Introductions

[davefoxx]

I was enticed to this forum by another member, but after a week and such a warm welcome I've decided to return to the forum from whence I came.
Cheers,
Rob

[DStastny]

Hello my name is Doug.  I am 48 and have been modeling trains off and on since my youth.   About 15 years ago my wife suggested I get a hobby not involving computers. (She didn't know about DCC)   Anyway we had daughter so the N Scale got put in storage and went off modeling some O Scale which was little less likely to break.   Just never felt right so tore it down last fall and back to N I have come.  I started working on an HCD layout just to re-hone my skills and get something up and running quickly.   I am more of a lurker and less of a poster but questions will arise I am sure.

[Rich_S]

Hello my name is Doug.  I am 48 and have been modeling trains off and on since my youth.   About 15 years ago my wife suggested I get a hobby not involving computers. (She didn't know about DCC)   Anyway we had daughter so the N Scale got put in storage and went off modeling some O Scale which was little less likely to break.   Just never felt right so tore it down last fall and back to N I have come.  I started working on an HCD layout just to re-hone my skills and get something up and running quickly.   I am more of a lurker and less of a poster but questions will arise I am sure.

Hi Doug and welcome aboard. Be sure to check out the Layout Engineering Reports thread, HCD layouts are well represented here at TRW. Since switching to N scale in the mid 1980's I've only built one 10' x 15' layout, the rest have been HCD layouts. There are even a few Micro layouts being worked on. DCC you say, maybe you'll want to check out the DCC thread when she's not around 




 

[davefoxx]

"We are HCD layout builders.  Resistance is futile.  Your life, as it has been, is over.  From this time forward, you will service us.  We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own."

Sincerely,
The HCD Borg

 

[Albert in N]

'Tis better to run N scale on a HCD layout, than plan and never build.  The added bonus is having an accessible layout inside a climate-controlled home not far from the kitchen.  Long live Hollow Core Door layouts!

[CacheJunction]

Hello all: My name is Dave, I'm 47 and live in northern New Jersey. N has been my scale since high school when I asked my dad to buy a Bachmann set for my birthday. That set sat in its box until my 11 year old found it 4 years ago and asked if we could get into the hobby. That led to doing Scenic Ridge, except I added some enhancements and did a lot of laser cut kits. It has since been torn down and the buildings sold, but I still hav a couple of pics:







This really helped me cut my teeth on weathering, scenicing, model building, etc. Well, while completing it, the prototypical modeling bug bit me, so now my basement has been taken over by 9' X 14' layout-in-progress. My year is 1950, Union Pacific, specifically the Cache Valley Branchline and Cache Junction, where the Oregon Shortline ran through on its way to Ogden. I grew up in Cache Valley and have early memories of the junction and the industries the branchline served. The branchline had canneries, so I thought it would be fun/interesting to model Geneva Steel mill and it's coal mine on the Carbon County Railway, and the American Can Factory in Ogden.

[img width=801 height=451]https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-YwEvbJeL07A/UNMBfn_eBjI/AAAAAAAAEq0/ub3JzRTyVB4/w1420-h800-no/1D227CC2-C932-4EAD-B55D-C08CF5E3274E.PNG">>

[/img]https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jbzvUry_W-A/UNMBdg3OSDI/AAAAAAAAEqk/ASEMY3S5vt4/w1000-h670-no/702CD0A9-D770-42F3-A6DF-A5BB58B78B59.JPG[/img]





Anyway, you get the idea.

At the time I started the layout, I couldn't find any track, so I discovered Fasttracks, and have been making all the track and turnouts.



What slowed me up was the desire to accurately model the buildings, so I found a CAD app for my phone and began designing buildings. I had a few laser cut and was pleased with the results:







...and others. The short of it is I get busy and have spent little time on forums. A friend of mine is on here and recommended my membership.

So Hello!

I also have started a small side business selling laser kits I design, but I don't know where the appropriate place this information should be posted. Maybe someone could guide me as to the right way/area to do this?

