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Posted: 3/8/2024 6:57:53 PM EDT
[#1]
 There's a physics professor at CalTech in Pasadena who is really into them. He has an eidetic memory and can, pretty much, answer any question you might have. |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 7:03:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: I have a 4'x8' Z scale layout. It is set in 1986 Germany. @MikeJGA Do you have M1's and a HEMTT fueler in it? |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 7:08:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Cpt_Kirks: I started playing with N Scale trains a few months ago. I have a pile of 70s, 80s and 90s era N-scale trains. Along with a milk crate full of turnouts and track  I've kicked around the idea of building a layout in the new house. Not sure where I'd put it though. |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 7:09:29 PM EDT
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I don't have room for a layout now so I am building a little switching shelf. It's 2 foot wide and each leg is about 8 feet long. I am working on getting it all wired now so I can see if it works. Then I'll add the streets and buildings.
  I've always done HO scale with a little HOn3 narrow gauge thrown in. I built this narrow gauge layout on a hollow core door.  |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 7:25:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wormgod: I don't have room for a layout now so I am building a little switching shelf. It's 2 foot wide and each leg is about 8 feet long. I am working on getting it all wired now so I can see if it works. Then I'll add the streets and buildings. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120786/20231225_164157-3153543.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120786/20231225_164222-3153539.jpg I've always done HO scale with a little HOn3 narrow gauge thrown in. I built this narrow gauge layout on a hollow core door. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120786/20200601_094930-3153548.jpg Nice. |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 7:29:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strike6: @MikeJGA Do you have M1's and a HEMTT fueler in it? I have a company of M1s at the railhead with 3 on the flat cars and the rest blocking the main road 😊 |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 7:36:35 PM EDT
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<~~~yes
I collect 1945-1985ish US made Lionel 3-rail O gauge and 1923-1939 Lionel standard gauge. I also model the Frisco (and some other Missouri-centric roads) in the 1940s in HO scale. |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 8:06:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By mark9000: You do really nice work, I am impressed. I love the work of John Allen of Gore and Daphetid fame. https://www.sundayriverproductions.com/model/gorre-and-daphetid https://4.bp.blogspot.com/_16916lRL73g/TRhQkwxW_lI/AAAAAAAAAZA/LCxg9NjJVKg/s1600/G%2524D%2Blake%2BApril%2B1958.jpg |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 9:05:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chris_1522: <~~~yes I collect 1945-1985ish US made Lionel 3-rail O gauge and 1923-1939 Lionel standard gauge. I also model the Frisco (and some other Missouri-centric roads) in the 1940s in HO scale.  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 9:07:54 PM EDT
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FPNI, lol! I immediately thought of that!
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Posted: 3/8/2024 10:17:48 PM EDT
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I started my journey into train layout building by buying a 3D printer in Jan. :-)
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Posted: 3/8/2024 10:58:59 PM EDT
[#12]
are you doing your own 3d modeling?
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Posted: 3/8/2024 11:47:20 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By wormgod: I don't have room for a layout now so I am building a little switching shelf. It's 2 foot wide and each leg is about 8 feet long. I am working on getting it all wired now so I can see if it works. Then I'll add the streets and buildings. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120786/20231225_164157-3153543.jpghttps://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120786/20231225_164222-3153539.jpg I've always done HO scale with a little HOn3 narrow gauge thrown in. I built this narrow gauge layout on a hollow core door. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/120786/20200601_094930-3153548.jpg Really nice! |
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Posted: 3/8/2024 11:48:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DoubleARon: I literally posted pics of some G&D rolling stock in this thread I saw it but wasnt 100% sure. LOL |
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Posted: 3/9/2024 12:00:10 AM EDT
[Last Edit: HotHolster]
[#15]
I have a bunch of 1952? Lionel 027 gauge, including the water tower with the red light, crossing gates, cars, a couple engines, etc, and the original papers and manuals that were included when the set was purchased.
Many years ago, my Dad made a train table and I had this setup on that table. Kept it up year round. After I moved, I never set it up again. |
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Posted: 3/26/2024 5:28:00 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Cpt_Kirks]
[#16]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ScooterInVegas: I started my journey into train layout building by buying a 3D printer in Jan. :-) Me too. I've been busy printin' and paintin'!   Attached File |
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Posted: 3/26/2024 10:59:35 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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I am also 3d printing things. The shed is 3d printed to match railroad blueprints and existing photos.
