Chat Room For Younger Modelers

[danrunner]

    Danrunner is in the house.  Hey, guys,  how's things?    On my end, my wife starts her new job in early November--it takes 2-3 months for an ohio medical license.  Further,  we haven't found a house out there yet.  The town, Cambridge, does not have a lot of nice houses.  We like 2 story colonials (all brick)  and hardwood floors.  There's almost nothing there.  If we can't find anything right away, I might stay in Indiana with our daughter for a few months until we can hopefully find a house.  Anyway,  this situation is taking forever to settle out.


MTL,  Demon,  good to hear from you guys.  Keep us up to date with your train exploits while my stuff stays in boxes until the move. 

Keep on Railroadin'  and layin' track.

Dan

PS Best Wishes to All!!!  Have a great day!

[ModelTrainLover]

well I have opend a new forum of mine I call it Railroading

http://railroading.proboards58.com

[RR Redneck]

I started myself up a new forum as well. It is called Teen Railfan Place. It is mostly for teens, but I dont mind if a FEW adults join.

[danrunner]

Old thread up and running again.  There was a snafu which OGauge Overlord fixed and we're off and running.  Please disregard new thread  and stick to this one.

[ModelTrainLover]

*sigh of relief* man I was starting to think that this place was deleted.

 

[RR Redneck]

I hope that this place dont meet the same fate as the Teen Railfan Place did, the original, not my forum.

[ModelTrainLover]

The last one !!!!

 

[RR Redneck]

How so?

[ModelTrainLover]

the date inside said

effictive at

2:01 am Sunday

May 14 1978.

it was published prior to the Gilford take over in 1981.

 

 

[danrunner]

RR Redneck,

Do I see that you're going with fastrack on a new layout?  That's great.  I'm using it, too, although no real layout is up for me at the moment.  I know your frustration about did I pick the right track--it's a lot of money.  Even when I look at O27 on ebay--I'm surprised how expensive it is unless you  buy a pile that's rusty.  I think Fastrack will be a great system for you, and I will keep it for myself.  I will, however, have a couple of trial loops with different materials.  I'm also considering using the cheapie O-27 in tunnels and hidden places, etc. Not that it's that much cheaper.

I'd love to try Gargraves, but it looks like hard to work with to me, and busting/cutting a section and ruining it would be expensive.

 

GUYS IN THE FORUM:  What track are you using and do you like it?  ALSO:  What track system do you want to try and Why?

 

Keep on Truckin'

 

Dan

[ModelTrainLover]

I use Life Like, Power-Loc system HO. cause it's the only track I have.lol. and because my first packs were half off at a train show that was in town. and it works great if you can't have a perminate layout all the time.it just snaps together.

[Demon09]

I have always wanted to try GarGraves.  I was going to completely rebuild my layout using GarGraves, but ran into a financial block on that one.  Hopefully now that I start a second job next week I might be able to save up for the rebuild.

I want to try to go for a more proto typical look while still using 3 rail toy trains.  Nothing too fancy, really, but the layout I have now looks like something a 7 year old build.  Haha...

[ModelTrainLover]

well I have some pics of what mine looked like before I moved it into my room.

[RR Redneck]

RR Redneck,

Do I see that you're going with fastrack on a new layout? 

Wrong. On my new layout whenever I can find a place to build one, I will use tubular track. Nothing screams Lionel like postwar steamers on tradational track.

[ModelTrainLover]

www.smileycentral.com

[RR Redneck]

Colby, have I ever told you that you are the most random person ever. I might as well jump in. http://www.railroadredneck.proboards58.com

[ModelTrainLover]

yea.. I use to that.. me being random..

so then.. anyone have a progress report on their layout?

oh and check these out!

http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=877

http://www.trains.com/trn/default.aspx?c=a&id=896

[danrunner]

RR RedNeck, I guess I misunderstood your comments on  one of the threads about your track preference.  Tubular is so cheap,  I'm sure you won't regret it.  Take a look at Thor's defense of tubular...interesting.  It almost makes me want to go to tubular.

Demon,  I see you've got a hankering for gargraves, too.  Great.  Are you as intimidated  by the lack of info on it as I am?  I don't even know how to wire it.  How does it connect?  I've never seen it out of a museum, except for some straights at a train store and I didn't see the mating pins/connectors. Ah, well I guess I'll figure it out if I try a loop or two.

MTL,  Stay as random as ever, you're a great asset to this thread!

danrunner

[Demon09]

Yeah, they don't really offer too much on the website as far as other features of GarGraves.  They have the video on using GarGraves, (which some have told me used to be free, but now you have to pay $10 or $15 for it), supposedly it said how to lay it, how to use flextrack, how to wire it, how to use switches, how to make it prototypical, how to use ballast, etc.  The only understanding that I have had about wiring it is that you solder the wires underneath so that they are hidden from plain sight.

[RR Redneck]

Price is one of the biggest reasons that I like tubular track. The main reason though is becuase it looks better to me.

[ModelTrainLover]

 

ok here are some pics of my santa fe engines.

one was taken with a digital cameria (the clearer one)

the other was take with a cameria that has not been use for a few years now.

[Demon09]

They're pretty small.... Is there some way you can enlarge them or use bigger file formats to post on the forum?

[RR Redneck]

Good pictures Colby.

[ModelTrainLover]

I'll try to make them larger.

will this work?

[Demon09]

Looks great.... Are those leaves on the sides of the hills?

[RR Redneck]

Only Colby Miles.

[ModelTrainLover]

Looks great.... Are those leaves on the sides of the hills?

 

Nope. pencil shavings with paint.

[Demon09]

I did a lot of work on the layout this weekend.  Here is a before pic of one of the main changes.

 

With the work I did this weekend, I tried to give my layout a permnanent fall look.  Autumn is my favorite season, so now I will have it all year.  There is also a quick picture of my new engine too.... It's an MTH GP-38 in UP livery.  There is also a little of my Lionel Western Pacific U-36b in some of the corners.

 

It had barely any trees, and the ballast was painted inbetween the rails....

 

And here it is now..... There are trees all over the layout, there are shrubs and leaves on the ground, and there is real ballast on the rails (which made them suprisingly quiet)...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[RR Redneck]

Is that UP geep an MTH.

[Demon09]

Yes it is