My Walt Disney World Railroad-like Railroad

[REI]

Is your engine New Bright? What's the name and when was it built? What cars will run in your train, frieght, passenger? If your engine is New Bright then chances are that it's a 2-6-2 prairie, 2-6-0 mogul, or 4-4-0 American. I sure know A LOT about G-scale New Bright Trains and the time they were made! I suggest you find a turn out switch track to make a spur line to back your train up into a roundhouse to store it when not in use. How many staitions are going to be used in your Railroad?

[Anonymous]

Thanks for replying. To answer your questions:
1.I'll probably just run 1 engine with a few cars. The first one I bought on e-bay ran until I put it on the track and then it wouldn't move. So I took it apart to see if I could figure out what was wrong. After that it would run at all :-). I bought another one which works but i'm not sure how many cars it will pull, especially since the the track will have a little slope to it.
2. We don't have to worry about hurricanes here, maybe an occassional tornado. The track is being built on our private campsite in a campground in North Central Ohio. We have all kinds a weather here 80's to 90's in the summer to below 0 in the winter. Winter will have snow anywhere from a couple inches to a couple feet during a season. We also usually get at least one good ice storm each season. The campground basically shuts down from early December until March.
3. We will bring the train inside when not in use. I plan to bring in my buildings in the off season and cover anything that's fragile and can't be moved. The railroad is in early stages of construction so my pictures won't show much. It is in an area with lot's of tall tress mostly oak, maple and cherry. In the fall we battle a lot of leaves. The area is sloped but I plan to get the track to just a sligh slope by building a rock mountain (with waterfall), wooden trestle, concrete arched bridges, etc.

[REI]

I'm in the process of starting a garden railroad using New Bright trains and track I've been buying on e-bay. I get the impression from various forums that most garden railroaders would not consider this a railroad just a cheap toy. I'm doing it mostly for the layout, scale buildings and scale plantings, etc.. The rairoad is just an excuse to build the rest of it. Since I just want a train that will move around the track and track that requires no maintance at a low price this was the logical choice.
Since you have so many trains can you tell me do the New Bright, Scientific Toys and Walt Disney all work on the same plastic track? I'm having trouble finding enough cheap straight pieces of New Bright track to complete my layout. If the track for all of these will work for the New Bright trains, it might make it easier to find. Thanks for the help.

While I frown upon those who don't consider G-scale battery trains, I'm glad that you chose a New Bright layout. Now first off, go with New Bright G-scale track ONLY. DO NOT use Scientific Toys track-you will regret the weak joiners and  little variety of track they offered and besides,  you cannot mix Scientific track with the New Bright track, the joiners are not the same. As for the Scientific Toys engines, you can indeed run them on New Bright track, infact, run all of your trains (Scientific or New Bright) on your New Bright track. You will need a roadbed for the tracks if you're gonna have an out door garden railroad, (I don't use roadbed because my Railroad is indoors).  And always remeber to put your trains away when you don't plan to use them. I use a storage facility (roundhouse) to store all of my trains.

 Now, here come my questions,

1. How many engines and sets of rollingstock are you going to use?

2. How are the weather conditions where you live?

3. Do you plan to have a storage place when the trains are not in use?

Some more insight with pictures would be nice so I can get a better idea and can help you more.

[Anonymous]

I'm in the process of starting a garden railroad using New Bright trains and track I've been buying on e-bay. I get the impression from various forums that most garden railroaders would not consider this a railroad just a cheap toy. I'm doing it mostly for the layout, scale buildings and scale plantings, etc.. The rairoad is just an excuse to build the rest of it. Since I just want a train that will move around the track and track that requires no maintance at a low price this was the logical choice.
Since you have so many trains can you tell me do the New Bright, Scientific Toys and Walt Disney all work on the same plastic track? I'm having trouble finding enough cheap straight pieces of New Bright track to complete my layout. If the track for all of these will work for the New Bright trains, it might make it easier to find. Thanks for the help.

[REI]

Here are some pictures of my G-scale Railroad.

Here's a video of #3 Silver Rail Express, she was manufactured in 1986 making her the oldest in my engine roster.

Here are some pictures of her:

[REI]

The reason I signed up here is because their is a fourm about  battery trains here. Other disscussion boards consider battery trains an insult to say the least. But I guess this board understands us battery operated train modelers better. Mine are realistic and those that don't like them are inconsiderete and a pain in the lower back end.

[ttrigg]

Most of us have some.  I get mine when they go on clearance price after Christmas.  They are primarily used to pull the track cleaning car prior to an operating session, or for when the grandkids visit.  Thus sparing any damage to the good stuff.

[REI]

Hi,

I'm new here and I just registered and I wanted to know if anyone here is familiar with G-scale New Bright Battery operated trains and Scientific Toys trains. I have My own Railroad that consist of 10 engines, (8 of them are New Bright and 2 of them are Scientific Toys) and 8 sets of rolling stock, ( 4 of them are the Walt Disney World Railroad train sets and the last 4 are frieght sets). Is anyone here familiar with the Walt Disney World Railroad? For those of you who would like to share thoughts, please post back.

Thank you.