For the last 2 years I’ve been buying up every subway set that MTH has put on the market. The train room is starting to look like the Coney Island Yards. This stuff is really cool for an ex-New Yorker like me. Anybody else modeling mass transit or traction ?
Mrcrrsupport:
Lots of Subway Talk here…check it out. www.modeltrainjournal.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=eca29f568e3e742ce2e12c3c2c4727e0
BillFromWayne
Subway fans and modelers are the nicest bunch around for the most part… There is a reason that MTH is selling these things as fast as they can get 'em off the boat from China.
Hello MRCRRSUPPORT,
Welcome to the forum. [#welcome]
I have two MTH subway sets myself. I live in subway starved Cincinnati. [:D] The city with the subway that never ran! I decided not to wait for the city to decided on a lightrail system, so I built a single station subway under my xmas tree layout a few years ago. It’s basically a dog bone layout with a 5 ft station. I plan to move next year with plans on roughly a N&W themed layout. However, there are definate plans for a five station subway beneath. One of the stations is to be completely enclosed and will be view by a small camera or two on the platform with the ablitly to rotate. I like to be an observer and look down the tunnels.
Nice subway pics DT. I liked that enclosure, complete with lights in the ceiling…
This is a friends layout that is still under construction. Maybe if Bryan sees his layout he will post something about it. (Sorry Chief, another buckeye on the forum)
He has two stations on his layout. The trains are MTH and controled by DCS.
tom
Nice Layouts!!! I am working on a layout myself. It is still in the track laying phase but hopefully soon, I’ll be in the wiring phase.
Wow! Those pictures from spankybird and dtpowell are fantastic! Great modeling, guys![tup]
About 5 years ago, while in a LHS that has since closed up, the owner/friend of mine tried to get me to purchase some subway cars that looked to be in O-scale - he knew I was originally from NYC and would appreciate them. After looking at what you guys put together - it revives my thinking!
I’m into HO - big time and just recently constructed a shelf system for my Lionel O-gauge Polar Express set … next I’m looking to construct a small S-gauge layout for some American Flyer trains that may come my way … Thanx to you two, I now need to figure out where to put a subway system!
Okay - what’s your advice regarding where to purchase these cars?
Does this EVER end??!!
See ya![;)]
siberianmo,
Check your local hobby shop first. If not, “Trainworldny” in Brooklyn,NY usually has a few sets http://www.trainworld1.com/index.html and “Island Trains” http://www.islandtrains.com/
Thanks for the compliment. The station is nothing more than foamcore board sitting on a couple of 1 x 2 's screwed into the base with long drywall screws. The ceiling is painted peg board w/xmas lights. Everything else is construction paper label making tape and details and people from model power.
Tom,
Thanks for those shots of your friends subway, he’s done a fabulous job, this just gave me a new idea for the next and final build. If I can do a cut away gorge I think I can do a lower level subway and then bring it up and then take it back down. Talk about giving your layout another visual dimension, wow. Thanks again.
Jon
dtpowell: Appreciate the url’s … no LHS’ around these parts have them.
Those photo’s really kick in the memory banks of my “strap hanging” days in NYC - but way back ‘when’ - “escaped from NY” in the early 60’s … I can still remember riding the subways with one of my childhood buddies up to the Polo Grounds to watch the NFL NY Giants play football - we used to sit in the end zones, where the prices were affordable for kids. We traveled the city underground so many times … One thing great about this hobby, regardless of scale, is that a layout surely can rekindle the memory banks!
Thanx![tup]
U KNOW I DO.