It's been a while... but things have been progressing. I mentioned in my last post that the original track plan has changed somewhat after the layout location and available space was worked out. After much planning and re-planning I've settled on the below plan. The layout will go round the 4 walls of the room, one side for a 6 track traverser fiddle yard, the dock area on the back wall, a 2nd yet to be worked out scenic section along the bottom wall and a removable section at the door end of t
Well, it's been a couple of months since I last updated this blog. Christmas has come and gone and while there has been a fair amount progress and decisions made in some areas, others are less settled.
The good news first. The location of the layout has been settled. We have a small room in the house that has been cleared / and made ready.
Unfortunately the nature of the layout has changed. It's still a intermodal depot / dock with container ships and so on, by instead of a loop with hi
Started scratch building a container ship a couple of months ago. If an intermodal dock yard is to form the main focus of the layout I had to be sure I could build the container ship as there's no such thing as ready made for N gauge.
After scouring the web for images and dimensions I stumbled across a web page ( www.containershipping.nl ) which has loads of photos and dimensions. From this I made myself some plan drawings that I could work from. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of e
So as I stated in my last blog entry, I'm going N gauge intermodal but also want a continuous run . I've also got this crazy idea to scratch build a small container ship (not a massive one) and dock-side container crane. The first container ship is underway and will post some details in another entry.
Track plans have been designed with RailModeller for the Mac and I seem to be settling on the below plan. No name for the layout yet
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Layout dimensions are 2.6m x 0.9m (or
With the majority of the OO layout sold it's now time to start thinking about what sort of model railway layout I want to build.
So what type of layout do I want to build? Here's my wish list -
I don't know why, but I have no interest in steam locomotives, perhaps it's my age (I can hear some blog viewers leaving now)
My interest is purely in modern diesel and when I say modern I guess I mean the last 10 years or so.
Not really planning on modeling a real location but would like to
I've been a regular viewer of RMweb for the last 12 months but have just signed up as I have a new layout in the planning stage. Never written a blog in my life so we'll just have to see how this goes. Lot's of thoughts running through my head at the moment so will dump them here.
So how did I get here...
Well I guess it all started over 30 years ago with our OO model railway that Dad built in the dining room. It was a permanent feature and I remember it being there for many years. Fun
