Slightly O.T.: best ever use of gauge 1 in the workplace...
Slightly O.T.: best ever use of gauge 1 in the workplace...
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LivingLegend
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I'll go one better....
Back in the mid 1980's, there was a hamburger joint that opened up in the central San Fernando Valley area of L.A.. I ate the place a few times before I moved to Alabamie back in 1987. Although it was only a mile or two from where I lived at the time, I didn't know it existed until I was watching TV one night and one of the local news broadcasts did a story on the place.
Anyhoo, the place a had gauge 1 (or what ever) track "layout" that ran along the walls at table height. When your order was done, it was delivered from the kitchen to your booth on the flat cars in the train.
LL
Back in the mid 1980's, there was a hamburger joint that opened up in the central San Fernando Valley area of L.A.. I ate the place a few times before I moved to Alabamie back in 1987. Although it was only a mile or two from where I lived at the time, I didn't know it existed until I was watching TV one night and one of the local news broadcasts did a story on the place.
Anyhoo, the place a had gauge 1 (or what ever) track "layout" that ran along the walls at table height. When your order was done, it was delivered from the kitchen to your booth on the flat cars in the train.
LL
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That's a neat story.
There was a Kai-ten (conveyor belt) Sushi place in Campbell, CA. during the 1990s that used a train instead of boats or conveyors. Most of the restaurant trains I see are out of reach up near the ceiling. Best one around here is at Domingo's in Boron. The train circles the entire dining room, and goes through several holes in walls. The cars are all local interest (Borax hopper, missile launcher car, etc.) and it is always running perfectly when I visit.
There is a small rafter track at the Apple Shed in Tehachapi but it hasn't run in several years. I think they got tired of cleaning the track.
However, the best 'moving models at a restaurant' in California was at the Flying Lady Restaurant in Morgan Hill. dozens of model airplanes circled the restaurant on a converted dry cleaner's rack. It was huge, and it was neat.
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There was a Kai-ten (conveyor belt) Sushi place in Campbell, CA. during the 1990s that used a train instead of boats or conveyors. Most of the restaurant trains I see are out of reach up near the ceiling. Best one around here is at Domingo's in Boron. The train circles the entire dining room, and goes through several holes in walls. The cars are all local interest (Borax hopper, missile launcher car, etc.) and it is always running perfectly when I visit.
There is a small rafter track at the Apple Shed in Tehachapi but it hasn't run in several years. I think they got tired of cleaning the track.
However, the best 'moving models at a restaurant' in California was at the Flying Lady Restaurant in Morgan Hill. dozens of model airplanes circled the restaurant on a converted dry cleaner's rack. It was huge, and it was neat.
-M
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Product Development and E-Commerce, Allen Models of Nevada
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I was in California many years ago and there was a Sushi resturant called "Sushi Train". At the susui bar a 1"guage train made slow laps around the bar and you picked off what ever you wanted from the consist of flat cars. Billing was done by the number and color of the empty dishes infront of you.
High marks for humor, mediocre sushi.
Rick
High marks for humor, mediocre sushi.
Rick
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The LA restaurant was on Van Nuys Blvd. in Van Nuys. Ate there once. I'm fairly certain they used Lionel trains.
There's a similar thing in Kansas City wherein the above-the-head level train brings the order to a spot over your table. The train stops and the food is pushed onto an elevator which drops it down to your table.
I also heard of some guy who needed to dig out his basement, but the access to start was alligator style through a crawl space. He put in a RR and used it to haul out the dirt which he had to dig by hand. Don't remember where this was though....
And there's at least one house in the Hollywood Hills wherein the groceries are hauled up to the hillside dwelling via a cable-hoisted incline track.
There's a similar thing in Kansas City wherein the above-the-head level train brings the order to a spot over your table. The train stops and the food is pushed onto an elevator which drops it down to your table.
I also heard of some guy who needed to dig out his basement, but the access to start was alligator style through a crawl space. He put in a RR and used it to haul out the dirt which he had to dig by hand. Don't remember where this was though....
And there's at least one house in the Hollywood Hills wherein the groceries are hauled up to the hillside dwelling via a cable-hoisted incline track.
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LivingLegend
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Greg:Greg_Lewis wrote:The LA restaurant was on Van Nuys Blvd. in Van Nuys. Ate there once. I'm fairly certain they used Lionel trains......
Actually, the hamburger joint was on Parthenia St. just west of Van Nuys Blvd.... Just past where the sweeping curve takes off from Van Nuys Blvd heading west into Parthenia when driving up from the south. It was also located in Panorama City, which is the area just north of Van Nuys.
As I recall, the trains were larger that Lionel. LGB I think.... I could be wrong, though.
LL
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If you ever ride the Essex Steam Train, not far away is Pizzaworks in Old Saybrook (in the old train station).
They have two HO layouts, one on either side of the upstairs dining room, and the tracks connect from one end to the other. My kids love going there.
Found a youtube of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpd-_FAt8l8
Pizza is good too.
Steve
They have two HO layouts, one on either side of the upstairs dining room, and the tracks connect from one end to the other. My kids love going there.
Found a youtube of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpd-_FAt8l8
Pizza is good too.
Steve
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