My Toy Tractor/Train/Hobby Room
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Topic: My Toy Tractor/Train/Hobby Room
Posted By: Claus
Subject: My Toy Tractor/Train/Hobby Room
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:06pm
I have been adding shelves to my toy room, still need to paint them. I have been collecting toys since 1986 when i went to my first Farm Toy Show. I'm sure I must be a little off being almost 39 and still buying toys but I have a very understanding wife and sitting in a tavern has never been my thing. Thanks for looking.  |
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Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:07pm
  
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Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:08pm
 
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Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:09pm
 
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Posted By: Robert Mull Georgia
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:13pm
| Nothing wrong with that. Very nice collection. |
Posted By: BobHnwO
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 12:30pm
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WOW,some collection!
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Posted By: Skyhighballoon(MO)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 1:10pm
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Drool, drool....I love the train track running on the upper wall around the outside of the room...would love to do that myself in a room someday. I only have a AC few tractorsin my toy collection but I have a bunch of HO scale trains and a very basic 4X8 layout in the basement. I think Kip is the model railroading "god" here. Hopefully he pots as well. Mike ------------- 1981 Gleaner F2 Corn Plus w 13' flex 1968 Gleaner EIII w 10' & 330 1969 180 gas 1965 D17 S-IV gas 1963 D17 S-III gas 1956 WD45 gas NF PS 1956 All-Crop 66 Big Bin 303 wire baler, 716H, 712H mowers |
Posted By: Andrew(southernIL)
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 1:52pm
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Why no 7000 series tractors?
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Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 2:03pm
I have a 7080 that I started to customize years ago, I have some good ideas for it but truthfully Ertl did such a lousy job on that toy it's just not one of my favorites. |
Andrew(southernIL) wrote:Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 2:27pm
Here is my 7080. I added lots of parts, reshaped the front windows and made my own handrail. I added John Deere steps, they looked more like the real thing. Everything needed lots of filling and sanding, I had plans of giving the grille some dimension instead of just a decal, also more like the real thing. With the Ertl Precisions coming along like they have customizing toys is pretty much over. you can buy a precision toy way cheaper and they have better detail than I can do.
   
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Posted By: Leonard
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 2:52pm
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Very nice collection. Thanks for sharing. Leonard |
Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 3:03pm
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That is one teriffic collection. Love the trains.
Good Luck!
Bill Long
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 3:06pm
| Looks like you are having fun...keep up the good work. |
Posted By: kip in cny
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 3:15pm
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nice setup How big are some of those locamotives They look to be a foot or 2 long. P.S. Iam not the train kip he spoke about above. I just work for CSX ------------- 160 CA 920diesel 5020 HD-3 |
Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 4:42pm
| Wow -- and WOW!!! That is a really nice collection! |
Posted By: omahagreg
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 5:44pm
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Purdy! ------------- Greg Kroeker 1950 WD with wide front and Freeman trip loader |
Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 6:40pm
| Very nice! I'm afraid I don't have that much space to play with. I do have the same WD-45 poster (metal sign) that you have on the wall. I could just barely make it out. I also have one for an unstyled WC that is pretty nice. |
Posted By: RickUP
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 7:22pm
| Very nice !...... But where do you put all the junk? Maybe I just need to change my collecting habits. Again, nice work. |
Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 9:23pm
Two of my favorites. 
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Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 9:55pm
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Two questions
1 Do you have any American Flyer trains?
2 Can I come over to your house and play? That is if it is OK with our moms. You can come to my house and we can set up the Hot Wheels track.
It is good to see that I am not the only kid who never grew up. I started buying dropdeck AF train cars to pull around AC8070's and a Gleaner or two. Maybe someday this winter I will get my trains running overhead in my office as well. I need a larger case for my 1/64th hauling sets. The plan is to use a radiator top and buttom from a UC and make the sides and door in oak. I love what you have done. I thank you so much for sharring the fruits of your labor.
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Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 10:02pm
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My Uncle gave me his old American Flyer when I was a kid. It was the Blue Royal, it's still in my dad's basement, I had Lionel (not much as it cost a fortune) and HO as a kid. How much American Flyer do you have? |
Posted By: Kev Card
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 10:09pm
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Very nice collection, I"M 46 and still buy new farm toys as well Kev ------------- RC,WC,2 C'S,WD45,185 ,618 LT If it's orange and rusty Mary don't trust me |
Posted By: 1946WP
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 11:15pm
| with a name like claus you should have toys. I have basement full of toys also. I play santa for our family at xmas & one yr when my nephew was talking to his cousins they told him I was Santa. Well a few days later they were at my house and he went down to the basement. he came running up stairs hollering Dad, Dad , Bruce is Santa , you should see all the toys. |
Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 11:30pm
| I have a Silver Bullet link coupler and 3 others with the later style coupler. One of them is a 4-8-4. The SB was a new to me Christmas persent when I was 5. I am 45 now. The underside of the engine is printed Nov 1953. My wife hates Ebay, but i like it. And like you, I don't sit on bar stools either. |
Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 14 Jul 2010 at 11:46pm
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I am with Unit3.I want to come over and play too. SWEET is all I have to say.My Older cousins had a wicked Lionel train set when I was a kid.They wouldn't let me any where near it.Loading & unloading,coal,logs.rocks,cattle cars.I could only sit at a distance and watch.
Great collection and beautiful setup. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: Anthony
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 12:08am
| Nice room |
Posted By: B26240
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 7:16am
| Very nice collection!!! |
Posted By: Armand(AZ)
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 7:36am
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Wow, neat room!!! I am into AC models, but some folks just started a model train club here in Leisure World so I joined to be involved in the construction part. I have built four O scale bridges so far. Did you build the bridge in your display?? Once we get a permanent room for the club, plans are to put a G scale on the wall similar to your setup.
Armand
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Posted By: Claus
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 8:29am
 Armand I have always admired your custom builds! I had a guy custom build the bridge for me to the dimensions I gave him. It was really meant to be turned over with the train running through it but when I mounted it on the shelve board and ran a train through it it looked too small, so I turned it over and changed the decking on it.These trains in this pic are G Gauge, I went kind of crazy one year. I looked into running them on my shelves but my locomotives require an eight foot turning radius and I would have to be out into the room pretty far in the corners, I have six foot turns with my O Gauge. Those are 1/32 Precision Deere 9420Ts on the flat car.  |
Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 12:33pm
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where is this guy that custom builds 'brides'
I could not resist........................
My toys are bicycles.
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Posted By: Unit3
Date Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 1:00pm
| Nice catch Floyd, I saw it too. I think I will stand with my same "bridge" of 16 years instead of one of those mail order bridges. Mine has seen me safely over many a troubled water. Gotta love type O's. |