quote Originally posted by MarkS: Outside lights down and put away. There are still a few houses with lights up here and there in the neighborhood though. Inside we still have the living room tree up (artificial) and the Lionel trains around it.

Love the model train idea. I actually told my wife I wanted one for Christmas this year. I (apparently) failed to make the nice list.
I have a pretty large bonus room above my garage and was going to set the train up to run around the entire room. I wanted to mount it up high on the walls above the windows and door frames. If I figured it correctly, it would have taken right at 130 feet of track to complete the circuit. I'm thinking that's what killed the idea. She didn't want my train mounted to the wall.

Or, just maybe I was on the naughty list. Hard to say.

Rams

[This message has been edited by blackrams (edited 02-06-2021).]

quote Originally posted by blackrams: Love the model train idea. I actually told my wife I wanted one for Christmas this year. I (apparently) failed to make the nice list. I have a pretty large bonus room above my garage and was going to set the train up to run around the entire room. I wanted to mount it up high on the walls above the windows and door frames. If I figured it correctly, it would have taken right at 130 feet of track to complete the circuit. I'm thinking that's what killed the idea. She didn't want my train mounted to the wall. Or, just maybe I was on the naughty list. Hard to say. Rams

Careful, trains & train collecting can become one of those addictive hobbies; like oh I don't know, um Fieros...

Here is my Christmas set up just 2 simple track circuits. These are Lionel pre-war (prior to 1942) sets. Outer circle is the Blue Comet passenger and the inner is a freight set.

[This message has been edited by MarkS (edited 02-07-2021).]