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Author Topic: Model Railroaders, anyone ? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 12-27-2003 04:47 AM                     My Dad has an HO setup. He doesn't use the pre-assembled track, but lays each tie down by hand. It's something like 40x30 feet big. Been working on it in his spare time for years. Even things like this tressle (below) is built one piece at a time.  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-27-2003 08:46 AM                     Brad-- Tell your dad that's a GREAT looking pike there. fjn  |  IP: Logged William T. Parr Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 823 From: Cedar Park, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-27-2003 10:48 AM                     I have an extensive collection of HO scale trains. I model primarily the Mopac and SP systems in the Central/South Texas region during the Mid 70's era. Do not have a current layout up, but do have plenty of Locomotives and rolling stock for the roads and era modeling. One thing I do miss from the Model Railroading scene is the N&G railways SP Lower Qudrant Semaphore Signals. Where is Paul Lubliner these days? We need to talk him into reproducing these nice models. Brad I never knew your grew up around a model railroad. You Dad's layout looks Fantastic. Does he belong to the NMRA? and has he started working towards his MMR certificate?  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-27-2003 01:08 PM                     Hey Brad, Thats really cool! Has your dad tried out FilmGuard out on that layout yet? And is there a Film-Guard tank car? Mark  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-27-2003 04:05 PM                       Yeah, that's one of those like you see on the covers of the magazines! Great work.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 12-27-2003 06:29 PM                  Brad! Unbelievable dude! That is most awesome and KEWL! I NEVER would have guessed you had such a hip background from looking at your picture and knowing you! Tell yur dad he rules!!! ...and ask him WTF happened to you! Are you ***sure*** you are a "blood" relation? >>> Phil  |  IP: Logged Richard Fowler Film God Posts: 2392 From: Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA Registered: Jun 2001 posted 12-27-2003 07:13 PM                     I did a cinema in a small southern Georgia town for a Jeweler by the name of Thompson in the late 1970's. He had built a new house on his property and converted his old home into a "train house" with cities, towns, countryside running through all the rooms of the house. He had three different lines operating at once...the cinema was his new "toy" which he ran for many years. Didn't Disney and some of his staff have backyard train outfits? I have HO cars of a company I worked for as a teenager in my office.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-27-2003 07:15 PM                        Bravo to Old Man Miller ! -Looks really great. Per  |  IP: Logged Tim Reed Better Projection Pays Posts: 5246 From: Northampton, PA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-27-2003 07:38 PM                       Richard, Ward Kimball was an avid live steamer.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-27-2003 11:14 PM                     It was Ward Kimball who inspired Disney to construct the Steam Trains that run at Disneyland. If I'm not mistaken he also supervised the construction of them as well. Mark  |  IP: Logged Jeff Stricker Master Film Handler Posts: 481 From: Calumet, Mi USA Registered: Nov 1999 posted 12-28-2003 09:16 AM                     I have some G guage stuff. Noting fancy. Mostly LGB from Germany. That stuff is super reliable and will just go and go. The track is 45 mm wide.  |  IP: Logged Gordon Bachlund Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 696 From: Monrovia, CA, USA Registered: Aug 1999 posted 12-28-2003 04:53 PM                        Mark, Ward Kimball's Mogul and coach from the Eureka & Palisade were donated to the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Perris, CA. Ward also kindly donated Disney stock shares which paid for a barn and turntable to be constructed there. OERM is well worth a visit. In 1984, a comedy titled "Chattanooga Choo Choo" was filmed at Ward's estate in San Gabriel, and featured his 0-4-0T "Chloe" and one of his open bench cars patterned after the Disneyland horse cars. The closing scenes were filmed at the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento. CSRM is also well worth a visit. When you're down my way, let's talk live steam. I am rebuilding a 1.5" scale Mogul. "A fool and his money....."  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-29-2003 10:26 AM                     Every year for the holidays, we set up a G gauge train by the Christmas tree. What the layout lacks in realisim, we DO actually have a passenger. Our guinea pig, Sparky has logged quite some time in his personal gondola car. He's gonna be very disappointed when we have to put it away in a month.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-29-2003 10:40 AM                     Hillary, If only he was a paying passenger..... think of all the fares that could be collected...... Thats just way too cool Mark  |  IP: Logged Hillary Charles Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 748 From: York, PA, USA Registered: Feb 2001 posted 12-29-2003 11:58 AM                     Thanks Mark, From time to time, Sparky will indeed leave something in the car, but it's not really negotiable... Happy New Year! Hillary  |  IP: Logged

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