Running on the floor

[Guest ___]

Well, I went to Lowes and got a hollow core door, which  is now sitting happily on top of a folding table.

 

When I was looking to go back to school for nautical architecture, this was the most common method for building a drafting table for starving students. (I would assume the same could be applied for anyone in drafting)

[cteno4]

Well, I went to Lowes and got a hollow core door, which  is now sitting happily on top of a folding table.

 

When I was looking to go back to school for nautical architecture, this was the most common method for building a drafting table for starving students. (I would assume the same could be applied for anyone in drafting)

 

When i was a kid and working at the monterey bay aquarium when it was under design, i spent a lot of time building those 1' cube particle board units (with shelves, drawers, etc). used those for the bases and then lots of 2x4s, hinges, bolts, and hollow core doors to create a lot of drafting tables, plan tables, work tables, desks, etc. was pretty funny as we could reconfigure the whole office quickly as needed. i was building a 3/4" scale model of the whole aquarium slowly so as it grew in size it would force the work area to be reconfigured to fit! the hollow core doors keep amazingly flat. shows the physics of internal box cross bracing can do!

 

cheers

 

jeff

[cteno4]

Friction,

 

its a nice little unit, great if you want to do point to point, but will also just do pauses in a loop setup as well. just got my second and another jrm member just got two of them to run his ttrak street car on an 8' shelf (that may grow). nice thing is you can add the sensors in (the are like $1.50 ea) into any module you want then just plug in the configuration you want to run in. simple and clean and at about $85 shipped from enginetender.com its pretty cheap as it also is your throttle.

 

cheers

 

jeff

 

 

check out the thread on the ru21 controller.

 

I did a search for this, but came up empty. What is this thing? Where do I find it? Lacking real estate myself, it sounds promising.

[bill937ca]

I am looking for a table that will fit the Kato V11 track set, like from ikea or someplace? (not too expensive, but fairly good sized)

Help would be great.

 

I've recently noticed that Kato Japan uses several computer desks pushed together in setting up layouts.  Perhaps you could check out a second hand office furniture dealer.

 

 

 

 

Here's a triple track layout on top of computer desks.

 

http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/19/dc/5cb66b820d47d112e8499190aaeedb9b.jpg

 

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/jnr201series/e/eb8940618443fc33816a3469e68a3d5f

[Mudkip Orange]

http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/19/dc/5cb66b820d47d112e8499190aaeedb9b.jpg

 

OK, I think at some point that guy needs to stop buying 201 series and invest in some OTHER TRAINS.

That's pretty far into OCD territory.

[qwertyaardvark]

and i thought my overall goal of buying two of each train (to run in opposite directions) was too much... ^^;;

[bill937ca]

http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/19/dc/5cb66b820d47d112e8499190aaeedb9b.jpg

 

OK, I think at some point that guy needs to stop buying 201 series and invest in some OTHER TRAINS.

That's pretty far into OCD territory.

 

I think he has bought a Chuo line E233, but man you should see the 201 photos on his blog!  I think 2010 is a year of last trains in the heart of Tokyo.  The last 201 on the Chuo line and the last 205 on Keihin-Tohoku. Once they're gone you can't take more photos.

[Kabutoni]

Nooooo! My beloved 201 Series D: I hope they still run in September...

[bill937ca]

Nooooo! My beloved 201 Series D: I hope they still run in September...

 

Most were gone as August 2009, but I've read a few still run on some Chuo Line Rapid runs. When I'm not exactly sure.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_series

 

Here's a couple of Japanese language blogs with Chuo line and 201 coverage.

 

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/jnr201series

 

http://iko4wd.exblog.jp/

[disturbman]

Here's a triple track layout on top of computer desks.

 

http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/19/dc/5cb66b820d47d112e8499190aaeedb9b.jpg

 

I like the layout, any idea what could be the diagram for doing something a bit like it with Finetrack?

[cteno4]

A lot of japanese groups get together and just set up on tables like this for the day or weekend. many times w/o any scenery, just track and trains or minimal scenery pieces plopped down here or there. they seem big into showing big rosters or lots of a particular train types like this.

