Model trains
08-03-2018, 09:28 AM
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I love model trains and like you, I do not have them. My wife and I were on vacation in San Diego and stumbled upon a model train museum.
https://www.balboapark.org/museums/model-railroad
We spent a couple of hours there. I came alive and felt like a kid again
https://www.balboapark.org/museums/model-railroad
We spent a couple of hours there. I came alive and felt like a kid again
08-03-2018, 09:54 AM
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P.S. like your post.
08-03-2018, 10:35 AM
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I was into them as a kid and had a relatively "well done" HO layout with the landscaping and all that. That fell by the wayside when I got into HO scale cars instead and did the same detail thing with that layout.
Earlier this year after going through my Father's stuff while settling his estate I ended up with a box of much of the HO train stuff I had as a kid..(Engines, cars, track and transformer... No buildings) Other than memories I doubt I'll do anything with them though.
Earlier this year after going through my Father's stuff while settling his estate I ended up with a box of much of the HO train stuff I had as a kid..(Engines, cars, track and transformer... No buildings) Other than memories I doubt I'll do anything with them though.
08-03-2018, 10:48 AM
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There is the maga lay out from Germany.
This just small clip tease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s
This just small clip tease.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACkmg3Y64_s
That is awesome, thanks for sharing! I am adding seeing that to my bucketlist.
08-03-2018, 01:43 PM
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i enjoy looking at them as well. one of my old Monte clubmates was really into them. he had a HUGE layout in the downstairs of his house.
there used to be a layout done every year at citicorp center in NYC at Christmas time. but i have not gone in quite a few years. but it used to fill the center of the atrium.
there is a layout again during Christmas at the Brooklyn botanical garden. i hear its great but ive never been, yet.
the LIRR has a layout in Greenport, if i remember right, at one of their 'museums' they also have the miniature rail (kid ride on) from the 1962 worlds fair along with alot of other train memorabilia as well as full size trains. this is year round.
there used to be a layout done every year at citicorp center in NYC at Christmas time. but i have not gone in quite a few years. but it used to fill the center of the atrium.
there is a layout again during Christmas at the Brooklyn botanical garden. i hear its great but ive never been, yet.
the LIRR has a layout in Greenport, if i remember right, at one of their 'museums' they also have the miniature rail (kid ride on) from the 1962 worlds fair along with alot of other train memorabilia as well as full size trains. this is year round.
08-04-2018, 02:33 AM
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There's one every year at Christmas at the Bronx botanical gardens also (near the Bronx Zoo). Went to it, all the buildings are made out of parts of plants. Nice to walk through.
08-04-2018, 11:50 AM
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I built a 4'x8' layout with HO trains two level when I was a kid, maybe 13 or 14 years old. I added my HO "turbo-jet" slot car layout to it and had a grand time racing the train at the RR crossing. Sold all the train stuff about 10 years ago to a collector but still have about 85 HO slot cars that I race from time to time at home built tracks around town. Some of them are worth about $300.00 being rare and original in the original boxes. Still have all the HO slot car track pieces too, in big boxes in the attic.