I know there are companies that make shelving for G Scale trains. Does anyone know of a company that makes them for O Scale? I use my Grandson's MTH set in our Christmas Display each year, then it's stored. I would like to put up some shelving (haning or wall type) to run around my office.
Any information would be appreciated.
Monte
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Most (not all) of the better (IMHO) large scale shelving is also grooved for other guages. Shelving vendors have a tendancey to address more than one scale.
Tom Trigg
Monte,
I assume by your statement that you wish for the set to be operational. For mine I used Baltic Birch plywood for the base, no voids in the laminations, 1 x dimensional birch for the wall and ceiling hangars. 1x2 for vertical attachment and either 1x3 or 1x4 for the horizontal supports, the width being determined by the distance from the wall to the base to be supported. For noise reduction the roadbed is Woodland Scenics foam, glued down, and Lionel tubular glued to the foam. No screws for sound transmission to the plywood. Very little noise, with engine sounds turned off most all you hear is the clicking of the wheels going over the track joints.
Hope this is of benefit, if I were to do it over I would seriously consider making it wide enuff for possibly two mains or at least a long passing siding and take the back edge all the way to the wall to provide some minor scenery details.
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Doug,
Thanks for the reply and pictures. What you have shown is similar to what I want to do. The brackets on the wall and shelving of some sort on them. I notice that you have hanging supports as well. I am trying to get away from that if possible. Would the wood brackets be enough support for the train if nothing else was on them? (other than train and shelves)
The thought you had about have enough room for a siding was something I had considered. My grandson has a Lionel steamer and the MTH Warbonnet Passenger. We have a left and right switch so all we need is a block on that section of track.
Looks like you have quite a collection of 'O' equipment.
Unfortunately the sliding closet doors are ceiling height, so I had no choice but to suspend part of it. Believe me I wasn't happy about crawling around in the attic to add a few stringers between the ceiling joists in the middle of summer.
The brackets are really strong, birch is a good hardwood. The lateral supports are held to the vertical supports with one screw two dowels and polyurethane glue. The vertical supports are all 1x2 with the length being the same on almost all with the exception of two corners where there was a longer reach.
The horizontal supports as well,1x3x? are almost all the same size. Again the exceptions being the corners where they had a longer reach, 1x4x?.
All of the wall supports are screwed into a wall stud. I have had some pretty heavy loads running on it. Probably the heaviest is a Lionmaster Challenger and 16 die-cast 4 bay hoppers.
If I were to go with a two track set-up I would go with a minimum 1x4 or even a 1x6 ripped down to a slightly smaller width. There is always the option of decorative metal brackets at the big box home stores.
My"O" gauge stuff far surpasses my rather diminutive fleet of "G" gauge, but either way my grandson and I have a lot of fun with them. And since the grandson is a bigger train nut than grandpa, grandma don't seem to complain as much when train stuff is strewn all over.
P.S. Check out the "Classis Toy Trains" forum, a sister site to this one, there are a few others who have ceiling/wall mounted trains.
http://www.railrax.net/
My "0" stuff is so displayed.
Screws into the wall, proper spacing, no support brackets.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting product, however I want to run my trains around the room.
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A quick "cut & paste".
Monte, Check out this link, it has some bridge kits that could be used over the closet door opening thus eliminating the need for wall brackets in that area.
http://web.mac.com/gardentexture/Site/Arch_Bridges.html
This is for my "G' gauge. You just have to scale it to your scale. I made my shelfs out of (WHAT EVER) then I cut strip of of the material to fit between the wheel and just below the axles. That saved using track and kept the equiptment on the shelfs. Keeping it just below the axles you can move the cars to add or remove equiptment. It is also easer to place the equiptment on and not have to get all the wheels on the rails.
If you finish the shelves. The alinement strip blends in.
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