Am I going mad?

Whoo whoo!

tut just found my train whistle

Steam radio went a long time ago! Do wish you old people would make some sort of effort to keep up to date!

No! It's very modern. It's electric!

classic Galen

Does it have a steam channel?

I've decided no!
I've bought a new tv instead!

Have posted a photo of one of our trains with steam up.

Wish I still had my Hornby...

When DS wanted a train set I bought one for his sister as well, oh the happy hours we spent.
I actually used to play with real steam trains, my father built and ran them at a model engineering club. If I can find a decent quality photo I will put it on the picture thread.

Just mentioned it because someone said they do not make them like that any more.
They do!

Don't think it would fit on my dining room table though?

Tornado! Had the privilege of having a day trip on Tornado. DH is a big steam fan, the trip was a present to him from the family - It was an amazing experience. The journey was lined by folk waving and taking photos. One felt like the queen, waving away at the nation!!!

A pile of magazines, the files for 4days tribunals in date order. A set of notes about PIP a large oval plate from jersey pottery depicting a salmon. The medications that have just been delivered. A Camembert baker. The charger for my luggie.
Gosh! It's practically empty!

Re Tornado. Earlier this year we were on a steam train at the Bo'ness preservation railway in Scotland. As it came to the end of the line, the guard announced we would be stopping for a while so we could see Tornado pass. What a sight and she sounded her whistle as she went by. I now have the sound of her whistle on my mobile. It certainly makes people jump and look when on the bus. Steam Dreams run trips pulled by Tornado. One Day(Big sigh).

Ga-len tell the truth now, fess up, what is on the dining room at this very moment ?
(wanders off wondering if one can be both hoarder and compulsively neat...)

that's 4ft not 4ft 00 (00 is the gauge)

Galen we built one on 8ft x 4ft 00..it had everything..been trying to find pics to put on profile but I must have got rid of them all..it is sooooooo absorbing! it takes over your making me! want to build one!

Anybody else seen the Tornado, a steam train built only a few years ago?
Last time I saw it, it was on the North York Moors Railway.

No problem Galen visitors can use trays; really friendly

It's more a question of room! I had the dining table in mind. It's about 6foot long.

I'm surprised you even had to ask Galen in view of the thread about sex stereotyping for boys and girls. Strike a blow for girls!!

My brother (when young) was allowed a spare room in the house to set up his model railway.you ran it from the centre which you ducked unde the purpose built surrounding platform to reach. He and my father spent hours with it. I was not allowed.
Still it gave me unlimited time with the microscope!

I know someone whose two sons had a model railway which took up all of their bedroom except the bunk beds and the space to let the door open and reach the beds. It ran over a couple of chests of drawers, along a shelf under the window, round the walls, round a curve behind the door, across the room on top of an old table, over a bridging shelf, and joined the top of the chests. all landscaped, on two levels and with no end of detail. To operate it, they ducked under the bridging shelf and stood in the centre, surrounded by trains and track.

When the boys left home, it was all sold off. My friend and husband moved to a different house, with oinly a tiny spare room, but when the husband became housebound, they decided to start again. The same kind of arrangement was set up in the spare room, running from beside the door over chests, round a corner and along under the window, round another corner and along a shelf over the single divan bed, and into a tunnel - a disguised hole into the built-in wardrobe, where it turned and ran along another shelf and out of another hole. This took it to the other side of the room door. At this point a detachable section could be added to join it to cross the door. To run it, you went into the room, closed the door, and attached the missing section. This time it was grandsons (4 of them) who loved it. They could sleep in a room with trains all round them.