 

cheers

 

jeff

[bill937ca]

Here's a triple track layout on top of computer desks.

 

http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/19/dc/5cb66b820d47d112e8499190aaeedb9b.jpg

 

I like the layout, any idea what could be the diagram for doing something a bit like it with Finetrack?

 

I'll see what I can do, but it may take awhile.

[Martijn Meerts]

I found a table up on the attic which I'm making ready to have "Japanese style temporary layouts" on.

 

The table is an old one we used a long time ago to build a layout on, but I'm just changing the configuration a bit. It'll stay up on the attic along 1 side. We have one of those slanted roofs, so space isn't all that good, the table is fairly low, will be about 1 meter wide (that's as far as I can comfortably reach with the height of the table, can only access it from 1 side due to the roof) and about 2.85 meter long. I'll just stick on some grass mats, and then just build some layouts.. Starting small, and getting bigger after buying more track =)

 

Not exactly running on the floor, but still...

[disturbman]

I'll see what I can do, but it may take awhile.

 

No prob, I can wait. Thanks.

[IST]

Another temporary floor "layout" from Hungary. The early shape was planned by my friend, I made some comments about it, so you can see the final version on the picture. It has a lot of possibilities for enlargement, but this won't happen in the next few weeks or month, it wasn't a cheap action to collect all of the tracks and switches. As I experienced, some guys started to discover the positive factors of the Unitrack system here...

[Mudkip Orange]

That looks a lot like the full-page KATO ads you used to see on the back cover of Model Railroader in the 90's.

[Mudkip Orange]

Especially with the bright red truss bridge. Keepin' it old school.

[EWS60008]

Love the layout! .

[scott]

IST -- is that layout using DCC?

[IST]

Yes, it is powered by the Dynamis set from Bachmann, but swithces have no decoder inside.

[bill937ca]

Some recent on the floor videos from Japan.

 

 

 

[bill937ca]

Nooooo! My beloved 201 Series D: I hope they still run in September...

 

Most were gone as August 2009, but I've read a few still run on some Chuo Line Rapid runs. When I'm not exactly sure.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/201_series

 

Here's a couple of Japanese language blogs with Chuo line and 201 coverage.

 

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/jnr201series

 

http://iko4wd.exblog.jp/

 

 

 

[IST]

Hmm, good old topic, but I hope you don't mind if I post some pictures here.

 

Photo #1: My V12 set arrived on the last week, so on Sunday I started to build a new floor layout to run my new Yamanote E231 train set. It was 10:55 a.m when I started to plan and build.

 

Photo #2: Collection of Unitrack. The 2 V4 and  the V7 boxes are already empty.

 

Photo #3: The time when I finished. One and a half hour, not bad...

 

Photo #4: One end of the floor layout. You can see that I have to use double track instead of the single track, because I run out of it. :-) I also had to build a curved storage track because of the same reason.

 

Photo #5: The other end of the layout.

 

Photo #6: Photo from the end of the living room.

 

I made a short video as well, but because of the bad weather we have very few lights, so its quality is terrible, I did not upload it to the net.

[Lawrence]

I am looking for a table that will fit the Kato V11 track set, like from ikea or someplace? (not too expensive, but fairly good sized)

Help would be great.

 

I've recently noticed that Kato Japan uses several computer desks pushed together in setting up layouts.  Perhaps you could check out a second hand office furniture dealer.

 

 

 

 

Here's a triple track layout on top of computer desks.

 

http://blogimg.goo.ne.jp/user_image/19/dc/5cb66b820d47d112e8499190aaeedb9b.jpg

 

http://blog.goo.ne.jp/jnr201series/e/eb8940618443fc33816a3469e68a3d5f

 

Good grief, no wonder it took me so long to find a replacement front car for my set, he has them all!!

 

I wont be running trains on the floor as my good lady has bought me a shed, just need to get power & light to it and I can start building layouts again 

[The_Ghan]

Hey Laurence,

 

Mrs Ghan did that ... so I moved all her stuff out of the granny flat and into the shed and set up my layout in the granny flat.  I'm not having spider and moisture problems ... just wife problems ... 

 

Cheers

 

The_Ghan