Layout design
Track plans
Greetings ,i am getting into building a small n scale layout .what i am trying to build will be a 16" x 14" set up for inside a display cabinet.i would like to incorporate a switch or two but dont think that will happen.my question is can i do something other than a circle layout?
Is there a smaller radius curve track that might work ? Flex track?i have a small yard steam loco and think that will make the tighter turns but am not sure about rolling stock.any advice is appreciated.thank you.
Looking for layout lighting suggestions
I am in the process of building a new layout and am looking for suggestions for lighting.
HO “Bedside & Hinged” Switching Layout
I found the MRH site accidentally a few days ago while searching for Track Plans for a very small HO switching layout that I've decided to build while away from home working. Kind of cool that a Google Search got me here via a picture of a track plan on Pinterest! I have a tiny room/office at my away place in Vancouver where I stay with a family. I'm hoping by documenting this, it might inspire other space challenged modelers to get building.
Design, benchwork, and some back story.
Finally have some free time with all my lumber bought and my new drill and impact ready to go...and need to have my car looked at. So I'll make another post while I wait for that before I go home and start building.
The layout will go in the living room, as I am in a one bedroom apartment. AND my fiancé is on-board with it, if for no other reason than that my train stuff takes up her side of the closet right now so I have to build it so I can move that into the cabinets the modules will sit on lol
The N Scale Square Pine Lines
I have been in the armchair mode for a while and after harvesting as much as I could from videos and articles, I have begun this small 1x1' N scale diorama to work on new methods of modeling. More at https://www.facebook.com/ponderosasub
Update: Less is More WIP
The track into the downtown area on my layout, the Trenton Subdivision in N Scale is laid and ballasted. I removed several sidings to give the area a simpler, less cluttered look. More below.
Scaleable operation
Another thread got me thinking about scaleable operation, the ability to operate with a varying sized crew. Aside from physical size, my theory is that on a sliding scale between all switching and all running, either end of the spectrum is very scaleable. A layout that is all switching can be operated by one person or a full crew just as easily. A layout that is all running can be operated by anything from one person to a full crew just as easily.
My Planned Layout
It is interesting how much work you can complete when you have two weeks off from work. I'd spent several months working on my track plan, but these last two weeks have been almost dedicated to it, And i'm calling it done.
Done in the sense I now know enough to start buying track and turnouts. Need to still work on the actual benchwork design. Trying to decide between box frame or L girder. And actual track placement may well change when the tracks hit the plywood. (Like slightly increasing the runaround in Lynnsport.)
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