, the train setup in on multiple floors. They do a 24 hour day into night theme throughout, it's pretty neat. I guess it's the Rennsport of model trains....

Wunderland in 4 minutes - model building - model railway Hamburg

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Mu dad was into when I was a kid. We had a lot of fun building various towns and all the scenery. The railroad was built on a big table that covered our pool table. When we wanted to play pool, just roll the whole train set away. I wish there were pix. THis thing had a working silver mine, two figure 8 tracks, mostly 1800's, but I was given a section where I had a modern town. All the buildings were hand made out of wood. Good times!

That's the one I had, the 2-8-4-Berkshire. It even had real coal on the top of the car. It was cool. They also had a Tinplate line that was pretty slick. MTH makes nice stuff.