Having thoroughly enjoyed building Perdu Dans France, I have got a bit frustrated by watching trains just go up and down a small track. Whilst it looks great, it doesn’t fulfil all my requirements.
So I have decided to go for a new layout…..
Yes another one!
The board size is 1820mm x 760mm and will sit on a heavy duty trestle table, as it will need to move when children/friends stop over. It will be DC and all Peco 55 finescale, with all points electrically controlled by Peco PL10’s which I got as a job lot off fleabay at a great price, which will be interesting, as I have only ever used surface mounted motors before, but this should look much better.
The layout will look like this:
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It will have SNCF Electric and Diesel loco’s and at least a couple of Autorails, plus the DB loco that ran the TEE at this time and her rolling stock. In fact all the stock I have been introducing to my Perdu layout and knowing me, even more!
The big difference, well, two big differences actually:
a) it will be a ‘roundy roundy’ with a fiddle yard hidden by a backscene and
b) it will take a lot longer to build, as I intend to strictly enforce what I have learned from building two layouts in under a year – SLOW DOWN!!
The first layout was OO and my first layout after a 45 year break from any form of modelling – and you could tell!
The second, Perdu Dans France, I was only adding to a part built layout, but the results have really pleased me and persuaded me that N, well 1:160 continental modelling is the way forward.
Trouvé will be scratch, from scratch as I enjoy the build probably as much as just running trains, although up until now I have not had a double track ‘roundy roundy’, so I think that may well change!
For those who have followed Perdu, I am sure there will be even more interesting characters residing in Trouvé and you can bet some of the residents of Perdu will visit, or pass through on their way to Metz or beyond.
So, let’s see what happens!!!
Peter
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