The Short-Lived Joy of New Shelves

Looking good. You must be running out of room in that train room for storage or anything else.

Lee,

Nice shelves. I like the use of hinged shelves to make the most use of the available room. If you are anything like me the new shelved will be full before you know it and you will be looking for more storage space for additional acquisitions. 

Happy Holidays.

It seems that you can never have enough storage shelves. Lee, yours look great. Merry Christmas. 

The Rule here is nothing can be in a box, it has to be displayed. Shelves are very important. 

Can never have enough shelves in a train room. Seems like as soon as a new shelve is completed, its already full and time for another one.

They look great!  If I ever did it I'd want to figure out how I could enclose the shelves because shelves are all dust catchers!  :-)  It would be great to enclose and have a vacuum system.

You sure have the shelf bug, Lee.

Lee, and others, I am captivated by the collections of trains on your selves.  Just great eye candy!  So far, I have succeeded in exercising self control on buying trains and keep all my trains on my layout.  (Even those 9 K-line tank cars I acquired and repainted.)   But it operationally gets crowded, so I am redoing a small problem stub yard to make it O-72 friendly and adding a longer siding in another area. 

way to go MR carpenter!! after all its that time of year, celebrating

the birth of a carpenters son!!!

Nice work Lee, I hope you have a seatbelt for those flat cars!

Your not alone it seems Mine stay full as well.  These shelve hold 27 complete transets, albeit mostly preand postwar so mostly shorter than full scale or modern cars.  Point is, they are still full and I could fill another 20 sets worth as well.... They used to come down two rows lower but I removed the two rows in order to gain some separation between the layout and the shelves in case a backdrop ever made it to the layout...

Maybe if you left a light on at night in the train room, the stuff wouldn't keep

multiplying and filling all the present and future shelves?

Lee, YOU ARE THE MAN!!!!!!!  Bob Villa has nothing on you!!!  Very nice shelves.  Did you use a piano hinge or door hinges?  And, what did you use for a back on these new shelves?   I like your creativeness in doing shelves in front of shelves.  LOL  So cool!!!!  Your next project...drop down shelves from the ceiling.

I have just the opposite problem.  I have so many shelves I don't have room for a layout.  LOL

Rick

Shelves?  Shelves?  I don't need no stinking shelves.  I just increase the size of the layout.

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Dennis

Lee, those are great and really what I am looking for. (See my post from this weekend) would it be possible for you to post a cutting list and additional photos? Also did you run grooves down the shelf length?

thank you and all the best,

Miketg

Shelves look great. You really have maximized your use of available space. I like stuff like that a lot. Hope you get to enjoy the extra shelf space for at least a little while before they fill up.

That's an interesting shelf design, I like that one too.

Is it top heavy?

How do you get to the back side? Is it on wheels?

RTR12 - Hard to tell from the photo, but my shelve is in the middle of a 7 x 7 ft area, so I can access it from either side. Not movable, actually anchored into the ceiling to prevent any tipping.

Thanks, from the picture it looked like there was a wall behind it. I think it's a neat design. Anchoring is a good idea, thought it might be a little tipsy.

Nice work Lee and Ed.

Lee:

Like the use of shelving as a door to more shelving.

As long as you guys keep posting pictures of train rooms proving you all have many many more trains than I do....I don't feel guilty about what I have.

What TX Special set is that?

Safety meeting of the day.  Note that train shelves have the potential of supporting a lot of weight.  GSDS,  Glenn Snyder Display System, Recommends #10 X 1 1/2" Pan head screws, at least (4) per 6ft section.  Properly installed, Center of stud/wall support. 

 Installation Instructions: 
Glenn Snyder Display Systems are  easy to install. You will  need the following tools: An electric drill, 1/8" and 3/16" drill  bits, a level, #10 x  1-1/2" round head, pan head or truss head sheet metal screws for each  stud and   spacing blocks. Spacing blocks should be as high as the distance  between the shelves, generally between 5-1/2" or 6" for O gauge. Studs are usually  located 16" or 24" apart on center. Electrical outlets are generally attached to  the side of a stud,   which is the easiest way to locate one, or may be found with a  magnetic stud finder.

Installation Instructions: Using the level, draw a line where you would like the bottom shelf  to be located. Locate the studs along this line. Mark the stud spacing and transfer the marks to the back of the shelf. Using the  3/16"drill bit, drill clearance holes in the shelf from the back, using the groove to locate the tip of the drill bit. Using the 1/8" drill bit, drill pilot holes in the studs and fasten your shelf with the #10x1-1/2" long sheet metal screws. (We use them instead of wood screws as they are threaded to the top of the screw giving them more fastening power.) Once the bottom shelf is fastened, place the  spacing blocks on the top of the rails, equal distance apart. Place the next shelf on top of the blocks and mark where each fastener hole is to  be drilled. Remove the shelf, drill the holes in the shelf and in the studs and attach the second shelf. Continue installing the shelving  by using the spacing blocks until installation is complete.

Use of Connecting Pins: On walls where longer shelves are needed or uneven areas, use the connecting pins that are supplied. Tap ends of pins open with a  center punch or similar tool. Slide one end onto a rail and gently tap it with a hammer until the pin is all the way on the rail. Take the second shelf and locate the open end of the pin on the corresponding rail. Tap the pin half way back until the two shelves meet, then fasten the shelf to the wall. If  your walls are uneven, place  screws through  washers where needed between the shelf and the wall until  the shelving remains straight when the screws are tightened.

Lee Shelves look great, but BE CAREFUL of posting pictures of a NAKED LAYOUT