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  1. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    I've made a bit more progress today. Last week, I ended up going into the local hobby shop to pick up some n-scale cork roadbed and a few pieces of flex track to play around with. Having never really seen what it was like, I thought a bit of time to fool around with it and some pieces to...
  2. mabelair

    New Old Photos of the Previous Layout

    Hey, those are some great photos! Thanks for sharing. MAB
  3. mabelair

    Im Montreal, where to shop

    You'll find that if you're downtown Montréal or on the West Side, most people are fluently bilingual, and they won't give you any attitude about it anyway. As for specific shops, I wish I could help you there, but I have no clue. :-) Good luck on the hunting. MAB
  4. mabelair

    New Member

    Hey Dom, welcome! I'm also a new model railroader and am learning along the way! Good to see another Brother in Rails. ;-) MAB
  5. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    So, slowly making more progress. I've printed out the layout in 1:1, and have laid it down on the table and pinned it in place. Here's what it looks like so far: MAB
  6. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    Thanks again everyone for all the encouragement and comments. It's been very helpful. I've decided to finalize the plan that I pasted last, and have printed it out to scale and laid it out on the table in order to start doing the track laying. I'm going to be scoring the foam with a hobby...
  7. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    All right. Well, after spending a few hours reworking the layout tonight (still getting used to the software, since I have 0 drawing skills!), I've come up with a revision of Tanglewood Junction with which I'm quite pleased. I think it comes provides a solution for the problems with runarounds...
  8. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    Thanks for the information. I'm gonna look at the two runarounds and see how to tweak those a little bit to ensure for expandability if I decide to run more than one train at a time. By the way, on an unrelated matter, I must say I am really impressed by your work. You've done some really...
  9. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    Thanks everyone for the comments so far. Allow me to try and address a few of them now: 1 - The era that I've chosen is modern (95-presentish). I just bought my first locomotive which is a Kato AC4400CW in CPR livery, which will serve as the basis for the industrial portion of the train. 2 -...
  10. mabelair

    Tanglewood County

    Well, here it is, my promised post regarding my very first layout, in this crazy foray into model railroading. I opted to go with a completely freelance, from my own mind layout, using stuff that I like. Thus, Tanglewood County was born, Tanglewood being the name of the development in which I...
  11. mabelair

    Hello from Ontario!

    Thank you again everyone for the really warm (chaleureux as I might normally say) welcome. I'm really enjoying just about everything this board has to offer, and hope I will be able to contribute in kind. I've been working with my father (he has the carpentry skills!) to put up some benchwork...
  12. mabelair

    Hello from Ontario!

    Well, you clearly have more experience with beaver than I likely shall ever have! Thanks! I'd been agonizing for a long time as to the locomotive I should get. I figured, it's local, I recognize it, and I'm somewhere in the middle between a toy train runner and a model railroader, so it was...
  13. mabelair

    Hello from Ontario!

    Thanks! I just had a chance to play with it on a test track, since my track at home is barely even started, but it's really rather awesome so far. If you trust CP, beavers are gold up here, but the last time I saw 'em in the woods around here, they were brown. ;-) MAB
  14. mabelair

    Come on back to the caboose and get a cup of coffee [or sweet ice tea] Part IV

    Good morning everyone! Freezing rain's finally letting up. I'm still A/Manager until the boss gets back tomorrow. MAB
  15. mabelair

    Hello from Ontario!

    I apparently (inadvertently, I swear!) posted my first intro post in the card section, so here I am, all embarassed and stuff. I'm 26 years old, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, just getting into model railroading with a friend of mine who's been in the game for 20ish years and the help of the...
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