Did any of you see the story in the current issue of MR about a layout on a ceiling? What are your thoughts on it. And would anyone consider using it? I can see how it can help modelers with limited space. Personally, I believe, it would hurt my neck too much looking up at it. So, let’s here what you think.
It is the April issue. Think April 1st.
[#ditto], thanks.
If you dilute polygrip with MEK solution and rub it on the tracks, it seems to work real well.
Jon - Las Vegas
Rob, after reading the article, I thought the same thing, my neck would hurt and my hair would look like todays kids hair. Also with my luck, an engine would fall on my wife or someone and that would be the end of trains. But it looked cool in the pic.
Tim
Perhaps its a future protype model railroad, for elder protype model railroaders when we get sent to the rest home.
There was some hobby store in Lafayette, IN with a loop of track high above everything.
April Fool!!
It sounds like a cheaper alternative. Is this from experience?[?]
It might be a good idea to wear a hardhat when operating.[:D]
Not quite on the ceiling but try these.
http://www.locoboose.com/
http://www.julestoytrains.com/
underworld
[:D][:D][:D][:D][:D]
[#ditto][#ditto]
After reading that story it made me think of how fast the year is going by. i can’t believe we’re on the April issue already.
Jesse
Time does fly when your having fun playing with trains.[:D]
I wouldnt even think about doing something so corny in my opinion but as someone else stated I also think it is a April Fool joke. Doesnt see to real or pratical.
If it is an April fools joke, it didn’t fool me, I was thinking, it would be to expensive to buy. And how could the train move with all that magnetic force around it. You might say, I fell for it. Well, no I didn’t, just wanted to know what y’all thought. You know, just playing along. Hehehehe[:D][8D][:)]
This is the problem with MR magazine being published a few months ahead of the real date. I mean, May is obviously due soon and it’s only what? March? Printing a funny April one story doesn’t actually mean a lot in February (or whenever it came out) does it? Anyway… let’s hope someone comes up with a good one on the real April 1st on this site! Chuckle, chuckle, chuckle!
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And what’ swith all this BOLD font stuff on this thread? Isn’t THAT annoying?
Not to me it’s not. If it is someone should say something, I’ll change it.
There was an “April 1st” article in one of the magazines over here this year (first time that I know of). Article in Model Rail magazine suggesting that a new control system had been invented that used a tube placed between the rails with plungers (attached to locos) being moved along it by compressed air. Quite a neat joke, as it was tried in full-size railways by I K Brunel (one of his less successful ideas - rats ate the leather seals making it impossible to maintain a vacuum to move the trains…), there’s a few surviving examples of the pumping stations though the lines themselves didn’t last long - more information here: www.thehistorynet.com/bh/blbrunelrailway/index1.html - hope it’s of interest!
Model Railroad has had a long historical (or hysterical) use of BOLD ideas in April issues.
Pressurized basement to allow removal of supporting columns. Requires use of an airlock to get in or out.
Modeling an abandoned roadbed. (The NOTRAK concept)
Rolling stock of the Undecorated railroad (real photos of prototype locos and cars that hadn’t been lettered yet)
Lunar railroad.
And so on.