Conversation Between Jay H 237 and myltlpny

Happy New Year to you too!

The Rapido sounds pretty cool. Where I am it's definitely that time of year to be working on the trains instead of the car. I've been working on a Mantua steam kit, it will be the first steam engine I have. Even though my era is diesel I figured I could always have a few steam for excursion type trains. This is taking longer than I thought to build but it's coming along, there's alot of filing and fitting parts. It's been my main project the 2 weeks I've had off over Xmas and New Years break.

Jay

Happy New Year, Bud.
I'll have to send you some pictures of my new Rapido Turbotrain set. Waaaaay cool!

Hi,

It's neat to find someone else into trains on this forum. I have a 13' x 9' L shaped HO layout in my basement.

I started with trains when my parents bought me Lionel back in the late 70s-early 80s. I still collect some O scale Lionel, MTH, and Williams and have a small layout for it that goes under the tree at Xmas. O scale is just too expensive for me to do a large layout with it though.

I have quite a bit of N scale that I started to do a layout with before changing my mind and going with the HO. Someday in the future I may unpack some of it and do a small coffee table layout or something.

Lastly I have 3 pieces of G scale ( a RS-3 and two 40' boxcars ) that I use as display pieces on a shelf above my TV. I have never run the RS and have no current plans on doing any layout with the G scale.

Jason

Nice profile page. I'm a train nut myself.