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Too Much Coffee
This is what happens when you read too many postings on TWP and drink too much coffee, you build things! I was trying to figure out what engines I wanted to keep and convert over to DCC and what I wanted to sell. So after rummaging through box after box in my work shop that little light bulb went off over my head....  Hey why not build the shelf you've always wanted to display your engines...  Should have gone to bed but I headed out to the shop and came back in the next morning with this shelf I made out of #1 clear pine and poplar shelving. The guy in Lowes must have thought I was nuts sitting there in the parking lot when they opened with what else a cup of coffee waiting to buy shelf clips. There were several revisions made to my original plan whihc was strictly in my head. The shelving only came in 3' lengths which only allows enough room for two big loco's and I made this thing strong enough to hold a real K4 so needless to say it wasn't the easiest thing to mount on my basement wall. Which when I hung it the first time! found out that the guy who built it must have had his eyes closed because it was out of square by a full inch so I had to block the back of the shelf to get it to sit square. I ran out of clips hence the reason for the barren right side and figured this shelf should hold should hold 2/3rds of my steam engines. I wish I could tell you guys that these are all brass engines but There ain't a brass engine in the lot. There's eveything there from Proto Heritage 2000 to Rivarossi old & new, Bachman Spectrum, BLI, IHC, yeah there's even a Tyco 0-4-0 in there too. and those diesels are Athearn Also PA's and Atlas GP50 and Kato RS3 were just sitting on the desk so I had to get them out of the way....
At least not yet
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03-24-2008, 06:19 PM
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Looks great to me!! Much better than leaving them in a box unappreciated.
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03-24-2008, 09:34 PM
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Thanks TD I remember seeing in one of the Great Model Train videos this guy who owned Intermodal systems had all his engines out on display and his advice was that even if your not running your trains they should be out where you can view and appreciate them. God knows we've all spent enough money on them so why not.
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03-24-2008, 09:56 PM
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I like the items on the 2 top rows!  close ups please?????
I had spare time with java as well......I'm still filling mine....
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03-24-2008, 10:09 PM
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mmmmmmm......here mine.....
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03-24-2008, 10:54 PM
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It's All TD's Fault!
Yeah, ever since I joined this website, I caught "HO Fever" and started putting up pictures, making stories, and putting a lot more time in the train room. My wife is really starting to worry about me, i'm wondering if TD has a link available for marriage counseling! 
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03-25-2008, 01:47 AM
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Originally Posted by Eastern Roads
Yeah, ever since I joined this website, I caught "HO Fever" and started putting up pictures, making stories, and putting a lot more time in the train room. My wife is really starting to worry about me, i'm wondering if TD has a link available for marriage counseling! |
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03-25-2008, 08:54 AM
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eastern road tell her that at least she knows were you are your not down at the local pub that what I tell my wife sometimes it work sometime it dosen't  |
03-25-2008, 09:02 AM
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bye the way great look display cabinets guys I tryed to fine the photo of mine but no wear to be found.any way it not as good looking as yours.
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03-25-2008, 03:25 PM
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Looks Great...and
Well there, that does look very nice, like the idea, right now I have a simple pounded together one in my basement that has boxes on it, will have to refine it a lot to look like yours, but I do see the EL's on that shelf...garret
ps...that one on the second shelf far left looks just about right...
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