Train room decorations

Very nice.

A framed collage I made up several years ago, that most model railroaders can identify with...................

The last train room had a little bit of everything.

Our newest sponsor made me think of this thread.

I have a smattering of stuff...I do need to get the cool Santa Fe calendar framed and put up.

Not my train room but only two rooms away:

My decorations are par for the course mostly Postwar Lionel adorns the walls,  ....except the cool Tiffany style lamp shade, ...I convinced the manager at the local Applebee’s she should give it to me, since it had a small crack in it.....( which it did) ....next thing I know as we’re leaving, here comes a bus boy carrying my lamp shade out to the car!...SCORE!!,,,,

Pat

Very nice sign, Mike.

Something also inspired by the NYC Lionel showroom. It may not be as impressive as the original turbine display, but it does stand over 5' tall and greets visitors as they descend the basement steps to my train room. Constructed of wood scraps, a tin can, assorted bolts, wire coat hangers, etc., etc.

Jim

I needed a light for the steps and modified this oil lamp with a led recessed can light and a light  in the wick area... which has a amber glow to it.. the helicopter is a item like the one  I got  for Christmas 1967, I added a mini receiver and dc power to it to make it work on command... (lol... my wife still thinks a bird is flying through the window !)  daniel

Just getting started on our train room but we are fortunate to know someone who used to work for Norfolk Southern.

This is a part of the Train Room that's clean enough to be seen,

@marshelangelo posted:

This is a part of the Train Room that's clean enough to be seen,

Looks great, I'll get the rest of the train room looks pretty nice as well.

@marshelangelo posted:

This is a part of the Train Room that's clean enough to be seen,

Thank you for your service sir..I laughed out loud when I read about the clean part of the train room! ..everytime I take pics i have Firewood pile on one side Pellet stove pellets on the other and basic basement ..stuff so it hard to get good ones

@Jim Policastro posted:

Very nice sign, Mike.

Something also inspired by the NYC Lionel showroom. It may not be as impressive as the original turbine display, but it does stand over 5' tall and greets visitors as they descend the basement steps to my train room. Constructed of wood scraps, a tin can, assorted bolts, wire coat hangers, etc., etc.

Jim

Jim,

All scraps? Turned out really nice. Sets the tone for your layout.

Mike

Thanks, Mike.

Well..I did buy the bell...and the inverted juice glasses painted black for the marker lights!

Jim

Just finished this playroom area ....

Here are a few of mine. The last picture is one of the hardest puzzles I’ve ever done.

Very nice John. Merry Christmas

Some very nice stuff guys. I wish I had wall space. Even with a big room, the layout takes up 3 out of 4 walls. The 4th wall is for shelves.

Donald

Charles McDaniel and Snkbittin, that really was one of the areas that was suitable for photos, I've gotten about it seems hundreds of trains on the table ready to move from side to side while I finish off preparing my train shed from Brideboss and I've got wiring to relocate, a mountain and a tunnel to set into position.  All of this while recovering from hip surgery, I'm trying to pick up speed and looking forward to 2021, when hopefully I can explode on the scene with something that's good enough to video.  My time in the military and my most recent job that I retired from motivates me to the next project … the layout but I have to move slowly until cleared for take-off.  It was my pleasure to serve, it helped me in as many ways as my service was to the country, nonetheless I'm looking forward to posting more pictures and introducing my layout to the forum and youtube.  Take care until then - MARSHELANGELO

Greg, your wall looks great! I hope you have a complete recovery from your surgery. I look forward to pics of the layout.

There's no room in the train room for wall decorations but the CFO has allowed me to hang something in the library...

Ted Rose - State Line Tower

ALL NICE, but Jim and NJCJOE have particularly impressive displays! I well remember that GIANT turbine front at the Manhattan Lionel showroom! NICE job, Jim!

Here's a recent addition, happens to be on my bow rack not in the train room.

Jeff

Thanks Hudson J1e

This time of year I have a mix of Christmas and everyday items, not all train-related.

Here's some of my wall art.

One of my favorite items is not that expensive, but it means a lot to me.  It’s an actual number board from one of the Redbird  7 trains that I commuted on into Manhattan every day. You can see it here on the actual train - https://www.nycsubway.org/perl/show?25663

When the Redbirds were retired and dumped into the ocean, the MTA had an auction selling off mementos from the trains and I was able to pick it up.

And whats a strap hanger without an actual subway hanger to hold on to? I was able to pick one of these up as well (in the old days, commuters, known as strap hangers,  held on to leather straps, which were subsequently replaced with these metal ones) -

Strap Hanger- Great setup! I rode the #7 the other way, from the city to 33rd Rawson. I especially like the "M" "ta" logo board that you have! I like those two logos better that the one of today.

And why did you ride to 33rd Rawson ?  Aviation H.S. ?

Mike M, this is a great thread, your sign is awesome and above me are some super nice train rooms that I would love to visit in person. Great pictures fellows... Happy Railroading Everyone,

@ConrailFan posted:

Strap Hanger- Great setup! I rode the #7 the other way, from the city to 33rd Rawson. I especially like the "M" "ta" logo board that you have! I like those two logos better that the one of today.

Thanks Conrailfan. I totally agree. They were so much better. If I recall correctly, the express used to stop at 33 and Rawson. I didn’t mention this in my previous post because the glare in the photo obscured the view. However, over the 7 sign is an actual express glass from the front of an r-36 redbird. I was able to purchase that in the auction as well. Great memories.

Man, those are some AWESOME trains rooms.  My hopes of a train room vanished into thin air when my wife decided we needed to be where the grand baby is so we moved to a new home and down sized.  I guess that's the way the side rods turn.

Merry Christmas to all.

Jim P, I've seen engine fronts like that available in catalogs, usually a solid casting, but they don't hold a lantern compared to your homemade one.

My new "train room" is still full of boxes of what will one day be the layout so no decorations yet.  I do have metal signs, both RR heralds and Lionel, posters and art work that were intended for the walls of a train room.  Due to smaller size of the room available the layout will be around the walls instead of the island originally envisioned so I'm torn between decorations and uing the walls as backdrop space.

NJCJOE, just for the record I’ve always loved your layout, wall decorations and train room. Thank you for the great pictures above. Strap Hanger, your layout and walls are cool to, as well as many others, Jay Jay, your wLl pictures are awesome, and all in all, we get a lot of satisfaction out of our man caves. Merry Christmas Everyone.

@boomer0622 posted:

boomer, love the stock certificates. I have a bunch as well hanging in my train room. I’m surprised more people don’t collect cancelled railroad stock certificates. The engravings are beautiful.

Strap Hanger - Lots of people collect stock certificates. Scripophily is the hobby name.  Along that line - how about collecting U.S. National Bank Notes issued by the U.S. Government for chartered banks with railroad connections? The deal was if your bank met the federal requirements and became a chartered bank you received a charter number and had U.S. money printed with an ad for your bank on the front of the bill.

  Here's one for Chartered bank #11862 - Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers Co-Operative National Bank of Cleveland, Ohio

  Incidentally, this was the longest chartered bank name.

Here's another one Charter #12389 - The Telegraphers National Bank of St. Louis, Missouri