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Re: My son's ceiling mounted model train

Very cool! I always thought having a train that went to different rooms would be cool!

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Re: My son's ceiling mounted model train

2 things.
first, can you get it up to 88 (scale) miles per hour? :p
and second, from the title I honestly was expecting to see it inverted on the celing. don't know why, but that's where my head jumped :p

looks cool bro!
 
Re: My son's ceiling mounted model train

That's cool! You should make a continuous strip to mount behind it from track edge to ceiling showing a town, the train station, forests, etc.
 
Re: My son's ceiling mounted model train

Drago Lordist said:
2 things.
first, can you get it up to 88 (scale) miles per hour? :p
and second, from the title I honestly was expecting to see it inverted on the celing. don't know why, but that's where my head jumped :p

looks cool bro!
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First- Haha that was my first thought! I sooo want to build a crude wooden DeLorean to push in front of it (not built to scale or painted...of course)

Second - Title changed...thanks
 
Re: My son's ceiling mounted model train

Firefoxm31 said:
This reminds me of the toy Disney monorail layout that went room to room, way cool! I would like to do this too but with a z scale Mk6 Disney monorail...
Will

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85CRC3ioSLs&NR=1

the model shown is my N scale narrow gauge Disney MK4 shell. the MK4 ran at Disney from 71-til 89 it was a 5 car train.
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That's pretty cool. I did some research on youtube to see what other people had done, and stumbled upon this guy....Holy Crap!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt367afSbwg
It's very well built, but just a bit too much in my opinion.
 
Re: My son's wall mounted model train

I had that when I was a kid!
What a cool dad you are!
Now, put a DeLorean model at the front of it and you are set!
 
Re: My son's wall mounted model train

That is great, how did you attach the strait runs to the wall?
 
Re: My son's wall mounted model train

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Re: My son's wall mounted model train

So I made a little more progress today. I went ahead and cut the holes for the train to go into the next room. The tunnel goes through a small closet in the next room so it's about a 3 foot tunnel. I'll have to wait a bit to buy more track to finish the loop but the hard part is done at least. It will look much better once I finish it and clean it up. I'll either put a stone tunnel portal around the hole, or I'll trim it with moulding. Then, of course, I still need to decorate the room.

It's getting there.

Entrance and exit to the tunnel.
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View from the next room. You can see the door to the closet that it goes through.
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