Okay, so I finished the “sky train” or ceiling railroad I had asked about in another post. I’m truly tickled - the darned thing worked the first time with no problem and I only had to “adjust” one length of track with a hacksaw. Other than that, seamless.
I posted a video to YouTube of parts of the process which you can laugh at here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8oy6NJ_RWk
The part that irks me is the instruction manual for the locomotive that came with one of my starter sets (LGB Model 12012) is TERRIBLE and I’m not sure if I can adjust the volume on the train sound. You also have to run the darned thing at full blast to make it smoke. Apparently it has digital control, too, but I haven’t gotten that far. Yet.
The train is hung with 1" thick pine boards suspended by allthread so that I can adjust the nuts at the bottom to accommodate sagging/changes/whatever. I’m running a double track on the sides of our dining room and a single track at the front and back.
This has been fun and MUCH easier than I thought.