Tag: Traindame

Harry Potter and the TW Traingineers!

The Traingineers are heading to the West Coast in a couple of weeks to install our first ever Harry Potter themed train layout. Chief Traingineer, Roger Farkash, designed this layout complete with Hogwarts Castle, Great Hall, Station 9 3/4, Privet Drive and some absolutely awesome bridges hand crafted with our handy dandy laser cutting machine.

My favorite part of the layout are two areas where little Hogwarts can pop up and stand inside the Grand Hall on up through the Castle and then down on the other end of the layout they can pop up and be inside a loop with the London Bridge wrapping around them. CRAZY FUN I tell ya!

Get comfy, pull up closer to the screen, grab some popcorn and enjoy a quick slide show behind the scenes with the TW Traingineers inside the TrainWorx Studio:

THREE… TWO… ONE…   ACTION!

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Table Base: (Be sure to click on image to enlarge)

With a touch of paint…

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Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
http://www.twtrainworx.com
(877) 881-4997

Back from OMAHA!

Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder’s Meeting
May 3, 2014
Omaha, Nebraska USA

What an Absolutely  “TrainTASTIC” trip I had with the Traingineers at this year’s Berkshire Hathaway meeting!! I especially enjoyed meeting with Mr. Buffett again and having the incredible opportunity to spend time with him and really appreciated his genuine pleasure to take pictures with the TW Traingineers along with our special guest, Lionel’s VP of Marketing – Mike Phillips. Check out all the smiles…

Warren Buffett, Traindame and the TW TrainWorx Traingineers

Roger Farkash, Warren Buffett, Matt Rose BNSF

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Roger Farkash, Warren Buffett

 

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I was standing on the other end of the table while Mr. Buffett was talking with Mr. Rose from BNSF, and the question arose from Mr. Buffett the desire to have an even bigger layout next year and I chimed in.. “We’d love to design an additional section to your layout!! So… shhhhh don’t tell anybody, totally UNOFFICIAL, but perhaps Roger will soon be in BNSF Layout Addition Design Mode and that would be SOOOOO COOOOOOL!!

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Lionel VP of Marketing, Mike Phillips

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SHOWTIME!

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I can pretty much sum up the conversation (in truncated sentences) around the BNSF Layout during the event…

“Wow!”

“This is UNBELIEVABLE!”

“Fantastic”

“Amazing!”

“What a display”

“Really, I can run the trains?”

“Great job!”

“Look…. !”

“Totally Fabulous”

“You guys do amazing train layouts!”

“AWESOME!!!”

Two upcoming dates to save on YOUR calendar!

#1. May 17th, 2014 – TrainWorx Showroom Store open from 10 to 4

#2. September 27, 2014 – TrainWorx 3rd Annual Layout Festival

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
2808 McGowan Street
Dallas, Texas  75203
(877) 881-4997

http://www.twtrainworx.com
traindame@traindame.com

 

TrainWorx Layouts in 4 different states this April!

LOUISIANA

Denny T. started our jam packed month of April off by loading up his trailer with the TW TrainWorx Custom 5′ x 9′ Hellgate Table along with the
Lionel Arch Base to set up in his Louisiana cabin.

Load out day:

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ALABAMA

Next up, loading the van for a road trip to Alabama to set up a custom table for
William P. in his train room:

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 PENNSYLVANIA

We had a great time at the York Spring Meet! Saw many old friends and made lots of new ones! Thanks to Eliot S. for sharing his fabulous photo book he put together showing off his incredible layout. Especially cool was having Roger sign the page with the Albuquerque/renamed Munoz Station 🙂

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 NEBRASKA

Closing out April and spilling into May is the BNSF Layout making it’s third appearance at the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder’s Meeting. The big ole 53′ truck is loaded and on it’s way to Omaha where the Traingineers and I will be setting the layout up in the BNSF Booth in the Convention Center! Talk about a Fantabulous Train Layout Packed month!

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Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
2808 McGowan St.
Dallas, Texas 75203
(877) 881-4997
http://www.twtrainworx.com

P.S. Shop online 24/7 and enter code: SY14 upon checkout for 10% Discount on all Bridge Kits!
 *Offer good through 5/8/14

TW TrainWorx Layout featured in Architecture Tour

Countdown is on… In 24 hours, everyone who would like to experience one of our custom layouts… tomorrow is YOUR chance! 

