Originally posted by JeanDagenais
1. How do you decide of the design of your new layout? (e.g. structure, lenght, rail mapping, road, brigdes, etc.)
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This takes me quite a while doodling on the computer art package to draw some track plans
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Is it simply based on the previous one (e.g. Red Fox extended to On30), or you create something completely new based on your experience?
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There are times when certain aspects of my layouts tend to creep into new ones, but all in all, most are new concepts.
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Do you try to innovate when you create a new layout? (e.g. trying something new you have never done before, or stay with proven methods)
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Yes sometimes I do tryout new idea's but mostly I tend to stay with proven methods.
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2. How much of your previous work in HO can you reuse in On30?
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None of it.
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Can you reuse locomotives, carts, scratch buildings, trees, directly or by adapting them?
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Trees can be used, but they will be smaller in scale, new ones will be needed. Also scratchbuilding of loco bodies will take place using HO chassis's.
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3. What will you use to drive it? DC or DCC, and why?
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DC has always been my way, cannot see the point of DCC when only 2 trains will be run at any one time.
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