Other types of trains

This is an old photo but I still run O and standard gauge.

 

I'm not in S scale, Z, TT or Standard gauge.....otherwise I have something in the others. I still have the Revell N scale set Mom gave me in 1968......

I still have most of my HO collection from when I switched to 3 rail O in 1993.

And I have a small collection of G scale that started as Christmas under the tree trains but grew.....Lots of O 3 rail, some On30, some HOn3....too much really!!!

0 gauge and Standard Gauge on one layout, all with tubular track. Still under construction, but I can run trains on all four loops. I also have Z gauge, which at this time is only set up temporarily on a tabletop. The Z is all Marklin, Euro prototype.

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I have very small "S" and "N" layouts. Postwar American Flyer (link coupler) for nostalgia (I remember the Choo-Choo sound), and "N" (Kato) interest sparked after putting a "N" Kiddy Ride on my "O" layout.

With "N", I can have a scale GG1 for about $100. that takes up no room.

O is a sideline for me.  I'm in the "Perfect Scale" (S Scale, of course):

And we all know "nuthin's available in S Scale..."

 

Rusty

All I've ever known about S was American Flyer & 2 rail tube track, your layout looks awesome.

S scale interest me if for no other reason the HUGE amount of very nice inexpensive auto's and trucks.  Your layout looks perfect and shows how well it can be done. If I wasn't into everything else!!! 

I have a LOT of HO trains, all in boxes right now, and a few Large Scale trains.

1" scale...

 

with TRUE sounds!

Well, I have a bunch of 3 rail.

But my real passions are S Scale, and HO European 3 rail.

 

Shameless plug; My European Train Enthusiasts chapter will have our layout set up at the iHobby show next weekend.

 

http://www.ihobbyexpo.com/Public.html

 

I have collected 'em all, from Z to G.  I just like trains.  No "T" yet, though.  My layout runs 027 and American Flyer, and I have a portable N layout, pictured. 

I own rolling stock in N, HO, S, O, and 1.5".  I worked for a company that built 16", 24", and 36" gauge trains, and ran some of them.  I've also run a 15" gauge train, and a 16" gauge steamer.  I really miss that steamer.  She was an ornery one.  There were only ever 2 people that could make her fully behave, the owner, and me.

I grew up with Post War 3-rail O&O-27. I modeled seriously in other ways, and was tempted, but never fully went there with my trains. I prefer the post war look. While tempted, I avoided Z and smaller straight out. Modern N, I played with a while. It was a pain in the butt to keep railed, and is gone. I messed with cheaper HO from the 60s-70s as a kid, and was left very disappointed! I found the new stuff is sooo much better. But it was still not my thing, gone. Oh I kept the track for a future On30 log/ore line run to a 3r-O mainline. This summer I picked up a large scale, "G", Lionel "Gold Rush" Denver & Rio Grande from the 80s, along with some other rolling stock. Its for mostly outside garden use. It runs absolutely great, the quietest thing I've ever ran on rails. The cars really are the only sound, and that's not much. 

    

I run some N scale -- all of it is Spanish "Ibertren" models of RENFE (Spanish national railway) equipment from the '70s and '80s. I collected most of the trains I rode and saw while I was there in school for several summers in the late '80s.

I've had N and Z gauge layouts in the past, never HO or a scale bigger than O. 

 

I did, for many years, scratch-build sailing warships in HO scale (1:87), picking that scale because it works well of ships of that size and because I could buy Prieser figures which I would repainted as sailor, typically put posing ting a hundred or more on each ship model when done. But HO is too small for enjoy working on any more.  I like O best.

I have modeled and collected Japanese N gauge trains and trams since 2007.  I have a 30 x 60 inch Kato Unitram European theme layout currently and a second table with some Kato Unitrack.  There have been many table top layouts. I also have a small Lisbon tram HOn30 diorama.  I plan to clear the second table off and create a small Superstreets layout focused on memories of late 50s and early 60s childhood vacations.  Eventually I hope to have more space for a larger Superstreets layout, the Kato Unitram table top layout and temporary layouts for the Japanese N gauge trains.

 

 

 

 

I was always Lionel O, from Christmas 1950 on.  Looking for our retirement home we discovered this place in the Eastern PA mountains--pond, spring fed stream, two wooded acres and a well built, suitable house.

 

What conveyed, in the basement, was a sceniced, hand-built, beautiful G gauge layout.  It had to be kept.  I eventually acquired older Lionel G gauge trains (Pennsy of course) and proceeded to enjoy.  For the Grandkids (yeah, right) I added Lionel Thomas and James.

 

It entertained until I built my O gauge layout.  I still run the G gauge, especially when the Grandkids want an alternative.

 

The construction and attention to detail is outstanding.  Every tie is hand layed, every rail spiked in.  The trestle and turntable are works of art.  I added some accessories, already built-up, as is my wont.  No way I have the talent to duplicate the original.

 

Boy, that does look nice.  What a bonus - to get a layout with a house!

O gauge tinplate is my secondary scale, my primary trains are 12" gauge, 2.5"=1' scale live steam.  Here are a couple of pictures of my outdoor "layout"...

 

First, steamer #205 w/ caboose #56 at the Stansbury Lead Mine:

 

 

 

Steamer #103 with a short train passing Brown's Sawmill:

 

 

 

The Boxcab on the mainline at the Tombstone Switchback:

 

 

I was heavy into HO scale...now only run lionel legacy now.