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 Posted - June 28 2010 : 11:22:50 PM
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...when you're not running them?
More specifically, what do with the trains that you run fairly often. I know some of you have a (seemingly) endless amount of siding space. I've always had my cars and engines lined up on a shelf/counter behind my layout. Over the past few months however, that space has become too small
What do you guys do with all the layout overflow?
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Posted - June 28 2010 : 11:51:48 PM
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Not enough room for them in the car room, so most are in boxes, but we do have a daughter going to college this fall and I am trying to talk my wife into letting me have her room as a train room. So far I am losing this battle though.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 01:20:13 AM
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| Drawers, shelves, tables, chairs, boxes...you get the picture. It's a constant battle to find space.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 05:49:21 AM
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quote:Drawers, shelves, tables, chairs, boxes... It's a constant battle to find space.
Originally posted by burlington77Â -Â June 29 2010Â :Â 01:20:13 AM
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Sez it all right there. I've got flat pizza-type boxes that I keep my rolling stock and some engines in, other smaller flat boxes shoe-sized for storing 2-3 engines at a time. No formal drawers or glass-fronted displays for my stuff. LOL. Cardboard and plastic, mostly.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 07:58:36 AM
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| Layout overflow? What luxury! The trains I have, such as they are, reside in a BIG blue box. The true tragedy is, the box is kept at my Aunt's. But it's alright, I have visiting rights most weekends and all this week!
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 08:12:08 AM
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My layout. Under it, hid behind the curtains, are many boxes of cars.
In another room are shelves with more trains.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 08:35:01 AM
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| Very impressive, toptrain. Are the cars alphabetized or categorized or just plain memorized?!
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 10:56:34 AM
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quote:Very impressive, toptrain. Are the cars alphabetized or categorized or just plain memorized?!
Originally posted by tykowolf - June 29 2010 : 08:35:01 AM
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Yoo-wolf, It is a adventure everytime I look for something. It makes my life interesting.
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 11:13:11 AM
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actually my house too small So any trains I get go into storage in the basement 
pics later
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 1:58:05 PM
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Ben, Use the basement!!!
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Posted - June 29 2010 : 5:30:35 PM
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I use the cheap metal 5 shelf units you get at Walmart for around 15 bucks each.
I combine two shelving units to double the capacity,and store the empty boxes at a friends basement.
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Posted - July 01 2010 : 04:17:31 AM
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quote:Yoo-wolf, It is a adventure everytime I look for something. It makes my life interesting.
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - June 29 2010 : 10:56:34 AM
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Random freight cars are fun! If I had that many, I think I'd organize them by road where I could and pool the rest. Best of both worlds!
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Posted - July 08 2010 : 12:46:01 PM
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 Well y'all wanted to know where my trains & race car sets are stored
under the stairs!
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Posted - July 08 2010 : 3:01:07 PM
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I'd like to have a basement about the size of Walmart!!!!!!!
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 Posted - March 20 2020 : 2:51:15 PM
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What do you do with your trains when there is a stupid virus scare.
I stare at them and wish that I was on a real one.
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Posted - March 20 2020 : 3:30:00 PM
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all trains are out of basement in my garage now
staying there until I move next door 
then after I move the layout building will commence!
Switches & crossovers I will need 
Edited by - microbusss on March 20 2020 3:31:25 PM
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 Posted - September 18 2024 : 11:53:07 AM
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I still look at my collection even though I do not run them.
May change later tonight if I feel like testing a few engines.
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 Posted - September 18 2024 : 12:49:16 PM
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ok moved 3 years ago coming up on 4
so still got trains in boxes but layout is up
also need to get some grey & black spay paint for the roads & erverything needs to come off
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Posted - September 18 2024 : 3:27:31 PM
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The "Film Noir" version of my collections
sixty times smaller not as many statues
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Posted - September 19 2024 : 01:09:22 AM
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LOL, lovely throwback to "Citizen Kane." Yes, we are much like Mr. Kane. Our most
precious "things" are the nostalgia and the deep pleasure it brings.
I confess my storage methods are simply awful and my attempts to improve it make it worse.
I keep thinking I'd like to construct a display cabinet to display my collection of Tyco
Billboard cars, but alas, they molder in cardboard boxes.
Here in El Paso, dust is a plague that never quits.
Have a few days off ahead, and look forward to some training time, having been given a
jump start by Ben the Microbusss. Point of fact, I have received so much inspiration
from members like WKS, DaCheez, Ben the Micro, RP Modelrailroads, what was the
name of the fellow who did repaints on the Hot Wheels??? Frank the TopTrain. I am
probably forgetting a few names of those who have given me such inspiration and
hours of enjoyment.
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Posted - September 19 2024 : 11:34:36 AM
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| Seen or GONNA see the Big Boy?
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Posted - September 19 2024 : 11:41:32 AM
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quote:Seen or GONNA see the Big Boy?
Originally posted by thesiding - September 19 2024 : 11:34:36 AM
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Oh I saw it already last year twice
in roundhouse & in Gering, NE which isa a couple miles south of me
hence why we call the Twin Cities of Nebraska
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Posted - December 29 2024 : 09:53:09 AM
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| Most of mine are boxed up.... It sort of looks like the end of Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark's where the Ark is put in the wharehouse.... Never to be seen again.
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Posted - December 29 2024 : 9:49:42 PM
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Similar to me but I keep them in draws in their boxes. Then I take out some to put on my floor layout.
Always good to see them even if you are busy. And this is the perfect time of the year to look at them.
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Posted - December 30 2024 : 1:36:20 PM
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mine are in my basement now & I keep finding stuff I forgot I had
plus this summer I got that elusive Chef Boyardee Italian Foods boxcar in the set at a big yard sale! 
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