Lionel Lines monorail set.

Chris, I assume you are referring to the orange version?

Yes Steve the orange and blue.   I know what the colors look like I would just like to see it on the real deal.  Kind of like a certain car looking good in a certain color. A red corvette for example. 

Here you go

That's great.  Are they Standard gauge or O gauge ?

O gauge

That's great!  Thanks Jim.   I think I'll be able to shoe horn them into the layout but I did think about a ceiling mount. The only problem is I have a drop ceiling in my train room and I would have to re enforce the ceiling tiles for the weight of the brackets and all.  I would feel better toggle bolting them to a plaster/sheet rock ceiling.

Chris.  The bases are heavy, the rods and the monorail are light. So if you could find a way to attach the rods to ceiling tile it could work.  

The bases are heavy so that it can set on a table top and run without screwing it down. 

Chris Lonero posted:

That's great!  Thanks Jim.   I think I'll be able to shoe horn them into the layout but I did think about a ceiling mount. The only problem is I have a drop ceiling in my train room and I would have to re enforce the ceiling tiles for the weight of the brackets and all.  I would feel better toggle bolting them to a plaster/sheet rock ceiling.

Chris, what you need to do when hanging anything from a suspended ceiling is to place blocking above the tiles.  The block must span the entire width of the tile.  There are two ways to do this.  My preferred method is to use a pice of 1"x4".  Cut it to 23 3/4".  This is the distance between the tops of the ceiling Tees.  It allows the blocking to bear on the Tee and not just the tile.  It also allows the blocking to be right on top of the tile with no space between the two.  Now you can use wood screws or if you prefer, toggle bolts.  

Thanks Dan. I'll go that route if I can't get it on the layout. I figured out how to make the race cars work so I'll see how the monorail goes.

Chris,

Llove the race cars and the monorail. How were you able to incorporate the race set in? Pics?

JoeG

Trainlover160 posted:

Chris,

Llove the race cars and the monorail. How were you able to incorporate the race set in? Pics?

 

JoeG

 Basically I added the third level to the layout. I didn't have the real estate to go out so I went up!  

Chris,

What a great shot!

Thanks,

Joe