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This is my new plan. Any thoughts and opinions would be great!

Three years ago my wife tugs on my shoulder while we're watching TV and says 'wanna goto the Model Railroad show at the Mayfield this weekend' I turned, eyes wide and responded with 'I love you so much right now' She noticed I had a few HO items back at my parents house and quized me on them...

Well the layout plan is changing due to the changing in space restrictions (I'm getting more!) but for this one I planned on building a mountain range for the back area, and the big open space is/was going to be for a small town. I'm basing this on Revelstoke in the mountains, and they had...

oops, my bad! Thanks for pointing that out. Thats a great idea though for merging the two kits. Thanks! I wonder if I could find a 6060 kit like that too.... hummmm btw: got a hold of a 6060 HO scale this weekend. :)

Getting closer to convincing the wife that building an 5x10 layout in the middile of the spare bedroom would take up more room that building off two of the walls. So I'm getting a bit more space to play around with. It's making things a lot easier, I got a branch line idea and a main line. The...

I'll be fine with the limitations to get me started. I won't have the room to expand anything past a 5x10 table at the largest for at least a year or more, so I doubt I'll be needing to expand on the DCC's capabilities till then. Triplex: I'm aware of the change over. Which is unfortunate...

Yea, I've been noticing that. Even CP/CN n scale steam is becoming harder to find thats not under the Model Power banner.... I've opted for 'blank' Bachmann Spectrum stuff that I'll repaint in the colors I want. What is the best resource for brass kits? I don't even know how much they cost...

Thanks a lot Fred, here are some responses. 1) The pacific seems to handel the 9 radius pretty good with no issues of derailments, slow downs, or excessive body lean. not even at full throttle does it look like it's going to tip. I try the Mountain on the 9 and 11's as soon as I get it. If the...

So I got an idea for my first layout... and I have to admit, I am a little hesitant about doing something so 'complicated' for a first timer. My first problem is that I am SURE that the RTS software I used from Atlas is building my layout in HO track, and the layout translates into 13 feet by 9...

Being new in this, I want to buy good quality stuff from here on in. I don't got much at the moment, and I'm still just running Atlas snap track 80 series on a table top just to play around a bit. for my birthday last month my wife (who has actually been getting me back into the hobby more...

wow, that looks really really good! Thanks for the help guys. I'm doing some lookin around right now.

I haven't done this in years, so I've been taking head and reading quite a bit. Went out and picked up a couple of issues of Model Railroader tonight and after reading this I ordered that N Scale Model Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby book from Indigo/Chapters. I guess before I start...

Hey all, I'm finally getting back into this glorious hobby after a 10 year break. I have pretty much lost all of my rolling stock and locomotives, very little still survives. So I'm looking to 'restart' so to speak. I'm going to be modeling in N scale, but I know there is more HO scale loco's...

Hey all, I'm finally getting back into this glorious hobby after a 10 year break. I have pretty much lost all of my rolling stock and locomotives, very little still survives. So I'm looking to 'restart' so to speak. I'm going to be modeling in N scale, but I know there is more HO scale loco's...