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Well with the purchase of my new home I have a huge basement that is begging for my personal touch and one of them will be model railroading. So down the line as the months go by I will be posting pics here of my progress of the different model railroading projects that I will be working on.

what gauge are you using DA? I have some N gauge trains that i have worked with in the past; no room to set them up now, though.

N gauge is pretty cool - you can do a lot in a very small space.

YUP N gauge is what I'm working with, I should be getting another set for christmas and I will link the two with a double curve bend for to start a rail yard.

DA

Wow! Being in WOF leads to pleasant surprises. Who would've thought you guys would share a mutual interest in model railroading, especially when you joined the group to play military sims? That's pretty. By the way, I inherited my father's American flyer set complete with two engine, everything is metal and original. Good stuff.

man thats a nice set there. Wowwweeeee!! I never owned a real trainset and I always wanted one so now I am buying it myself. What I have to do now is buy a power pack to run my four cars.

DA

Griffy,

I have American Flyer stuff too... Got it from my dad and granddad. I just don't have much good track. The locomotives are all good and the power supplies are fine, but the track is iffy.

-Brian

Gator:

I think all the parts are still in good working order. The power pack may need fixing. I believe I still got enough of the original track to make figure eights or an oval. I got small buildings and trees as well, but I think my dad bought those extra. All that stuff is actually at my fathers in a closet in the cellar. But, he says I'm obligated to take it with me once I have my own home. Who knows I might even set it up again someday.

Gator, that's cool the locos still work. I'll bet you could scrounge for some track on ebay or get a close facsimile out of a modern set?

Wow, I can't believe we stumbled on this mutual interest?! too funny. Stil,, you guys seemed to know all about this stuff. N gage? I didn't know there were different gages.

You should see some of the model train sites on the net, they even have software/shareware that links up a bunch of guys to run a virtual rail system that works off the original system the United States have in use today. There is a monthly fee to be apart of it. The virtual rail system works by lets say I start a freight train from Chicago and send it to Vienna Virgina to Gator, I will receive e-Mails on its progress from point to point to point until it ends in Vienna and Gator receives it.

DA

There is some new American Flyer track available, but the main problem for me is that American Flyer is a large-ish scale (it's like 1:68, S-Gauge I think) that needs a bit of space for any kind of setup. I just don't have that space right now. I haven't had it set-up since I lived at my parent's house. The good thing is that 1/72 scale aircraft models are just about the right size (and there's even 1/72 military vehicles, tanks, and jeeps too). My flat-bed cars were often spotted carrying sherman tanks in circles...

i have n gauge trains, but they are packed away in storage for our move next month.

We had American Flyer when we were kids; then we traded them in for the new fangled HO stuff in the 50's. then i traded the HO stuff in for the N gauge in the 70's and have kept the n gauge ever since.

I'm sorry guys but I am working with HO scale. The British wonder that caught on in the 50's. Sorry about that.

DA