Hi All,
I've been avidly reading these boards these past few days. I enjoyed the traditional "Christmas O-Scale" layout as a kid, with one of my favorite memories being my Dad and I setting up the "train board" and his old Lionel steam engine and my diesel, with a couple of Plasticville houses form his childhood.
Last year my wife and I bought an MTH O-scal for our own Christmas train. All this has got me thinking about building a "real" layout with scenery, etc. that would be more of a perm. fixture.
We're currently apartment dwellers, so I'd like to build something small and N scale seems like the way to go. We're planning on moving to a house next summer, so perhaps a "door layout" will be in my future, but for now something that takes up a couple of square feet and could be moved around when not in use but still big enough to give me a chance to experiment.
Any suggestions for books or good websites to start out? I have done some googling and have many pieces of infomration, just not sure they all fit together in my head yet.
Thanks!
I've been avidly reading these boards these past few days. I enjoyed the traditional "Christmas O-Scale" layout as a kid, with one of my favorite memories being my Dad and I setting up the "train board" and his old Lionel steam engine and my diesel, with a couple of Plasticville houses form his childhood.
Last year my wife and I bought an MTH O-scal for our own Christmas train. All this has got me thinking about building a "real" layout with scenery, etc. that would be more of a perm. fixture.
We're currently apartment dwellers, so I'd like to build something small and N scale seems like the way to go. We're planning on moving to a house next summer, so perhaps a "door layout" will be in my future, but for now something that takes up a couple of square feet and could be moved around when not in use but still big enough to give me a chance to experiment.
Any suggestions for books or good websites to start out? I have done some googling and have many pieces of infomration, just not sure they all fit together in my head yet.
Thanks!