Great Train Expo

On Saturday 12-29-07 Jerri Sue and I went to the Great Train Expo in Anaheim. I had been waiting to go to that show for several years. I found some great things to add to my train layout. The best part was I met Doug Burwell. Doug is the leading expert in Schuco Monorails and is an operator himself. Doug lives in Colorado so this was a rare opportunity for me. Doug gave me some great advice on monorail operation and repair. I really enjoyed watching his layout in operation. I bought some much needed parts for my layout and was lucky that Doug had some parts that were missing on my red monorail. Now both of my monorails work great.

Check out my bobsleds. They really work. Now I have to build up the ledge under the path of the sleds.

My Monorail history.

I have only been a Schuco monorail operator for barely a year. I have been working on a 10'x10' train layout for about 4 years. I had always wanted a monorail but I wanted a real single rail system. One day I found a web site about collecting Schuco Monorails by Doug Burwell and I was hooked. I spent A year looking in E-bay but these monorails were too expensive for me. One day I found out that my son had a friend who's Father had two monorails. After begging for months he finally agreed to sell the entire collection to me. I now have a red one and a blue one. I quickly added the monorail to my already congested layout. I needed a matterhorn so I am building it over what was the train yard. This is the bottom stage. I had to make tunnels for one O gauge and six HO gauge tracks. The two tunnels in the upper front of the Matterhorn are going to be for an operating bobsled ride.