The scenery is under construction, the hill will be mostly covered with bushes and shrubs. I have since ripped up the front track because I really disliked the look of the cinder ballast after I glued it down. It was too course.  March 4, 2024 Here's the new, finer sifted cinder ballast.  |
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Posted: 3/26/2024 11:11:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: I have a company of M1s at the railhead with 3 on the flat cars and the rest blocking the main road 😊 Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: Originally Posted By Strike6: @MikeJGA Do you have M1's and a HEMTT fueler in it? I have a company of M1s at the railhead with 3 on the flat cars and the rest blocking the main road 😊 @MikeJGA Pics please? Has your railroad been pictured on Facebook? |
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Posted: 3/26/2024 11:12:34 PM EDT
[#19]
Ahh yes, trains.
one of the classic level 11 out of 10 autistic hobbies. Choo choo 
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 3/26/2024 11:21:25 PM EDT
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I’ve always equated train modelers as the fudds of the model world.
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Posted: 3/26/2024 11:28:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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Posted: 3/26/2024 11:33:24 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LittlePony: Ahh yes, trains. one of the classic level 11 out of 10 autistic hobbies. Choo choo this guy is more of an artist than many whose paintings are hanging in galleries around the world.  Year End - Model Railroad Layout Update & Review | December 2023 | Boomer Diorama # 213 |
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UT, USA
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Posted: 3/26/2024 11:40:51 PM EDT
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Yeah, but not as much as I'd like.
I've got a good Duplo model railroad set for my grandsons to enjoy, and they love it. And then there's a set that goes under the Christmas tree. But I don't have enough time right now for HO scale modeling. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 12:01:28 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By joekizanyu: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/187830/IMG_5938_jpeg-3153166.JPG |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 11:08:01 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GarandM1: Yeah, but not as much as I'd like. I've got a good Duplo model railroad set for my grandsons to enjoy, and they love it. And then there's a set that goes under the Christmas tree. But I don't have enough time right now for HO scale modeling. N scale is half HO scale size. |
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Posted: 3/27/2024 2:14:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By GarandM1: Yeah, but not as much as I'd like. I've got a good Duplo model railroad set for my grandsons to enjoy, and they love it. And then there's a set that goes under the Christmas tree. But I don't have enough time right now for HO scale modeling. In my case, I will use mine for an article in our historical society newsletter Norfolk & Western Historical Society But, I can also attach it into modular club layouts and trains will run through it. I'll also use it as a photography backdrop for model train locos and rolling stock. |
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USA
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Posted: 3/27/2024 2:25:25 PM EDT
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Though I have no interest in it as a hobby, I am very much impressed and mesmerized by very detailed and elaborate layouts like that.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:26:36 AM EDT
[#28]
A couple of poor pictures of the railhead on my Z layout. The quarter is for size reference.
 Attached File Attached File@Strike6 |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:27:09 AM EDT
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i can share some crab meat and my basement is finished
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:42:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/28/2024 9:58:41 AM EDT
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Great memories as a kid of putting up the HO set before Christmas with Dad. He sold all of the trains and stuff for $50 to a guy at the bar.
When my son was about 5, I unboxed an HO set that my grandmother gave me and set it up under the Christmas tree. Since then, that's our tradition. I also went on eBay and purchased nearly every engine and car that I could remember from my childhood... cost maybe $100. One of the engines wasn't working so we went to a model train shop for repair. Holy shit. I knew it would be a haven of weirdos but I was seriously looking around for the Craigslist guy to walk in with some imitation crabmeat... especially since it was near Philly. Every worker and patron was either Boomer or was a family with a VERY autistic-ish kid. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:26:30 AM EDT
[Last Edit: HotHolster]
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I have a some Lionel 027 gauge from 1952, and added to, as the years passed. My Dad built a train track board in our basement and we spent a lot of time there. I still have the paperwork too. I haven't used this for many years though and Florida doesn't have basements.
 
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:38:06 AM EDT
[Last Edit: BoomFootShot]
[#33]
I’m working on it. There is another section that’s 4x5. So this is 14x5 to 14x7 when it’s done.
https://postimg.cc/VdYq08xB |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 10:40:41 AM EDT
[#34]
My boss is, his entire basement is a model railroad. It's intricate and I feel bad for him if he ever has to move.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:01:50 AM EDT
[#35]
Meanwhile, rail preservation is a whole other conundrum.
