Hello All, I am building a new house and would like to make a track around the top of my diningroom ceiling for my O gauge trains. Knowing that the best way to come up with a brilliant idead is to steal, oops, I mean copy someone elses, where may be a sourse of ideas? Is there a book on this topic, or some kind of web site? Can anyone help out? Thanks!
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If you can find a copy of the Magazne: The Lion Roars, published by the Lionel Collectors Club of America, from early 2009; there is an article titled Hang 'em High that I wrote which discusses our family dining room. If you can't find the article, send me an e-mail at cmhazen474@att.net and I can reply to that with the article attached.
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Couldn't find it so sent you an e-mail, thank you so much Mel. We really appreciate your help!
Okay here is one I have now this was taken about 3 years ago I have changed the track from O-31 to O-54 and I thought I had a video of the layout from the outside but this can gove you an idea oh turn volume down as was recorded real loud https://rtssite.shutterfly.com/1138
Did find one of the lay out even older when I had a standard guage set up there Hope these links work
https://rtssite.shutterfly.com/988 What I used was 1"x10" x8' pine held up with 6" L brackits
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If you're interested in a narrower shelf than RT used, you'll find that, although you can get the track very close to the wall on the tangents, when you come to an inside corner of the room, the train will swing to the outside, hitting the wall. Rather than move the entire track farther from the wall than you may want, you can use a spiral curve to ease the train away from the wall before the serious turning begins.
For example, use 22.5-degree sections of O72 track on either side of a 45-degree section of sharper curvature. This kind of curve also looks a lot better than the sharper curve, while taking up much less room than a curve made entirely from the gentler curvature.
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Firelock76 Mr. Wabash, didn't I tell you it was fun and educational over here? Yes you did, I remember that! These guys have some interesting ideas.
I'm a bit late to the party but I thought I'd add my 2bits.
If you anticipate adding some scenery/backdrop behind the track take the shelf all the way to the wall. Even if you don't add scenery it will provide a space for some low level backlighting. I didn't do this and have regretted it, poor planning on my part.
I used Baltic Birch plywood for the sub-roadbed and dimensional Birch for the brackets and Woodland Scenics foam under the track to minimize noise.
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