Lionel at the ceiling

Pantherphil. Are you still in West Chester area? Come on over with your grandson.

It just occured to me…

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Colonial Photo and Hobby in Orlando, Florida has a Lionel train that runs the perimeter of the store at ceiling level.

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-Kevin

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You are certainly entitled to your opinions, but I have to disagree. That’s like telling every kid with an oval of track on the floor that he doesn’t have a model railroad. That’s a bit snobish IMHO, although I doubt that is the way you intended your comments to be seen.

Ceiling railroads are every bit model railroads! The fact that they may be whimsical or lack detail and/or scenery doesn’t change that at all. The ceiling layout in the Peter Sellers Pub that I mentioned earlier is totally whimsical, it only has a couple of structures, and it is still very entertaining! I think it adds enormously to the ambiance in the pub.

No disrespect intended SPSOT. Just my [2c].

Dave

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I kind of thought the same thing, but Isaac is young and full of ambition to build a great layout at some point. Maybe his point of view is one of “hobby vs toy” and not the definition of a real layout.

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When I was in High School, and built my first layout with scenery, I became kind of snobbish about what a real layout was.

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I have since relaxed.

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-Kevin

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There is a burger joint called Fritz’s in Crown Center in Kansas City, Missouri that uses an overhead train to deliver food to the booths.

We moved to Willow Grove in1957. After HS I went to Lehigh in Bethlehem and Law School in Boston and 4 years in USAF. In 1980 moved to Maine and still here. Long way from Chester County. Did get down your way a few times in the 2000’s when my son attended Dickinson College in Carlisle. Saw him play baseball at F & M, Gettysburg, Albright and similar schools but haven’t been back for years. Thanks for the invite

Actually when we were remodeling tha house a few years back we put shelves over the bedroom and I thought of running a train there but the trains lost out to our teddy bear collection.

So buy a small locomotive and some large scale excursion cars and put the teddy bears in them![swg][(-D][(-D][(-D]

Dave