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Author Topic: Model Railroaders, anyone ? Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-25-2003 10:12 AM                        If so, and if in Europe - don't miss [URL=www.miniatur-wunderland.de][/URL], which I stumbled into during intermission in an digital projection demo last autumn, and just revisited last week. -It is now 1.600 square meters of HO gauge digitally controlled adventureland (situated in Hamburg), including cars driving around the landscape, fire breaking out and beeing put out by upcoming firedept. and a world of details, incl. one pair of lovemaking youngsters in a wood ! Never seen anything like it ! P.  |  IP: Logged Greg Mueller Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1687 From: Port Gamble, WA Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2003 10:37 AM                        When I was 10 I was introduced to a pile of "Model Railroader Magazines". I got the bug then and spent hour upon hour drawing and designing model railroad layouts. I got a small set for Christmas that year and wanted to go on with the hobby but could never get my stepfather motivated. Now they have digital eh? I might have to look into that hobby again  |  IP: Logged Gerard S. Cohen Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 975 From: Forest Hills, NY, USA Registered: Sep 2001 posted 12-25-2003 11:33 AM                     Today's NYTimes [12/25/03, Circuits section] has an illustrated article on digital model railroading, explaining how the digital remote controls enable the running of multiple trains on the same track (up to 32, with one controller), and comparing it to analog systems, which require separations of circuits, voltages and currents. The online edition article, "Stoke the Nostalgia, and the Old Rails Keep Humming", is a brief history of model railroading, not especially rewarding, but you have to access it to get to the illustrations and diagrams by clicking on the small box in the right-hand margin entitled "A Different Kind of Local Area Network." This shows well on my computer, but cannot be copied nor accessed directly. http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/25/technology/circuits/25howw.html  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2003 12:09 PM                     Used to have an HO railway that covered a good deal of my parents basement. Later got interested in live steam and old hit and miss gas engines. I live just a few miles from this live steam club.... http://www.sssrr.8m.com/park/index.html Am in the ssssllllooooowwwww process of building a 71/2" Shay live steam engine. Have accumulated enough of the castings and metal stock to start machining the frames right after the first of the year. Merry Chriistmas to all! Mark  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-25-2003 05:55 PM                     Hey Mark-- I am also interested in live steam (7 1/2" scale) Just never had enough $$$ to get into it "full blast". Maybe someday soon, though! FJN  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2003 09:10 PM                        At my day job we always set up a large layout of O gauge Lionel trains. It grows every year...started in the 1980s at 4x8 feet, and this year it's 36 feet wide and 7 feet deep. We add at least a half dozen pieces to it every year. My wife collects the "North Pole Series" from Department 56 so we have a "North Pole" at one end. It's a lot of fun.  |  IP: Logged Mark Gulbrandsen Resident Trollmaster Posts: 16657 From: Music City Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2003 09:26 PM                     Floyd, Most live steam engines can be built a section at a time at quite reasonable expense. The only costly thing is the boiler...which has to be certified yearly in most states. When you are done you posess a very valualable engine which would certainly give a HUGE return vs. cost to build. I figure it'll take me at least three years of of what little spare time I have to build it. The Shay is also a much less expensive engine to build than say a 4-6-2 or thereabouts. It is also a bit more practical to move around. Here is the link..... http://www.shaylocomotive.com/default.php Mark  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-25-2003 10:26 PM                     Mark, You should meet my neighbor: He's got a track that goes all around his yard & has a grand old time giving rides to the neighborhood kids. Bob's been a train man, probably since before there was coal. J.K. He used to work at Erie Stoker, making coal stokers for steam boilers. He tells me about this place called Train Mountain. He wants to take his rig out there before... well, before TOO long. Transportation from Pennsylvania to Oregon with a rig like that is a big issue. Pretty soon, this locomotive is going to need a good home. I'd like to see it find a home with somebody who would appreciate it.  |  IP: Logged Floyd Justin Newton Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 559 From: Phoenix, Arizona, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 12-26-2003 08:31 AM                     Mark-- Thanks for the return message. I REALLY dig 'steam engine' info... both traction and stationary. Just MAYBE some day I'll have my own RR and you and I can introduce our engines on the same track! fjn  |  IP: Logged Steve Kraus Film God Posts: 4094 From: Chicago, IL, USA Registered: May 2000 posted 12-26-2003 09:23 AM                    Randy didn't mention it but his locale of Erie, PA is the home of General Electric Transportation Systems, the major USA builder of diesel locomotives since GM shifted final assembly for its Electro Motive Division from outside Chicago to London, ON. The LaGrange, IL (mailing address; it's actually in McCook.) plant still builds the diesel engines, the alternators, traction motors, and assembles the electrical cabinets. Body components were being trucked from Super Steel Milwaukee but I haven't seen them on the highway for awhile so don't know if that is still true. I haven't been a modeler since I was a kid (although a nearbye shelf holds HO F7A & F7B models I picked up at a hamfest) but I am very much a train buff in terms of reading, watching, photography etc. I continue to build my collection of TRAINS magazines which is pretty much solid from '53 forward; filling in the 1940's and early 50's now.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-26-2003 01:47 PM                        I should have known - Never tell americans, You're impressed by something - they've allways got something bigger ! But IS bigger better ?? Well, -I'll stay with the HO - 16,5mm gauge - and the 2m (Lehmann) on stage at christmas time sometimes (not this year - just a giant Baloo with a red hat) The size 2m was by the way quite impressive as extras in the London Theatre (donøt remember the name) doing the "Starlight Express. -Those little train were all over the auditorium - under the ceiling - at the edge of the balconys.... Small is beautiful, a friendly journalist once wrote, writing about the CinemaxX 8-plex compared with my little flea circus. Nice paper ! p.  |  IP: Logged Aaron Sisemore Flaming Ribs beat Reeses Peanut Butter Cups any day! Posts: 3061 From: Rockwall TX USA Registered: Sep 1999 posted 12-26-2003 02:39 PM                     quote: He tells me about this place called Train Mountain. We have a similar place near here called Train Town , which always reminds me of a Lionel train on major steroids... Everyone seems to enjoy the place though. -Aaron  |  IP: Logged Thomas Hauerslev Master Film Handler Posts: 451 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Registered: Aug 2000 posted 12-26-2003 04:32 PM                        Per, don´t miss this GM-EMD diesel extravaganza event next August in Odense: Dieseldage (14. - 15. august 2004): Kørsel med og udstilling af bl.a. GM-diesellokomotiver fra Danmark og udlandet. Træf for minitog. Veterantog på flere strækninger. Salgsboder og udstilling. Tider og priser oplyses senere. Yes, I´m hooked too, on Märklin H0 and 1:1 GM diesels. Got my own side door from Danish Class My 1117.  |  IP: Logged Per Hauberg Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 883 From: Malling, Denmark Registered: Jul 2000 posted 12-26-2003 06:24 PM                        Yeah - and a speciel device for sanding...!  |  IP: Logged Randy Stankey Film God Posts: 6539 From: Erie, Pennsylvania Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-26-2003 07:32 PM                     quote: Steve Kraus: Randy didn't mention it but his locale of Erie, PA is the home of General Electric Transportation Systems... Steve, you really seem to know your shit! Yes, G.E.T.S. is just on the other side of town. I know somebody who knows somebody... If you're ever in town, I could probably make a few calls and see what happens. Maybe we could get a tour. I have on a couple occasions.  |  IP: Logged

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