Penny Trains I should have known something was wrong when he said viaduct...
I should have known something was wrong when he said viaduct...
Well as Chico Marx once said:
"Why a duck? Why a no chicken?"
Trains, trains, wonderful trains. The more you get, the more you toot!
"and Sir..it is the Enterprise!"
great finds.
Dave
It's a TOY, A child's PLAYTHING!!! (Woody from Toy Story)
For the UCS track you could use 4 conductor telephone wire. You can get 100 feet for about $10-12 bucks. Pick up some 4 screw terminal strips ( Barrier Strips ) from Radio Shack to make connections to UCS at the track and one back at your control panel. http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2103982&znt_campaign=Category_CMS&znt_source=CAT&znt_medium=RSCOM&znt_content=CT2032231
These terminal strips are really handy for wire connections.
Steve
Update: The track is 027 Lionel(I think) 4 1122 switches, 1 manual switch, two UCS track sections(one is the shoe only type and one has the electro mag/rails) one #260 red bumper and a milk platform( only acc. left on the layout) and a Girder Bridge painted silver( may clean it up) one Marx RR crossing ramp. Every thing else was removed at some point, outlines and wires remain. The fellow used yellow thin copper wire for everything. and only two lockons! He also painted roads and a stream on the board which is about 4X8 with a small board on all sides and a frame with short legs & wheels( new wheels and longer legs coming later. I was testing it out and the day before I was able to run my F-3 like gang busters, but Monday I was unable to get much rolling. Found out after pulling out a 1122 I thought was shorting that the black UCS track (the all rail one) had the wires breaking down and it was causing the short. I pulled the wires off of it and all is well, I need to buy a roll of four wire flat cable now and do some rewiring. Also add some more lockons for equal power flow. Reports will follow as things progress.
I need to get a digtal camera and learn how to up load photos.
Alameda, Ca. Where we used to keep nuclear wessals!
Not at my house! Our last garage sale was mostly dishes and 8-tracks! (If your in the market for 8-tracks, I'll trade a big box of them for a similar sized box of standard gauge! )
Pictures! Pictures! We wanna see the layout!
Becky
AND where was this?
We went to a yard sale that a woman that used to own an antique store here in town. I was not expecting much, the last sale she held she had some hand laid brass track(two rail O gauge) I knew her husband was into trains(she sold some wide gauge American Flyer) but I saw she had two layouts and misc. train stuff for sale. One was a 50's vintage layout which looked like a dealers layout(fair copy) and an S gauge layout with hand laid brass rail! She was asking $100.00 each for them. I said "too rich for my wallet. She said to check back sunday at the end of the sale and if the lionel layout did not sell she might deal. I said OK, and went to my Dodge, on the way I saw she was throwing some stuff out. I saw some AF track and asked if it was ok to scrounge thru the stuff, she said go ahead. I found a bunch of AF track, some switches and the controller. There was also a three foot section of Standard gauge track and two three foot sections of K-Line S gauge track! In new condition. So I took that stuff home for clean up and need to test the switches. I went back sunday afternoon and she had not sold the layouts. She said $25.00 for either one! I had that exact amount of cash on my money clip. A box of track was still there, and asked if she might toss it in, and she did! I now have a 027 layout to fix up( missing things like crossing gates an such) and a boat load of AF S gauge track to clean up and resell or trade.
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