Model RR Lets see those TRAINS!

[stevasaurus 22,717]

I could watch that all day Mike.  

[AMC RULES 37,130]

@squonk

You should get a job here. 

 

[squonk 41,069]

I have limited room for a layout. I carved out a 9 X 5 foot space. A ping pong table happens to be 9 x 5 ft. So a recycled table from FB and a roll of ECO carpet from Lowes. 10 cars is the longest I can go.

 

 

[squonk 41,069]

 

[squonk 41,069]

 

[squonk 41,069]

New classic car dealership still under construction but today is opening day. Still waiting for the white belt and shoes. Checkered sport coat and slacks! 

 

 

 

Newest addition: 1992 Deleware & Hudson. Never run before. Ran it enough to make sure it ran and the whistle worked. Got to get some oil and smoke fluid for it. 

 

[SylvanLakeWH 25,535]

Going in the box today until next year...

 

23 years old... Gift for my oldest son on his first Christmas...

[Stormin 9,981]

I spy a London Black Cab, Mike. Hope the steering wheel is on the right. 

[squonk 41,069]

Couple of 57 Nomads delivered to the dealer!

 

[Stormin 9,981]

On 1/7/2023 at 3:08 PM, squonk said:

 

 

 

Classy deaIership, Mike. I spy a Rolls Royce. 

[squonk 41,069]

4 minutes ago, Stormin said:

 

Classy deaIership, Mike. I spy a Rolls Royce. 

Missing a headlight. I named it "Salty" 

 

[Stormin 9,981]

You'll have to raid Dawns jewellery box for a replacement. Be few small diamonds in there.  

[squonk 41,069]

11 minutes ago, Stormin said:

You'll have to raid Dawns jewellery box for a replacement. Be few small diamonds in there.  

I could probably go down to the street corner and find a tiny piece of glass. 

[sscotsman 148]

I got my first train set, HO scale, when I was 10 years old in 1979, then I really got in to HO scale as a teenager in the 80's. Now I've been in to G scale for almost 20 years. Great fun! and my webpage has a lot of modeling, and NY state railroad history: 

 

https://sites.google.com/site/scotlawrence/

 

Some photos of my Garden Railroad. 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 8, 2023 by sscotsman

[lynnmor 7,305]

59 minutes ago, sscotsman said:

I got my first train set, HO scale, when I was 10 years old in 1979, then I really got in to HO scale as a teenager in the 80's. Now I've been in to G scale for almost 20 years. Great fun! and my webpage has a lot of modeling, and NY state railroad history: 

 

https://sites.google.com/site/scotlawrence/

 

Some photos of my Garden Railroad. 

 

I visited your above link, there is a lot to unpack there, really worthwhile for all the rail fans here.  I intend to get back to it when I have more time especially since I read briefly about Dad.

[8ntruck 6,998]

@squonk is your new dealership courtesy of American Plastic Bricks?

[squonk 41,069]

8 hours ago, 8ntruck said:

@squonk is your new dealership courtesy of American Plastic Bricks?

Yes. But somewhere along the line they must have changed the molds when they were made. I found a set at a flea market. They wouldn't stay locked together. I have 2 small buildings on my layout that come apart when the dog runs thru the room using these! 

 

I found another set that actually locks together like I had as a kid so I built the dealership out of those. Look at the holes in these 2 pieces. The white piece has complete holes where the red one has holes with slots. The slotted holes are the ones that actually lock together.

 

[davem1111 2,030]

On 1/27/2022 at 4:08 PM, D_Mac said:

It works. I set it up on the floor not that long ago for my nephew. I have a room full of old toys. Had about 20 Hess trucks new in boxes and every time he visits he takes one. I tell him he has to keep it in the box but he dosnt. They are all played with and who knows where the boxes are. I think I have 3 left. I don't mind he loves them.

 

I had some trains when I was younger, but never had the money to buy many.  Had a neighbor who had a layout that I remember as being about 8' x 12' but it may have been smaller, and he liked it when I came over and helped work on it with him.

 

I wanted to comment on the Hess trucks though... when I left my Ex in 2011, there were about 20 of these, new in boxes, in the attic. Wish I had just taken them - she of course didn't offer to give any of them to me.  We had been buying them for the kids for Christmas for years, and always bought 2 of each model - one to play with and one to stay new in the box as a collector's item. I remember my son's favorite being the one that had a race car that went up ramps into the box trailer, with windows on the trailer so you could see the car inside. Most of them had battery-powered lights of some kind or another. Cool stuff.

[davem1111 2,030]

Since there's reference to "real" railroads in here, some memories come up.  Back in the early 1970's when I was in High School, we lived within earshot of this baby along part of its route, and I loved that sound:  https://www.blackriverrailroad.com/steam

 

Across the river in New Hope, PA, I often saw these in action:  https://www.newhoperailroad.com/

 

I've ridden on this one:  https://877trainride.com/rivertrain.htm

 

I grew up in rural Ohio, with a freight train track about 1/4 mile from the farmhouse.  I used to love hearing those trains. Today, I'm in Indiana with a track about 1/2 mile away. Just heard one go by about 30 minutes ago. They run through here several times a day, and bring up those old memories.