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Post by firewood on Oct 24, 2021 0:33:34 GMT
I'm not sure if I'm a collector - maybe the stuff finds me. I dabbled in British O scale years ago and tried a little HO & N scale (N? Never again!), plus I have a few G scale and American Flyer S items. I returned to O when I lost my 3-rail prejudice and bought a Polar Express set for the Christmas tree. That was around 10 years ago, and I've slowly collected 3-rail semi-scale since. These days I'm probably closer to an actual layout than I've ever been, if my discovery and purchase of some Std. Ga. tinplate doesn't lead me astray Dave
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Post by robert on Oct 24, 2021 0:59:16 GMT
Years ago I modeled HO but in 2014 I started again in S scale. The command systems brought me back. Have a very large S scale layout and an O gauge ceiling layout around the rec room. Plus I have a 5x12 Christmas layout I started two years ago but never took it down. I change from Christmas trains to regular trains from Thanksgiving until February.
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Post by JDaddy on Oct 24, 2021 1:14:16 GMT
Years of HO - has to go. Selling off some American Flyer post war, But I just fell down the Standard Gauge hole and cannot get up!
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Post by firewood on Oct 24, 2021 2:50:46 GMT
Years of HO - has to go. Selling off some American Flyer post war, But I just fell down the Standard Gauge hole and cannot get up! I might be teetering on the edge of that hole, JDaddy!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 24, 2021 3:25:24 GMT
I've always enjoyed all of the scales for different reasons. My grandfather has G gauge equipment and that's pretty much what I had my start in the model train world with as we played with that stuff whenever we went over to his house (quite frequently). I got into O gauge myself only because my dads childhood set (passed down from my other grandfather, his dad) was a Postwar Lionel O gauge set, so that's what he purchased me as my first set. In the years beyond that I've purchased items in just about every common scale between Z and G, mostly as a novelty. I run them all from time to time as I don't currently have a permanent layout for any of it. I've managed to avoid standard gauge tinplate thus far, but I've recently been dabbling in the O gauge variety. Z gauge is probably my least favorite of all of them due to it's small size. It's certainly cool when someone has a successful layout utilizing it, but I simply don't have the patience. Although I've had a Bachmann G gauge shay for some time, it lives at my grandfathers house where we generally run it since he has the track and such. This past summer I purchased another G gauge model as well as an LGB starter set (mostly for the track) for here at my house. The locomotive is a custom built 1:32 scale model of the 1873 Mason built 0-6-4T "Torch Lake" that was built by a gentleman in Australia 20 years ago for its previous owner who grew up in the area that the real locomotive once ran. It's a special model to me because the real has always been a favorite of mine and it's now one of the three steam locomotives that I help maintain as one of the railroad mechanics where it operates. While O gauge is my priority, I do make some exceptions...
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Post by sdivtim on Oct 24, 2021 3:25:49 GMT
7 1/2 inch scale Live Steam.
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Post by Traindiesel! on Oct 24, 2021 3:57:28 GMT
Presently I'm selling some of my O gauge as lack of room and dabbing into g scale a bit. Wait. You’re selling your O gauge because you don’t have room so you’re moving to G scale??!!!!!
That’s absolutely outstanding!!!!!
As a child we always had post war O gauge up at Christmas. A few years we’d have HO or N scale. I loved the O scale but I wasn’t enamored with the post war fantasy stuff. As a young adult I operated N scale in my apartment. But when I bought a house with a large basement I brought out the post war stuff again and built a 8’X 18’ layout. (One of these days I convert the video to digital). But I still wasn’t satisfied with the less than detailed post war trains, so in the early 90’s I bought a few mid quality HO trains.
Once Williams, K-Line, Weaver and MTH, along with improved Lionel came to town, I was back to O gauge for good. You can’t beat the size, heft, sounds and tracking abilities of O.
I still have all the old N scale and HO trains I had, along with my Dad’s modern N scale trains he gave to me before my parents moved from Philly to Arizona. My dream is to someday have them all running on separate layouts. So that my Dad and Grandfather from heaven can see I’m still enjoying the hobby they got me started in.
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Post by rtraincollector on Oct 24, 2021 12:03:39 GMT
Presently I'm selling some of my O gauge as lack of room and dabbing into g scale a bit. Wait. You’re selling your O gauge because you don’t have room so you’re moving to G scale??!!!!!
That’s absolutely outstanding!!!!!
As a child we always had post war O gauge up at Christmas. A few years we’d have HO or N scale. I loved the O scale but I wasn’t enamored with the post war fantasy stuff. As a young adult I operated N scale in my apartment. But when I bought a house with a large basement I brought out the post war stuff again and built a 8’X 18’ layout. (One of these days I convert the video to digital). But I still wasn’t satisfied with the less than detailed post war trains, so in the early 90’s I bought a few mid quality HO trains.
Once Williams, K-Line, Weaver and MTH, along with improved Lionel came to town, I was back to O gauge for good. You can’t beat the size, heft, sounds and tracking abilities of O.
I still have all the old N scale and HO trains I had, along with my Dad’s modern N scale trains he gave to me before my parents moved from Philly to Arizona. My dream is to someday have them all running on separate layouts. So that my Dad and Grandfather from heaven can see I’m still enjoying the hobby they got me started in. After I moved ( about 2 months ago now) I figured out what good is it to have it under the train table never to be seen or used. As I had trains under there I basically forgot about having. So I'm just down sizing. And yes I'm selling more than I'm buying. I plan on having a 8' x 11' O gauge layout in the house, and not sure the size in the garage that I can't use for parking my truck as the previous owner thought it made more sense to have a aluminum carport built in front of the entrance to the garage door than use the garage for what it was built for. I have a full tub ( 27 GL) of two rail Lima O gauge trains including track, If anybody is interested in it.
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Post by joeh on Oct 24, 2021 15:13:27 GMT
I've always had a "soft spot" for American Flyer postwar S gauge. My best friend had a Flyer passenger set, and I had a Lionel freight set. I liked his better. So after doing O for 12 years, I bought a Flyer set just like his, and run it on its own small layout. I now own other Flyer link coupler PASSENGER trains. I love the whitewall drive wheels and "choo-choo" sound. My track is new S Fastrack-type 2-rail.
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Post by JDaddy on Oct 25, 2021 17:20:23 GMT
Years of HO - has to go. Selling off some American Flyer post war, But I just fell down the Standard Gauge hole and cannot get up! I might be teetering on the edge of that hole, JDaddy! Wait until I post what I found at York... you may have to come over and help me run it !!!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2021 17:32:02 GMT
In addition to my O-gauge collection (mostly pre-war, but the modern-era segment is growing), I also have a good amount of Standard Gauge. My initial layout design included both gauges, but I recently made the decision to run all O-gauge. I'll never part with my Standard Gauge trains as they were my Dad's, but given the space I have and how I plan to use it, something had to give. As a result, my Standard Gauge trains will fill the walls in my train room.
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