Anyone run train operating layouts?

[Aquanaut]

I have a second hobby...DCS Trains. (Digital Command System-remote control). I have been building and landscaping O-Guage since 2008 when I am not playing w/ the fishes. Materials are laminated polystyrien layers that are cut, ground, hot trimmed. Acrylic w/stain layers and ground misc. hobby textures. faux lambswool stapled over soft foam w/ applied dyes and textured. My board is 10' x 7.6' w/folding leg supports. Some day I'll show it off at the expo's and my TCA club. As I mentioned, DCS, I can run 3 sets at a time. As the DCS controls the power within the locos running variable power. Just go to my train album link in my signature.

Anyone else run trains? What Guage?

 

[tamarindthai]

that is very cool hobby O scale your set up,wow!!
i run train on control system full scale with BNSF railway ,,prob not help much

 

[fatboyt123]

I dont but my great uncle does. He had some of down at the expo at the washington history museum or somewhere around there haha. It was going on the weekend of christmas. He was also was in the newspaper Awhile back for his trains too. he has been doing this for like 50 years no though haha

 

[eww]

I have quite a bit of stuff in a box in storage. My dad built us a ping pong table sized layout when I was 9 or 10 for Christmas in the mid 70's. I think it's O gauge stuff but I'm not sure. It's 3 rail track with a really old big black box heavy transformer. There are two locomotives and several other types of cars. One locomotive has the liquid smoke you put in with a syringe. Funny how they gave us kids syringes to play with back then. There is also a Spirit of '76 lighted caboose there. I had a train shop tell me it was worth something quite a while ago. All the equipment was used when I got it so I really don't know how old some of the stuff is. It stayed with me until my late teens when I finally broke it down to clean up Mom's basement and promptly boxed it up and forgot about it. I actually thought it was lost forever years later after I moved out. When we moved my Mom when I was in my mid-30's I found the box and before my brother even got an eye on it I hid it away and took it home. He now knows I have it and every time it comes up he bugs me about it but I know him. He would just sell it all to make a quick buck. That's why I hid it from him when I found it. I tried to set it up a couple of years ago thinking we might put it around the Christmas tree but I couldn't get anything to move. I didn't put much into it and just put it all back away. Maybe some day...

 

[user 26995]

I love HO guage trains. My dad had some expensive locos he wouldnt let us play with.
I love setting up track and running the trains. My dad has sold everything he had though. I think. He is a real train buff.