Let's see your train display or storage. shelves.

@naresar posted:

@SANTIAGOP23 Your images don't seem to be loading which is a shame because you probably have some beautiful models on display.

Weird… let me know if you see them now…

@Brother_Love posted:

I use the area under my layout for storage so I placed shelves over my backdrop.  I painted them my sky blue color and I am happy with them.  I made the shelves in my wood shop.

I've been thinking about doing something like that ... I ran out of wall space years ago ...

All very cool!

@Mike Casatelli posted:

Nothing so grand as many of those in this thread, and it's been posted several times before, but there is a recent addition - on the floor -

Cheers,

- Mike

All very cool but this, that’s neat the curved glass shelves for the entire train! NICE 👍 💪

I am a little shy with my collection; rather not post publicly. I do set up some passenger equipment up in the TV room along the ceiling 😁 . Right now my PRB and Key 14 car 1940 Daylight is on display. Wife allows it …fir now 🙄😂

@Mike Casatelli posted:

Nothing so grand as many of those in this thread, and it's been posted several times before, but there is a recent addition - on the floor -

Cheers,

- Mike

Mike, Those glass shelves are impressive!  I'd love to learn more about how you had those made?  How are they mounted?

@SANTIAGOP23 posted:

Weird… let me know if you see them now…

Yep, looks great

I used an old bookshelf to display some of my engines. I added a tiered shelf to squeeze in a few extra.

I get it now ... "Honey, I found a great way to eliminate the cost of having to buy a background for the layout. I just need to simply buy more trains and wall shelving."

Ingenuous     

Here is my wall displays

Well this is a great thread, the pictures of all your collections are super.  Mine are more modest and are in two parts.  I have a glass front storage case in my office/den for mostly early and pre-war trains + plus a modest collection of clockwork boats (mostly Suitcliff).  Then I have train room shelves for much of the rest, but even so a fair amount is packed away in plastic containers...(really of no use to anyone but I do  not have the room to display it all)

This is the glass front cabinet downstairs.  My wife found this cabinet (no insides) at an antique fair when we lived in Boston for one year.  We refinished it and put in glass shelves.

Upstairs in the train room, I have sort of surrounded the layout with shelving.  This plain, white pine painted shelving came out of a drug store that was closing in Dayton, Oh...his business was in the basement of the office bldg where my wife worked as a nurse for a pediatric group.  She found out he was leaving and asked about the shelving (it was perfect for trains as it was narrow, designed for small boxes and bottles).   She negotiated a very small price, given we agreed to remove it from the space before a certain date (which we were going to do anyway)...So it became my train display shelving.  We have had it now for over 30 years.

Here is a better view of the main (longest) wall display.

Last year I wanted to display some sets I have acquired and used Snyder shelving on the remaining open wall.

Best wishes and Happy railroading

Don

@PRRick posted:

Mikey.,

You have a bathroom in your train room? You win!

LOL!  I still recall touring Ed Prendeville's basement during the 2015 TCA Convention tour and seeing the bathroom in the basement.  There was a nice display of trains behind glass doors in the bathroom. 

One of my fancy shelves:

Similar to what Tom Densel did, I made train storage drawers.  Here is one I made recently, before and after I put it under the staging area.

This entire thread has some absolutely beautiful examples for shelves, cabinets, and drawers! I don’t have anything to share yet as I’m still rebuilding the layout and currently painting the room. I’m getting some great ideas here though. Thank you everyone for sharing!!

One project for this year is to add shelves down the right side of the layout. Ours are about at capacity.

My simple shelves. 8' sections. 1x4 pine and tile edge.

Bob

Easy project, rough sawn pine with 3/4" assorted pipe fittings,

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@oldpirate posted:

Easy project, rough sawn pine with 3/4" assorted pipe fittings,

Cool look with the pipe fittings, I like it!

Here's Mine......

@452 Card posted:

Here's Mine......

I like that. Homemade or kit?
Jim

@oldpirate posted:

Easy project, rough sawn pine with 3/4" assorted pipe fittings,

Love it!!! Thank you for sharing! 👍😎

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

Cool look with the pipe fittings, I like it!

Thank You very much,

Good Everning Forumites, I apologize first for the late night or really early morning entry and secondly for the clutter that appears in some of these photos but the layout is still in progress, so excuse me.  Nonetheless here are my display and storage shelves

I’m in the process of replacing my basement floor fastrack layout with benchwork.  I lost some shelf space. Ran into this at Home Depot and two of them butted back to back give me 24” of depth to get better storage density and use unused space under the benchwork.  ClosetMaid 32”x24”x12” cube storage organizer