Wet sunday morning
 

Hello all
Been having a nose round and thought i'ed like to join in if i may,maybe show a picture or two and have yap or two i'am good at that.
Once the weather warm's up a bit i want to start my 00 layout mixture of traing steam and lima diesel models in me garage.:D

Welcome to the forum Buffer, I have promised myself I am going to crack on with my 00 layout in the garage as well. Been promising myself that for the last 2 years though. Its still at the same stage it was 2 Christmas's ago.
Paul.

:) should be two good garage layouts then, the time its taking i've been doing mine a year and half IN MY MIND THAT IS,:rolleyes:

I have been doing mine for about 9 years now, but the majority of work was done in the first 6 or 7.
When I have tidied the room up and made it look half decent I will post some photos.
Paul.

Look forward to photos of your layout Paul.

Welcome to the Forum Buffer. Look forward to photos of your layout.

Best wishes,

John H-T.

Thankyou for the welcome Paul & John, say John hope your a patient man, cos getting this out of me head onto the tracks could be a while longer yet, wot you say Paul:D :D

I know what you mean Buffer!

However I am about to start a thread charting the beginings of my new layout "The Will Valley Railway."

Perhaps if we each do this it will spur us all into action!

Best wishes,

John H-T.

That's a good idea John. We could post some thoughts and drawings on to a thread and get help or useful comments about the plans. Also a bit of help with bit of the scenery. I know that I will not be starting to build my layout for 3 years but I will be able to learn a lot from others and hope to help others as well.

Hello and welcome to the forum Buffer, enjoy and all the best.

Hi and welcome to the forum
Regards

I had the plan in my head for years. It's just that I lived in a 3 bed house and had two daughters, who I was never going to get to allow me to have a layout over the bed. Now a boy may have been a different proposition.
11 years ago we moved and the house had a double garage, guess what, I have converted the garage.
As I say the plan had been in my head for years, and NEVER went down on paper. I dont think that is the right way to do it actually. I think you should put it down on paper, even if it is just a sketch.
I am really pleased with what is down at the moment, but funnily enough I would change it if I was starting again. I have'nt enough storage space nor enough sidings.
As I said, I will post some photos, hopefully after Christmas, because I am planning a major clean up in the train room then.
Good luck, start it as soon as you can, it's a great hobby.
Paul.

I think that's always going to be the case Paul.
Unless we strictly limit ourselves to locos and rolling-stock from a very specific era/location/railway the manufacturers are eventually going to tempt us into buying more than our sidings can hold.
Even with harder to obtain Swiss models I have long since given up trying to add extra storage sidings to my layout. I just store my spare stock and locos safely in stackable boxes and rotate them every so often.

Hi John,
I have an old chest of drawers with all my loco's and stock in.
This fits neatly under the baseboard of the layout.
About 2 years ago a friend came round, and I said to him that I had a loco of his, a rebuilt Patriot class. He said it was'nt his but mine, he could remember me buying it at a swap meet. Well I could'nt remember for the life of me, I must be getting really old.
I have had phases of buying things, and then not really bothering for ages.
There is now so much I would like, but space is at a premium. Another set of drawers methinks.
Paul.

Hello all, i reckon i'am going to need some room, i would like to mix steam and deltics and class 20's plus class 37's, hopefully station, sidings and country side, but i aint a clue how to draw it down on paper.
also my thing about getting older is using a tool putting it down then wanting to use it again Ah now where is it where did i put it, can't ya waste some time looking for it.:rolleyes:

The new Bachmann Stock Boxes seem good. I picked some at Warley. See Bachmann Web site.

Best wishes,

John H-T.