Lone Ranger O-gauge 2009 Set, Organizing Wiring, & New Train Shelves

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Lone Ranger O-gauge 2009 Set, Organizing Wiring, & New Train Shelves -

In this video, I’m running a Lionel Lone Ranger Wild West Ready to Run O-gauge Train Set from 2009, I'm also organizing the wiring under my layout, & showing you my new train shelves. I’m Owen. In these videos, I’m continuing to build, expand, and improve my Lionel Polar Express Model Train Layout in Traditional O-gauge. I also include an operating session in every video, running the trains. The train I’ll be running in this video is a Lone Ranger Wild West Ready to Run O-gauge set. It’s a cool old set from 2009. So be sure to stick around till the end to see it being put through its paces.

When I initially built my layout, I thought that keeping the wiring organized and neat wouldn’t be a problem. Because I was using the wiring harnesses specified for the Lionel Collectors Club Modular Train Tables. However, as I added more non-Lionel lights and accessories, I quickly ended up with a rats nest of wires under my train tables. Some of these wires are quite fragile, and they’re easy to dislodge just by bumping them. By organizing them, I want to accomplish two things:
First, I want to make everything neat and organized, with all of the wires labeled and firmly attached to the bottom of the tables. Second, I want to protect the wiring from accidental breaks and disconnects.

To accomplish both these goals, I bought wire loom split tubing flexible conduit in two sizes - 3/8” and 1/2”. These conduits have a split on one side that wiring can be pushed into. After the wire is pushed in, the conduit closes over it and holds it inside. Then the conduit can be fastened to the underside of the tables, eliminating dangling wires. I also bought a tool for inserting the wires, to save wear and tear on my fingers.

I start out by giving you a look under my layout. So that you can see what the wiring looks like now. I think you’ll agree that it’s in serious need of better organization. I labeled all of them when I installed them using the adhesive labels from the Woodland Scenics Tidy Wires kit. However, those labels just wouldn’t stay on for me. They kept falling off almost as soon as I attached them to a wire. So now I’m using labels that are fastened on the wires with string loops. I’ll label everything as I work my way around the tables getting all of the wires into conduits. These labels won’t come loose and fall off the way that the adhesive labels did. After I've put some of the wires in flexible conduit, we'll do an "after" view of what they look like.

The train shelves are made of satin finish extruded aluminum. I bought them from Glenn Snyder Display Systems. Here's a link to their website: https://gsds.com

In addition to the shelves, I also bought plastic rail stops from the same place. They work great to keep my railcars from rolling off the end of a shelves.

Since the Polar Express was first introduced, Lionel has added lots of new railcars. I’ve had lots of them running on my Layout. That made my trains very long. With such long trains, the warning bells on the grade crossings were ringing almost constantly. With my new train shelves, I’ve been able to moves a number of railcars off my layout. As I continue to add to my collection, I’ll be able to rotate the railcars that my locomotives are pulling, storing some on the shelves while running others on my layout. These shelves are six feet long. You can request that they be cut shorter for an additional charge. Due to the length of the shelves, shipping can be expensive. Now Glenn Snyder Display Systems can ship up to ten items for the same shipping charges. To take advantage of that fact, I bought six of these shelves and four packs of a dozen rail stops. After I do some re-organizing, I’ll mount the other three shelves for additional storage.

I’ve found these shelves to be excellent, and I can recommend them without reservation.
I bought this Lone Ranger Wild West Set in 2009. It’s a Lionel Ready- to-Run set controlled by a transformer. I have a Lionel CW-80 transformer powering Track 3, and I’ll use that to control the Lone Ranger Train. Tracks 1 & 2 and the Accessory Circuit are powered by a Lionel GW-180 transformer. The first car after the Tender has a simulated canvas covered cargo load. The next car has the Lone Ranger and Butch Cavendish in a duel, popping up and down to take shots at one another. The final car plays the Lone Ranger Theme Music.