I came across this foreign video (it looks like Russian to me) with some cleaver ideas to make a small, lightweight, modular, transportable train layout. The video images tell the whole story.
http://youtu.be/ti2JH0VOnPg
The comments are in Greek
Shucks! Thought this thread was about meat!
Jon
Kooljock1 Shucks! Thought this thread was about meat! Jon
Pardon my spelling.
Anyone have a guess what the red string is for? Maybe to hold the pieces together when it is disassembled and stacked? And why are the cross-members all in different locations?
I'm not impressed with the structure. Those long sides look like they would twist easily with any great load in the middle of the table. There are no corner braces; and any nails or screws at the corners are into end grain, which makes for a very weak connection. The legs could have been set back from the edges by a few more centimeters, to reduce the bending moment at the table joints substantially.
Bob Nelson
We have a four-section layout that rests on two 8' tables placed end to end. Each section stacks in the back of my friend's Chevy Avalanche on a specially made rack. The track is all FasTrack with fitter sections across the gaps. The switches are all FasTrack TMCC.
There is a small group of us in Southern California that have created a small modluar layout system akin ot the old Amercian Flyer All Aboard system using Fastrack. Each square is 20" and they wokr well. The video shows our first run:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVKgskv3iA&feature=colike
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dsmith I came across this foreign video (it looks like Russian to me) with some cleaver ideas to make a small, lightweight, modular, transportable train layout. The video images tell the whole story. http://youtu.be/ti2JH0VOnPg
Not Russian, but Greek! Seems as if someone in Greece has found a way to beat the economic crisis down there!
Here is a link to my portable postwar layout. It was been upgraded slightly (this video was shot very shortly after it was completed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooZm6bkkOMY
I folds end-to-end; is 3' x 13'' and can run 2 trains with block secttions. it folds in half lengthwise, sets up in about twenty minutes and fits in the back of an SUV that has 8 feet length of storage. Fast and fun and a fair amount of action
Captaincog There is a small group of us in Southern California that have created a small modluar layout system akin ot the old Amercian Flyer All Aboard system using Fastrack. Each square is 20" and they wokr well. The video shows our first run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSVKgskv3iA&feature=colike
Captaincog,
I have always been a fan of the All Aboard System. I think your group has come up with a fantastic idea with great flexibility. Have you folks come up with a set of specifications for the squares, or directions on how to make them? If you have any material about creating them I would love to see it. I bet this would be a great "how to" topic for an article.
On occasion I display trains at shows and something like this would be a real benefit for transporting and setting up.
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