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A great event for train fans and kids. Los Altos Museum has it annual Train Days this weekend. Maybe 1/4 acre of model train layouts, many different gauges in a beautiful location. One layout has miniature steam engines that burn real coal.
(Scanned Image) Another view of the Branch Terminus board immediately prior to final installation. Note attempts at labelling wires, blue and pink for point control, red and balck for track power.
This is the back corner of my N scale model train layout that my dad built for me in the basement of my grandma's house. The room used to be my aunt's studio but she got married and moved out and the room was finished but empty so I got to have my model trains there. I never did very much with them though.
I have no real idea when this is from. My guess would be somewhere around 1988. I still have all of the trains although they haven't run since then. I might even still have the track!
David Lee of Dundas, Canada spent 50 years making this elaborate model train set in his basement to 1/87th scale.
In 2017, it was moved to the McMaster University Health Sciences building at Bay St. and Main St. in downtown Hamilton.
Sadly David Lee died on January 22, 2019.
The Bracken Ridge Layout c.1980 - the first. About 16ft x 6.5ft, minimum radius for running lines 3ft. Duck under entry top left. Three levels, terminus top right on the intermediate level, hidden sidings and reversing loop bottom right low level. Intermediate station top left high level. Note single track continuous run right at bottom of layout.
My train path consists of 6 modules that are connected to a path that is 540 centimeters long and 90 centimeters wide. I do landscapes, lakes, rivers and small urban communities. At one end of the train track is a small caravan that houses two workers working on train rails.
"One day, the railway worker was surprised to meet a beer-drinking man who enjoyed his Pilsner beer behind his caravan on the hot summer days ..."
Per A. Høyer
Collector of Maerklin/Fleischmann
Dad started building this when we built the house 17 years ago, and it is one of my favorite things about our house.
David Lee of Dundas, Canada spent 50 years making this elaborate model train set in his basement to 1/87th scale.
In 2017, it was moved to the McMaster University Health Sciences building at Bay St. and Main St. in downtown Hamilton.
Sadly David Lee died on January 22, 2019.
Dave Abeles's excellent HO scale model empire, the Onondaga Cutoff (you can read all about it at onondagacutoff.blogspot.com) is truly a sight to behold- it's set in 1994 near Syracuse, NY and has all the Conrail blue anyone could ever ask for. At a recent operating session, I hung out to take pictures of the crew running the trains, which proved to be a real challenge given the low light, tight angles, and the fact that this wasn't really something I'd shot before! Still, I think I came away with some fun shots, like this one.
The complete sketch of the John Bull train in my folding album.
My Prismacolor pencils are really getting shorter! I've never used them enough before this to get them more than a tad shorter than full length.
Toy trains. Ink and colored pencil in a Moleskine Japanese Album.
a mysterious scrapbook given to me by Flickrer What Makes the Pie Shops Tick?; nearly everything in it is about model trains! I'll be posting most of it