Introductions

[peteski]

Hello Florent. Welcome to the Railwire!  Your SNCF layout might be small, but it looks good.
There are other members here who model both, USA and European trains.  I am one of them (and I also have some Japanese trains).  I don't have a home layout, but I belong to a local NTRAK club and I run my trains on the club layout.

[prr7161]

Hi all,

My name is Angela, and I've been a RW member for a while, dropping my $.02 here and there, but I am planning to get in on the MOW challenge for April and figured I should do a proper intro.

Some of you know me from other corners of the web, or the PRRT&HS (yes, another SPF!).  I've been puttering around in N scale since the '80s.  Not a lot of room for a layout right now, though I am building a few shelf modules as a start towards the ultimate goal of representing the PRR, P&LE, and URR on the south bank of the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh in the spring of 1949.

Looking forward to being a little more active here!

Angela

[eric220]

Welcome @Florent ! Somewhere I’ve got pictures of me at the tender age of 12 in the cab of an SNCF locomotive in Nice, as well as the cab of the TGV Atlantique! That was more fun than the other kids had on that exchange program!

@prr7161 we can always use more SPF’s!

[Dave V]

Hi all,

My name is Angela, and I've been a RW member for a while, dropping my $.02 here and there, but I am planning to get in on the MOW challenge for April and figured I should do a proper intro.

Some of you know me from other corners of the web, or the PRRT&HS (yes, another SPF!).  I've been puttering around in N scale since the '80s.  Not a lot of room for a layout right now, though I am building a few shelf modules as a start towards the ultimate goal of representing the PRR, P&LE, and URR on the south bank of the Monongahela River near Pittsburgh in the spring of 1949.

Looking forward to being a little more active here!

Angela

Hi Angela!  Good to have more N scale PRR modeling!

[Cajonpassfan]

Oh geez, not another SPF, and a female one to boot!
I'm of course just kidding Angela
Welcome to TRW. Anyone modeling Spring '49 is alright in my book!
Looking forward to your contributions...
Otto K.

[reinhardtjh]

Welcome Angela!  Always nice to see another N Scale SPF join the group.

[prr7161]

Thanks, guys!

[Peavine]

H All,
My name is Jim, and I've been modeling on and off in N Scale for about 35 years. I live in the Phoenix area and model the Santa Fe (loosely) between Phoenix and Ash Fork, AZ. Here is a pic (If I can get it to work) of the courthouse square in Prescott AZ (where my layout is physically located) As with all things, my layout is a work in progress and shares time with many other hobbies. I've lurked on and off for a few years but figured that since this forum is such a great resource, I should finally register.

[Jbub]

Welcome Jim! From the looks of the picture you'll be great resource to TRW as well.

[DeltaBravo]

Welcome Jim, looking forward to seeing more photos of your layout.

[Dave V]

Jim, that one photo is a tease!  I love what I see there.  Please feel free to start a layout thread in our Layout Engineering Reports subforum and tell us all about it!

[Cajonpassfan]

Wowzers Jim, that's some terrific modeling!
Welcome the Railwire!
Otto K.

[DKS]

Jim, that one photo is a tease!  I love what I see there.  Please feel free to start a layout thread in our Layout Engineering Reports subforum and tell us all about it!

What he said!

[tlaswell]

Here from Maryland.  Had a 4x6 layout about 30 years ago that got forgotten in the basement and eventually buried.  You know how those horizontal surfaces in some homes tend to collect stuff.  The layout was ignored when it got to a point where I wasn't sure which scenic part to tackle next.  I had some rolling stock that was added to when a friend quit the hobby.  I recently decided to get started again.  The layout is still half buried but I dug out the rolling stock, old DC stuff, and a couple years of Model Railroader.  I had contemplated DCC back in the day when it was first getting started but it was too expensive to get into.

I'm back now that the kids are grown and have decided to go modular NTrak/TTrak.  It's easier to do a single scene than to plan and execute scenery for a whole layout.  I'm also seriously considering DCC since that is what the local NTrak club uses.  I'm a computer programmer with some electronics and photography skills.  Looking to help contribute to the community.

[DeltaBravo]

Here from Maryland.  Had a 4x6 layout about 30 years ago that got forgotten in the basement and eventually buried.  You know how those horizontal surfaces in some homes tend to collect stuff.  The layout was ignored when it got to a point where I wasn't sure which scenic part to tackle next.  I had some rolling stock that was added to when a friend quit the hobby.  I recently decided to get started again.  The layout is still half buried but I dug out the rolling stock, old DC stuff, and a couple years of Model Railroader.  I had contemplated DCC back in the day when it was first getting started but it was too expensive to get into.

I'm back now that the kids are grown and have decided to go modular NTrak/TTrak.  It's easier to do a single scene than to plan and execute scenery for a whole layout.  I'm also seriously considering DCC since that is what the local NTrak club uses.  I'm a computer programmer with some electronics and photography skills.  Looking to help contribute to the community.

Welcome, I suggest you move forward with DCC it will give you more options to MU locos and run multiple locos from the same throttle. I would think that if you are going modular you might want your scenes to tie into one another. So some planning might be helpful.