The Rice Design Alliance 38th Annual Architecture Tour “Additionally” will take place March 29th and 30th in Houston, Texas. One of the eight homes featured on the tour is where the Traingineers just finished installing the “Houston, Wharton, Pecos River Railroad” in it’s very own TRAIN GALLERY!!

*** This just posted online from the Houstonia eMagazine:
Houston, Wharton, and Pecos River RR. ***

The layout has been in our studio for well over a year as architects and construction workers painstakingly remodeled this home. All the outstanding effort and focus to detail by everyone has resulted in this home addition being included on this prestigious Architecture Tour!!

Here is a shot of the train room (pre-Gallery designated) in its infancy:

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Traingineers earlier this month in the Train Gallery…

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Link for all the tour details: RICE DESIGN ALLIANCE ARCHITECTURE TOUR

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx

(877) 881-4997
traindame@twtrainworx.com

February 2014 … Layout Installs and Dismantles

What a fabulous month February has been for the TW Traingineers having the incredible opportunities to partake in the Rosenbaum, “Houston, Wharton, & Pecos River RR” layout installation and just earlier this week the dismantle of the awesome, seen by millions world wide, Lionel Holiday Layout displayed at the Transit Museum inside the Grand Central Terminal which just celebrated its 100th Anniversary of existence!!

Gives me goosebumps to think about all the travelers and stories that have transpired in the 100 years…

I know you will enjoy this time lapse of the TW TrainWorx Traingineers doing what they have a passion to do!

Enjoy!

Click on link below to see more pictures taken of this layout:

LIONEL HOLIDAY TRAIN LAYOUT

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx est. 2008 a division of TW Design
(877) 881-4997

P.S. SAVE THE DATE: September 27, 2014 join us for our 3rd Annual Layout Festival!

Houston… We Have S U C C E S S!!!!

It’s been a long time coming and I am happy to say the layout installation of the Houston, Wharton, & Pecos River RR has been completed and to quote the layout owner: “the incredible piece of artwork now resides in his Train Gallery!”

Wow, I had no idea of the absolute pleasure I was embarking on back in June of 2011 when Glen first contacted us to collaborate with him to make his 50+ year dream layout come true… all the while, at the same time he was in the process of remodeling/adding on to his family home in Houston. I won’t go into a long account of the extraordinary experience but will take the opportunity to focus on two items:

#1. The entire layout – all 410 sq. ft. of it (14′ x 30′) went up into the train room (back then it was a “room”) through a hole in the floor (not kidding) which was deemed the “Farkash Hatch” by Glen and his Architects from the get go!

Farkash Hatch Collage:

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And on to…

#2. Glen’s home was chosen to be 1 of 8 in the 38th Annual Rice Design Alliance Architecture Tour which you all are invited to partake in Houston, Texas –  March 28th and 29th! Read all about it right here:
Architecture Tour

I have it from my sources that there will be an exclusive article written about the Houston, Wharton, and Pecos River RR very soon and until then I can’t post any “finished finished” photos but here are a few I took of the Traingineers during last weekend’s installation:

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This video just in from the inaugural running of the trains on the
Houston, Wharton, & Pecos River Railroad, ENJOY!

 

Next in line for the Traingineer Production Studio is a layout for a gentleman in California who Roger designed a Harry Potter themed train layout for and just added to our production schedule another residential layout for a gentleman in Alabama whom we had the pleasure of meeting at last year’s LCCA Convention!

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(877) 881-4997

October Overflow

TrainWorx Traingineers finished off an incredible October Overflow installing the custom TrainWorx layout for Railyard Hobbies, in Elverson, Pennyslvania. This is absolutely a definite MUST VISIT hobby store!

I say finish off because October in the TrainWorx studio was jam packed with great projects like:

  • Railyard Hobby layout
  • Lionel refurb  section of Corporate Layout
  • Lionel Dallas Toy Fair
  • TM Video Shoot
  • Ronald McDonald House | Trains at North Park Layout additions
  • Lionel Big Boy Pedestal

Here are some behind the scenes pictures of our October Overflow – ENJOY!

