Few pictures of my Train shelves .

Jagrick posted:

My rotating shelves

Jagrick, could you tell me a bit more about that vertical merry go round you have there? Very cool looking.

Paul

harmonyards posted:

I happily dust mine every Saturday morning....very early...with a fresh cup of coffee.....very therapeutic..

I was going to suggest a cute French maid but....

Jagrick posted:

My rotating shelves

These are cool. Old dealer displays?

These are reproductions of the D-187 dealer display "Ferris Wheel". A POP for Lionel train cars. They rotate by hand and display 12 cars each. I reproduce these myself in their entirety as well as other dealer displays as well. Every once in a while I make some of these to sell, but only if some one commits because they are labor intensive to make (takes about 10-12 man hours to form and assemble). But they are spot on down to the fonts on the header board. Really kind of neat to turn, but I did start putting an elastic strap around the cars to hold them to the track better---a problem with original ones as many were thrown away because of kids coming in and spinning the ferris wheel and the cars falling off!!--**** kids

This is reproduction of a prewar display, all graphics are copied from original but all true to original font and construction (I also like old cars!)

Jagrick, would you email me (email in profile). Thank you

Love Brian's shelves also. Wish I had that much room. 

wow, very nice collection, love all your steam engines !!  and passenger trains,

passenger trains are my favorite....

Railrunnin posted:

Jagrick, would you email me (email in profile). Thank you

email sent. Jagrick

hhtrains posted:

harmonyards posted:

I hope Ya'll don't mind me butting in on your thread....but I couldn't resist!....after being packed away for almost 20 years....I finally got my new train room....built this spring....im still pinching myself!

How did you mount the shelves to the wall?

small L brackets mounted on the inside of the shelves so the trains themselves hide the bracket....

The old house just before packing everything up for the move.

Jagrick posted:

These are reproductions of the D-187 dealer display "Ferris Wheel". A POP for Lionel train cars. They rotate by hand and display 12 cars each. I reproduce these myself in their entirety as well as other dealer displays as well. Every once in a while I make some of these to sell, but only if some one commits because they are labor intensive to make (takes about 10-12 man hours to form and assemble). But they are spot on down to the fonts on the header board. Really kind of neat to turn, but I did start putting an elastic strap around the cars to hold them to the track better---a problem with original ones as many were thrown away because of kids coming in and spinning the ferris wheel and the cars falling off!!--**** kids

Beautiful job of reproducing them! 

Are you limited in the length of the "shelf" and the weight on each shelf? In other words, if someone wanted to display locomotives that way, would that be too much weight to handle/spin? 

Tom 

In addition to the mostly postwar collection in the train room, these are the locomotives we run on the water Level Route....these locos are either awaiting re-paint, re-numbered or servicing....they will all be on the layout once the Harmon round house and ready tracks are finished.

MNCW posted:

Jagrick posted:

These are reproductions of the D-187 dealer display "Ferris Wheel". A POP for Lionel train cars. They rotate by hand and display 12 cars each. I reproduce these myself in their entirety as well as other dealer displays as well. Every once in a while I make some of these to sell, but only if some one commits because they are labor intensive to make (takes about 10-12 man hours to form and assemble). But they are spot on down to the fonts on the header board. Really kind of neat to turn, but I did start putting an elastic strap around the cars to hold them to the track better---a problem with original ones as many were thrown away because of kids coming in and spinning the ferris wheel and the cars falling off!!--**** kids

Beautiful job of reproducing them! 

Are you limited in the length of the "shelf" and the weight on each shelf? In other words, if someone wanted to display locomotives that way, would that be too much weight to handle/spin? 

MNCW posted:

Jagrick posted:

These are reproductions of the D-187 dealer display "Ferris Wheel". A POP for Lionel train cars. They rotate by hand and display 12 cars each. I reproduce these myself in their entirety as well as other dealer displays as well. Every once in a while I make some of these to sell, but only if some one commits because they are labor intensive to make (takes about 10-12 man hours to form and assemble). But they are spot on down to the fonts on the header board. Really kind of neat to turn, but I did start putting an elastic strap around the cars to hold them to the track better---a problem with original ones as many were thrown away because of kids coming in and spinning the ferris wheel and the cars falling off!!--**** kids

Beautiful job of reproducing them! 

