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DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE ON30 Trains as Well ?

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DOES ANYONE HERE HAVE ON30 Trains as Well ?
Posted by WRGMILW on Sunday, March 25, 2012 8:57 PM

Hi There

 

I am looking for fellow On30 train owners.

I am new to On30 Trains .

I have regular O gauge trains . Lionel & MTH

 

Thanks in advance

 

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Posted by stebbycentral on Monday, March 26, 2012 6:33 AM

I was introduced to On30 when I received one of those Hawthorne Village sets as a gift.  Primarily it's been used on our seasonal layout with the Christmas village.  I even completed the construction of a couple of On30 modules with a view towards assembling a future layout, assuming I ever get a house with a large enough basement.  But for now the future Flyer layout takes priority.

I've noted that Narrow Guage of any scale doesn't get a lot of attention in either the CTT or the MR forums. 

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Posted by Penny Trains on Monday, March 26, 2012 7:01 PM

I have one little Forney (Pocahontas Lumber Co.), 3 skeleton log cars and a B&O caboose.  I'd love to use them more than the occasional use they get now.

Becky

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Posted by scrambler81 on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:13 AM

 My sister gave me the Royal Blue locomotive for my birthday years ago, not realizing it wouldn't really work on my layout - tunnels were too small. As luck would have it I found the complete set, unused, at an estate auction so I have two of the locos as well as the passenger cars. Since we moved I have been playing around with different track plans in both HO and "O", so I have run the ON30 from time to time. This past Christmas I had it set up around our extra Christmas tree. I don't have much use for it, but it is a pretty little train, and it works well, so I like to keep it around. I also had the Colorado Southern set, that I got pretty cheap from QVC, but I sold that a few years ago.

 BTW - Having two Royal Blue locos came in handy. My then toddler son was running trains while I was at work one day, and I guess that ON30 loco was harder for his little hands to hold then the HO equipment, so down to the floor it went. Thankfully, it was the estate sale copy, not the gift from my sister. Still works, but lost some trim parts in the fall.

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Posted by stebbycentral on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 6:39 AM

scrambler81

 BTW - Having two Royal Blue locos came in handy. My then toddler son was running trains while I was at work one day, and I guess that ON30 loco was harder for his little hands to hold then the HO equipment, so down to the floor it went. Thankfully, it was the estate sale copy, not the gift from my sister. Still works, but lost some trim parts in the fall.

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Posted by scrambler81 on Tuesday, March 27, 2012 7:17 AM

stebbycentral

 scrambler81:

 BTW - Having two Royal Blue locos came in handy. My then toddler son was running trains while I was at work one day, and I guess that ON30 loco was harder for his little hands to hold then the HO equipment, so down to the floor it went. Thankfully, it was the estate sale copy, not the gift from my sister. Still works, but lost some trim parts in the fall.

 

We see by your avatar that you like to live dangerously. Smile, Wink & Grin

 Hey, sharing my toys with my two boys is what it's all about. I'd much rather see them break something than not play with it at all. I was doing this stuff before we had them, but it's better now that they are here.

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