The Official TB Model Railroading Thread

[The Owl]

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[The Owl]

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[Eilif]

Relatively recent Model Railroader here.
Started a couple years ago with my son. We've been slowly building a layout. You can see some of our progression my blog.
Chicago Valley Railroad. Track Arrangement Mock Up
We're currently hoping to join a local club in Oak Park when Covid lifts.

I also do a fair bit of trainspotting. Living in Chicago there are innumerable daily opportunities for this and I post what I find on the blog as well.

 

[TBird1958]

Trains, I love them!
Even though my modeling interests focus on the mid '70s I can't help but watch them, my work faces onto the BNSF mainline through downtown Seattle at the South Portal of their tunnel under the city. It's common to see 110 cat trains of oil, coal or grain every day.

Especially during these strange days a good hobby goes a long way towards one's happiness, I spend about an hour a day before riding the Light Rail to work on models.......

This car was entirely scratch built from styrene structural shapes on a set of plans

Similar here, the would carry coiled or sheet steel.

 

[Eilif]

Those are some incredibly well-weathered models. Great work!

 

[TolerancEJ]

I don't collect model trains, but I subscribed anyway. @TBird1958 I love your photos throughout this thread. Amazing attention to detail.

 

[SubHuman]

I loved the N scale trains and we built a nice switching track when my son was around 9~10 years old. He was so into trains and we built a decent track layout that you could slide under the bed. That's why I liked the N scale stuff. It was as addictive as bass guitar as a hobby!
I never figured out how much money we actually spent the 5 years he (we) played with them but as soon as he could drive a car the train set was hardly ever used. I gave it to a friends' young son and he loved it. Hey! Now that I'm older and retired I might just....Noooo stop!
Some of the trains in this thread are so realistic. Too cool!

 

[JMarkD]

TBird, I know I mentioned it in another thread, but your weathering skill is amazing. I grew up in Philadelphia and that PRR box car pictured in an earlier post just about brought tears to my eyes! Do you ever model locomotives? Maybe take a stab at a GG1?

 

[TBird1958]

TBird, I know I mentioned it in another thread, but your weathering skill is amazing. I grew up in Philadelphia and that PRR box car pictured in an earlier post just about brought tears to my eyes! Do you ever model locomotives? Maybe take a stab at a GG1?

I did paint and weather some O scale (1/48) brass PRR steam engines for a friend about 15 years age a PRR T-1 and a Hippo, GG1's are pretty cool, Raymond Lowey at his finest!

 

[HeavyDuty]

These days most of my modeling is O scale Proto:48 (finescale track and wheels correcting the O gauge error) and British 7mm (basically O scale, they are just slightly larger.) I dabble in other stuff, too - I’m trying to figure out the club scene where I am moving in New England, and may model some stuff just for that use.

One thing I’ve always been interested in is narrow gauge industrial rail. There was a *lot* in the UK and Europe. In the U.K., 2’ gauge was common; in Europe, the equivalent was 600mm gauge. These were used for all sorts of things - sand and gravel, clay, agricultural. My personal favorite was sewage treatment plants, where they were used to transport the partially dried sludge to drying beds. A pretty esoteric interest.

I do a little O14 with my 7mm, but I’m also playing with larger versions of the U.K. 2’ - I have SM32 (approximately 1:19 on 32mm O gauge track) and now 7/8n2, which uses 45mm LGB sized track to simulate 2’ gauge. I just took delivery of a 7/8n2 locomotive kit from the U.K. and have been converting LGB tippers to look more scale.

I like it weird.

 

[SubHuman]

These days most of my modeling is O scale Proto:48 (finescale track and wheels correcting the O gauge error) and British 7mm (basically O scale, they are just slightly larger.) I dabble in other stuff, too - I’m trying to figure out the club scene where I am moving in New England, and may model some stuff just for that use.

One thing I’ve always been interested in is narrow gauge industrial rail. There was a *lot* in the UK and Europe. In the U.K., 2’ gauge was common; in Europe, the equivalent was 600mm gauge. These were used for all sorts of things - sand and gravel, clay, agricultural. My personal favorite was sewage treatment plants, where they were used to transport the partially dried sludge to drying beds. A pretty esoteric interest.

I do a little O14 with my 7mm, but I’m also playing with larger versions of the U.K. 2’ - I have SM32 (approximately 1:19 on 32mm O gauge track) and now 7/8n2, which uses 45mm LGB sized track to simulate 2’ gauge. I just took delivery of a 7/8n2 locomotive kit from the U.K. and have been converting LGB tippers to look more scale.

I like it weird.

Partially dried sludge from a sewage plant. Hmmm...what’s that?
Dig the trains!

 

[Jeff Scott]