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Looking good, How have you made your platforms? And any tips for doing them around a curve? The platforms are made out of 2, 8 by 4 MDF sheets. Laid them on the garage floor and pinned the station track on top. Marked the platforms using the coach and pencil method. Removed track and cut out with a...

Yes its been in the planning stage for a good few years, Just built a new house so have plenty of room in the attic. Put in attic trusses to make life easier as well. The space in the attic is roughly 16 meters by 5 meters. The layout will go round the outside on a 0.9 meter wide baseboard and a cen...

Some of the baseboard progress,






Proposed station layout

Finally got a start to the woodwork for the layout and thought I would put up a pic or two

Safety first





The lift up section above the hatch

You need to raise the hinges above the highest point of any structure which remains on the board. You need to work out how high you want it to raise and how much clearance you want from the slope. I'd try drawing it out full size on a roll of "lining" paper. It is not going to be in a sce...

I think i read somewhere on here that you should raise the hinges slightly above board height so that when you lift it up, the edges of the rails where they are cut dont foul on each other/the baseboard. As you lift the section, the rails will move away slightly to provide clearance...bit hard to e...

Thank you guys, Will give it a go

Looking at making a lift up section above the hatch in my loft. Would like to hinge it at the back so it swings up out of the way and can be secured against the sloping roof joists. Planning on using 18mm ply and the lift up section would be about 1.5m long by 0.4m wide. Have seen various lift up se...

Thank you for all the replies, Will have to get some more rolling stock based on the advice above.

Hello, I am going to be laying peco code 75 streamline track. I want to check the spacing on my curves will be ok for my trains to get round safely. The longest I have at the moment are some intercity mk 4 cars so I can test these ok. But I am just thinking what is the longest engine/wagon that I co...

I am going to be using the above method for my benchwork. Have searched but have not found the answer to a couple of questions. The main L Girders will be made from 4 X 1 and 2 X 1 softwood. What is the maximum spacing that can be used beween the leg supports without the L Girder sagging? The cross ...

Thank you John for your very informative reply.

Still early days so will probably build some sort of test track to see how I get on before taking the plunge on building a terminus or not.

NEvans wrote:In an ideal world (so don't include cost) would the answer be DCC and a power unit at either end?

Thanks for that, Will give that a go if I have problems with 1 engine.

Hi Paul,

Thank you very much for that very usefull information,
I will be in bulding a 00 scale layout and am hoping to run trains with 7 coaches.

Cheers
Ian