Durango Station, Colorado
Photo #1 - Durango Station, Painting over fire place, with steam engine on mantle.
Photo #2 - Steam Engine on Fireplace Mantle.
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Durango Station, Colorado
Photo #1 - Durango Station, Painting over fire place, with steam engine on mantle.
Photo #2 - Steam Engine on Fireplace Mantle.
Click on Photos to enlarge
At my office I have a complete set of Pittsburgh area beer cars and engines. I also have a couple of cars from central New York where I spent a number of memorable years.
At home there are a couple of offerings from SMR Trains,true works of art,in my office/ TV room.
Norm
Ive got a book shelf in my living room just for trains, looks nice
Oh, let's see....
Coming through the front door into the living room...
There's an 11' built-in cabinet/shelves (wife and me project several years ago) on one wall. Currently among the bric-a-brac are found Sunset 3rd Rail NYC Dreyfus Hudson, ATSF 2-10-2, B&O Q4b Mike, a couple O scale structures/dioramas, a couple HO brass diesels (ATSF & DRGW), an All Nation Purina Chows reefer, and....oh, yes, the most important displays of all!!!...a couple Thomas wooden train engines: Millie and Daisy, in honor of our two Goldens of the same names!
Across the room on top of a buffet is my wife's latest acquisition....the LCT O-gauge Girl's Train plus add-ons....her 'Easter' train, actually (in the seasonal mode, of course!), inspired by the MTH display at York last April.
Across from that on an alcove wall is a beautifully framed/matted print of Fogg's The Great Race, depicting the 1930's Chicago near simultaneous departure and parallel tracks race of the Broadway and 20th Century around the south end of Lake Michigan. It's the perfect complement to the grand piano. Well, at least we think so!
Next adjacent room...computer central. And on the top shelf above is my wife's weakness from another MTH/York...the LCT 400E Blue Comet engine/tender. On the shelf just below are three HO structures, the center one of which is a scratch-built Santa Fe station from a 1955 Model Railroader article that Dad and I built over a period of 55 years. Yep, that's right,.......55 years! (Another story, another time.)
Down the hall in the first spare bedroom are several shelves on the walls with various HO engine/car/structure models, Strombecker wooden train models, railroadiana, a Sylvan O scale tugboat model (Scuphee), and most prized of all, Dad's 366W standard gauge set....that started my lifelong obsession!
In the next spare bedroom is an enclosed cabinet with three O scale structures/dioramas...Saulena's Tavern, Majestic Hardware, and BV's Freight Station.
Then there's the door to the basement! It's rather ho-hum, rather innocuous,...just another door. But visitors enter at their own risk to the psyche.
Yeah, well, there's not a lot left to the imagination as to what we're all about when visitors come a-callin'. And I didn't even mention the reading materials scattered about on horizontal surfaces in rooms hither and yon....including the loo!
Tasteful? Stylish? BH&G photo-competitive? .....maybe not to an interior decorator.
But to us?......
Happy, happy, happy!!
KD
None of my stuff is displayed in "The Train Room", it goes in the hallways upstairs.
I'm waiting for my next order of GSD shelves to replace the picture on the right side of this picture. Another 56 feet will go there. The GS4 sign will eventually come down for another location because that wall space is the perfect length for all the articulateds.
Up the staircase, but only so far because I have my limitations when it comes to ladders. The entire wall on the right is blank currently because of the same ladder limitations. I guess I will have to pay someone to put those up eventually.
My wife used to keep her 10E and passenger cars on display in the living room until one of the flags went missing. It's now safely stored with the rest of her Standard and G.
Absolutely yes.
I have a multi gauge display in G-O-S-HO-N-Z outside the train room. Numerous drawings and posters as well. All with wifey's consent of course.
in the living room
LaidOffSick, youve got a bunch of junk on your shelves Id be4 glad to help you get rid of all those ugly trains
Doug and Matt:
Like your taste in motive power. You have me thinking about 24 feet of pristine wall above the doorways in my den and how they'd look with a couple of passenger trains and a few CNW and ATSF locomotives. I'm wondering what kind of "get out of the doghouse penance" I'll have to pay.
