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2nd Hobby (Model Railroading) (Not Shooting related)

TIMO

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Hello,
I know this not the shooting related but, I have some older Lionel train stuff that I wanted to find a new home for and thought maybe someone here may have a secondary hobby in model railroading. PM me if interested, this is what remains of my train set from the early/mid 1970s. Not 100% complete after numerous moves during the last 40+ years. Might be some items that my complete a set or just different to add to your current set up.

Contact me by PM for pictures and additional info.
Thanks,
Tim
 
Hello,
I know this not the shooting related but, I have some older Lionel train stuff that I wanted to find a new home for and thought maybe someone here may have a secondary hobby in model railroading. PM me if interested, this is what remains of my train set from the early/mid 1970s. Not 100% complete after numerous moves during the last 40+ years. Might be some items that my complete a set or just different to add to your current set up.

Contact me by PM for pictures and additional info.
Thanks,
Tim
Up,
Any others with model railroading interests?
Tim
 
I have had several layouts, HO and O. The last one, which I dismantled and sold a year and a half ago, was an O-Gauge true 1/48 scale throughout. It was 33 feet x 38 feet, had 900+ feet of track, 58 switch-tracks, 26,500 feet of wire, dozens of buildings, hundreds of little people and trees, etc. I dismantled it, packed it up (360 boxes) and Stout Auctions picked it up and sold it in a record 4 days. The 'bench' consisted of 100 2x4's, about 24 sheets of 5/8" plywood and quite-brace sound board, and other lumber.

One of several videos:

Alex
 
Very nice, brings back 60 year old memories from when my father had all of those except the Amtrac plus a bunch of the old steam locomotives with a large variety of freight cars. He had it set up in the basement, he took my Aurora slot car set with about 100' of track and incorporated it into his set up.
Only thing was I was 10 years old and not allowed to go near his toys.
 
I have had several layouts, HO and O. The last one, which I dismantled and sold a year and a half ago, was an O-Gauge true 1/48 scale throughout. It was 33 feet x 38 feet, had 900+ feet of track, 58 switch-tracks, 26,500 feet of wire, dozens of buildings, hundreds of little people and trees, etc. I dismantled it, packed it up (360 boxes) and Stout Auctions picked it up and sold it in a record 4 days. The 'bench' consisted of 100 2x4's, about 24 sheets of 5/8" plywood and quite-brace sound board, and other lumber.

One of several videos:

Alex

I watched that video a couple years ago, I never would have thought it was a member here. That’s awesome, the time and money invested into that…. So cool! Did you start another one or was that the final?
 
I watched that video a couple years ago, I never would have thought it was a member here. That’s awesome, the time and money invested into that…. So cool! Did you start another one or was that the final?
The last one. We moved to a smaller house with a much smaller lot because the previous one was just too much to properly care for. Almost 4 acres of land, and 4700 sq-ft house for just the two of us, and being in our mid-late 70's it was challenging. It was not easy to tear the layout down, but it was a lot - I mean a lot - easier for me to do it than for any family member who would have inherited it, and no one expressed a desire or interest in keeping it. The trains ran fine, but with all the electronics, a lot of which were home-grown, it would have been difficult to maintain.

Thank you for your nice comments.

Alex

Here is another video:
 
That was the coolest thing I saw all day. When I was a kid I rode the train from Wyoming to Seattle several times.. I remember those passenger cars with the top sight seeing domes. Cool.
I grew up around the railroad, my Dad and his older brother both worked and retired from the Santa Fe where I grew up in Kansas so it was a way of life being around and on trains all the time, an experience I wouldn't trade anything for.. I worked as a freight conductor for 5 years for CSX, realizing a childhood dream and have a nephew that is an engineer as well.

"the train wins every time at the crossing".

Tim
 
Cool set up !

I've always been fascinated and dreamed of having a nice train set. But I've never seen any on the market that look to be worth the price that they cost.
 

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