I am now modeling a 2.5 mile single track, coal hauling shortline. How many square feet would I need if it was built in a around the room square in N scale?
Originally posted by billk
This "compression" mentioned above may actually be a good thing, if you look at it as "leaving out the boring parts."
Say you wanted to model a RR between two towns that are in real (or imagined) life 60 miles apart. and a train would average 30mph going from one town to the other. That's 2 hrs, most of which would be spent just watching the train go down the track!
Now, I know that most of us would say that we enjoy doing just that, but if we had to do it every time we wanted to operate our layout, then what?
This reminds me of something my grandmother used to say while we watched a western movie on TV - the posse takes off, and the next thing you saw was the posse arriving at where ever they were going. "They couldn't of gotten there that fast!" she would always say. I didn't figure out the perfect reply until she had passed on - that if we had to sit there and watch a bunch of guys riding horses for 2 hrs, we'd change the channel.
Shamus,Now I wonder what that would work out at in 0n30 Hmmmm.