Nice looking setup. I still have my boyhood American Flyer set. It's not so easy to get additional pieces since they went out of business years ago.

I used to be into the "N" gauge and had a nice setup that hid away under the bed. I'll tell you, getting into realistic working track and signals in that small of a size got expensive fast! But as a kid with a goal, I found a way to pay and enjoyed it.

Yep, I've got an some HO and Z gear. Haven't set them up in a long time so I'm sure the engines of both scales are probably in need of a proper cleaning and oiling, and the tracks will need attention too. Love those little mechanical marvels!

Yes. I play with Z Gauge toys. Here is a thread in started a while back.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forums...770002014#8770002014

I play with live-steam, often radio-controlled.

See Youtube, tac's trains Accucraft Garratt, Shay, Hudson, Earl etc.

I also pay with 7.25" gauge narrow gauge Welsh stuff - see Fenland Light Railway. The blue and yellow switcher is mine.

tac

"Entertrainment Junction in West Chester, Ohio is amazing. I believe it is the largest indoor model railroad setup in the world."


It would have to be larger than this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB2UlEOg-sg

Or this one:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...ws-thousands-NJ.html

Wow! Doing all that in O is awesome. As I kid I used to play with HO. Subscribed for years to the magazine "Model Railroader", but at that time I was living in a condo and only had room to build on a "N" gauge set. As already mentioned, getting detail into that set was tough.

I would love to make it an old-age hobby. Either that, or buy me some more land and build me a train set that I can ride, lol.

Choo Choo Barn, Strasburg, PA

A 1,700 sf layout.

Since 1961, people across the country and around the world have come to visit a truly unique attraction...the Choo Choo Barn -- Traintown U.S.A.®! Our 1,700 square foot train layout features over 150 hand-built animated figures and vehicles and 22 operating trains. . .we guarantee the Choo Choo Barn is like nothing you've ever seen!

And, their youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChooChooBarn/featured

Thanks for all the compliments and great links. It is going to take some time to get everything running again but I'll try to update with progress.

Playing with trains - any size, any scale, any gauge - can make and old man feel like a boy again.

That's why there are so many old farts like me playing trains of any size, any scale, any gauge.

To paraphrase a well-known cowboy actor - hope that there are trains in heaven, if not, I'm don't want to go there.

tac

A very good friend of mine was bitten by the bug early on in life growing up in Katy, Texas.





His railroad intertwines throughout his property.

Not only does he have this miniature railroad, he also has a luxury rail car that is for hire called "The Silver Iris" and can go anywhere that Amtrak goes.


http://silveriris.net/




Here is a link to an article...

Katy Docter Caught Train Bug Early On

CW