Mike,
Yes, we do have a few trains displayed around the house, at my wife's insistence. She likes the trains and is very supportive in all of my train activities, both at home and at the clubs. If I mention a new locomotive, passenger set, accessory, etc. she will say "why don't you buy it. I am very lucky.
Entryway:
Lionel Century Club PRR 671 and De Witt Clinton
Hallway into train room:
Shelves in the train room:
Shelves in the laundry room:
Could you provide the manufacture and catalog number of this? I've been wanting an early American and this one looks nice and not so toy like, at least in the photo.
Well not an actual display, since receiving my Jawn Henry I just can't put it away. So the Jawn Henry and C&O M-1 sit on a chest in my bedroom.
Additionally my Pennsy S2 sits on the dresser.
Ron
I have an HO German worktrain in a display case on my bedroom dresser. Purchased a couple of pieces at a time during several work related trips to Germany.
My daughter keeps an engine & tender that I gave her several Christmases ago (maybe 7 or 8?) on top of a bookcase in her bedroom.
I have a prewar AF 3/16" engine & tender that I had planned to take to the office, but since I only work in the office a couple of days per week and sometimes travel, I keep forgetting to do so!
Jim
Could you provide the manufacture and catalog number of this? I've been wanting an early American and this one looks nice and not so toy like, at least in the photo.
Classic, Chuck, classic. I was waiting for one of these. I frankly am surprised nobody's made any "Big Boy" cracks yet!
Mike,
I prefer to keep the "good stuff" put away . Like the old saying, "Out of sight, Out of mind". I also own quite a few of the display cases. The longest being six-feet. Everything is in my trainroom.
Doug and Matt:
Like your taste in motive power. You have me thinking about 24 feet of pristine wall above the doorways in my den and how they'd look with a couple of passenger trains and a few CNW and ATSF locomotives. I'm wondering what kind of "get out of the doghouse penance" I'll have to pay.
Matt you need to take Rex's advice, I had found it very helpful. Estimate when this will take place. Go to Jarred and buy her a bobble(I purchased some charms for her bracelet,) quickly while she is at work take the day off and put up your shelfs then cook dinner for her before she gets home. Meet her at the door quickly feed her and give her the bobble, tell her you made a great decision by marring her.
Now when she sees the shelfs, tell her does that look great or what?
If there is any hesitation on her part tell her, By the way have I told you how great you look lately!
If all above does not work, divorce her and get another one that loves trains.
John
Could you provide the manufacture and catalog number of this? I've been wanting an early American and this one looks nice and not so toy like, at least in the photo.
Thanks.
Form my office at work.....made for me by a patient in the early 90s.
I have 2 exam rooms....one has a Civil War theme.....the other has a train theme....
Peter
I managed to talk the wife into a small shelf display in the corner of the bedroom...it costed me six months of hard labor, but it was worth it.
I have to give credit.You guys have done an amazing job displaying trains.Personaly,I wouldn't think of it.They collect dust and most guests ignore them.Such a shame.I would rather run the wheels off them on the layout as they were made for.Nick
Our house reflects the things that interest one or both of us. So a special piece of equipment displayed under cover (this is California where it's really dusty) is suitable. If I tried to display all the equipment that I treasure we'd have to move out.
I am fortunate in having an understanding spouse-but then we've worked out the rough edges over the past 56 years.
Now-to decide which model to display...maybe a revolving display would work.
We recently completed an 8000+ mile trip coast-to-coast and back on AMTRAK. I'd like to display a model of that monument to discomfort, an AMTRAK sleeping car, but it has to be scale, 1/48. The K-Line cars won't do-they aren't current AMTRAK-and the asking prices are just short of the valuation of the English crown jewels.
Oh, well, maybe Half-O
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We recently completed an 8000+ mile trip coast-to-coast and back on AMTRAK. I'd like to display a model of that monument to discomfort, an AMTRAK sleeping car...
I feel your pain. the small compartments are OK to sit in, but brutal to sleep in. Next time I'm bringing an air mattress.
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