Are you limited in the length of the "shelf" and the weight on each shelf? In other words, if someone wanted to display locomotives that way, would that be too much weight to handle/spin? 

Tom 

Weight would be a big factor here as they are free wheeling and balance is a factor. Also the track is the weak point in supporting the item. I tried with small motorized units and the biggest issue was that the locomotives are so top heavy they make the hanging track more unstable.  

Tom w

Okay my train shelves are dedicated to prewar primarily, but I like the postwar dealer stuff

All shelves are behind glass; So with photos the content can not be seen properly, but it keeps the dust out!

Regards

Fred

Jagrick posted:

JAGRICK, Looks like you are another fan of the prewar switchers. Excellent. 

Tom 

shelves and such.....

Thanks to everyone, that has posted pictures of your trains. I enjoyed looking at all of them.

The other side of the coin. My shelves...    Pathetic  

You guys are reminding me yet again, just how much I need to start doing some shelving of my own!

On an unrelated note, I was glad to see some Marx mixed in with the scale equipment.  Over the past year or so, I've developed an interest in Marx trains, from the Thirties right through the early Sixties.

TedW posted:

The other side of the coin. My shelves...    Pathetic  

 

not at all! gotta start somewhere.

Wow, I just reviewed this thread from the beginning and all I can say is WOW. There are some really wonderful collections, enough to open a fully functional train museum, possibly a hobby shop....My shelves were salvaged from a friends dumpster that built my kitchen cabinets. I just made them from their scraps. My wife and I just picked this lumber from the dumpster...It's Christmas Everyday...

Happy Railroading....

briansilvermustang posted:

that's a big ole' roster of NS stallions

We just moved and I negotiated about 250 linear feet of wall shelving I will need to almost display my collection. Before we moved, I figured I had enough trains to cover 375 linear feet of shelving. This is 1 of 4 shelving units from the prior house. Going to start building new shelving from 1x3x8 foot boards. I will need many!

200 sets, 11 pure fantasy. Lionel didn't make what I wanted so I made them myself.  See if you can find them. Warning, to confuse you I insert extra cars into real sets to get them out of the boxes. I always thought Lionel sets were too short.

Lots of  "R's", restored, repainted and reproduced. Designed and had an aluminum window factory make the shelves.  5" separation except top shelf which is 6", needed for prewar "O" gauge crane car. Top shelf 10" wide for Standard gauge.

International

Russian set on top shelf.

Only IVES set at top.

Southern set found at York in 1972, 25 bucks.

Disney stuff high so kids can't steal them.

Third from bottom my 1st set, 1938.

Found at York in the 70's.

Two fantasy 1946 703 sets shown. Madison set is the famous Wanamaker's April Fool's train.

Black GG1 has to be the best repaint ever. Perfect with hot stamped logos.

They all have story's. No room to tell them all.

Bill,

I thought the list of photos would never end!  Wow, what a great collection; and nicely displayed!!

Mark Boyce posted:

Bill,

I thought the list of photos would never end!  Wow, what a great collection; and nicely displayed!!

Great collection!

Hope it's insured well.

zhyachts posted:

200 sets, 11 pure fantasy. Lionel didn't make what I wanted so I made them myself.  See if you can find them. Warning, to confuse you I insert extra cars into real sets to get them out of the boxes. I always thought Lionel sets were too short.

Lots of  "R's", restored, repainted and reproduced. Designed and had an aluminum window factory make the shelves.  5" separation except top shelf which is 6", needed for prewar "O" gauge crane car. Top shelf 10" wide for Standard gauge.

They all have story's. No room to tell them all.

Hmmmm, we may just have a winner.   So many I can't tell if there are duplicates or not!    Great collection. 

TheDude23112 posted:

Hope it's insured well.

Kinda wish I had mine insured  top shelf was knocked down when a clothes hanger bar fell that was in between the top two shelves. The rod pushed up on the top shelf when t he other end fell, throwing the contents. Not too bad though.