Curious to know where all of you store your locos cars and etc. during the
operating season. Do you have a outside storage facility? Engine house?
Maybe a siding into basement or garage? Or do just carry’ em in out of the
house? I’m looking for ideas to ponder on for mine. I do know the easier it will
be the more I’d run them.
Hi Matt,
For now it is carry, carry, carry. Problem is that is exactly how small items tend to get damaged. I was cleaning my Shay today . Broke off another small plastic piece that supports the hose on the side of the loco. Glued it back on…again. This year will see another addition to my outdoor line which will feature a siding through my basement window. This will lead to a staging lane just above the washer and dryer. Plan on setting up my trains here and sending them outside. Should be interesting. Later eh…Brian.
Carry out, or as the Brits say “take away”
I’ll always keep my engines inside, but Im looking to store freight cars out in the garage in dedicated boxes. That will be for year round storage as I dont have to worry about finding a tiny family of eskimos living in on of my boxcars in winter.
Have double deck drive in parking garages in back porch.
The boxes are sealed and have golden rod humidifiers in each.
I keep adding and now can park 21 full length trains in the boxes.
There is a switch that directs each train to its parking slot.
Makes it easy to run, just open doors and run what ever.
Bud[8D]
BudSteinhoff, That was might next question I tyhought of after I posted. If you store outside, do you have humidity corrosion problems on Locos? I see you said you use golden rod dehumidiphiers(I WANT SPELL CHECK) in storage boxes. Do they have a web site?
For now it is carry back and forth at the risk of breakage as allready stated by others.
The plan is that stage two will see a small station built in the laundry for storage and operational interest. and so it doesn’t mater that if one particular loco is out that it gets forgotten that it should be left to cool before handeling it can be run in and the gas burner turned off and be left to cool.
regards John
I USE MY BASEMENT ,I HAVE SHELVES ON MY WALLS TO PUT MY TRAINS AND CARS, I MADE A LITTLE 4 WHEELED HAND CART TO TAKE MY ENGINES AND CARS OUT SIDE, I ALSO CAN RUN MY TRAINS IN SIDE.AROUND MY BASEMENT THEY HANG FROM THE CEILING , I CAN RUN THE SAME TRAIN INSIDE OR OUTSIDE.
BEN
Being lazy and not wanting to carry trains outside when we want to run trains, we ran our track from the garden into the basement. Each train is stored on a dedicated track.
The storage tracks are on a reverse loop so that when we pick a certain train(S) to run we just pu***he right button and drive the train onto the main line. The trains will run in and out automatically.
George
I have a purpose built shed/workshop that I drive my G-scale train into when I’m not using it. Anything that I am not using basically stay in their year round. I even store the buildings and temp track in their off season.
The workshop also houses my larger scale equipment, but their buildings are designed for all weather use (stays put), and a car port, if you will hoses these units in season but out of sight.
Matt,
I buy my golden rods from Harbor Freight, they have a web site.
Bud[8D]
I have a 12’x16’ workshed in backyard, and my GR runs into it, I built a enclosed area inside shed so dust and dirt won’t bother trains, all my electronics are also stored inside, I just have to open small door and the trains drive straight out, the shed also is wired for cable and phone plus has small fridge and TV
no need to ever come inside, just need heat now for winter operation
Mike-CT
If your shed is insulated you could install a small raidiant heater and run it off of propane or natural gas.
He could also eat boiled eggs and drink beer from that fridge and heat the joint with the resulting methane!
[(-D] A No Smoking will be posted too right?
My wifes favourite subject!! We have a nice welsh dresser in the dining room that’s very handy for the garden, that takes care of a few coaches and most of my freight wagons. Who wants plates on a dresser anyway? The locos sit on various window sills around the house and a couple are in my hobby room upstairs-much to far from the garden. Not very satisfactory really but needs must at the moment until something proper gets worked out. Gail is quite patient really!
Cheers,
Kim
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Mine live on shelves under the stairs. A bit of a chore navigating around furniture but far safer than leaving them in the shed/railyard overnight.
At the start of a running session, I place them on the track outside the patio door and send them down the to the shed.
Ian P
Engines and cars are usually parked on sidings but sometime left on the mainline. Our season is year round down here. After 7 years the only ill effects have been Bachmann windows haze and turn white and handrails/brake wheels disintigrated. Aristo has a lot of rust problems on truck springs. LGB and USAT have all held up fine.
I have stopped stabling my trains in the tunnels, as i have now lost two decoders during a monsoonal downpour.
I drive them under the sail over my pool and the eaves of the house put them side by side and cover with several towels, overnight. All engines are taken inside every night.
The component parts of the MTS are located in the pool pumphouse on a purpose built shelf. I take the radio reciever in and with the remote and cleaning block and smoke material and put the lot on the MTS equipment and turn the whhole lot off. I can get going or pack up and switch off in about 5 -6 minutes.
I have no off season for running trains; howver if i am going away I pack everything in their proper LGB packaging and store correctly in the garage with titles pointing out then l lock the whole thing up and set the alarm and release the Rotty.
Rgds ian
Matt
I store my locomotives and home made cars anywhere I can find a flat spot in the house. My two aristocraft cars are usually stored on the track on a truss bridge. Mother Nature has done a remarkable weathering job on them. Right now I am negotiating for some space for a cabinet in the kitchen for indoor storage for all of my stuff. The back door is in the kitchen so it would be very convenient. Also I wouldn’t have to wander all over the house to round up the trains and the fuel for the operator. You may want to consider keeping your trains close to where ever you keep your Budweiser.
Bob