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<blockquote data-quote="James M. Lewis" data-source="post: 180533" data-attributes="member: 6354"><p>Hi everyone, well this is my second weakness<img src="/images/smilies/pirate.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":pirate:" title="Pirate :pirate:" data-shortname=":pirate:" />. Model railroading<img src="/images/smilies/onthego.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":onthego:" title="Onthego :onthego:" data-shortname=":onthego:" /> Remember those Lionel trains back in the 50's, that was me until I went in the army as a 18 year. My dad got me involved when I was 5 years old and every year we went to the Lionel Headquarters every Christmas in Mid town Manhattan, NYC. Lost interest while in South Vietnam, think you can understate why. So my parents donated the hold layout about $500.00 in 1960's prices then to a children hospital. Worth over $20,000.00 today, but all is good. It was while station in West Germany that I got into model airplanes hot and heavy. It was a perfect fit since I was already in a helicopter unit for the last 4 years. Belong to a American German club and met some of the nicest folks in the world. AN army pilot took me under his wing and taught me how to fly. Back then there were no foam kits and all planes were made of balsa with small non electric engines. No S.A.F.E. , gyros or any other system available. Stay with that until returning to the states in 1975, we were station at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn New York. So I had all these large model airplanes in our base housing and no where to really store them<img src="/images/smilies/nightmare.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":nightmare:" title="Nightmare :nightmare:" data-shortname=":nightmare:" />. Found a fellow soldier who was going to be station in Europe, so I sold everything to him. He was happy and I also was happy with a pocket full of money<img src="/images/smilies/peaceful.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":peaceful:" title="Peaceful :peaceful:" data-shortname=":peaceful:" />. My brother in law who was a NYPD officer got me interested back in model trains. And the rest is history since then. Every year got more involved in the hobby to the point started scratch building everything except the trains. Built a model train layout in every place we were station. Several years ago year 2000, in our present home built a layout that filled the garage minus space for the washer and dryer. That year hosted a model railroad tour group that 40 people visited my home. These are just a few photos of another one that's 2.5' x 8' double deck layout that been working on for past 15 years. Total weight is about 200 lbs<img src="/images/smilies/1zhelp.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":help:" title="1zhelp :help:" data-shortname=":help:" />. 95% of the buildings are made by hand with complete detail interiors with both inside and outside lighting. There are over 50 vehicles and at least 500 hand painted people ( use a set of jeweler glasses for this fun task). All trains are run by digital command control which means they have a small decoder receiver in the engines. Thus allowing you to run as many as 50 trains on a layout at one time. Each one set at it's own speed. Similar to 2.4 Ghz for model aircraft, remember the old days in the hobby when you were flying on 27 or 72 mhz with a small flag? Well model trains still run on DC but have to have block control to rule more than one train. I would say this layout is worth about $5,000.00 with all the time, equipment invested. So what I did two years ago is gave this completed layout to my grandson for Christmas<img src="/images/smilies/semi-twins.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":semi-twins:" title="Semi Twins :semi-twins:" data-shortname=":semi-twins:" /> And NOW besides enjoying the fruits of model aviation again hand building two more train layouts for my other grandsons<img src="/images/smilies/onthego.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":onthego:" title="Onthego :onthego:" data-shortname=":onthego:" /> Best regards, Jim</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James M. Lewis, post: 180533, member: 6354"] Hi everyone, well this is my second weakness:pirate:. Model railroading:onthego: Remember those Lionel trains back in the 50's, that was me until I went in the army as a 18 year. My dad got me involved when I was 5 years old and every year we went to the Lionel Headquarters every Christmas in Mid town Manhattan, NYC. Lost interest while in South Vietnam, think you can understate why. So my parents donated the hold layout about $500.00 in 1960's prices then to a children hospital. Worth over $20,000.00 today, but all is good. It was while station in West Germany that I got into model airplanes hot and heavy. It was a perfect fit since I was already in a helicopter unit for the last 4 years. Belong to a American German club and met some of the nicest folks in the world. AN army pilot took me under his wing and taught me how to fly. Back then there were no foam kits and all planes were made of balsa with small non electric engines. No S.A.F.E. , gyros or any other system available. Stay with that until returning to the states in 1975, we were station at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn New York. So I had all these large model airplanes in our base housing and no where to really store them:nightmare:. Found a fellow soldier who was going to be station in Europe, so I sold everything to him. He was happy and I also was happy with a pocket full of money:peaceful:. My brother in law who was a NYPD officer got me interested back in model trains. And the rest is history since then. Every year got more involved in the hobby to the point started scratch building everything except the trains. Built a model train layout in every place we were station. Several years ago year 2000, in our present home built a layout that filled the garage minus space for the washer and dryer. That year hosted a model railroad tour group that 40 people visited my home. These are just a few photos of another one that's 2.5' x 8' double deck layout that been working on for past 15 years. Total weight is about 200 lbs:help:. 95% of the buildings are made by hand with complete detail interiors with both inside and outside lighting. There are over 50 vehicles and at least 500 hand painted people ( use a set of jeweler glasses for this fun task). All trains are run by digital command control which means they have a small decoder receiver in the engines. Thus allowing you to run as many as 50 trains on a layout at one time. Each one set at it's own speed. Similar to 2.4 Ghz for model aircraft, remember the old days in the hobby when you were flying on 27 or 72 mhz with a small flag? Well model trains still run on DC but have to have block control to rule more than one train. I would say this layout is worth about $5,000.00 with all the time, equipment invested. So what I did two years ago is gave this completed layout to my grandson for Christmas:semi-twins: And NOW besides enjoying the fruits of model aviation again hand building two more train layouts for my other grandsons:onthego: Best regards, Jim [/QUOTE]
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