After more than two years in boxes ...

[bryanfarris]

Some pictures I took yesterday of first train run in over two years afer the move.

Note: Railroad took priority over mowing the grass

http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/gardenrailroad.html

[Tom The Brat]

A yard, a train and a daughter. Life is good, eh?

[vsmith]

Dont think of it as grass, just native prairie your trains roll thru...

[Train 284]

Very nice! You did a great job!

[ondrek]

my track is still in the boxes after 4yrs.
kinda glad to find out that i might not be the only one who buys the track, makes plans and then well, other crap gets in the way.

Kevin

[MTCarpenter]

Hey, that looks great! And it seems that your daughter is excited about it as well. Very cool!!!

[Anonymous]

What could be better...

Matthew [bow]

[Anonymous]

Kevin
It's time to get it out of the boxes and get it running , even if it's tempory . BEN

[ttrigg]

Bryan;

Like I say, "If all else fails, just have fun!" and obiously you are having fun, as well as someone else! Pay the neighbor kid to mow the grass, just run your trains.

[Anonymous]

Glad you had fun with your daughter! Glad to see priorities are in good order[;)][:D]

[Anonymous]

Very Nice, Indeed...

The sand and the grass give it a "beach" sort of feel.

Again, Nice!!!

Major Carrales

[bryanfarris]

Sand?

I think he means the crusher fines

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bryanfarris

Sand?

I think he means the crusher fines

It resembles "sandy beaches" the like of which I have seen in pics of many Florida railroads.

Major Carrales

[Anonymous]

Well done; I had my stuff packed away in a warehouse for about 4 months and it was like getting it all new again after all that time.

What is that thing to the right of your track in the foundations of your house.

Could it be converted into a door and you can run your train into it to stable overnight?

Rgds ian

[bryanfarris]

QUOTE: Originally posted by iandor


What is that thing to the right of your track in the foundations of your house.

Could it be converted into a door and you can run your train into it to stable overnight?

Rgds ian

Give that man a girl scout cookie!
It is a basement window, I converted to a entrance to the basement for the trains. I will fix up the appearance to where it will take a more mountain tunnel look in the future.

[Anonymous]

just curious, I assume there is a sliding window there, how did you do your temp track thru the hole?? I am about to do the same thing and any help would be GREATLY appricated.....

[bryanfarris]

The window is a Anderson Basement window. It has the hardware to have the window lock at the top or bottom, the window can be switched to either position. Ill get a picture later. I just open the window, add one section of track and turn on track power.

[bman36]

Hi Bryan,
Glad to see you are up and running. ANYTHING is better than nothing. I found that out the hard way. Looks like you are off to a great start. Enjoy running! Later eh...Brian.

[Anonymous]

Here in Queensland we do not have basements, more the other way around we go up to try to catch the coll breezes and also to let the air circulate underneath to cool things down. These sort of houses are known locally as "Queenslanders"
so basements are very much a rarity to us.

Rgds Ian

[bryanfarris]

some pictures of the basement entrance

http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/pictures/100_0660.jpg
this one is outside loking at the window.

http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/pictures/100_0661.jpg
This one is close up from inside

http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/pictures/100_0662.jpg
this one at a different angle looking at window

http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/pictures/100_0663.jpg
this is a wide shot from side

I use track clamps and add the one piece of track once I open the window. Takes about 30 seconds to add the piece. I also hung the plywood, to apply a small amount of pressure toward the window, so I dont have to tighten the track clamps, but I do. I also put a magnet on the track to activate the whistle to tell me the train is inside at correct position, to turn off track power once I am done running trains and ready to remove the transformer.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bryanfarris

some pictures of the basement entrance

http://www.ncwcom.com/~bryanfarris/pictures/100_0660.jpg
this one is outside loking at the window.

mer.

Cool! Now all you need is some "facades" /portals to put in front of the garage wall.
You can buy some G scale portals or appliedimagination.com has brick /concrete facades you can paint and mount yourself and they are UV stable.

Regards,

Thomas M.