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Jun 28, 2022 09:33:45   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
I came across this on YouTube, and I was absolutely amazed at all the work that goes into make a model train. I can understand why so many products are made in China. There is a lot of specialized equipment required, and they have it. If an American company want to build these models, it would cost them millions just to get started.

They had to make 7,000 copper electrodes to produce the molds for this one model. This shows how Scale Trains, a company in TN, goes from design to final production. It's fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxtnAYGwrc

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Jun 28, 2022 09:52:00   #
Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States
 

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Jun 28, 2022 09:57:27   #
DickC Loc: NE Washington state
 
I have a 'train room', mostly all antique stuff now but once it had a big layout, lots of fun!

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Jun 28, 2022 10:28:07   #
sr71 Loc: In Col. Juan Seguin Land
 
I'm not into trains thankfully, but I'm amazed at the details and how they are built. My r/c sailplanes and powered are expensive enough. Thanks for posting truly amazing work.

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Jun 28, 2022 13:35:29   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
DickC wrote:
I have a 'train room', mostly all antique stuff now but once it had a big layout, lots of fun!


I wish I had a train room. I'd have to add one to the house. I have Lionel trains but nowhere to put them.

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Jun 28, 2022 17:00:08   #
BebuLamar
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I came across this on YouTube, and I was absolutely amazed at all the work that goes into make a model train. I can understand why so many products are made in China. There is a lot of specialized equipment required, and they have it. If an American company want to build these models, it would cost them millions just to get started.

They had to make 7,000 copper electrodes to produce the molds for this one model. This shows how Scale Trains, a company in TN, goes from design to final production. It's fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxtnAYGwrc
I came across this on YouTube, and I was absolutel... (show quote)


Most of the HO model trains were made in the USA before they started making them in China. So the American companies already started just wonder why they ended.

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Jun 28, 2022 17:29:43   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
In Dallas they have a special train set that they bring out every Christmas. It's a third the size of an HO. You've got it.....it's a HO HO HO.

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Jun 29, 2022 06:12:52   #
melismus Loc: Chesapeake Bay Country
 
Sounds like triple size to me.

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Jun 29, 2022 07:52:36   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
SteveR wrote:
In Dallas they have a special train set that they bring out every Christmas. It's a third the size of an HO. You've got it.....it's a HO HO HO.


Clever idea. That's gotta be small. A larger HO engine is 7" long, so 1/3 of that is 2.33". If it's three times the size

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Jun 29, 2022 07:55:46   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
BebuLamar wrote:
...just wonder why they ended.


Ye$, that'$ true. $someone mu$t have $ome idea$ why they moved to China.

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Jun 29, 2022 08:51:30   #
BebuLamar
 
jerryc41 wrote:
Ye$, that'$ true. $someone mu$t have $ome idea$ why they moved to China.


A great idea.

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Jun 29, 2022 08:59:48   #
John Martin Loc: Troy, MI
 
Very interesting- Jerry I have one of their engines- very costly but a lot of details on their engines.

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Jun 29, 2022 09:10:59   #
fourlocks Loc: Londonderry, NH
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I wish I had a train room. I'd have to add one to the house. I have Lionel trains but nowhere to put them.


My best friend's father built one of those huge Lionel setups in his basement. You know, the kind with mountain tunnels, lit up towns, cattle loading onto cattle cars and automatic couplers/decouplers. Remember the old transformer bigger than a football ball with the big handle on each side?

I wanted something like that for Christmas so my parents gave me an American Flyer with an oval track I could set up on the floor. Not even in my best imagination could I pretend to see it matching my friend's basement setup.

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Jun 29, 2022 09:25:44   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 
fourlocks wrote:
My best friend's father built one of those huge Lionel setups in his basement. You know, the kind with mountain tunnels, lit up towns, cattle loading onto cattle cars and automatic couplers/decouplers. Remember the old transformer bigger than a football ball with the big handle on each side?

I wanted something like that for Christmas so my parents gave me an American Flyer with an oval track I could set up on the floor. Not even in my best imagination could I pretend to see it matching my friend's basement setup.
My best friend's father built one of those huge Li... (show quote)


When I was a kid, we would setup the Lionel set on the dining room table right after Thanksgiving dinner.

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Jun 29, 2022 10:01:16   #
FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA
 
jerryc41 wrote:
I came across this on YouTube, and I was absolutely amazed at all the work that goes into make a model train. I can understand why so many products are made in China. There is a lot of specialized equipment required, and they have it. If an American company want to build these models, it would cost them millions just to get started.

They had to make 7,000 copper electrodes to produce the molds for this one model. This shows how Scale Trains, a company in TN, goes from design to final production. It's fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoxtnAYGwrc
I came across this on YouTube, and I was absolutel... (show quote)

Really fascinating to watch. Amazing!!

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