Anyone else do HO scale Modelling?

You've got to get it out and have a play with it!! :) @ToyMan

@Chrisy1 I know. But first I'd have to make a spot to put it. 😂 Too much "stuff" and not enough space and time. :)

@ToyMan I'm building one on top of an old bar that's kinda hexagonal in my basement. It's gonna be a switching layout that curves in on itself a bit. Gonna have all kinds of businesses and warehouses to move cars to with my little tank engines. I don't care that it's anachronistic I wanna do a what if there was still a steam switch yard

@TomboyJanet Sounds like a cool idea. I didn't get into the buildings and landscapes a lot when I had it setup years ago. It was too hard to keep it clean. 😂

@ToyMan I just blow the dust off lol! Though Mountains are not something I've really tried. It's mostly flat downtown areas in my main layout. I find the engines are harder to keep clean especially steam with their little moving parts and all. and the track. I use a track cleaning car so that I don't bore myself lol! I can feel like oh it's just maitenence time

@TomboyJanet Yeah I had a tanker car that would have cleaning solvent. No steam type engines but newer diesel locomotive. But if I remember right it had a stripped drive gear so I used a switch engine to pull the cars around.

@ToyMan I usually buy used and older engines and then get them to work if I can. Some of them work if you just rock them back and fourth enough times with forward and reverse but that wouldn't help for gear issues. For that I'm still learning

@TomboyJanet Well I was young and used to treat it pretty rough. I had some car train crashes and things that took a toll on it. 😂