How many carpet runners have we here?

[pbjwilson]

All my tinplate gets run on the floor. It stays on the floor until the wife trips over it and cant take it anymore. Shes very tolerent though.

[nblum]

That's me. It's indoor/outdoor stuff that doesn't yield up fibers very easily. But you're right about the bending. That's why I'm thinking of a table tops at 48" heights :).

[Frank53]

well, there's Chief,

and Chief,

and Chief,

and let's not forget, er,

Chief [:D]

[FJ and G]

Quote from infrequent poster twaldie: "O Guage engin,s have incredible acceleration! (until the first curve) Luckily, no damage has occured to date, mostly due to thick carpet."

Since moving outdoors I've gained some respect for carpet runnings. Most have strong backs. You gotta do lots of bending down. OTHO, you can watch your trains in the prone position.

Suddenly, windows, doors, benchwork, and all that nuisancy stuff ceases to be a problem. And, new trackplan? No sweat!

OTOH, you do have carpet hairs to contend with that could get inside your motors. True carpet runners pick berber, in earth color, of course. Minimizes the long hairs! Recall the ugly 60s,70s shag carpet? Uggh.

A "scale" carpet runner might add some dirt and ground foam to the carpet for more prototypical rivet-counting operations. Heck, you can still outsource carpet cleaning pretty cheap if you need to!

Wiring could be a bit of a problem, unless you use all manual switches and perhaps minimal power feeds.

Perhaps the best advantage of carpet running is the ability to change trackplans on a daily basis. Fasttrack is God's gift to carpet runners, as it comes apart and goes together easily. Tubular gets my vote too.

Hey, we DID after all, have the most fun as kids running carpet. In my case, it was a dirt basement floor. Let's give 3 cheers to carpet runners!!!!

Carpet runners, show your stuff. Unite!