'Coming out' .. kinda

[FranknFurter]

.. ok .. this a hard one since only few men would like to admit it ... anyone else 'coincidentally' into that, too ...?



The famous 'Franklin and South Manchester' layout by George Sellios .. work of a lifetime



Observe your own physical reactions (pulse frequency, blood pressure etc.) while watching this .. if there's none .. you're either dead, something female(?!) (.. of which I admittedly don't know what would be worse.. ) .. or obviously just not affected

https://www.youtube.com/v/pNNEwdHy604?t=11

Cheers
Frank

[Paul Spain]

The topic title got me wondering, But when I clicked it I wasn't disappointed .YES I'm very much into electric trains in HO scale but I have no room now where I live to run them, Where I used to live though I had a whole mini city set up. I only wish they made trains in 1:64 scale that would suit Matchbox-Hotwheels,etc accessories. I still have alot of Hotwheels highway sets for road layouts but they now sit boxed up in my shed in storage. Someday after I rearrange things round this house I might rebuild my mini city.

[FranknFurter]

Oh I see ... 1:64 scale .. that's old S Gauge by Lionel Trains wasn't it, very expensive and rare nowadays .. same with me concerning space ... I still have a Marklin H0 C-track setup that I cannot build in my small tenement ..

Was different in my youth since I had a large room and a big layout then running there where I sat for hours watching trains run, was all being automatic with custom build landscape and stuff ...

I made tons of real cool Wintrack plans for a 40" by 80" 'extended door' layout (2x1m which is somewhat 'classic' in Europe and elsewhere while '4x8' is in the U.S., right?) these days but neither I have had the time nor the money (MR has become extraordinary expensive nowadays ..) to have finished it let alone a matching corner to fit in

Do you know this page: http://www.thortrains.net/index.html



Scroll down to 'S Gauge' and have a look there of how much space those would consume

[Paul Spain]

Oh I see ... 1:64 scale .. that's old S Gauge by Lionel Trains wasn't it, very expensive and rare nowadays .. same with me concerning space ... I still have a Marklin H0 C-track setup that I cannot build in my small tenement ..

Was different in my youth since I had a large room and a big layout then running there where I sat for hours watching trains run, was all being automatic with custom build landscape and stuff ...

I made tons of real cool Wintrack plans for a 40" by 80" 'extended door' layout (2x1m which is somewhat 'classic' in Europe and elsewhere while '4x8' is in the U.S., right?) these days but neither I have had the time nor the money (MR has become extraordinary expensive nowadays ..) to have finished it let alone a matching corner to fit in

Do you know this page: http://www.thortrains.net/index.html



Scroll down to 'S Gauge' and have a look there of how much space those would consume

Indeed, Space hogs, Also even though they say they are 1:64 scale they are infact 1:43, As the diecast vehicles they sell as accessories to go along with them are 1:43 scale. Hotwheels did make a train set once though that was proper 1:64 scaled but it looked spacy and stupid, nothing like a real train looks, Hence why they don't make trains no more I guess .