[peteski]

Welcome to TRW Dave!  That is some pretty amazing modeling you have done!  I can't wait to see more or your work!

As far as your laser kits go, I'm not a moderator but I don't think there will be any problem posting more info to the forum. Once you build up your post count (25 IIRC), you should be post to the Trading Post section.

[packers#1]

Dave, danggggg that's some impressive modeling! I hope you start a thread on your layout in the Layout Engineering Reports section; I'd love to see more!

[CacheJunction]

Thanks! I will definitely post more stuff as I go along. Progress has been very slow over the past 4 months setting up the laser kit stuff, but I am close to getting things to a point where I can get back to laying track.

My website is http://BergenNationalLaser.com. Just got it up and running so a lot of kinks to work out still, feedback is appreciated.

[packers#1]

I really like the brick sheets on your website, I've been wanting a source for quality brick sheet for scratchbuilding for a while; so many of the old industrial buildings here are brick veneer.

[CacheJunction]

I have a couple of structures in mind with brick including a milk cannery and a generic warehouse. I am trying to figure out a way to modulize them so you can buy different sizes. I have started plans for the factory I show above do be introduced in three different sections. You could get any of the three or all of them. That is a sugar beet refinery. 

[Freight Train]

Hi,                                              My name is Rick but many here would probably know me by my user name " Freight Train " from the old Atlas forum. I've been into N scale since about 1967 to 68. My very N scale train set was a Atlas set consisting of a AT&SF E-8A, a couple of cars, loop of track plus power pack. Had been dappling in HO and O-27 scale as I got a Big Rail Work Train by Marx a couple of Christmas's back prior to the N Scale one. When doing HO I use to mount the track to wooden planks and connect the planks together by connecting tracks. Years later N Trak came around and did the same thing way better than I ever did. At lease I had the right idea right? Anyway I made it through the horrors of N scales infancy to all the great stuff we have today. Many piss and moan about the stuff manufactured today and don't know how great you have it. Back in the stone ages I use to dream & wish N scale would run & operate like the bigger scales. Well we finally got there and I'm glad I stuck with it. Growing up in Michigan City, Indiana a lot of the major railroads ran through my home town. I could virtuely go any direction and find some train action some where. Tony Koester writes about living in Long Beach, Indiana which was just a couple of miles from where I lived. Washington Park pretty much separated the towns we lived in. I lived just about 7 houses down from the Monon & Penn Central ( aft NYC ) tracks. On the opposite side of the tracks but the same side I lived on was Pullman Standard were my great grandfather Robert Black retired from. He had a house across the street from me and had a old rocker swing that faced the tracks. During the summer months in the morning we would watch the trains go by including PS bringing out freshly painted box cars to dry. I sure miss that old bugger and the love of railroading he had shared with me.

[peteski]

I was going to say "Welcome to the forum Freight Train" but looking at your post count, you have more than kicked the tires of TRW already. 

But, what the heck: Welcome to TRW Freight Train!

[Freight Train]

Thanks Peteski....better late than never I am !

[EspeeGoldenState]

I've been a lurker for a while, and posted occasionally. My name is Chris, I grew up next to the Southern Pacific on the old Cotton Rock. Up until recently I hated everything about the UP until I realized how much effort it really takes to proto-freelance a model railroad. Sure the sky is the limit, but not funds to paint and decal everything under the sun are not. So did the next best thing and just started modeling the Union Pacific around 2012 time frame in N and 2009 in HO, although I still have plenty of stuff to do a 1996+ version of the SP.

Just recently started visiting more often for the N scale section, as really there isnt another forum that I have found that has an active N scale. I'm a frequenter of TrainOrders under the same name. I was referred to the forum by a fellow club member at the time. I'll be honest, my primary scale is HO, but I do enjoy what N scale does offer with longer trains that don't look out of space, nor does a 25 car passenger train take up 30 feet of track real estate. I don't have a layout of my own, I belong to two clubs (HO & N) that share the same space.

Chris