After posting my trackplan in the layout design section, and getting approval from the planning commission.
Sense I started on the new layout Thursday, I thought I might start a thread here.
Here is my final (For now) trackplan.
NKP779's Layout
NKP779's Layout
Hi,
After posting my trackplan in the layout design section, and getting approval from the planning commission.
Sense I started on the new layout Thursday, I thought I might start a thread here.
Here is my final (For now) trackplan.
After posting my trackplan in the layout design section, and getting approval from the planning commission.
Sense I started on the new layout Thursday, I thought I might start a thread here.
Here is my final (For now) trackplan.
It's cold here in Ohio in the winter, my OO equipment has only just started to arrive, so I had some time to play with this.
We did have paper buildings here in the US when I was a kid, but I have not seen any in years. Metcalfe kits look pretty neat, but I'd have to order them from Canada. So..I thought I might try to make some of my own.
The brick and stone textures I found online, but they have been mangled alot. All the rest is my effort . I followed some photos of English towers. I found online.
The really neat thing is, (We would call this an interlocking tower here) Is that this tower could be dropped anywhere on the NKP (in the steam era anyhow) and pretty much fit right in! It's pretty close to a tower that used to stand about a half-mile from my house.
It's buildable, I'm looking at two of them I just finished right now. Just takes some carefull work. Stairs will come later.
We did have paper buildings here in the US when I was a kid, but I have not seen any in years. Metcalfe kits look pretty neat, but I'd have to order them from Canada. So..I thought I might try to make some of my own.
The brick and stone textures I found online, but they have been mangled alot. All the rest is my effort . I followed some photos of English towers. I found online.
The really neat thing is, (We would call this an interlocking tower here) Is that this tower could be dropped anywhere on the NKP (in the steam era anyhow) and pretty much fit right in! It's pretty close to a tower that used to stand about a half-mile from my house.
It's buildable, I'm looking at two of them I just finished right now. Just takes some carefull work. Stairs will come later.
Saved them, I'll get them printed as soon as I get a layout sorted lol.
Your plans look pretty amazing, my only concern is the loop system. If I make say the left hand rail live and the right the return, if you follow round the loop system, right round the track and down they can end up reversed, which would cause a short circuit and nothing would run?
Just a thought that's all, it would depend on point settings but it is a concern.
Zan
Your plans look pretty amazing, my only concern is the loop system. If I make say the left hand rail live and the right the return, if you follow round the loop system, right round the track and down they can end up reversed, which would cause a short circuit and nothing would run?
Just a thought that's all, it would depend on point settings but it is a concern.
Zan
Look forward to seeing pics of the finished tower Aaron. You might be interested in this link if you are interested in templates for buildings. Not sure if they are any good but it has been mentioned on here a few times
http://scalescenes.com/
Zan, the reverse loop is used quite a lot in model railways. Took me a while to understand the concept but you basically have isolating points at both ends of the loop and switching to swap the polarity.
Trev
http://scalescenes.com/
Zan, the reverse loop is used quite a lot in model railways. Took me a while to understand the concept but you basically have isolating points at both ends of the loop and switching to swap the polarity.
Trev
There is also this one from this very website
http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Scenery/factory.htm
http://www.newrailwaymodellers.co.uk/Scenery/factory.htm
Downloaded and saved the models, building up a collection slowly.
Thanks. Anyone got any more links to similar things. I fancy a church on my layout eventually.
Keep us updated as to the layout, I was tempted to put a reverse loop on mine as an easy way to turn trains round but I just know that I'd short it all out as I am going to cheat by connecting the same power supply to several places with a permanent return but a 3 way switch on the live. I'd run a real risk of it all going "fizzle" if I shorted it out!
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Zan
Thanks. Anyone got any more links to similar things. I fancy a church on my layout eventually.
Keep us updated as to the layout, I was tempted to put a reverse loop on mine as an easy way to turn trains round but I just know that I'd short it all out as I am going to cheat by connecting the same power supply to several places with a permanent return but a 3 way switch on the live. I'd run a real risk of it all going "fizzle" if I shorted it out!
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Zan
Chris,
Well, not for me unfortunately. Only place I could find them in North America is on the far side of Canada, and then it's $25 plus shipping and the cost of a international money order (I don't do the credit card thing, too easy to get into trouble). So for me anything Metcalfe is a pretty good chunk of change.
Metcalfe is probably a better idea, but I'm going to try anyhow.
Well, not for me unfortunately. Only place I could find them in North America is on the far side of Canada, and then it's $25 plus shipping and the cost of a international money order (I don't do the credit card thing, too easy to get into trouble). So for me anything Metcalfe is a pretty good chunk of change.
Metcalfe is probably a better idea, but I'm going to try anyhow.
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