Evening,
Heading to Houston, Tx for 3 days. I know there are a couple of hobby shops but any of them stock 2 rail?
Thank you
Chris
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Unfortunately, no. There are some private two rail layouts, but they are few and far between.
Just came back from there mid-February. Two train stores -- no 2-rail/minimal O gauge. I'm in the process of relocating (soon as I get the right job) and the plan is to drastically thin the herd (3-rail stuff I don't use much), and build a 2-rail point-to-point inside and a 3-rail "garden train" outside.
Was at the area train show and it was virtually all H.O. and N. I was the only O scale standard gauge guy there (there was a guy doing On30). Like Bob said, there are some private 2-rail O scale layouts, but no club activity or public layouts. There's one O gauge group operating out of the Memorial Mall across from Target, but their operation is geared more toward toy train operation.
Four hours away in Dallas, there's the DFW O Scalers -- a 2-rail club. Layout is small, but the members are friendly. They do a sectional/modular setup at the meets in the DFW area.
at one time there were 3 or 4 o scale (2rail) layouts but that was back in the early 90's
I wish we had some serious 3 rail scale or 2 rail scale guys so we could do a club. I joined TCA last year, but it seems to be mostly hi railers. I did not go to any meetings though so maybe I'm wrong.
Ron
Thanks all for the replies. I just got back this afternoon. Very nice area Matt.
