Crazy Standard Gauge Stuff

Great Job, loved your video!!!!  Keep up the good work.

Cool stuff, thanks for posting it.

Richie

That for sharing. Love your trains and your layout.

JoeG

Looks great, your having too much fun. Enjoy that's what the hobby is all about!

SESPE - a creek and small valley in CA with a hot spring at the head.

No RR reference on a quick search.

So much of what we see is same old same old.  Nice to see the creativity and repurposing.

Thanks for the comments everyone.  It does mostly keep me out of trouble.

Moonman, thanks – the Sespe River valley in northern California is all I came up with too. Well, now there's a one-locomotive Sespe Railroad.

d

Fun and impressive, especially the Lionel Z transformers kitbashed to look like MTH 4000's

great stuff, and I love your layout.

Some fun ones.  But I want that mallet you finished the video with.  Any more information you care to share about it?

You had me at "hacked, kitbashed, and just plain silly stuff"

Looks good.

ARNO

Directly or indirectly, you have been the inspiration behind most of this normalspur stuff.    "Not your daddy's standard gauge", indeed!

sinclair, the standard gauge Challenger is made by Bob Thon of Roberts Lines trains; he will have a table in the orange hall at York next week.

Dave (steamer), thanks for your encouragement, you always have a positive comment for my videos, it keeps me coming back with more!

david

well thanks! this is the kind of stuff I like. there's plenty of ready to run stuff out there, so why not make what wasn't made, and save some junkers.

and I had to watch that video three times before I spotted the kitbashed Vs...might have to watch it again just to be sure what I saw....

Wholly Moly!!! What's NOT to love about everything in the video????  After 3 minutes and 57 seconds of that video, I was looking for the duct tape to hold the jaw shut!!

You're having TOO much fun, David!............NOT!

KD

I sure enjoyed the video! That's what trains are for!

The whole "Eggliner" concept kinda interests me, it's just such a foolish doodlebug.  I found a pair of Aristocraft Canadian Pacific end caps for observation cars for sale on eBay.  Glued them together, cut the bottom out, put in a Lionel G-gauge motor widened for SG, wired some LED lights.  It's pretty zippy.

A couple of the steam locos are Marklin Maxi all tinplate, made for G Scale, at 1/32 good smallish SG.  Motors on both were bad so they were selling at a fraction.  Both had to be rebuilt quite a bit to become standard gauge.  The lighter red one starting around 00:38 is kinda neat, it's an 0-4-4, with a mini-tender over the trailing truck, I think it's what they call a Forney locomotive, don't know that any exist in Standard Gauge Tinplate. (not to be confused with standard gauge trains made by Red Forney).

david

beautiful layout ,wonderful job

I suppose he doesn't have a website or email, does he?  I live out west, so getting to York isn't something I can do (Nor am I a member.).  He certainly does a fine job, it's lovely to behold.

Fun! I enjoyed watching the variety.

How did you regauge those Bing cars in the first train? Did they came STDG?

A couple of them came with original Bing standard gauge trucks.  The others were Gauge 1. As you probably know, the trucks are not riveted on the car, there is a threaded stud with a small nut - so they are easy to change without altering the original.  I put on Ives standard gauge trucks, which are the closest match to Bing, and of course saved the original trucks so they can be put back on one day. Unlike some of the other bashes, these are not a permanent modification.  

I really enjoyed watching your video. Thanks for sharing,

Bob

Thanks for the response about the Bing cars. I thought I spotted original trucks, but didn't know Bing made STDG ones. The Ives trucks are a good match and I plan on swapping some under a couple Marklin cars I have so I can run them.

Sir - You have some of the coolest Trains I have ever seen! Digging that Egg-Liner! Thanks for posting them. Ken

that is fun!

Super..I loved it..What motors do you use????

thanks for all the appreciative posts, it makes posting these things fun.

Gene, I use a variety of motors, some modified O Gauge, some modified G Scale.  This thread talks about the G scale modified motors a little more.  

And then there was this thread, which gets even more into motor possibilities.

david

Now that was FUN! You did an outstanding job all around. It was great to see a layout with standard gauge toy trains. I will watch your video more then once I can assure you of that. Thanks for sharing your great layout, it made me smile more than once!