Just another brick in the wall...

Mario, if the wife hates it all the stack up the wall to me is like waving a red flag at a bull.

If you are doing the stacking so that you can pick and choose what to run then maybe consider shorter stacks grouping  by like items.

Maybe that way they don' have to seem like so many trains.

Also some could go under the layout table to be out of view. Wonder how many you will be able to get to fit in the dog house you are heased to

Looks kind of tacky with and doesn't really fit the rest of the room imo.  I would come up with a display system before doing something like that.

Who is 'your friend' mentioned above? Any chance that your wife may not hate the trains themselves?

Waiting for the worms to come.....

 

Looks good!

 

Gandy

Happy wife, happy life. I've got mine involved with the hobby.  She gets to be city planner, and I get all the real estate I need.  Start building, involve the kids and the wife and before you know, you'll be tearing down the wall to open those boxes. 

As much as my wife tolerates my trains, and she's pretty good about even bought me one this past Christmas, the unwritten, unspoken rule is they do not become decorative items or get stored anywhere in the house, they stay in the train room or garage. The only time they are on display in the home is during Christmas and even then they are not allowed total free run of the place.

Now covering the wall with the trains in their boxes does look really tacky even if it is a train room, get some decent shelving for display.

 

Jerry

 

do you play music from the Who in the background in the train room?

 

She's the regional sales manager for the territory I'm the Tech Service Engineer for... and almost 20 years my senior!  No worries about that!

 

Nice that you think that I have that kind of magnetism!  Thanks for the vote of confidence.

 

We'll see how it looks when I have the other 60-or-so cars to choose from, mostly in orange boxes...

 

-Mario

Obscure Pink Floyd reference?

Post corrected.  Thanks!

Wouldn't want to do that out here in earthquake country.

Ditch the boxes and make some shelves, display them places other than the bedroom!

 

 

 

 

Ditto. I made a serious mistake buying a couple of Glenn Snyder shelves at York a couple of years ago. Never made it inside the house; they are currently residing somewhere in a land fill. There was zero discussion of any acceptable wall in any room. A harsh reminder that "I don't care what you do" does not necessarily constitute permission to buy or deviate from the decorating rule.

 

Train around the Christmas tree. Are you kidding???

 

Brave man putting those things out in the bedroom. 

 

Gilly

There was a point I was buying Lionel GB&W box cars off of ebay. I was spending less than $10.00 with shipping with the cheapest being $1.25 + $4.00 shipping.

 

After 13 she asked me how many dam yellow box cars do I need. 

Upset Wife and Who music at the same time! Soon she'll be "miles&miles&miles&miles away".

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This is a good post. I get do anything I want with my trains as long as they are in the garage. She did want one around the Christmas tree, so I obeyed, put a 42 " circle around the tree and started the train, all was good until it started smoking and all I heard was "NO SMOKING”, I shut it down and it wasn't run again, off the floor 1/2/14

 

I have a ball in the garage

 

Brent

Yes, there has been a "no smoking" rule in the house since 2009, when we realized that there was an oily haze covering the living room walls.  It seems that the "smoke" had collected on everything, and had attracted dirt.  So as soon as you cleaned one spot, you noticed that it was whiter than the rest of the wall... What a pain to clean, had to use degreasing cleaners, like 409...

 

There was no layout last year (baby turned 1 and I was worried for the trains' safety) and this year was up off the floor.  Elizabeth turned 2

 

Garage is out of the question... 1; that's where the cars go... 2; its not insulated, and last night it got pretty cold.  PFC to be exact:

 

 

So, my actual plan is to build a book case on either side of the window, from the shelf up, and enclose it in Plexiglas (to keep the dust down inside) and display my motive power... Steam on one side, diesel on the other.

 

The long wall would be the only wall that I would actually "brick" in trains, and probably only Lionel so they're all the same color.

 

We shall see...

 

Thanks for all the chatter, guys... good talk.'

