"Just wondering? If anyone has any interest in a 3-rail product, post it here.......
Anyone else playing with trains? Any projects going on? Anything to do with O-gauge trains?"
mpzpw3, your title almost seems like a bit of a joke. Maybe that accounts for the lack of interest. I always have projects going on. Though these days, seems I have less time for them and they take longer to get finished. From one extreme to the other: when I was out of work, I had the time but not the finances. Now the finanaces are satisfactory, but time is lean.
At any rate, I was going through my extra stuff pile and found some surplus K-Line NYC loco shells. So I'm just about finished with a couple custom repaints in Canadian Pacific (current Beaver logo scheme) and the wide yellow stripe Lehigh Valley scheme. And today just finished a Southern box car and a BNSF box car. I'm working on a simple operating dump station for the layout.
Again, going through some old stuff, I found many scetches and drawings I'd done for product ideas at one point years ago when it looked like I'd be working for K-Line. (My gut feeling was that Maury and I would bash heads sooner than later... I felt he was going to heavy toward the scale end while ignoring the traditional end.) Some of those projects got started and finished and others didn't. I found a bunch of parts and pieces I'd prepared for a couple of those planned mock-up operating cars, so when time permits, I'll get those done. I tested the electrical components recently and everything worked just as I thought it would.
I tend to work on several projects all at the same time. So I've got a bunch of various shells stripped, primed and ready to go. I've got the frame completely finished for another modernized tank car using postwar Lionel 027 short tank shells. That one will be for CSX when I get around to getting the decals.
Sometime in the last month or so I finally finished up a Norfolk Southern dump car done in the orange MOW scheme. And there's a self-created Conrail work caboose in progess made in part with a old Lionel SP caboose frame, a Lionel work caboose shell, some cutting and grinding and some new parts and pieces I've made for the car. And I've got some parts and pieces started in the prep process for the creation of yet another of my self-created shunk-down 027 locos.
I do think sometimes it might be nice to be able to just buy these things. But they're not made... yet anyways. So I have to settle for making them myself.
brianel, Agent 027
"Praise the Lord. I may not have everything I desire, but the Lord has come through for what I need."
Looking forward to see the pictures of the engine, sounds good!
The below is what Iam working on. The room is 12' wide on the left side, 14' on the right, and 20 feet long. The right side has a bar.
My goals were to accomodate 72" radius engine, without any pop-ups. Also ability to reverse directions on both mainlines, in both directions. I am currently working on the benchwork, I started in the lower right corner and have it finished to the upper left. Should finish benchwork this weekend. I am using Gargraves track, and Ross Switches.
Don
LOL !!!!!! That is good!!
I will show you mine if you show me yours. Do you have any pictures or layout plans for the current or even planned. Sounds like you have a lot goin on.
Just wondering? If anyone has any interest in a 3-rail product, post it here. Pre-war Lionel, Bing, Marklin, Postwar Lionel, MPC Lionel, Modern Lionel, MTH, Williams,Weaver, Atlas, RMT, AMT, Kusan, any manufacture I've forgot,shoot, I'll settle for American Flyer at this point. I'm not sure, but I think if you are a teenager, senior citizen, middle aged, skinny, fat, or left handed, you can post about trains here.
For anyone who cares, I added to my layout so I could have more "straight runs", as I have a small layout. Just finished wiring in some postwar stations and station platforms. Ran a few trains for fun, and need to finish wiring and add scenery to the add-on. Will probably take a year or so to finish, as I'm in no hurry. Considering repainting some MTH F-3's. Anyone else playing with trains? Any projects going on? Anything to do with O-gauge trains?
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