Electric Model Trains
Stores Where Model Trains Available
I am opening a small train store in Bangor, PA and am looking for display items. These include any scale model trains or parts or related train items. Since I am just starting out on this venture, I am looking for inexpensive items. Let me know what you have. hello, is there anyone who knows [...]
Model Train Newbie
I’m going through the same thing with my son, and he’s 3. I wonder if he’ll get tired of it, or should I just launch into building a huge layout? He’s too young to participate in real “model railroading” at all. I’ll tell you what my son has: 1. a big wooden railway 2. pictures [...]
Clear topcoat for wood model trains?
The paint on my son’s Thomas the Tank Engine trains (the Learning Curve ones) seems to start peeling off all too soon. I’ve replaced a couple of the worst examples through Learning Curve’s lifetime warranty system, but I wondered if I could put a clear topcoat on the trains. My first thought was to use [...]
Licensing Fees Hit Model Trains
At Franciscan Hobbies, model trains account for nearly half of all sales at the 57-year-old Ingleside shop, making it the largest dealer of model trains in San Francisco. John Gunther, the shop’s manager, said that with many passenger cars going for about $35 and locomotives selling for as much as $300, it’s not unusual for [...]
HO Scale Train Track
Lionel and Lego HO Scale Trains
I have no problem letting them play with the trains. They run much better than my old HO and N scale trains, and I don’t worry about wrecks as mush. after all, if a car gets damages, you just snap it back together. Try that with an HO car after a 3 foot drop off [...]
Age Group for Playing HO Scale Train
I have very much the same experience, I’m 37 now, I had lego from as early as I can remember, my dark ages were from about age 16-ish (When I got seriously into computers) till last Christmas, when my wife (for a joke) bought me the Technic 8414. I built it on Christmas day, had [...]
9v HO Scale Train Cam?
I’m looking for more information on the HO scale train cameras. I had some somewhere…I just have to find it. As I remember, it was mighty expensive. I don’t remember if it was transmitted through the rails or via radio though. I’m sure it wasn’t infrared. If there’s a continuous streaming video feed, the train [...]
OKC HO Scale Train Show 2000
The 2000 OKC Train Show The Southwest’s largest train show is returning for the 24th year to Oklahoma City. The OKC Train Show will be held the weekend of December 2nd and 3rd in the Travel and Transportation Building at the Oklahoma State Fairgrounds (Northwest 10th Street and May Avenue in Oklahoma City). The show [...]
Lionel Model Trains
Holiday Memories of Model Trains
Does anyone care to share their holiday memorys of model trains??? Yes it’s relative; at least to me!!! (Did you know: Neil Young just bought Lionel Trains?) His layout is in a book that just came out from the magazine that does Classic Toy Trains. As a child, we always had my fathers Lionel set [...]
Pipe Smoking & Model Trains
I’m blasting out tomorrow morning for the N Scale Collector’s Convention (model railroading) in Reno. Been to a couple of these fabulous events, but, alas, no pipe smokers in sight. Lots of fun and great people. Cigs… cigars… but NO Frog Morton or Cairo. Hey! What gives? I saw a miriad of magazine ads, as [...]
Selling Criteria in Model Trains
Personally, although I might be interested in a few of the items listed there, I wouldn’t buy from such a sale for the following reasons: 1) No guarantees, – with Ebay or an online shop I know that the seller is contracted to deliver, and with the latter, I can return the goods if it [...]
Model train enthusiasts
Anyone here into model trains? Any advice for getting started? I’m assuming the first thing would be to pick what scale I’d like to work with and such. I used to be when I have an actual house, I’ll be fixing up a room just for trains! I was into the HO scale… it seems [...]
