Ceiling Trains

Ben
Here are some pictures of club members layout he has a ceiling track but it might be hard to see in these pictures.

I like it!

Check out Ben's YouTube page... Very cool!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEgx2R_vOeQ

And these are some of the most unique hangers i've seen, yet...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt367afSbwg

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Here's my son's layout in his room.
















Scott Smith

Scott,

Sharp looking !!

Doug

Cool layout Scott, he must love that!

It was posted here on this forum years ago, about a boy who's dad put a train around the top of the walls in his bedroom. After many months of constant operation, the train derailed. The flanges of the outside wheels were as sharp as razor blades, caused by the many hours of running round and round.

Probably not cool...maybe interesting...but, my operation is 6 feet 2" above the floor of my 3-car garage. Here's a link.

Garage Ceiling Layout

Scott, your son's layout looks cool...love that Texas Special.

Ben these pictures will show a 2 loop 3 rail system mounted about 8" below the ceiling. It has DCS so that it can be operated from the floor.

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Originally posted by SD60M:
Probably not cool...maybe interesting...but, my operation is 6 feet 2" above the floor of my 3-car garage. Here's a link.

Garage Ceiling Layout

Very nice. That ride along was awesome!

I know this thread is a few years old and i have some O scale ceilingtrains. Not trying to sell my product here just want to share. My whole ceilingtrain company is in mothballs as i lost intrest in it. But anyways here are some pics and i have lots of them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM-stinaKWE&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

..Bob

The first overhead railroad I ever saw was in a little restaurant in Salisbury, Missouri

about 1965.  I think it was LGB?  I remember it because I was there to pick up and

drive home a vintage pickup several years older than I was at about 45 mph on two

lane state highways until forced to cross the Mississippi at St. Louis.  I made it home

 to northern Kentucky and woke up to find one tire went flat during the night.  I remember the European style engine and short coaches  circling overhead as we ate breakfast...a novelty at the time.  Seen that a lot since then.

Here is a link from the photos topic area to our on-going kitchen project.

 

https://ogrforum.com/t...o-gauge-first-layout

This is the third home we've had a ceiling level layout in.  My Wife and I both enjoy its location and what it adds to the room.

Rick

A June post from this year: Glass Shelf Layout

 

 

Bob,

 

That's an impressive looking system!  Certainly one of the more professional-looking, cleanly designed commercial products that I've seen.

 

Rick,

 

Very impressive craftsmanship!  I saved all of your pictures for future reference.  My wife loves the look of yur kitchen layout as well... I think we're installing one much like yours when we settle into our "forever" home.

 

 

Here's a look at the ceiling layout that we built in our old house (in Colorado) in our daughter's room.  It's a plain white design with O-42 curves - except for the bridge, which is O-72. 

 

 

 

...and there are a few pics below showing how we eventually decorated the corners.

 

The layout in the video below was the original inspiration for the design of our ceiling layout (a few years ago we stumbled across this video on YouTube).  We attempted to re-create several elements of the design, including the shelf brackets and the "valence" over the window:

 

 

 

-Dustin

 

 

Old photos of 1992 twin shelf, 5-track, 14x32 operation in the kitchen at our mountain cottage. Dismantled in Feb. 2008.

There are actually 2 loops, up top!,  The Comet is on the O54, and the O72 is behind.

Dustin,  with his curved Trestle,  got me started with Bridgeboss James Robinson),

  and that is where the (2), Girders came from

John:  I do like your NO NET, very nice high up approach, also, 

I am working on that this fall with my plans for a viaduct, style, about 2 feet below the current ceiling run.  So far no derailments !

        

Check this out....beautifully done with crown moulding.  May have to advance the video to get past his.....uhh......singing.   Love his enthusiasm.

 

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Y...&feature=related

Rick

Absolutely love the closet tunnel!!   Perfect!   Very well done.

 

i have a ceiling layout in my office but have never gotten around to posting pics here.  I plan to....

Well, I have bought all the track I need to do one in my bedroom (Wife approved even!) so hopefully in the next year I should have it done.

Good afternoon.  

On the Ceiling train we can offer a different look.   The EL system can be suspended without L Supports from the wall and can be suspened from ceiling directly.  

 

It can have a finished look under neath or the open look we show in the video. Vari-

ous diameters are available from 31" Min. thru and beyond 100"

 

the 6 by 3 area shown is a cost of $297 without the trestles

 

We are available and  you can punch our web  link on the forum bottom row, or email me directly  at the bottom of the post.  the sysytem will take 2 trains at 31$ diameter as you can see

 

 

Mine may not be so cool, but here is the High Line in Butler, Pennsylvania including the unfinished Bridge to Nowhere!!