N Scale train

Boy, train nuts too!!!! Wait till my wife finds out about this. I've been in the N scale for about 20 years and for some strange reason never thought to look at the military stuff for it I guess I'll have to start. Boy one more thing in the house to be camo!!!!

Well, N scale is too hard to see and too small, but the 1:1 scale has it's share of problems too! everything is HEAVY!

The stuff is scattered around, the army cars are at Eustis. I didn't win the lottery, I was just in the right place at the right time. The double decker car is scrap- I'm going to scrap it and pay for the bearing conversion. It sucks, the wheels and bearings on my cars are like new- but can't move them anymore.

Ferroequinologist said:

Well, N scale is too hard to see and too small, but the 1:1 scale has it's share of problems too! everything is HEAVY!

The stuff is scattered around, the army cars are at Eustis. I didn't win the lottery, I was just in the right place at the right time. The double decker car is scrap- I'm going to scrap it and pay for the bearing conversion. It sucks, the wheels and bearings on my cars are like new- but can't move them anymore.

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They won't touch friction bearing trucks anymore will they, not like it was 20 years ago when they would interchange anything that would roll

Ferroequinologist said:

Well, N scale is too hard to see and too small, but the 1:1 scale has it's share of problems too! everything is HEAVY!

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Yes everything is HEAVY! I never worked on any rolling stock or engines while assigned to my first unit but did work on the track. Watching the guys work on the rolling stock and engines made me glad to pound spikes

John S-B said:

If you look up some of the TM's for those type vehicles, you can find the instructions for how the vehicles should be chained and blocked for transport. With some stripwood and scale chain you could have some really nice looking cars. It wouldn't take long either.

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lol..i was cleaning out my garage this weekend, and i found my old copy of the rail tie down TM...and the Truck tie down TM i kept in my truck at all times....

N-scale is fine, especially for loooong trains on small places. I have N trains for different reasons. H0, like the lay out of Derrickl112 is also nice. However, as somebody commanded, it is to be taken to notice, that a correct scale lay out of a military compound as a tank farm can not be scaled down to H0 due to space reasons (except you have the space of two football fields).
The admireors of Lionel:Sorry, I hav e to say that Lionel was o.k. in the 40's and 50's with their level of detailing. However, for my understanding, they are too expensive for their detail level.
G-scale, a scale I use since LGB had with the trac IIm its 10th anniversary.
So I try to add some pics of my collection.
Wolf

However, I have some more, which are not the latest ones, but gives you some impression. I work on that layout since some 15 years now, beside trying to keep my truck and other stuff alife.
Wolf

And some more.

And some more. It is not the very latest, however I hope it gave you an idea of my modall railroading.
I just collect what I like regardless the scale.
Wolf

You got suckered into the hogwarts train too! Nice looking train that runs like crap.

Somehow the last post the attachment did not work.
Here is my beer train.
Wolf

Vrayag,
I do not run that train, it is just a for fun and Ilike it collection. Except IIm the trains do not run on my layout so far. May be in the future H0e will have a change.
Wolf

Ooooo, Marklin.

I had a big display like that too but had a kid and ended up just shelving it all. I went to a discount store and scored about 300 feet of bachmann snap track. So now me and my kid setup track that runs all over the house and watch the trains. I have a nice digital controller that I saved from the big layout days and that's what we run it with now.

I showed him how to run it at like 1.5 and he really liked it.

To make this MV related... i have HO deuces that ride on flat cars

Maerklin : NEVER! All my stuff is DC! Im originated in Trix, all the other brands are Rivarossi, Brava, Bremo, Tillig, LGB, Bachmann, Aristo, Kato, Tomix, Tenshodo, Arnold, Egger Bahn, Liliput, Fleischmann, Mehano; allways and ever DC! LGB is DC and always was DC! And the Sanley Steamer off course is also DC of Trix. Only the electric guiding couplers are of Maerklin junk. Hovever, necessary to get the train illuminated.
Wolf

And on the pic of the shelf, the loko on the third shelf from bottom, that is the original type that run on the "river Kwai railway" in Burma, a C56.
Wolf