Whats the wildest thing you have done, your friends have done or you have seen done with Lionel and other 3 rail trains? A tunnel from the basement layout to your garage? Holes through the walls running room to room in the house. Having an engine on display in the bathroom or kitchen or,,,,, bedroom? Adding bottle rockets to your engines to make them faster? Made an outdoor layout and plowed snow off the track? Dressed up kittens in costumes and give them rides in gondolas?
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
What about those zany 2-rail postwar American Flyer trains? Surely their hijinks are welcome too!
Bob Nelson
I set up my Flyer trains multiple times in the back yard on the concrete patio when I was a kid in Chicago. Had to watch the weather and I had to start early to enjoy hours of fun outside. The trains kept the squirrels away!
Major I set up my Flyer trains multiple times in the back yard on the concrete patio when I was a kid in Chicago. Had to watch the weather and I had to start early to enjoy hours of fun outside. The trains kept the squirrels away!
I don't know if it's crazy or not, but on top of a bookshelf I have a bunch of Plasticville buildings and a couple of light towers with a Marx bubbling water tower. Next to that is a bookshelf type structure I built, then filled with all kinds of accessories and trains and a few bridges I built. All this in my bedroom.
I gave up half my bedroom to an O and S gauge layout.
Becky
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
As a kid I decided to see how fast my Virginian FM could go on the carpet central when not pulling any cars. The answer is VERY fast; it took "flight" and removed chunk of wood from a cabinet. I have a very patient mother (putting up with month long Christmas floor layout that took up the whole living room) but believe me, she was not happy with that bright idea. . .
Oh, I've had ideas.... but the wackiest thing I've done is unexpectedly (to myself) let my guests race my trains around the four 'ovals' I had at the time. Not my 248....
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
I like to think of running a Big Boy, Superliners, 16-wheel flatcars, a 773, and the like on an O27 layout as pushing some sort of outer limit.
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Bob, that would be a real trick. I have a USRA 2-8-8-2 that will run on O-31 OK, but the rear engine swivels so it is more like a diesel than a true articulated steam engine. I can't get a 736 to go through an 1122 switch, so I don't have much hope for Big Boys, Superliners or 16 wheel flat cars.
They all have to be modified. The Big Boy is actually the easiest.
I wonder if toy train scenes from "The Adams Family" are on youtube? If they are they would fit with this thread well.
Boyd I wonder if toy train scenes from "The Adams Family" are on youtube? If they are they would fit with this thread well.
Ask and you shall recieve
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Boyd Whats the wildest thing you have done, your friends have done or you have seen done with Lionel and other 3 rail trains? A tunnel from the basement layout to your garage? Holes through the walls running room to room in the house. Having an engine on display in the bathroom or kitchen or,,,,, bedroom?
Whats the wildest thing you have done, your friends have done or you have seen done with Lionel and other 3 rail trains? A tunnel from the basement layout to your garage? Holes through the walls running room to room in the house. Having an engine on display in the bathroom or kitchen or,,,,, bedroom?
There's a guy that sets up a postwar style layout at the local train shows. He told us that he rerouted some of his duct-work and has trains running on all floors of his house (they come up through the former vents).
I have a display case in my dining room and a display shelf on my family room wall. My carpet central is located in my room and my postwar style layout is in my basement. I let my little sister's friend run my Williams 773 once, it didn't stay on the track for long
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