Is no place sacred she asks ...

All it needs is a Scottissue box car to make it "fit in".

Only one thing to make it more complete would be for the train to take out the trash as well!

And if you picked a smaller scale you could propose this little number... It will make you definitely put the seat back down...

And of course if you are into prototype you could model a string of these puppies passing through the bathroom for a laugh...

I can see this thread losing all control...................

Anybody remember the great NMRA Bulletin biffy controversy? I think the late Whit Towers managed to get a structural drawing of every railroad outhouse in America into the pages.

With a RailScope set-up you might be able to break a few privacy laws...

Jon

LOL Jon I do HAVE the K-Line camera car ... ok I am definitely gonna need that insulated doghouse suggested earlier

Ah yes the Biffy debacle!

Whitt Towers was a great model railroader. I think I have quite a few of his articles saved in the catacombs...

Didn't Varney Manufacturing use his layout in Model railroad to show their new products?

I am still laughing..."I didn't see what the big deal was. It is only a branch line"

I guess a whole train of latrine cars can't be far behind?

http://www.pbase.com/grainelev/image/103606034

My layout is in a small bedroom on the opposite end from the master bedroom. There's another bedroom the same size we use as a guest-computer room and there's a bathroom between them.

Other than my wife killing me outright, the main thing preventing me from even thinking of something like this is that the only place I'd be able to go through the bathroom to connect the rooms is that the route would take the trains through a shower stall.

Best stinking idea I have seen on the Forum.

Found one like this on a club layout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DanRecU9msI

LOL! Careful when you run your K-line Camera car! or railscope

the only place I'd be able to go through the bathroom to connect the rooms is that the route would take the trains through a shower stall. 

well even 765 gets caught in a shower once in a while.....

In that case you may want to go outside the house and then back in....

Yeah, but 765 doesn't short out and have it's motor ruined from the water on the rails and condensation from passing through.

I am curious how common that is to have trains passing through a bathroom into another room for the layout to continue?

If I had a layout that did this, I'd have to make custom decals for boxcars with the RR name and in script underneath, saying something like, "The Crapper Line"

That's cool!  The branch line would be perfect for setting out your…ummm… dump cars.

Maybe a clear Lexan tunnel through the Shower? Mine runs in the wall behind the shower but through the shower is a thought Hmmmmmmm lol

I recall seeing Varney ads online showing John Allen's G&D, so Mr. Towers was no doubt involved too.

Well here it is, the "Great Biffys of Model Railroading History" page.

http://www.wrightfield.com/old...oosenet/RAILS/Biffy/

While making plans for my basement loop, I considered going through the bathroom in the corner of the basement footprint (just a sink+toilet, no shower). The track would have been 60" off the floor in order to clear an upright freezer and this would have eliminated a reverse curve over the washing machine and adjacent sink. But two things stood in the way:

1: the need for an 072/081 curve would have introduced an un-workable amount of overhang directly over the toilet, and

2: the medicine cabinet is right up against the opposite/exterior wall, leaving no way to squeeze through the framing.

---PCJ

Thanks for posting.I have to show my Mom the video to show her that there are model railroad fanatics even more extreme than my Dad was.

Dan

That Train Is Flagged...lol

Thanks for Posting!!

K.C.

Let's see now, we've had marte's crappy basement layout thread, we've had a crappy bedroom layout thread, so I guess it was inevitable to have a...   Oh, never mind

- walt

Definitely a location in which the Lionel crew talk dialog "we're good to go!" would be apropos.

Curt

Lol Curt now that would be a hoot!! 

Rick, before you show your wife may be a good idea to put the seat down.

Jack 

The only thing that could top that one is to have a passenger train pause with little flashbulbs going off in some of the cars.

lol Matt that would be fun wonder if there is a circuit like that for passenger cars lol

My wife says "that man is not married, and if he is, he's lost his mind".

i guess that means it's out of the question here. I'll just have to work on that beer delivery train idea...

Steamer,

Here's the acrylic tubing for your pass through in the shower stall

6"OD x 5 3/4"ID only $12 a foot. Kind of like the walk throughs at the aquarium.

If  you pulled some of these stunts on the Little Woman you would be pulling your precious engine out of the toilet bowl !!  The bath room is one of the most sacred places for a woman and few would tolerate a man desecrating it with a toy train running through it especially blowin the whistle or tooting the horn. Your loss rate would be very high !!

LOL…Jim M Sr

I showed the Video to my Wife and she wanted to know if the Thread Starter was related to R.U. Gross….

Then she started mumbling something about picking the seat up……

I’ve always liked the thought of  a run thru the kitchen. You could haul Salt and Pepper, and a few Condiments.

Thank you rgross…. For posting!!!

K.C.

You'll have to add an excursion car to any trains passing through.

Oh man I think that will work lol!!!

After seeing this video,I guess a train going through the bathroom isn't all that extreme.

Dan