Two at a time

I finally got my figure eight done. As you can see the red monorail will go over where the blue one has just passed by. If you look closely you can see the Marx o gauge steam train just crossing the bridge over the submarine ride. On the display shelf is some of my train collection. Top: Marx steam train 1930 middle: Ives electric train 1925 bottom Marlines steam train 1930.

Rebuild motor day

This is a happy day. I bought a front car from Doug Burwell and put the entire chassis into my body. It runs perfect. I'm off to play in the train room. Soon I will have to call it the monorail room.

Submarine ride

Here my blue monorail passes the submarine ride. Is that a mermaid I see? You can see a tee pee in the indian village to the left.

TUNE-UP DAY

My blue monorail had been running a lot slower than my red one. I decided it was a time for me to find out why. I took it apart and cleaned everything with rubbing alcohol. I cleaned the gears and even took out the brushes and cleaned them. When I put it back together It would hardly move at all. I started to panic. I was thinking I would have to send it to Doug Burwell and admit that he was the expert. I have cleaned a lot of model trains that way. After hours of trying to run it I realized that I had dried out everything and had not lubricated anything. One drop of WD40 to the shaft where the brushes ride and it ran as fast as my red one. Sorry Doug, maybe next time.

I had a lot of fun with this area of the park. I got sleeping beauty's castle from a 99 cent store and painted it. The fireworks were done with stencils and chalk. The rocket to the moon was made by hand with card stock. The rocket is a real estes model rocket that you could really shoot in the sky. The people are "little hommies" from the gum machines. YOU CAN CLICK ON THE COMMENT LINK BELOW TO LEAVE YOUR THOUGHTS. PLEASE LET ME KNOW YOU WERE HERE.

Matterhorn Bobsled entrance

I have been busy working on my layout again. How could you have a Disneyland monorail without a bobsled ride. Don't you wish the lines were this short at Disneyland? As you can see, the bobsleds come out of the matterhorn and stop for new riders to get on. If you look closely you can see sleeping Beauty's castle in the upper right. PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT. I WOULD LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU.

My Matterhorn now has 3 seperate bobsleds. As you can see there is a blue monorail circling the mountain. If you look closely you can see the sky way to the left.

I finally finished my Matterhorn. There are 3 seperate bobsleds comming out of the mountain and going back in. The blue monorail circles the Matterhorn. If you look closely you can see the mountain climers reaching the top.

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.