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Posted: 3/28/2024 11:55:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: A couple of poor pictures of the railhead on my Z layout. The quarter is for size reference. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/223879/IMG_1555_JPG-3171657.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/223879/IMG_1556_JPG-3171658.JPG @Strike6 @MikeJGA Nice railhead! Sucks to be them. If you know, you know. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:03:29 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DoubleARon: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/73538/IMG_6745_jpeg-3153186.JPG Nope. The large markings (DG&H Freight Lines 3340) on the white hopper copper car seem to predate the hopper car itself, they look like something from the 1940s (?) and the car itself is a newer hopper (1990s or newer)? |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:14:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By LongTrang: I’ve always equated train modelers as the fudds of the model world. RC airplane flying is as bad. Worse maybe. Old guys with their fifty year old Goldberg Falcon 56s saturated with castor oil and fuel. Sneering at guys with helis or for sure any electric motors. Sailplanes too. And god forbid someone shows up with a drone/quadcopter. Go to a swap meet or other show with trains or RC and you will be guaranteed to get behind some old guy who doesn’t use deodorant And club meetings! These old guys who attend all the meetings just love their roberts rules of order. 87% of the meeting time spent with picking apart the minutia and nothing to talk about someone’s project or technical talk. Beekeepers are bad about that too. Tool the point of driving away new people who come wanting to learn something useful. I’m sure there are other past times with equally bad participants. Nothing wrong with any of these activities. They are safe generally and wholesome activities. But clubs are the devil. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:27:31 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RED_5]
[#39]
anyone have any 'vintage' (80's) cars/loco's?
I worked at a place that made McKean and TAPP (and one other name I can't recall atm). ETA: Front Range Models (IIRC) |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:31:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By DD1801: The large markings (DG&H Freight Lines 3340) on the white hopper copper car seem to predate the hopper car itself, they look like something from the 1940s (?) and the car itself is a newer hopper (1990s or newer)? Those are both painted not for real railroads but for famous model railroads. The boxcar is painted for John Allen's "Gorre and Daphetid" and the hopper is painted for one I am not familiar with (but did do a quick Google search on). Both railroads are modeled in an earlier era than those cars would have existed in, but regardless many modelers love to page homage to these "famous" model railroads by having rolling stock painted for them regardless of the era. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 12:36:02 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JQ66: RC airplane flying is as bad. Worse maybe. Old guys with their fifty year old Goldberg Falcon 56s saturated with castor oil and fuel. Sneering at guys with helis or for sure any electric motors. Sailplanes too. And god forbid someone shows up with a drone/quadcopter. Go to a swap meet or other show with trains or RC and you will be guaranteed to get behind some old guy who doesn’t use deodorant And club meetings! These old guys who attend all the meetings just love their roberts rules of order. 87% of the meeting time spent with picking apart the minutia and nothing to talk about someone’s project or technical talk. Beekeepers are bad about that too. Tool the point of driving away new people who come wanting to learn something useful. I’m sure there are other past times with equally bad participants. Nothing wrong with any of these activities. They are safe generally and wholesome activities. But clubs are the devil. You just want to deny us old people our fun. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:17:42 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Leisure_Shoot]
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JQ66: RC airplane flying is as bad. Worse maybe. Old guys with their fifty year old Goldberg Falcon 56s saturated with castor oil and fuel. Sneering at guys with helis or for sure any electric motors. Sailplanes too. And god forbid someone shows up with a drone/quadcopter. Go to a swap meet or other show with trains or RC and you will be guaranteed to get behind some old guy who doesn't use deodorant And club meetings! These old guys who attend all the meetings just love their roberts rules of order. 87% of the meeting time spent with picking apart the minutia and nothing to talk about someone's project or technical talk. Beekeepers are bad about that too. Tool the point of driving away new people who come wanting to learn something useful. I'm sure there are other past times with equally bad participants. Nothing wrong with any of these activities. They are safe generally and wholesome activities. But clubs are the devil. My experience with model train blubs has been a pretty good mix of young and old. Approx 25 years ago, I was a 22 year old president of a 10K sq ft club at the state fairgrounds with about 30 very active members. It definitely wasn't "run by old guys". Several of us build a huge HO layout that operated for 14 days straight every year for the state fair, and then all year round as a club layout. Now, my experience includes young and old and is mostly online. I am part of several facebook 3d printing groups and other modeling groups like HO, track weathering and detailing, shelf layouts, buildings, scenery, brass trains, etc... The group sizes range from 3K-20K members. The age range seems to be incredibly varied. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 1:25:17 PM EDT
