What sign is at the entrance to your train room?

Here is mine:

At the top of the stairs:

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At the bottom of the stairs:

This is my sign going into my basement train room.

My very sexist oriented exterior doorway entrance sign along with the interior doorway signs.  Believe me, there are a lot more signs throughout the basement .😃😃😀

Mine was a copy of a sign from a station platform that said "Beware The Trains", white letters on red background.

Again I'm just a small operator. Sign is attached to the layout table which is adjacent to the pool table.

Just before the pandemic, my wife decided she wanted to replace all the moulding, interior doors and door jams in the house. For the layout room, I deperately wanted an office-style door with a frosted glass upper window, on which I'd have hand-painted "Offices, ET&WNC railroad" in a 1930s typeface.

Naturally, she shot that down and the room got the same door all the others got.  But this sign had to go atop it.

The 'no trespassing' sign inside the door I created from my own imagination, before good info on the only known real such sign the Tweetsie had (mounted on each end of the covered bridge at Hampton, TN) came to light. Eventually I'll recrate that sign but slightly smaller as the real one as 3X3 feet!

Once I do that, perhaps I'll mount it above the door in place of this sign...

@Yellowstone Special posted:

Again I'm just a small operator. Sign is attached to the layout table which is adjacent to the pool table.

Vern, That is a beautiful room and layout. Meticulously done.  Plus there is a pool table! I've never seen it from this angle.

You always call it small, I would call it midsize. Love the vanity plates, the Department 56 pieces, the bright red curtains and that air whistle. Very nice job.

Sign going down stairs to basement layout.

Ditto:

You have been warned!

@Wood posted:

Vern, That is a beautiful room and layout. Meticulously done.  Plus there is a pool table! I've never seen it from this angle.

You always call it small, I would call it midsize. Love the vanity plates, the Department 56 pieces, the bright red curtains and that air whistle. Very nice job.

Hey, thank you Wood. It’s been up and running for 11 years now. When the grandkids get tired of running trains, we play pool. 😉

But I still like yours better. A larger layout with more space for running trains and accessories. Love it. 👍

I'm still decorating the entrance to my work room and the in the clouds layout.

My brother gave me a brass plaque saying "I Don't do Scenery".   It is proudly displayed on the Run Room entry door.

Right Side

Left Side

Cheers,

- Mike

@Scrambler81 posted:

Geez, the entrance to my Evidence Room now seems wildly inappropriate.

Well, my workshop is a tad off-topic...

The former train room still retains traces, of course...

Mitch

Got the carpet a few years back  the kids love to come down there .one likes the vacume cleaner one likes the magnets on my work bench the oldest likes to take pieces of foamboard and tape them together and write messages thank goodness they enjoy comming in to my domain

A nice gift from this past Christmas. 3 year old granddaughter speak for "gramps".

Just so there is no doubt about what kind of trains are beyond the door…

The stairs down to the train bar, which leads to the train room.  Unfortunately the train room is a work in progress; maybe finishing the bar first was a bad idea...

@Central Terminal Jeff posted:

The stairs down to the train bar, which leads to the train room.  Unfortunately the train room is a work in progress; maybe finishing the bar first was a bad idea...

Jeff, That is a stunning entrance.  Good thing you finished the bar, friends will stop looking at the gems you have and hurry down for a beer.

Loosely translated, “ To the little trains.”

When we were first discussing adding on to the garage and turning it into a train room, we envisioned something outside that would identify and welcome people to the as yet unnamed railroad.

Now, three years later, from the street you see a two car garage. If you venture closer you will see an attractive 44 X 22 foot building with two garage doors on the right and a door and flowers blooming from window boxes under the two left windows. You might also notice a Ring camera/light. Given the changes in our city in recent years and the perceived crime problems, we are not going to advertise what is here.

So here is a photo of the back of the door. If/when we decide on a name, we will display it somewhere, otherwise what you see when you walk in is what you get and from the outside it is not exciting.

@Central Terminal Jeff posted:

Jeff,you win!

The train room.

There is no sign, no advertisement.  Just a nondescript basement door that I know is my exit to peace.

Here's mine. For context refer to episode 30 of the 1st season of the Twilight Zone.

Mine is a little bit of tongue in cheek humor courtesy, I believe, of the NYC subway system...

Steven J. Serenska

Here it is ...

My homage to the New York City Lionel showroom of the 1950s which had a huge mock-up of the PRR turbine engine greeting visitors.

Mine is "only" about 4' tall located over the steps to the basement train room. It was constructed of scrap wood and metal parts.

@Jim Policastro posted:

Wow.   

Not just the train room .        Judy wanted the lower level  ( train room / art room /sewing room / her project island /her crocheting area ) to have the seven dwarfs  🎵'heigh hoing and off to work they go '🎶  to be the sign for the entrance.

  (   so I grabbed three 12 ×4×6 inch pieces of wood and carving tools and paint for her Christmas present   )

Don't actually have a sign, but if I did, it would probably be something like, "Don't worry, dear, it's only temporary!"

@Dallas Joseph posted:

  (   so I grabbed three 12 ×4×6 inch pieces of wood and carving tools and paint for her Christmas present   )

Dallas,

"Wow!" right back to you!!!

Beautiful carving!

Jim

I am really enjoying peoples’ signs on their train rooms. This is fun. My train “room” isn’t really a train room. We didn’t have space in the house. We had a layout in our garage for a few years, but the garage was not large enough. Then my wife suggested we have a shed built in our backyard, and that’s what we did. It’s a 12’ x 16’ shed, and our layout is a two level, around the walls layout. So here are some photos I just took of our “train room sign.” Our layout is mainly Southern Pacific, but sometimes I run some Western Pacific.

@Jim Policastro posted:

My homage to the New York City Lionel showroom of the 1950s which had a huge mock-up of the PRR turbine engine greeting visitors.

Mine is "only" about 4' tall located over the steps to the basement train room. It was constructed of scrap wood and metal parts.

Jim,

This is one of my favorite displays. Love the look. I've been trying to decide what to do at the bottom of my staircase.  This would look great.