What sign is at the entrance to your train room?

@Jim Policastro posted:

Dallas,

"Wow!" right back to you!!!

Beautiful carving!

Jim

Thanks Jim.   

“Abandon all hope you who enter here!”

On the steps up to the attic train room, when you open the door and a brass sign on the train platform.

My Aunt who just turned 97, gave me this painting when I first purchased my house.  I hung it on the landing halfway down the stairs to get to the basement or trainworld !

Bill, I love that painting.

Keep out.

I just remembered going to an NMRA convention years ago.  On the layout tours one gentleman had a display in the stairwell to the basement of mason jars that had severed hands and fingers in formaldehyde and a bloody axe.

The sign said, “Do NOT TOUCH the trains”.

@LLKJR posted:

I just remembered going to an NMRA convention years ago.  On the layout tours one gentleman had a display in the stairwell to the basement of mason jars that had severed hands and fingers in formaldehyde and a bloody axe.

The sign said, “Do NOT TOUCH the trains”.

A little over the top LL........but it seems somehow appropriate in some venues.

@Dallas Joseph posted:

A little over the top LL........but it seems somehow appropriate in some venues.

Sounds like a great set up for a horror flick . . . "Don't you DARE touch his trains, or the Conductor will PUNCH YOUR TICKET!!!"

Stop, yee who wishes to decend the stairs of death must answer me these questions three err the trains you wish to see.

No sign.  I do have a picture of my father, a reminder of my farm heritage. 

This is the my "Stairway to Heaven" ie: my basement Train Room/Man Cave! Bottom up!

@RJT posted:

This is the my "Stairway to Heaven" ie: my basement Train Room/Man Cave! Bottom up!

Rick, What a great collection, but this one touched me the most.

Wood

@Wood posted:

Wood: Thank You came from my daughters very special to me also that is why it is where it is, I see it every time I come down the steps.

From our daughter.

It’s a formerly illuminated station sign I found at a train show!

Here's another sign I had at the train room entrance back when I had a layout that filled most of the basement!

Jim

@Jim Policastro posted:

Here's another sign I had at the train room entrance back when I had a layout that filled most of the basement!

Jim

LOVE it, Jim

Exactly what I do while Mrs. 'Ski watches television in the evenings

The main sign is above the back doors to my shop. It is engraved walnut from a tree I cut down well over 40 years ago. The shelf layout is on the opposite side of the shop under a covered patio. No layout in the house. The last pic is on the inside back doors of the shop.

@Jim Policastro posted:

Here's another sign I had at the train room entrance back when I had a layout that filled most of the basement!

Jim

Boy Jim........this is something that needs to be repeated over and over to anyone who wants to contribute to  life .

( could be some things to watch that would be good.......if commercials would get less air time )

Usually I post pix of my New York Central collection, but here's one taken at the entrance to my other train displays -

Cheers,

- Mike

@Jim Policastro posted:

My homage to the New York City Lionel showroom of the 1950s which had a huge mock-up of the PRR turbine engine greeting visitors.

Mine is "only" about 4' tall located over the steps to the basement train room. It was constructed of scrap wood and metal parts.

Awesome!

Signs at bottom of cellar stairs.

CAUTION - YOU ARE ENTERING A BLACK HOLE

MELGAR