7 Days until TrainWorx 2nd Annual Layout Festival!

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The countdown is on as Layout Festival preparations are in full swing!

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013
TrainWorx 2nd Annual Layout Festival
2808 McGowan St.
Dallas, Texas  75203

This year doubles in size from last year’s layout line up… last count, there will be 16 TrainWorx Layouts (all in various stages of completion) for our Festival Attendees to experience. Seriously…we’re about to bust through the roof — > at this rate, we’re going to have to expand and get that new building up – P R O N T O!

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On the program layouts include:

  • BNSF Corporate Layout
  • Lionel Corporate Figure 8 Module
  • Houston, Wharton & Pecos Residential RR
  • Ronald McDonald House Water Tower
  • Railyard Hobby Store Layout
  • Rooney Family Layout
  • Lionel Towers
  • Texas Special Modular
  • LCCA Mini Layout
  • Lionel Branded 4 x 8
  • TrainWorx Hellgate Table
  • Lionel Branded 5 x 9 Table
  • Lionel Plano Modular Group
  • Tennessee Roy Table
  • Baggage Cart Layout
  • 0 – 27 Table

*New this year are VENDOR Tables! Only two tables available: Grab YOUR vendor table here NOW: http://bit.ly/14Nk8E5

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Along with the Layouts will be some absolutely fabulous organizations and their outstanding representatives:

  • Museum of the American Railroad
  • BNSF Corporate Headquarters
  • BNSF Railroad Patrol
  • Lionel’s Mike Reagan, Dir. of Production & Customer Service
  • LCCA’s President Dennis Devito
  • Ronald McDonald House of Dallas
  • Lionel Plano Modular Group

mamafayes Cooking up under the tent will be mouth watering BBQ by the renown Mama Faye’s BBQ!

**Door prizes, raffle prizes and special bonuses are in store for this year’s attendees – – guaranteed to be RIDICULOUS FUN!!!

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There is still time to access attendee registration – click here: http://www.trainworxfestival.com Sign UP and be part of the 2nd Annual TrainWorx Layout Festival!!

Remember, cameras are…

ALLOWED!!!

I’m working on my Layout Festival…Absolutely…Crazy…Ridiculous…Value Packed…*Steal-of-a-Deal that *ONLY* Action Takers will have access to…more on that coming S O O N!

And truly, the best of the best about our Layout Festival is part of the proceeds benefit the wonderful Ronald McDonald House of Dallas – this organization serves SO MANY families as they deal with challenging medical issues.

That being said, a special THANK YOU to so many of you who’ve already donated while registering!!!
You are AWESOME 🙂 

Here is the link again: http://www.trainworxfestival.com

2013 Festival Flyer

Happy Tracks!

Traindame aka Dorcie Farkash
TW TrainWorx
(877) 881-4997

1.2 Million Pounds…On The Move

That’s right! The UP 4018 Big Boy was on the move yesterday on its way to Frisco, Texas where it will join the other Museum of the American Railroad trains!

Yesterday afternoon, Roger returned from the Lionel Customer Service open house to find out the move was on – so he got off the plane…jumped in the car…and tracked down the Big Boy just before sunset:

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Get a load of these stats:

The Big Boy hits the scales at 1.2 Million pounds! Required 26 tons of coal, 25,000 gallons of water to be able to pull a 5 mile long train! Wowzers – that’s a BIG BOY.

I thought it’d be great to have the BIG BOY first make an appearance at our 2nd Annual Layout Festival but knew that’d be out of the question, however I’ve got the next best thing – representatives from the Museum of American Railroad will be on hand to share information on all the wonderful trains they have for their new Museum in Frisco. Plus we’ll have representatives from BNSF at the Festival who are the REAL TRAIN MOVERS getting the Big Boy to its new home!! Additionally – we will have a BNSF Railroad Officer here and I’m working on having a BNSF patrol car here as well…this just in – Lionel’s Mike Reagan is confirmed to be here!!

There are over 100 attendees signed up for this year’s festival and if YOU haven’t signed up yet, please do so right NOW! The date is Saturday – September 14, 2013 right here at our Dallas studio: 2808 McGowan Street

http://www.trainworxfestival.com 

Here are some pictures from Lionel’s Customer Service open house this past weekend in Ohio. Enjoy!

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