First "Wall of Trains" Complete

Beautiful display and. Collection....i gotta get my weight up....lol

Nice job fitting them all in.  On to the next wall?

Yep, I'm clearing out boxes along the one wall so I can fix the wallboard in preparation for a bigger set of shelves.

Very impressive collection and display, John, but with all that open shelving, exactly how are you planning to handle the dust which will undoubtedly settle daily on those uncovered engines? Even the newest HACV systems don't completely filter out dust, so aside from installing glass doors over your display, how will you be combating the problem of dust collecting on all those engines? 

Well, other than breaking out the air compressor and gently dusting them, the dust will be "weathering".   I'm not seeing glass doors in the future here.

very nice John! ...guess I wont be seeing any freebees coming my way?? 

ogaugeguy posted:

Very impressive collection and display, John, but with all that open shelving, exactly how are you planning to handle the dust which will undoubtedly settle daily on those uncovered engines? Even the newest HACV systems don't completely filter out dust, so aside from installing glass doors over your display, how will you be combating the problem of dust collecting on all those engines? 

My "Museum", as I and my friends call it, has "walls-o-trains" (not many). This room is a spare bedroom in the house.

Simply put, they get dusty. Of course, some of mine spend time on the layout, too. Some are weathered. Some came dusty, were dusted, and got dusty again.

I brush mine with a feather duster a couple of times a month. It helps. But I'm not the fastidious collector some people are. Dust is a fact of life, and I don't fight it to the death. 

harmonyards posted:

very nice John! ...guess I wont be seeing any freebees coming my way?? 

I tend to think not.

D500 posted:

Dust is a fact of life, and I don't fight it to the death. 

Bingo, I'll keep them as clean as possible within the bounds of reasonable cleaning, but I'm not going to go crazy.

John,

Looks good.  Always feels nice to have them out on display rather than hiding in their boxes.

I see your wall and raise you a panorama of a wall. 😉

Looks great John!  Congrats on getting the first wall covered!

-Greg

Congratulations John.  Does that make you an "official collector" or just a displayer?  Don't let anybody give you a bad time about the dust, when we dust our trains is the only time we pay attention to our "shelf queens" anyway.  And if your like me, we wouldn't be able to get much for most of them anyway so we might as well display them and enjoy them.

Art

Look for a used Rainbow vacuum w/ a hand held soft brush attachment as it filters the incoming air through water and has a 100% capture rate - virtually NO dust returns to the room.  Have had one of these for over 30 years now and its terrific. Call him 'R2 D2'....

I hope you didn't buy these trains for an investment.

gunrunnerjohn posted:

Well, I think I'm out of options to fill this wall, nothing else is going to fit!  I have to start on another section of shelves.

69 powered units, dummies and/or B-Units not counted.

Whew!  For a second I didn't see the Wiener Mobile but there it is.  Fourth shelf from the bottom. 

Geez, I would need the Taj Mahal for mine..

eddie g posted:

I hope you didn't buy these trains for an investment.

Trains are an investment in making one's self happy!

John,  the wall looks great, nice job.  You really have them packed in there.

hi John the walls looks great! how Is your layout coming so far in your new house?

Nice wall of power, John.

Oh, to have a wealth of vertical walls.  Most of the attic walls around my layout have this peculiar inward lean to them, less suited to efficient shelving.  Serves me right for buying a house without a decent sized basement.

Appears to be built in a stairwell?  That is where I'll be expanding next.

Bruce

It would be interesting to know the total weight of all the wall is holding up.

As for doors, dust will still get in. Obviously not as much, but, it will still get in. However, being that this is an open display in a traveled area, doors would protect against things hitting or snagging the collection.

Nice John!

All I can say John is WOW! Looks great!

Looks great John. It appears you sorted by random. I like the choice. 

Don't worry about the dust. Just keep everyone out of the train area, don't run the trains, and you will minimize the dust. 😉😉

Gerry 

Wiener Mobile needs to be at eye level.

Charlie

Chris Lord posted:

John,

Looks good.  Always feels nice to have them out on display rather than hiding in their boxes.

I see your wall and raise you a panorama of a wall. 😉

Looking good Chris. It would look better if it had NJHR beer cars instead of 2 trains of cartoon characters. 

Gerry 

Back wall of my garage.

Inside the house almost completed. Side wall has 15- 18 inch shelves behind me.

All shelves are 1x4 that are 7 feet in length and stained. Floor to ceiling is 19 shelves since we have 9 foot ceilings here. I used 1x3 strips that are attached to all the shelves and were placed where the wall studs are. Missing is the MTH scale big boy that is on the floor now. Too heavy to put on shelving!!

Looks great John!

Amazing display of beautiful trains. Thanks for posting. Also, a beautiful new home, so, keep us updated when you begin building your dream layout. Very nice display. Happy Railroading

Chris Lord posted:

John,

Looks good.  Always feels nice to have them out on display rather than hiding in their boxes.

I see your wall and raise you a panorama of a wall. 😉

I surrender! 

Of course, I may have enough cars to do that, just haven't gotten them out yet.  I don't have a nice wall like that to put them on, but I'm going to do the best I can.

gmorlitz posted:

Chris Lord posted:

John,

Looks good.  Always feels nice to have them out on display rather than hiding in their boxes.

I see your wall and raise you a panorama of a wall. 😉

Looking good Chris. It would look better if it had NJHR beer cars instead of 2 trains of cartoon characters. 

Gerry 

What?!?!??!?!  The guy who lives the Hershey life is giving me a hard time about Disney trains?  LoL.

Thanks all, the display is part of just getting the boxes out of the way, I have all of the boxes for the locomotives stored in the attic.  However, still a ways to go...

I'm trying to clean off the 22 foot wall so I can put more shelves up.  I also have a smaller wall, that will get some shelves as well.

Chris Lord posted:

Whew!  For a second I didn't see the Wiener Mobile but there it is.  Fourth shelf from the bottom. 

Of course I made room for that one.

Big Jim posted:

It would be interesting to know the total weight of all the wall is holding up.

I thought about that, but the shelves are screwed into every stud, and I figure there's between 400 and 500 pounds there.  I don't think weight is a problem, though there is a bit of "poundage" there.

John,

Nice display, I like it. Please continue to post pictures of your trains and your layout once you get it started. You can never have to many pictures.

I love pictures too Jim, I'd like them more if they were of completed benchwork, I'm getting very itchy!

John, it looks great.  Please keep us posted.

Marty

I'll bet it feels great to have that bit completed in your new place.  Nice to see a bit of your collection displayed so well!

Chugman posted:

Congratulations John.  Does that make you an "official collector" or just a displayer?  Don't let anybody give you a bad time about the dust, when we dust our trains is the only time we pay attention to our "shelf queens" anyway.  And if your like me, we wouldn't be able to get much for most of them anyway so we might as well display them and enjoy them.

Art

Art/GRJ

Sorry if the tone of my post gave either of you or anyone else the impression that my intention was to give John or anyone else "a bad time" about dust on their trains. It is as D500 said, "a fact of life" and I was wondering how John was going to handle it. To combat dust, some of my favorite locos are in a glass enclosed bookcase while a few of my prized Strasburg RR ones are in eight 4ft. acrylic display cases along a wall. Maybe it's just my ocd tendency showing itself but I really am curious about the dust factor.

IMO, John, you are doing a fabulous job with those shelves and I didn't mean for my post to detract from that fact or imply otherwise.  

Looking great John, can't wait to see the next wall of trains you set up

Alex