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This is the start of my On30 Narrow gauge Logging/Mining (eventually) model Rail Road (being American) It is partially laid on what used to be an N gauge one. It will eventually go right round the Summerhouse on a shelf It is DCC Bachmann EZ Command Control. the Loco is a Bachmann 28ton Climax fitted with DCC and Sound. the buildings are made of card using a digital design program. All is temporary at the moment buildings and 'trees' sited for the phoros. Jim [ATTACH]142880[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]142881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]142882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]142883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH]142884[/ATTACH]
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Very, very nice Jim, and a welcome departure from the "Grey Funnel Line" topics usually occupying this section of the Forum.;) Sandy.

Well done Jim , looks like it has great potential and with your touch ....looking forward to following the thread .......well done mate :D

Is that Gum Stump & Showshoe? Also, what kind of roadbed are you using?

Jim: The layout looks good and typically American. Regards, Brian

Don't have a name for it yet. Don't have a road bed yet, but sourced a good sized bag of Aquarium grit for about one eighth the price of the stuff in the model shops. Need to sell more paintings, for more rolling stock and another Loco, I fancy a little Porter, also a Shay later. Meanwhile I'll be muddling along making trees and scenery , a log pond and a turntable. ( N gauge kit bashed) I'm thinking of a lift out Trestle for the gap at the door, but no rush it is an on going project. Lots of good model Narrow gauge logging stuff on you tube for people who are unfamiliar with the hobby. Jim

Can you show us a diagram of the track plan? Also, for roadbed, I meant what kind of construction did you use? (eg. cookie-cutter, spline, etc.)

Track plan in my head, Plywood shelf 2' wide with 2" thick x 16" square polystyrene tiles, contours built up with scraps and covered with plaster impregnated bandage. Track is laid straight on to the base and will be ballasted with the Aquarium gravel. landscape will be acrylic painted . Grass various lengths of 'hairy string' and expensive commercial products sparingly. Real forest debris suitably dried in the micro wave will be scattered where appropriate. Trees made up using various methods from You Tube etc. All the above on as small a budget as possible. Jim

Sounds like I need lessons from YouTube! Farthest I've got is an 8'x8' Plywood Pacific. Although, my dad and I are getting started on our freelanced Canadian National Wisconsin Division. Gonna be two decks, with a helper grade coming out of town. We've got half the yard laid, a few industries in town, and trains running. We've got to clean out our half of the basement before the construction can continue. My uncle's N scale built when he was younger is on a sheet of homasote (2'x4'.) Got a simple loop around the outside, and the inside has a loop that starts at the front, curves at the right end, ducks into a tunnel until the middle of the board at the back, then comes out and climbs a hill until it gets to the edge of the board, then heads back to the mountain where it moves along a ledge where it crosses over the track coming out of the mountain, then descending to where it began. The center has no track, but I'm eyeing it for an industrial park. Right now, I need a new loco, because the engines are so old, they can't really run, and I've cleaned the track as best I could. How you gonna operate it? (Continuous loop operation or point to point with a continuous connection) Any staging? If so, remember Tony Koester's formula for staging: N=2N+1. ("n" being the number of tracks you think you need.)

At the moment it is point to point, but it can go out one way, cross over and reverse back on the other track and back onto the original. There will be sidings at the Sawmill, with perhaps a Jetty. I will probably use my N gauge track and equipment to run a Tramway from the mine to the jetty, all in the future. Jim

Cool The best part of building the layout is the track laying. Then you can mess around and see what suits you. Sorry if I'm getting annoying.

Not annoying at all, the thing is, I really have no particular interest in mainline Railways, it's the Narrow Gauge and industrial stuff I like. One advantage with the logging is that it was all cobbled together, even 'homemade' locos, so no spit and polish!. Jim

So do I, although I like heavy trains. I can simulate that though with a branch to an iron ore mine or a coal mine. I like switching, but sometimes, I just like to sit back and let trains run. DCC is great. More than once I have set a train loose on the main while I switch, having to time my moves right if I must use the main as a lead. I have [I]finally[/I] convinced my father to let me buy a Shay for working my Glacier Gravel plant. The crusher is down a 2% grade, and we use live loads of sifted gravel to simulate crushed rock, so a rock train is heavy (around 3 lbs per 5 cars, I believe.) Just a tip, I've found that it looks better if you use real branches as logs on your cars, and if some fall to the trackside, leave them there, for that is what the prototype would do.

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