My last small layout I made a plexiglass cover to keep the cat off it. If you don't have huge mountainous terrain on your 3' x 6' you could make...
I should probably be around for it too since I live 10 minutes from Portland and like N scale (even without a current operating layout).
No photos, but every layout I've ever built has had a Sasquatch in the woods.
For running longer equipment like your passenger trains I would give some thought so some sort of around the walls or donut style layout. It...
Hmmm, you could actually probably use a sturdy cable and pulley system to raise and lower your layout. I mean, unorthodox, but I don't see how...
If I may make the counterpoint. Unitrack is a tried and tested component, and with painting, ballasting and weathering looks pretty good. The...
In N scale the equipment you mentioned 13" radius is probably about the smallest you'd want to go for reliability, ignoring looks. You might be...
Most of my other hobbies take up more time than model railroading, at least for now while I'm caught in design woes. Regardless, my main hobby...
Thank you. I thought so, but I suck with electronics so thought I'd ask.
I was thinking of other solutions to a layout design issue (another thread called "Will this work?" in the Layout Design forum if you are...
When I was little and building layouts with my dad, and later even a mrr club, we soldered feeder wires to the bottom of railjoiners and used...
Just doing some more thinking on the topic, since if there was no staging and therefore no switches on the bottom level, just a continuous run...
Very interesting. Sadly I have no way of knowing since I don't have that issue. I simply came across the plan while browsing their trackplan...
Actually I really like that. Only thing I'd be giving up would be the desire for a yard...but what I could do would be add a yard between A & B...
All trains would be built in the yard on the layout. The staging is just literally for holding trains when waiting their spot in an ops session,...
The staging would be through staging underneath the left side on that diagram. which as stated is an out of scale, rough sketch, simply offered...
This is just a very poor scan of one of my doodles, please note that the track locations and towns are just generalizations, and very not to...
Dave, here is as much detail as I can think to give as to what I'm trying to achieve, re-iterating as necessary: Scale: N-scale Size:...
O scale is apparently alive and well in my area. Every train show I go to has more O than anything else, followed closely by HO, then G, Z and...
Well quick report from testing, with a 3" gap between the levels I can reach over 4 tracks and still re-rail a car provided there's none on the...
