Does anyone have a tool cart in their train room? I grew tired of having to look for tools all the time, and having to lug my heavy toolbox around. So I came up with an interesting solution. Why not use one of the Radio-Flyer wagons hiding away in the attic? I delivered newspapers for awhile when I was younger. Anyway, these wagons are great for toolboxes; a mobile seat for working underneath the layout, and can usually be picked up cheaply at garage sales. But, I did one better. Mine has since been painted in Penn Central MoW colors. All that’s left is to add the black worm decals.
The next one is getting PC blue/yellow…similar to what was on the FL9s
i don’t really need one…my workbench with all the tools is right there in less than 10 steps from the layout…my problem is organization , so what i did was put in one of those plastic nut and bolt carriers …the one with the zillion drawers and use it to store my tools…i also have a bunch of athearn blue boxes with the lids off of them arranged on my workbench for storing the most frequently used tools…chuck
Some of the guys in our modular club have purchased tool carts - they look like stacked plastic containers. They have wheels, opening tops, drawers, lugs on the sides to loop bungee cords on, pull out handles, etc. Especially useful when operating modules away from your home layout and needing a bunch of tools or storage space. I’ve been checking around local stores, waiting to see similar ones on sale. Might be another idea!
Fergie has CRASH carts?? Oh my!! Those names give me thoughts of locos and trains taking a header off the layout. ‘Parts cart’ would be safer, wouldn’t it?? But, they do hold a lot of stuff, don’t they?
I also use a sears tool box
it was $350 on sale $179 last one dent and sratch no refund all sales final
30 30 garrantee 30 second after you leve er somthing like that
I’ve got one of those, sort of–it’s a Craftsman/Sears project center on wheels with a built-in powerstrip. Got it at the flea market for $50 instead of the $180 it costs new, one drawer sticks but otherwise it works fine. I use it to hold my woodworking tools, and my modeling tools are in a large cookie tin and a couple of holders intended for leatherwork tools. My layout room is small enough where I’m never more than a couple of steps from my tool set.
My other “tool cart” is the one I keep in the living room. In order to encourage more modeling during bad-weather months (my layout is in the garage) and spend more time in proximity to my lovely bride, I have a kit-assembly area in the living room, on a small table in a corner. My wife prefers a tidy room, so rather than a big manly garagey-looking thing, I found a sewing chest at an antique store. This is a wooden box about 12"12"x24" that expands kind of like a fishing tackle box, with four smaller compartments and a larger compartment on the bottom. One compartment is for hand tools and paintbrushes, one for paint and other things in paint jars, one for for adhesives, and one for detail parts. Larger items like sheets of styrene or pieces of stripwood go in the large compartment. When I want to work on something I just unfold the sewing chest, break out an 18x24" cutting board I store behind the table, and start working. My wife likes it because I’m in the house more often and she can share in my enjoyment of the hobby, but it can easily be put away to keep the place from looking cluttered. She has learned to live with projects-in-progress sitting on the table for a couple of days.
Go to Chang’s Chinese tool store (or your local buy it-break it tool outlet) and get a few metal roll around double tray carts. They are a lot heavier than teh plastic ones, but don’t cost much more, and are fine in the train room.
I use several wheeled “crash carts” like Fergmiester however unlike the 30 30 guarantee that Budliner got, mine came with a 50 50 guanantee. (If it breaks in half, I own both pieces).
I use a Mac tool cart that I had way back in the day when I had to work for a living. It can hold up to 300lb. Yes, I need that with G scale! I use it regularly to haul around rocks and dirt for the railroad, and it’s the greatest thing to use as a mobile work bench for locos and cars.
I’ve got 2 of those carts Fergie has. I got them at Canadian Tire a few weeks ago on sale for $19.99. I wish I picked up 2 more. They hold a ton of stuff with good sized drawers. I have a small plastic Craftsman tool box that sits on one of them that holds all my modeling tools.