[#43]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Flushdraw: https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/54308/train5_jpg-3153368.JPG  Attached File |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 3:06:19 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: A couple of poor pictures of the railhead on my Z layout. The quarter is for size reference. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/223879/IMG_1555_JPG-3171657.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/223879/IMG_1556_JPG-3171658.JPG @Strike6 Nice marklin Z gauge. What are the dimensions of the layout? Did you get into Marklin due to serving in the army or AF over in Germany? I got my start with Marklin HO by my Dad. From him on leave in Hong Kong of all places, when he was based in the Philippines. My first Christmas present. I have Z too and want to build a coffee table enclosed layout soon. It would be set around 1970. So no real modern locos or rolling stock. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 6:50:53 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Strike6: @MikeJGA Nice railhead! Sucks to be them. If you know, you know. Yep. I could not have it at O dark thirty with a freezing rain. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 7:01:07 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jackthom8: I often see train sets being given away for free on Facebook/Craigslist these days, it's really sad to see all that effort being put into layouts but the family that inherits them has no interest in them anymore. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By jackthom8: Originally Posted By d16man: My brother and I were when we were kids. At 24 my brother was diagnosed with non-hodgkins lymphoma. While he was neutropenic he worked on our train set because he couldn't go outside. My dad has continued his work post death. I will one day inherit and continue also. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/337946/20240101_121952-3078430.jpg I often see train sets being given away for free on Facebook/Craigslist these days, it's really sad to see all that effort being put into layouts but the family that inherits them has no interest in them anymore. Yep, old timer across the street from me died and had a massive collection in the basement. He had no kids, but his nephews spent weeks hauling stuff out but never touched the trains. His sister caught me outside and offered up everything to me for free but I simply didn’t have room for any of it. I did get several NIB plane and jet models that were many decades old but all the train stuff ended up going into a rolloff dumpster. Pretty sad. |
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Posted: 3/28/2024 7:09:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By JQ66: Nice marklin Z gauge. What are the dimensions of the layout? Did you get into Marklin due to serving in the army or AF over in Germany? I got my start with Marklin HO by my Dad. From him on leave in Hong Kong of all places, when he was based in the Philippines. My first Christmas present. I have Z too and want to build a coffee table enclosed layout soon. It would be set around 1970. So no real modern locos or rolling stock. It is two 4x3 feet sections. I had a N scale layout at Ft. Carson that was destroyed during a PCS. When I was stationed in Germany 81-84, I discovered Merklin Z. This layout has been Germany > MO> Germany >GA> FL. The setting is 1985 with some heritage steam engines. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 8:54:06 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MikeJGA: A couple of poor pictures of the railhead on my Z layout. The quarter is for size reference. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/223879/IMG_1555_JPG-3171657.JPG https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/223879/IMG_1556_JPG-3171658.JPG @Strike6 Thats pretty awesome! |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 9:02:27 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chris_1522: Those are both painted not for real railroads but for famous model railroads. The boxcar is painted for John Allen's "Gorre and Daphetid" and the hopper is painted for one I am not familiar with (but did do a quick Google search on). Both railroads are modeled in an earlier era than those cars would have existed in, but regardless many modelers love to page homage to these "famous" model railroads by having rolling stock painted for them regardless of the era. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Chris_1522: Originally Posted By DD1801: The large markings (DG&H Freight Lines 3340) on the white hopper copper car seem to predate the hopper car itself, they look like something from the 1940s (?) and the car itself is a newer hopper (1990s or newer)? Those are both painted not for real railroads but for famous model railroads. The boxcar is painted for John Allen's "Gorre and Daphetid" and the hopper is painted for one I am not familiar with (but did do a quick Google search on). Both railroads are modeled in an earlier era than those cars would have existed in, but regardless many modelers love to page homage to these "famous" model railroads by having rolling stock painted for them regardless of the era. Gotcha, thank you. |
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Posted: 3/29/2024 9:04:32 AM EDT
[Last Edit: dbrowne1]
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One of my father's layouts - his last, actually, before he died in late 2018 - was featured in a model railroad magazine.
 Thomas Browne's O gauge railroad | Classic Toy Trains magazine It was his main hobby during non-summer months. We had two huge layouts in the house where I grew up, the first in the basement and then later the entire finished attic. The one in the video above was in my parents' house where they retired. I grew up going to "real" train stuff, trips to Pennsylvania mostly. Still have lots of my dad's stuff and some trains I had as a kid, always set up the Lionel Polar Express for Christmas time. |
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