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OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/25/2020 6:28:49 PM   
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How many here had a model train set or have a model train set?
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/25/2020 6:34:52 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/25/2020 7:06:55 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/25/2020 7:11:01 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/25/2020 8:51:16 PM   
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Nice. But I would let an officer ride up front just so I could hit reverse and get rid of him. Don't you think that McHale would have loved to do that to Commander Binghamton?

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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/25/2020 9:12:13 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/26/2020 9:39:01 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/26/2020 9:41:27 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/26/2020 10:11:16 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/27/2020 12:07:33 AM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/27/2020 2:52:52 AM   
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I've got a few cars and engines in "N" scale with some buildings... it's fun to set them up for the holidays, the kids like it....


is that about half the size of HO?

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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/27/2020 3:54:54 AM   
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I've got a few cars and engines in "N" scale with some buildings... it's fun to set them up for the holidays, the kids like it....


is that about half the size of HO?


Yes. You can build an oval on a 2 foot by 4 foot board, then enclose it in plexiglass for a coffee table. I don't know the exact measurements in meters but it is about 2/3 by 4/3 meters.

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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 1/30/2020 6:34:22 AM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/3/2020 6:36:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		The National Model Railroad Association (nmra.org) says that HO is 1:87.1, while N is 1:160.

I used to have a simple N scale layout on a 28" x 80" hollow-core interior door that lay on a table on one side of my living room. It wasn't much, just an elongated oval with a couple spurs, but it was a lot of railroad in a relatively small space, and it was always the first thing to catch anyone's attention when they came in the room. I had to give it up when my son decided to take over that space for his home office.

I'll have another one someday, when/if my son ever decides to leave the nest.

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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/3/2020 6:47:12 PM   
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The National Model Railroad Association (nmra.org) says that HO is 1:87.1, while N is 1:160.

I used to have a simple N scale layout on a 28" x 80" hollow-core interior door that lay on a table on one side of my living room. It wasn't much, just an elongated oval with a couple spurs, but it was a lot of railroad in a relatively small space, and it was always the first thing to catch anyone's attention when they came in the room. I had to give it up when my son decided to take over that space for his home office.

I'll have another one someday, when/if my son ever decides to leave the nest.


You sound like my brother. His son is 28, 29, still in school and is showing no interest in moving out....GP

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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/3/2020 10:07:13 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/3/2020 10:49:27 PM   
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Paula and I plan to donate our Union Pacific caboose (25251) to the museum at some point.

It is a great experience. Look it up on You Tube or the net!

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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/3/2020 11:12:25 PM   
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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/4/2020 5:29:25 PM   
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The National Model Railroad Association (nmra.org) says that HO is 1:87.1, while N is 1:160.

I used to have a simple N scale layout on a 28" x 80" hollow-core interior door that lay on a table on one side of my living room. It wasn't much, just an elongated oval with a couple spurs, but it was a lot of railroad in a relatively small space, and it was always the first thing to catch anyone's attention when they came in the room. I had to give it up when my son decided to take over that space for his home office.

I'll have another one someday, when/if my son ever decides to leave the nest.


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I do have some "N" scale stuff and a 1 by 2 yards board with the track layout of a historic but long gone branch line reversing station - I prefer shunting action over just running trains in circles - as well as a 11" by 30" board with a station and a short track in scale "Z" which is 1:220. However, all of this has been in storage for over 25 years and is probably in pitiful condition by now. I hope to reactivate this hobby when the kids have left.



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RE: OT: Ah Model Train Sets - 2/5/2020 2:02:23 PM   
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