Any model railroader/RVers out there?

[rbturner]

Has anyone ever taken their trains along camping for any reason? What did you do?

[Dog_Folks]

DaveInAL wrote:
You train buffs might enjoy this park near me!

http://www.waleswest.com/

Dave

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[DaveInAL]

You train buffs might enjoy this park near me!

http://www.waleswest.com/

Dave

[rbturner]

I do not have any G scale but I have a couple of On30; fantasy sets. One is for firefighters and the other is for the Confederacy. These two sets were originally offered by the Franklin Mint or some such outfit for low low payments of $79.95 a month. I got most of them from eBay for reasonable prices. I think one of them may be a good choice to take camping since they run on HO track but are a lot larger body wise.

[Double_Rainbow]

I run a number of G scale locomotives including electric and live steam. I often take a locomotive, some track, a few cars, and my support equipment so I can run trains either at our site or in the club house. I use several banquet tables to support the track.

My experience is that most people are interested in this hobby and always have a number of questions. The live steam locomotives always draw attention.

I know of a resort in Tucson that has an outdoor g scale garden layout which is maintained by the tenants.

Anyone else out there running G scale?

[Community Alumni]

That train in the table is the neatest thing since sliced bread.

Neat Idea

jimR

[rbturner]

I have seen trains melted by someone laying them in the back window of a car but I don't think they would melt just sitting in the RV stored in a reasonable manner.

[Dog_Folks]

Plastics melting? Sorry can't help you that. We full time so the inside is always temperature controlled.

I can't imagine they would as there are many different types of plastics inside an RV. When we were working and living in Florida, the RV sat vacant and got very hot in the summer. Never had problem..

[Wanderlost]

Well, WLToo has looked at the photos and I can see the gears going.

One question: Do you have any problem with the plastics melting or warping in the heat? I ask because we live where it gets way hot in the summer, so he's been storing all of his N scale stuff in our air conditioned garage office, until he gets his train room built off the RV barn not yet built.

Don't want to put a train layout in the RV and have it melt when the RV is not in use.

[Geocritter]

Check this out http://www.trainmountain.org/

[traindriver1]

Don't have any experience with model railroads, but have about 2 1/2 million miles on the real things.

[ependydad]

tsetsaf wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
I have an "N" scale layout that is 2 feet by 4 feet.

It is inside a glass toped enclosure that serves as our dinette table top.

Good idea! Any pictures?

Here are Dog Folk's pictures of his model train setup as his dinette in his camper:

[Dog_Folks]

Sure, post the pictures. Thanks much.

[ependydad]

Dog Folks wrote:

tsetsaf wrote:

Dog Folks wrote:
I have an "N" scale layout that is 2 feet by 4 feet.

It is inside a glass toped enclosure that serves as our dinette table top.

Good idea! Any pictures?

Glad too, but putting pictures on this site is just too cumbersome.

PM me with you e-mail and I will send them.

Dog Folks, do you want me to post your pictures here?

[rbturner]

I have always had this idea of making some kind of slide out tray thing that was contained inside a sheet metal box, that was mounted in front of the axles. Like a 4'x 8' layout. It could only be about 6-8" tall though. Probably a dumb idea.

fireman; I too, have taken some projects with me and have always had a couple of people walk over to where I was working and tell me about their trains etc.

Tom; I will look up that layout by John Allen. Thanks for the tip.

tesetsaf; That is a cool idea. I normally play with Ho scale but I have accumulated a fair amount of N scale over the years. Maybe I can use it all in the trailer some way.