traindude10
New Member
How big is your layout?
1/87th Vehicles
- Thread starter Larry
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Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
24 by 38 ft. About 600 ft. of main line(2) & a yard big enough to hold about 150 freight cars. A long siding that holds 21 passenger cars. Plenty of walking space inside layout & plenty of space to add another train table 34" wide & 24ft long.
Larry
suprduc
Member
24 by 38 ft. About 600 ft. of main line(2) & a yard big enough to hold about 150 freight cars. A long siding that holds 21 passenger cars. Plenty of walking space inside layout & plenty of space to add another train table 34" wide & 24ft long.
Larry
Wow.......impressive. I'm jealous. 
suprduc
Member
I still haven't had any luck finding the semis anywhere. I'd also like to find some construction equipment but, I can't see myself spending the $12+ per dozer/tractor/etc. that I have found so far. I did see a couple of SUVs at Wal*Mart yesterday in 1/87th. Porsche Cayenne and Land Rover Discovery but, I did not grab them....maybe I should have.
Larry
Long Winded Old Fart
My WM still has the 1st series malibu trucks, cars, sets, etc. Only thing they are selling is the Nascar vehicles. I finally got 5 of the new Semi tractors, but, there's still plenty left. I don't like the straight trucks because they look oversize for 1/87th or just on my layout because I use a lot of the Matchbox trucks. Anyway, it's nice to see some new stuff at my local Supercenter after almost 2 yrs. of the same stuff on the shelves. There's quite a few HO scale layouts in my town, but they model pre 60's & hardly any pre 60 vehicles in large quanties that anyone uses.
Larry
Larry
PARKINGLOT
Canadian Railfan
I picked up two of the "fresh cherries" from walmart, a Mercury bobcat on friday, and a Ford Tempo today, plus two of the "malibu" cars, a Porsche 911 and a Land Rover. I was also at TSC to pick up some grass seed and picked up one of the norscot mini construction ones, a D5 Cat dozer....
best you can do without a trip to the hobby store, eh?
best you can do without a trip to the hobby store, eh?
suprduc
Member
TSC? Never even crossed my mind, I'll have to stop in there in the next couple of days to see what they have.
suprduc
Member
Found some CATS...
I tried Wal-Mart (none), TSC (none), LHS ($12 ea.), Hobby Lobby (none), and Toys R' Us (none), and I was about to give up when I decided to stop at K-Mart on the way home today. Walked through the Die-Cast aisle and located a single Norscot D5M dozer which I decided to grab since it was on clearance for a whopping $3. Walked down the aisle a couple of feet and found...
two more D5M Dozers, two 315C L Excavators, and one 163H Motor Grader....all on clearance for $3 each so I grabbed all six of them. Don't really need all six right now but, I am sure that I can figure something out for them all eventually.
I tried Wal-Mart (none), TSC (none), LHS ($12 ea.), Hobby Lobby (none), and Toys R' Us (none), and I was about to give up when I decided to stop at K-Mart on the way home today. Walked through the Die-Cast aisle and located a single Norscot D5M dozer which I decided to grab since it was on clearance for a whopping $3. Walked down the aisle a couple of feet and found...
two more D5M Dozers, two 315C L Excavators, and one 163H Motor Grader....all on clearance for $3 each so I grabbed all six of them. Don't really need all six right now but, I am sure that I can figure something out for them all eventually.
PARKINGLOT
Canadian Railfan
walmart 1.97
I've got 2 of those dozer's now, but it is just me, because I thought the excavator and loader were too small compared to the dozer. Maybe it's just me...
PARKINGLOT
Canadian Railfan
really? no way, I'll have to check that out...any particular brand?
