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View Poll Results: What scale or gauge? | |||
N gauge. | 7 | 25.00% | |
OO gauge. | 17 | 60.71% | |
O gauge. | 1 | 3.57% | |
Other. (Please specify) | 3 | 10.71% | |
Voters: 28. You may not vote on this poll |
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Yeah it does sound like I'm quite spoilt Trev but even though I'm well off for space I have the very real dissadvantage of being 12000 miles away from the prototype I have chosen to model. Magazines ,books and the like are fine but there is no substitute for being there.Not that I'm moaning at all, research has become just as enjoyable as modelling When I'm finished my current layout I would like to consider 0 gauge but we will have to wait a while for that.
cheers Dave. |
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I model in OO and Ho USA. I have dabbled in N and O guage. I'm currently building a OO triple circuit in my cabin, there's still a long way to go though!
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I have had layouts in HO (an advertising layout for a group - very, very, simple - to have trains moving continuously) and N for myself. The latter has just been re-built following a move from house to small flat.
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i model north eastern BR but if we manage to move house i will get a 7 1/4 inch guaage railway :P
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Although I voted in this thread several months ago I never got round to giving any details of my interests. My very first permanent layout was in the 1950's on a 6' x 4' board in my bedroom. It was 00 Gauge and the stock was mainly Tri-ang with a small amount of Hornby Dublo. In the mid 60's I sold it all for £10 and used the proceeds to take one of those new fangled girl things to see the "Sound of Music"....Big mistake!!!
In the late 70's, after getting married, I restarted modelling. My available space was still about the same but by now N Gauge had become available so my layout could be four times as big. Initially I modelled British Railways (LMR and WR) and built two layouts in the 70's and 80's using mainly Graham Farish and Peco stock. In 1990 I was converted to European N Gauge and I am now in the process of building my second Swiss layout. My stock is mainly Fleischmann, Kato, Roco and Minitrix and I use Peco Code 55 track. John. |
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oo models.jpg "Cardiff Castle" is a Hornby Dublo 2-rail loco and I think it was quite a good model in it's day. The horrible looking blue thing is supposed to be a North British Type 2 diesel and was made by the French Playcraft company. Anyone who moans about trivial detail errors in todays models should think themselves lucky
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Just picked up on these thoughts. Been to most gauges between 7 1/4 and N (not to mention 6 inch scale steam wagon) but at the moment am more concerned with 'M' scale. This is a relatively unknown scale since the 'M' stands for 'My', this is the only way I can think of describing 1 inch scale on 45 mm gauge track (LGB). An original running on 21 inch gauge formed the basic idea but mostly at this time due to retirement and space LGB track out in the garden and it is surprising how much can be got into a space 10 feet wide and 30 feet long which ioncludes 3 ponds and a stream.
Steam powered of course. John |
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All the points were manually operated and I made sure that they were accessible through the gap at the front of the layout although some were "just around the corner" so you had to operate them by feel . It worked quite well until there was a derailment which fortunately didn't happen too often. The worst possible scenario was occasionally caused by our old friend "the N-Gauge coupler"........If some of the stock became detached from a train climbing up to the upper level it would roll back down to the storage sidings at high speed resulting in total chaos It would then be a case of removing all the stock and starting again. My new layout has a similar system of storage sidings beneath the main layout but I now have a bit more space to play with so access is easier. new_upper.jpg new_lower.jpg
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