Boring Loops

900 pounds! Sounds like a very thick slate deck. How thick?

Funny about the title. so far what I have seen are not boring. What I do see is a lot of creativity using small spaces. I guess I am just an overgrown kid that likes trains.

HEY MATT,

My table has three Slates.  I believe that each one weighs 200 to 250 pounds; I can't remember. 

Anyway, I now wish that I had selected a standard 8'x4' table instead of the Tournamant size; it would have given me more clearance for the layout. 

Cheers,

Rip Track       "Eddie...you owe me MONEY!"

HEY SUZUKOVICH,

No...we're not overgrown kids.  We're fully-grown men who like scale-model trains!

Kids don't know nearly as much as we know...they have limitations.  We don't!

So "overgrown kids" is not what we are, my friends!

RIP TRACK HAL

Yikes. Sound like that could 3-4.5" of slate under the felt. When I was growing up, half the homes on the block had pool tables. They'd grab six to eight of the boys on the block to help move and level a table. Real fun because everyone was in love with slate. The lightest table was one neighbor's that was a 7-foot which took six of us to bring in and set up when he bought it. Needless to say, all of the kids could play pool. Since we had more spare time to practice, the dads didn't stand a chance.

As for the trains, did you say the mountainous boulders were sprinkler valve covers? I was looking for some and couldn't seem to find any.

HEY MATT:

I have ten of those sprinkler "Valve Covers", and I bought them all at Home Depot, who had them in various sizes and in two colors: Sandstone and Granite. 

Look in the plumbing department.

Rip Track

Matt

You can also find them at landscape and garden supply. Look around there are some really good ones.

Clem 

HEY HAL

Lets see, I played Army for more than 25yrs. due to injuries I was told my days of jumping out of airplanes was over, Was not allowed to carry 130lbs rucks, Told to walk not run, and was no longer deployable, and my hearing was shot. So much for having fun. Time to grow up. Dropped my retirement papers, had a couple of surgeries performed with 5 more to go. Started to look for a real Job within my limitations, So yeah May of 2013 I had to grow up. Bottom line is  when it come to trains, I am an overgrown kid with knowledge.   Look at you, your still ridding a minibike at you age.

Mr. Suzukovich:

I had no idea that you went through such unfortunate experiences.  I was in the Army too, from 1960 to 1962, US and S. Korea, Signal Corps.

Were you an Officer or EM?

I sold that Whizzer motorbike 4 years ago, and now I'm too old (age 78) for 2 wheels anymore.

Rip Track

Now back to the thread.

That Whizzer was only 2 years old when I bought it in 2007.   It was only 5 years old in the photo.

The first generation Whizzers were built in 1948, and sold for $200, bike and motor.

Rip Track  [Bored out the cylinder for more power.]