Toy train operating and collecting

Jumijo wrote:

Lehigh Valley Railroader wrote: Hello Jumijo, I have seen pics of your layout in a couple different threads and I think yours is EXCELLENT. From the pics that I have seen you have a great layout and super detail to boot. Do you have a plan of your layout? And how many trains do you have running at once? -Scott Thanks, Scott! Very kind of you to say that. I don't have a track plan for our layout, but it's just 2 loops of O36 FasTrack. I used a few spacer pieces to widen the outer loop. I figured with 3 small children, I'd keep the track plan as simple as possible to avoid derailments or worse. When the kids get older, and my daughter lets me, we will construct a new layout with a more complicated track plan. More switches and sidings. Right now we run 2 trains at once. Jim

Hey Jim,

The pics that I saw of your layout seemed that your set up is in a "L" shape. Is it a 4x8 with a 4x4 attached? I also wanted to tell you that I really like the way you layed the track with the tracks side by side through the curves. It looks great. Once I get my layout back up one day, I may use yours as some inspiration.

Anyway, a little off track (no pun intended) I saw on your photbucket website that there was a pic labeled "My 442" is that your convertable? If so is that a 71 or 72? My other hobby during the summer months is going to car shows. Right now I restored a 83 Trans Am (drove a 1982 through college) and my favorite Muscle Car of all time is the 442, someday I will own one. I may just buy a basket case and restore it but if the right car and deal comes along you never know.

-Scott

Hello Scott!

  What Jim would really love is a Red Corvair! Anyway, I saw his 442 on Photobucket like you & thought it was/is a very nice car. Cars & Trains sure seem to go together just fine. Take Care.

Lehigh Valley Railroader wrote:

Hey Jim, The pics that I saw of your layout seemed that your set up is in a "L" shape. Is it a 4x8 with a 4x4 attached? I also wanted to tell you that I really like the way you layed the track with the tracks side by side through the curves. It looks great. Once I get my layout back up one day, I may use yours as some inspiration. Anyway, a little off track (no pun intended) I saw on your photbucket website that there was a pic labeled "My 442" is that your convertable? If so is that a 71 or 72? My other hobby during the summer months is going to car shows. Right now I restored a 83 Trans Am (drove a 1982 through college) and my favorite Muscle Car of all time is the 442, someday I will own one. I may just buy a basket case and restore it but if the right car and deal comes along you never know. -Scott

Scott,

Our layout is one 4x8 table with a 6x4 table attached to form an L-shaped 8x10. Thanks again for the kind words. Feel free to emulate any part of the Jumijo you wish to.

My 442 was a 1972 W-30, with Ram Air, Rochester quadra jet carb, 455 big block, aluminum intake manifold, Turbo 400 tranny with a dual gate shifter, posi-traction, and air conditioning. I fell in love with these cars in high school when my buddy told me his dad was picking us up after baseball practice. He pulled up in a green 72 ragtop with the top down. I restored my Olds to look just like that one I saw all those years ago. I sold the car 2 weeks before my wedding. I sometimes regret not keeping it. But the winters up here are long and I could only enjoy driving the car 6 months tops each year. So I sold the car and got a wonderful wife and 3 great kids in return. And it was those 3 kids that got me involved in model railroading. 

Jim (Dr. Olds) 

Jumijo wrote:

Scott, Our layout is one 4x8 table with a 6x4 table attached to form an L-shaped 8x10. Thanks again for the kind words. Feel free to emulate any part of the Jumijo you wish to. My 442 was a 1972 W-30, with Ram Air, Rochester quadra jet carb, 455 big block, aluminum intake manifold, Turbo 400 tranny with a dual gate shifter, posi-traction, and air conditioning. I fell in love with these cars in high school when my buddy told me his dad was picking us up after baseball practice. He pulled up in a green 72 ragtop with the top down. I restored my Olds to look just like that one I saw all those years ago. I sold the car 2 weeks before my wedding. I sometimes regret not keeping it. But the winters up here are long and I could only enjoy driving the car 6 months tops each year. So I sold the car and got a wonderful wife and 3 great kids in return. And it was those 3 kids that got me involved in model railroading.  Jim (Dr. Olds)

Hey Jim,

Thanks for the size of your layout. I also wanted to tell you that you did a great job restoring the 442, it looked really nice. I hear you about the long winters, here in PA we get some pretty bad weather for quite some time too, not nearly as bad as your winters though. We really only get 7 or 8 months to drive our show cars. Lately they have been throwing down more salt and anti-skid materials on the roads which keep most collector cars off the road till like April when we get some good rains. Dont get me wrong, I am glad they do, because it is much safer driving in the bad conditions with that stuff and helps keep everyone safe. Just wish we would not have as many as far into March. Oh well.

Well it seems that it all worked out and I am happy for you. Thanks for help and I know you helped me a couple times before with some questions that you had answered. So thanks again.

 -Scott