Wolfgang, I like it! I've never built any narrow gauge layouts, but I've always enjoyed seeing them. They usually seem to go hand in hand with...
As far as finding good prices on whatever you need for this hobby I would recommend finding a local hobby store instead of doing your shopping...
Also the grade that you see in the third photo is fairly steep for steam. A larger engine is allowed to pull 7 box cars or 10 hoppers up the grade...
Operations on the layout will mostly be coal. The mines on the Montour Railroad all produced raw coal which all had to be shipped to a prep plant....
Bruce, Welcome to Trainboard, but more importantly welcome to the hobby. Whatever you do just remember it's all for fun.
Finally Building New Layout Well this is my first "real" layout. I say that because up until this point I have really just used the standard...
Lutz, I have to say that this is by far the most amazing Bowser kit that I have ever seen and it's all because of your modifications. I have a...
I just built a hidden staging yard for my new railroad. I run DCC and I want to install simple atlas table mounted switch machines only for those...
Jon, You always amaze me with all of your creative ideas. I listen to a model railroad podcast that is really good and they were talking about the...
my next question is about building the benchwork. there is a group of n scalers that meet at my local hobby store. their modules are foam on top...
I am a huge pennsy fan, but can't seem to find any engines with the bellpaire boiler, any thoughts? could modifying the boiler to look right be done?
one more thing i want to run some steam engines, possibly some passenger cars, but I'm not familiar at all with n scale radius. what is a good all...
I just purchased my first n scale engine and some cars to go along with them. I'm mainly into ho, but I'm going to build a modular n scale layout....
I have also been thinking of making the ends of my railroad into sort of a modular set up. The room that my layout is in is our game room and well...
So what about designing the mainline? With this type of a layout do you suggest using a single track mainline, or multiple? Also I've been...
I'm really looking forward to seeing that turntable that you are building. I would like to build my own, but I haven't had any experience with...
Jonn about how deep is your track plan? I have 30 inches of depth to work with. I also have 48 inches at either end to work with. Reason that I...
I guess that my main problem in the design stages is that I'm not really sure that I want a loop to loop track plan. But the problem that I have...
Ok so how do I start planning this out? I want to run some coal and maybe milk as well. I thought about steel, but I just don't think that I have...
So I guess that my question now is how do I start designing a laout for operations? I have read some books and so forth but nothing really tells...
