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