 

Thanks,

Mario

Nice post,first good laugh I've had on the OGF in a while.

Dan

 

 

As long as the topic is"Another Brick in the Wall",I am posting a photo of the 7"45rpm record box set of the singles from Pink Floyd's The Wall album.I bought it last week.I had no idea they were still making 45 records.I am having fun slowly restoring the Seeburg library unit juke box my parents recently gave me.

Dan 

A spare room?  Enjoy. Get the trains out. Work up to some shelves. 

I don't understand why you can't have one room to do whatever you want.  

Yeah my wife would crown me if I gave the bedroom the train look. It took enough talking and discussion to get 1/4 of the TV room. Even after 7 years she still regrets her concession.

 

OMG! THE VOICE OF REASON!

 

Mark, my wife's number is listed, please, PLEASE give her a call and explain her the same thing that you wrote above...

 

 

I mean, what the heck? I do pay more than half of the bills, I get 132 square feet of space in a 2600ft2 house?

 

You know what her response was... I'm letting you keep the Christmas layout up (WOW! 40 square feet of real estate!)

 

She laughed when I told her my first plans for the 4th BR:

 

Yes, that's in his basement.

 

But, noooo, we had to have a "spare" bedroom. (there's 3 of us; my wife and I share the master suite and my just-2 year old daughter gets TWO bedrooms; for her slumber chamber and playroom).

 

Enjoy the sun today!  It's going to break 30F!  Carwash here I come!

 

Thanks,

Mario

 

 

Those look great..where did you get the shelving and who made it..I am in dire need of more shelving.

Bruce

In other news, there are a lot of girly men in the model railroading hobby.

Those look like they may be home made.

 

Here's where I get my train shelving. Great stuff.

 

http://www.gsds.com/

 

 

HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Pink Floyd!

 

"..........the evidence before the Court is incontrovertible........."

 

 ( I saw "Division Bell" 1987..........)

 

Rick.

 

Ok, so I did the wall...

 

AND LOVE IT!

 

Except for one, little, teeny, tiny thing... Once I got to the two top rows, it was too unstable for my taste.

 

Oh! and I had too many left over!

 

So... I took it down.

 

But, I still like the idea.  So, shelving... here I come!

 

Thanks,

Mario

 

I was going to say that taking out a box from the middle row might be a bit problematic.

I made my shelves from 1X3 clear pine, sanded and light polyurethane. routed slots for the wheels. Then the supports are heavy duty steel shelf brackets bought at home depot. screwed these into studs, very low cost and quick to make. Cost was 150.00 and some elbow grease.

Every time I read one of these types of posts, it reaffirms my faith in the state of bachelorhood.

Mario:

 

Love your ingenuity. Your engineering background should serve you well to figure out a solution. 

That's not a woodpecker I hear, it is a henpecker!  And, boy, is it loud!

Let's get a case of beer and head over for an intervention.

If all you get is 132 sq ft I think you need to get yourself Comfortably Numb.

 

Rod

We'll see what the future holds. Meanwhile, the beers on me and you guys are all welcome, PTC can swing by and grab a few on the way through MA... As for the rest of you, head due North until you hit snow, then turn right onto 90 East and ride till dawn!

Today's project! Shelves! For the basement, unfortunately... Oh well!  Numb it is.

Thanks,
Mario

Mario, we will take you up on the visit. Look forward to meeting you. It has been a blast corresponding with you in the past.

My wife picked out our place because it had a room for trains.  It was unfinished, so we spent some fun hours finishing it, and then she did her thing in the rest of the house while I did mine in the train room.  No big deal.  But then I chose well.

 

 

Jon

Mario - I LOVE trains and I wouldn't want them in the main living areas of my home.  You didn't say, but I am assuming that you do not have a basement, unfinished attic, or other place for your trains.

 

I will be curious to see what you ultimately do and wish you the best.

 

Art