Layout design
Two more layout decisions to make.
I spent some time this weekend re-assembling the Siever's benchwork (great stuff!) from my previous layout in my attic space this weekend and it fits pretty nicely. This benchwork is over 12 years old and this is the third layout that I have used it on. Here is how it looks in the room:
Just getting started and need some pointers
I have a 14 year old son that I need to get going with some new hobbies :) Now, I am not old but certainly no longer in my 30's or 40's and we'll leave it at that :)
I have a large basement with all the room I need: 34 x 32. I was looking at xtrkcad with some of their layout examples but nothing there impressed me. I did find the open railroad map to be interesting especially taking into consideration of some places I have lived and vacationed at.
Thoughts or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Track planning with google maps
I’m in the planing phase for an around 3 walls freelance industrial switching layout. I prefer not to compress my industries much. I do like to know about the prototype for any given industry rather than just making them up. I have been fussing around in CAD for a while trying to find the best way to lay out the industries I thought I wanted in the space available, and not really converging on something I was happy with.
So I decided to try something completely different.
LED Lighting How To from Instructables
This came in my weekly Instructables email. Haven’t read through the whole article, but I like his cheap approach.
Let me know if you have trouble with the link.
Order of construction of decks
In my NNEScenic V3 design thread, I have started discussing a revised design that would allow me to get started much sooner on the railroad. But that faster start would only be if I build the upper deck of my layout before the lower deck.
My question is, what are the thoughts on the order of building multi deck railroads? Advantages I see of building the upper deck first are:
The Ideal Layout (versus "Dream" Layout)
The recent discussion on "Texas syndrome" has me thinking, what would be my Ideal layout? I distinguish this from the "Dream" layout, which I compare to winning the lottery, fun to dream about but something that is never going to happen.
The "Ideal" layout would be something that I could see myself building. So given the following parameters, what would be your "Ideal" layout.
And now for something completely different!
I was all set to model the Western Maryland when I stumbled across the Maryland Midland railroad on Facebook. That led to a whole bunch of research and the idea of modeling a modern short line evolved. I have to say that I have been inspired by all of the very nice Iowa Interstate layouts on this website. The tough thing is that I have no experience and very little knowledge of modern railroading and so I am on the tough part of the learning curve. I actually started in HOn3 and Sn3 and them moved to HO steam. For the past 12 years I've been modeling th
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