First of all allow me to extend a warm holiday greeting to everyone. I sincerely hope you all are enjoying a blessed time of the year. This is a special time of the year for me as I have brought out of moth balls the Lionel 2055 train set I was given for Christmas when I was 7 years old in 1953.
I have restored the engine and have traded my old worn-out tender for a rebuilt one and have the train running on a small layout on my dining room table. Here's my dilema...
My wife is giving me an L & N train for Christmas (O Guage) and I would like to be able to run the trains in an extra (small) bedroom, but I don't think I want anything perminent or fancy.
Would any of you have suggestions as to what trackage I should use, especially if I wanted just to run the trains on the carpeted floor. I understand some of the newer solid-backed tracks are capable of handling this.
Sure would like any and all advice. Thanks...
Posted by Russ Bellinis (Member # 2377) on :
Get the track manufactured by Mike's Train House or MTH. It has built in roadbed that will keep the track up off the rug to help reduce the possibility of lint getting in the works. It is also made solid nickel silver rail instead of folded tin, and if memory serves it uses rail joiners that are more like what is used in ho scale than the pins in Lionel track. In addition the ties look more prototypical, and the third rail is blackened to hide it.
Posted by Darkside (Member # 2930) on :
Hey thanks, Russ. I looked at some of that track at my local hobby shop the other day. I go back and forth with whether or not to build a small layout or apply this on-the-carpet solution. I also would like to build a small S gauge layout so I'm struggling with a bunch of "stuff".
Posted by Ira Slotkin (Member # 81) on :
Hery Darkside:
I received mine American Flyer for Chanukah in 1954 when I was 4. I have it around still after getting it 'out of the mothballs'...
I recommend laying your set up out on the rug for a while, and/or for a few play sessions. It helped(s) me get some three dimensional experience in how I want to set uo the equipment permanently. I have a small HO and "n" layouts too. The HO is now tacked to a 4x8 board after I experimented with various shapes and sidings and, well - just played with it and got a sense of what I liked and wanted.) You can always make it permanent to a board after that.
My son - recently turned 6 - and I love to go to garage sales and find train setrs of various gauges. We have a lot of HO and American Flyer and "N" stuff now so we do a lot of mixing of scales too before we decide to add to the permanent set ups.
Ira
Posted by gary krieg (Member # 2958) on :
you can also put your train on a plywood base and hinge the base on the wall.when you want to play with it --- unhook it from the wall and play.when ur done push it back up on the wall and secure. the legs can be hinged also . oh yea----don't forget to take the train off when your done .
Posted by gary krieg (Member # 2958) on :
you can also put your train on a plywood base and hinge the base on the wall.when you want to play with it --- unhook it from the wall and play.when ur done push it back up on the wall and secure. the legs can be hinged also . oh yea----don't forget to take the train off when your done .