hey folks,
am on holidays just now visiting a friend in Kansas City in Missouri! looked out the window this morning and saw some snow had fallen overnight whilst 6 hours drive away in oklahoma, they had 3 tornados touch down! (its the start of tornado season!) ...
anyways, after stopping at Arbys for some food, we headed to the only model store in the area! ... it was a model store in small town america, boxes and boxes of trains, locos, tracks, scenic materials, wires, switches, bulbs all over the place, nothing behind glass cabinets, you cud pick things up, open the boxes, spend time looking, holding, feeling things ... it was just wonderful. they had 4 layouts, 2 x HO, 1 x N, 1 x O scale/gauge ... something for everyone. i spent 3 hours in there and spent $90.00 on bits and pieces to bring back.
it was a wonderful experience, the layout were all running, not screened off, fathers brought their 5-14 yr old boys in to see the trains running and every single boy had pocket money and was buying something - i was thinking just how wonderful this all was - and this is how it shud be!.
of course everything in the shop was u.s. based stock, but they had kato american stock and peco track and electrics.
the guys runnning the shop said take as many pics as u like so i did - iv posted them here for you to enjoy too ... what a wonderful day iv had today!
looking out the window this morning;-
cold and hungry on way to model store :- arbys looked like they had just the thing! :-
arrived after 30 mins drive down the freeway, i was so excited!:-
inside i was like a schoolboy in a train shop! ... i had to look at everything! ...
some pics of the n scale layout...
then there was one of the HO layouts still under construction ... its interesting to see how it was built. they used an internal house door as the base ... then built up layers of thick polystyrene sheets (bought as insulating sheets for your home, so its fire retardent treated!) so its easy to cut out valleys, gorges and add more sheets to create mountains and hills!... i liked it. notice they used kato unitrack for this layout but once its got the balast and weathering, ud never know it was kato with the pre-formed base!
notice here the kato track pre and post weathering/ballasting - amazing how its disguised!
so who has heard of an EGG train then lololol
an american large gauge loco on a layout!
the wonderful old time shop ...with staff who like to chat about model railways! :-
it was a wonderful saturday day out ... sunday im going to be playing with my new track planning template lol
hope u all enjoy the photos!
am on holidays just now visiting a friend in Kansas City in Missouri! looked out the window this morning and saw some snow had fallen overnight whilst 6 hours drive away in oklahoma, they had 3 tornados touch down! (its the start of tornado season!) ...
anyways, after stopping at Arbys for some food, we headed to the only model store in the area! ... it was a model store in small town america, boxes and boxes of trains, locos, tracks, scenic materials, wires, switches, bulbs all over the place, nothing behind glass cabinets, you cud pick things up, open the boxes, spend time looking, holding, feeling things ... it was just wonderful. they had 4 layouts, 2 x HO, 1 x N, 1 x O scale/gauge ... something for everyone. i spent 3 hours in there and spent $90.00 on bits and pieces to bring back.
it was a wonderful experience, the layout were all running, not screened off, fathers brought their 5-14 yr old boys in to see the trains running and every single boy had pocket money and was buying something - i was thinking just how wonderful this all was - and this is how it shud be!.
of course everything in the shop was u.s. based stock, but they had kato american stock and peco track and electrics.
the guys runnning the shop said take as many pics as u like so i did - iv posted them here for you to enjoy too ... what a wonderful day iv had today!
looking out the window this morning;-

cold and hungry on way to model store :- arbys looked like they had just the thing! :-

arrived after 30 mins drive down the freeway, i was so excited!:-

inside i was like a schoolboy in a train shop! ... i had to look at everything! ...
some pics of the n scale layout...







then there was one of the HO layouts still under construction ... its interesting to see how it was built. they used an internal house door as the base ... then built up layers of thick polystyrene sheets (bought as insulating sheets for your home, so its fire retardent treated!) so its easy to cut out valleys, gorges and add more sheets to create mountains and hills!... i liked it. notice they used kato unitrack for this layout but once its got the balast and weathering, ud never know it was kato with the pre-formed base!




notice here the kato track pre and post weathering/ballasting - amazing how its disguised!




so who has heard of an EGG train then lololol

an american large gauge loco on a layout!

the wonderful old time shop ...with staff who like to chat about model railways! :-



it was a wonderful saturday day out ... sunday im going to be playing with my new track planning template lol
hope u all enjoy the photos!