A day dream, flight of fancy...

[Anonymous]

I was thinking, would it be possible to build a model railway that connected real life cities. In theory, if you could find "G-scalers" on consecutive parcels of land and they all maintained the lines on their property, it might be possible to link two cities and send a "live steamer," or if you were well coordinated on your electrical prowess, an electric engine for miles.

That would really be (to use a phrase my students use) "fierce cool!" Anyone capable of doing this (at least in part with a neighbor)?

[Tom The Brat]

I'd need an awful lot of track!

[Anonymous]

Captain,
This is also a dream of mine.Would'nt it be great to run a service involving two gardens.Unfortunately my neighbours son models 5" steam.Oh and my wife won't let me do that![sigh]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by troybetts

Captain,
This is also a dream of mine.Would'nt it be great to run a service involving two gardens.Unfortunately my neighbours son models 5" steam.Oh and my wife won't let me do that![sigh]

Well...[sigh]I guess our line from South East England to South Texas via our Bridge from Wales to Texas is out of the question. Gazooks...and I only need three more feet of that bridge...well, I guess I'd better start dismantling![:D]

[Anonymous]

They tunneled from England to France... What's Texas a few million more feet?[:D]

[Anonymous]

I'd Probably hav room if I curved the track in my back yard, But I need a lot of track and skills to build a glass roofed station in the two major cites. But its worth a try. I'll start when I start back to work and get my paychecks. I could use lago skyscraperbuildings in the cities. It won't be the Best looking, But It sure would be neat I'll fix it up to where you can't tell it's a lego building. I'll paint it and where the bumps show on thop of the lego pecies, they make this special smooth pecie that will work for the buildings. Thanks for the inspiation Captain.

Nick

[tangerine-jack]

I actually did this, my house is on the border between two cities so I ran a piece of track a few inches over the line. I hope the city never finds out or both will try to tax me for it! Sounds like your idea is a little like modular, it would be a little hard to move the modules!

[Anonymous]

Actually captain, I miss read and thought that you were talking about two model cites. I will be able to do that but not two real cities.

Nick

[Anonymous]

Premont, Texas - Rosharon, Texas
Hmmmmmm Costal Liner? Like to see the ROW [:D]

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Bluebonnet - 71

Premont, Texas - Rosharon, Texas
Hmmmmmm Costal Liner? Like to see the ROW [:D]

That would be cool. I could send you some of my homegrown Chili Petin peppers, passenger service from Corpus to Houston could again be a reality!

[Anonymous]

Try this one for size..a live steam G scale line ten miles long.

[Tom The Brat]

You'd have to tunnle under roads?

[CandCRR]

A friend told me about two next door neighbors in the next town that had HO layouts in their cellars and they dug a trench between their houses to put in a tunnel. They ran their trains on a regular schedule between houses. One of the guys has moved but supposedly the tunnel is still there.

[Capt Bob Johnson]

A lady and her daughter built a G layout in thier yard, a couple of years later her father retired, bought the property next door, built a layout in his yard and they conneceted them. That family were the instigators that founded our GRR club!

[Anonymous]

Hummmm, roads would have to be tunneled under, unless...I built east toward the gulf. From where I live there are few roads between my town and the Gulf of Mexico. We could then run a line along the beach to Houston.

[TurboOne]

I would love to see that captain. A grow show of comraderie. Unfortunately here in SoCal, I don't think you could find two neighbors that would get along that well. If you did, one would move shortly, and then the new neighbor would rip it up. We just don't do the neighbor thing that well here.

But it would be awesome.

Tim

[Anonymous]

Very interesting Joe, I have two ideas on this and I hope i don't forget what one is before I finish on the first one.

1/ Our house is in an unusual situation in that it is bordered on three sides by roads and the lady next door doesn't speak to anyone and she is my only next door neighbour, so any sort of cooperation like that is out of the question.

However due to the houses situation, we have very good fences and or walls right around our house . My area 1 is at the front of the house I had the idea of puting a couple of holes in the front wall (tunnels) and I could run the trains out and in again on a loop. Passers by, which are many would think they were seeing things and lay off the booze a bit.

2/ What about that bloke he is an American; he and his sons jack hammered up his front steps of his house, ran aS/S steele tube through his steps and a track, so he could have his trains run right around his house. He has more guts than me and I have a very understanding wife, i can tell you.

I would like to bore a hole through my laundry steps and do the same thing but Doreen isn't all that happy about it. I want to build a marshaling yard and connect it up to the rest of my layout through it

WHAT DO YOU THINK GENTLEMEN?


rgds ian

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor

Very interesting Joe, I have two ideas on this and I hope i don't forget what one is before I finish on the first one.

1/ Our house is in an unusual situation in that it is bordered on three sides by roads and the lady next door doesn't speak to anyone and she is my only next door neighbour, so any sort of cooperation like that is out of the question.

However due to the houses situation, we have very good fences and or walls right around our house . My area 1 is at the front of the house I had the idea of puting a couple of holes in the front wall (tunnels) and I could run the trains out and in again on a loop. Passers by, which are many would think they were seeing things and lay off the booze a bit.

2/ What about that bloke he is an American; he and his sons jack hammered up his front steps of his house, ran aS/S steele tube through his steps and a track, so he could have his trains run right around his house. He has more guts than me and I have a very understanding wife, i can tell you.

I would like to bore a hole through my laundry steps and do the same thing but Doreen isn't all that happy about it. I want to build a marshaling yard and connect it up to the rest of my layout through it

WHAT DO YOU THINK GENTLEMEN?


rgds ian

Ian,

A marshalling yard is a good idea. Later on, I plan to have one. I would imagine that is you tapered your work and gave it an extemely professional look, there would be no problem with making that tunnel. Remember, we all have to make allowances from time to time for the womenfolk.

I took some pics of my Post office yesterday. I plan to scan them in a moment. Let me know what you think.

Capt Carrales

[Anonymous]

Ian, sneak the jack hammer to the house and then send Doreen on a beer run[;)]by the time she returns it will be to late.[:0]

The article in GR that you are refering to was in Bexley, Ohio a suburb of Columbus, I grew up there[:)].

[underworld]

If I can get all of my neighbors interested......we can run one all through the apartment building......all 6 floors!!!!! [:p][:p][:p][:p][:p]

underworld

[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]

[Anonymous]

I havent go the guts to do it. I mention from time to time though and I am friends with the bloke that built our house and he is trying to find some of the drawings for th b house he thinks it may be hollow under the steps. I so away we go.

He also is friends with a bloke that does concrete (cement) boring and reckons if it is hollow I might be abvle to get a hole bored through for about A$160.00


Rgds ian