Tonight I built a bonfire which contained a lot of my old layout.
I toasted marshmallows.
Anyone else ever burnt a layout and toasted marshmallows?
Chip,
No pictures of the looting and carnage?
Tom
I’ve used (and still using) parts and pieces for kindling in my wood burning stove.
Rick
Chip,
Ya know, I usually build my layouts with lots of Styrofoam.
Not sure I’d want to be anywhere near it when it burns.[xx(]
And I’m very sure I wouldn’t want to eat marshmellows roasted on it.[dinner]
We used a lite weight McCulloch chainsaw to cut out sections of the old layout during the rebuilt but,no bond fire and no mashymellows.
I didn’t burn the styrofoam parts. Didn’t burn the wiring either.
Chip,
WARNING: Flaming model railroad layouts contain chemicals known to the state of California to cause cancer and birth defects. KEEP OUT OF THE REACH OF CHILDREN.
Sue [(-D][(-D][(-D]
sounds like something we all are doing
what gives
did you just say F it and give up
Ken
The parts of my old layout are being recycled into my new layout. The parts that couldn’t be recycled barely half-filled a trash can.
As far as a bonfire - hard to burn galvanized steel![(-D][(-D]
Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
No, but I have a friend that ruined about twenty pounds of meat one time trying to BBQ with wood from a Chinaberry tree… What made it worse was that it was pouring down rain when he was trying to do this, and every kind of blood sucking insect in nature was feeding on him at the same time. Typical summer camping trip experience…
Tracklayer
Ive burnt doors that were no good and were replaced with new doors and a few other odds and ends. The weather here has not really supported burning these days.
Quite a few times over the past 30 years.
Once, WAY back in high school, I took a pain-stakingly constructed tall trestle and tried to make it look scorched, like it had been through a forest fire. While still on the layout I put a bit of charcoal lighter on it and held a match to it. Nothing. So I put some more charcoal lighter on it and held another match to it - whoosh! Flames leaping to the ceiling. After a few seconds, I snatched it off the layout, threw it on the floor and stomped it out. Not much left to go back on the layout!I thought I would be toast when my dad found out, but he just laughed.
Does that count?
[(-D]That’s priceless![(-D]
Well, in failing to make it look burnt, godzilla would be a good subsitute!
Alec
Everything is known to cause cancer in California. I’m beginning to think California causes cancer in California!
That almost ranks with the famous E.L. Moore article from way back, I think in Railroad Model Craftsman, where he constructed a really nice model of an explosives factory and wanted a picture of it blowing up. He blew it up but it didn’t look that great in the photo so he built it all over again and blew THAT one up. And it was a really nice looking structure, as most E L Moore buildings were.
By the way, given the price of plywood and pine these days I’d do almost anything I could to reuse the basic parts of an old layout rather than scrap them or burn them. Some of the best plywood in my basement is from 1) my original original train board that my dad built for me circa 1960 and 2) the sides of the laundry chute that came with our house circa 1952 and which I took down when we moved in. Now THAT, kids, was plywood.
Question: does the smoldering glue from burning plywood add flavor to marshmallows?
Dave Nelson
I have been known to tear out pieces and re-do … but no fire. I’m sure the garbage man has seen stranger stuff.
Regards,
I said that a couple months ago. Starting a new layout. Just cleaned my garage yesterday. the old layout was in the way. I stripped what I could salvage and burned or trashed the rest.
Larry goes into California weekly. Do you think he needs a special rider on the life insurance?
Sue