HO scale designed with roundy round and point to point line of thought. Double track main with two hidden yards for destinations and one large yard for switching ( I think 14 tracks). and about a dozen business's to service along the way. Oh yeah a short line mountain line that services timber, saw mill, oil well & coal mine.
Because it's the only hobby I ever grew up with. That and living a block from the Chicago-Aurora Racetrack and seeing the last cascade green giant fall to the BNSF Merger. And I do HO/G under the same reasons: I want to just sit there and watch the trains run. I don't care if there's a destination or not, I just love to watch them run. It's that statement for why I do this hobby that I get attacked and blasted a lot.
It's your empire. What anyone else wants you to do is meaningless. Just ignore them. This is a personal choice hobby. If you are having fun, nothing else matters.
N scale. I don't have a lot of room so I have an oval on a HCD. Western Pacific because I grew up in San Jose, Ca and saw a lot of WP trains. And, sadly, Richard Dawson passed away Saturday. Survey SAYS! Gonna miss him.
Hogan's Heroes!!! Love that show. What a wonderful spoof. A great mix of stars made it happen. I own the complete set...
I heard that too. Sorry to hear of that. Just like Donna Summer and Robin Gibb. Too many people from my youth are passing away.
Scale: HO Style of layout: Switching shelf Brief reason of choice: Reason for choosing HO: Bad eyes, N scale too small, prefer "bulk" of HO to N Reason for switching shelf: Future layout space being squatted on by adult son, shelf layout allows me to focus on quality vs quantity and to work towards obtaining MMR DCC or DC: DCC Sound or No sound:Sound You can read much more about it by clicking the logo in my signature...
N scale and all the advantages it brings. Here is a slide show of what I built. For me it's all about running a variety of trains and railfanning my own layout. Why else would I go to all the trouble? A work in progress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N6jOhkyadQ DCC? DCC installed but I will be staying with Analog DC. To expensive to convert. Sound? For now, only when I make a chugging sound or whistle noise...leaving a lot to be desired. Soon, how soon remains to be seen. I will be installing a under the table noise maker. More can be seen by clicking on the resource in my signature.
SCALE: G scale Reason of choice: When I started Not many molders where in G scale. I wanted to do something new. I also wanted to try and brake the stereotype that G scale was just a shiny toy in the garden with over built structures. DCC or DC: I run MRC. Prodigy DCC. Sound: Yup, o yea…… Layout type: Point to point with by level. The layout models a now defunct shortline. Power: Steam
STYLE:Well, Right now, it's 100% industrial switching, ut will eventually be a 4' X 13' roundy round with a branch at each end to permit point to point operation. LOCALE: Michigan Thumb area. Features industrial (Loosely based on Bay City-Saginaw area) and agricultural (sugar beet refinery, grain elevators, based on the middle of nowhere) ERA: Scrolling, 1908-2009 in varying increments depending on what years I can buy Ford vehicles for. (The Ford dealer will function as a date stamp for 1931 and later. This feeds my 1/87th vehicle habit also.) Oh, yeah. HO scale like the vehicle habit.
Style: A staging to staging Seaboard Air Line mainline. Which is electrically seperate (2 different control panels) from my joint terminal switching layout (joint ACL and Southern). The connection between the two is an interchange track (1/2 tied into the mainline panel, the other to the terminal panel). This interchange soon to be lengthened. This allows me to run (almost logically) power or cabeese (cabooses) of my 3 favorite railroads. Locale: Somewhere between Charleston SC and Savannah GA. Era: Two actually. I pick my motive power for the SAL at random by number. If the choice is FTs, Centipedes, or GP-7s - it's 1957-62. If they're GP-18s/RS-11s, etc. - it's 1962-67. GP-9s, my choice. Rolling stock not so much since my operating sessions will be continuous.
Scale: HO Style of layout: Roundy Round 2 main loop with 1 smaller loop that is raised to second level. 1 large yard and 1 small yard. No city environment, just country side setting. 6 business's (scenery not started yet. still tweating track) Brief reason of choice: Freelance/Freestyle Make best use of space. DCC or DC: DC Sound or No sound: What’s sound...lol
It's several mods put together. I want to make it twice as long but it will take time. It's a switching layout with engine house ( future stuff ) on one end and a transfer yard on the other. I had a lot of help with the lighting and carpentry.
Candy, All i have ever seen of your layout was just separate vignettes. To see a more complete layout is neat. A short scene or incident, as from a movie. tr.v. vi·gnet·ted, vi·gnet·ting, vi·gnettes To describe in a brief way.
