Introductions

[zephyr9900]

Hi Paul,  unfortunately I haven't done a thing on the McKeen.  But now that I can make wheels I could try doing a proper power truck after my other current/revised projects are done.

Randy

[kelleywpns]

Hi, Mike here.

Turning 40 soon, got introduced to HO scale by my dad when I was a kid with a TYCO set.  Sold off all the HO stuff in 2007 and went to N-Scale.  Made 2x small layouts, now in the process of building the benchwork of my 17' x 14' around the walls w/ center peninsula layout depicting New England (B&M and NH) in the mid-to-late 1950s.

Live on Cape Cod, military member, wife with daughter and son (8 and 5 respectively) ... so, lot of things to compete with 'hobby-time', but, it's all good.

Hope to learn a lot from you guys on the forum as I build the layout.  Thanks for your time.

[Bsklarski]

Hi, Mike here.

Turning 40 soon, got introduced to HO scale by my dad when I was a kid with a TYCO set.  Sold off all the HO stuff in 2007 and went to N-Scale.  Made 2x small layouts, now in the process of building the benchwork of my 17' x 14' around the walls w/ center peninsula layout depicting New England (B&M and NH) in the mid-to-late 1950s.

Keep me (us) posted. My two favorite railroads. I model the same in a round about way but 10 - 15 years later in time frame.

[rail and tie]

Hi Folks!

Darryl here. Glad I found this forum just yesterday.  Looks like a great N scale following and not just the usual stuff that everyone else is talking about.  I have been a long time N Scaler, but currently am without a layout (fixing that soon with a modular layout I am designing for the new cat proof room... no more catzilla attacks in the middle of the night and coming back in the morning to a razed town and track. Then having to head to the vet to see x-rays of my favorite n scale autos in the intestinal track of catzilla!!

Looking forward to learning from and contributing to the group.

Cheers!

Darryl
Interaction Hobbies

[Philip H]

Welcome  Daryl! We've actually got a lot of feline staff around here in the N scale department, so we can probably help you with both your layout and your cats. Don't forget to wander to the Layout Engineering section and start throwing your ideas out.

[garthah]

I am new to ralwire   I model n scale and n scale narrow gauge as well as Z scale.   My railroad is the Athabaska Northern and follow Canadian practice favourite railroads are Newfoundland Railway, Pacific Great Eastern adn Canadian Pacific plus he white pass.

Being narrow minded I prefer steam over diesel except when they are doodlebugs

Garth

[Scottl]

Welcome aboard Garth.  I model modern CN, but I have a real soft spot for the White Pass route and the Yukon NG.  I'm looking forward to seeing your models!

[ThirdCoastRail]

Greetings folks! 

I've been in and out of N scale for about the last 18-ish years and before that I was in HO for awhile.  Currently I'm planning out a layout based on the Milwaukee area sometime around the 1990s-ish time period, though that certainly ain't set in stone.  Primary roads of interest are Soo Line, CNW, BN, MILW and Wisconsin Central, though I've always had fascination with So Cal railroading, so I also own a bunch of Santa Fe and Southern Pacific stuff.  Needless to say I'm not afraid to run whatever makes me happy, even though I'm sure the odds of Tunnel Motors running past the Pabst Brewery were fairly low.

I went to architecture school at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, so I have a bit of a thing for scratchbuilding and kitbashing structures.  Recently though I've obtained a nice Iwata airbrush so I'm looking at expanding out with some loco repainting/kitbashing, so I'm kinda hunting around for tips/info/advice. 

Cheers,
Jon

[db74]

Hi.

Derrick from Pittsburgh; N scaler modeling the Pittsburgh South Side in the 1950s. I have PRR, P&LE and B&O as well as the Allegheny and South Side and Mon Connecting on my layout. So far, only the PRR Whitehall Branch exists, center reservation trackage on South 21st St (and the industries along it). Planning more construction when we improve the house a bit more.

[Nilmadic]

Whats up everyone? My name is Nils and I live in the SF Bay Area in the mid peninsula area. I grew up in an area of the country where railroading is not so prominent. The only rail traffic you see in daylight hours in my neck of the woods is generally a push pull commuter service that runs all day every day making stops every few miles. I got interested in model trains when I was about 10 and found a book on it in my school library. I modeled HO scale until fairly recently when some friends got me into free moN. I have been building a collection of n scale modules getting some guidance under the instruction of master M.C. Fujiwara. M.C. convinced me to join railwire and here I am. I have a youtube channel that has some of my HO stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/user/nilmadic

[peteski]

Hello ThirdCoastRail, db74, and Nilmadic. Welcome to the asylum! 

[Philip H]

Welcome gentlemen. Nils, we expect Funkymonkey level performance from you for. Here on out. Jon, with in-laws in Green Bay, and an architect brother, I can't wait to see what you come up with.

[Jesse6669]

Hi all, Jesse here.  I've posted a few messages so far but wanted to do the intro and short bio.  I'm a T-gauge/1:450 scale modeler.  (Yes I know a real minority group.)  I'm working on a layout based on the P&W Sub near Etna, PA in the Chessie era/70s-80s, and have a blog of my progress, or lack thereof...http://jessestmodels.blogspot.com/ 

I guess I am a bit of a T-gauge evangelist, and I hope my models will speak for themselves and the potential of the scale.  We've made some leaps in the last year or so, with slow speed control/pulse power, more (shorter) mechanisms, and some UK RTR models now available.  There are still a lot of challenges but that's one thing I like about this scale. 

I created a bunch of 1:450 shells and some structures http://www.shapeways.com/shops/ccetrains.  Soon.. they will be available in resin, along with some nifty brass detail parts 

Jesse

[Spades]

Howdy  Greg here, a member since 04/2007, this will be my 25th post.  I want to say how much I enjoyed The Railwire.  Great modelling abounds here.  The works of David Smith, Scott Lupia, Ryoustone(sp) where did he go? and too many others to mention. Also model railroading life lessons from Lee Weldon.  Just a great website.

Now for some of that crew lounge love.

Greg

[Noah Lane]

Hello Everyone

I'm Noah from Sacramento.  I was into model railroading from age 5 to 14, but never lost interest in trains. I am 31 now, and just recently have gotten back into the hobby, only this time with a slightly more serious approach.  Over the past month I've been doing plenty of N Scale research and planning my layout in the AnyTracks demo. My objective was a permanent N Scale Unitrack layout, 40" x 80" (specifically to fit in a particular area of my condo), DCC operation, two main lines, 8 #4 switches, switch map control panel (not the Kato switch controls), no [track] grade changes, 2-3 locos max at a time, extruded foam landscape, very roughly prototyping the mountain town of Truckee in the 1970's.  My plan is to build the layout incrementally to not piss of my wife for spending so much money -although she is very supportive of the hobby and even finds it really interesting!

The Saturday before last I bought my first pieces of Unitrack at the World's Greatest Hobby show here in Sac.  Throughout the week I worked on the layout and bought some more track through LHS and Model Train Stuff. I did my bench work over the weekend which I'm happy enough with. I know it's way overbuilt (2x4 frame), but I come from a background of building skateramps. I'm sure in future layouts, I'll manage a lighter yet plenty-strong structure.  I don't own any locos or rolling stock at this point, but I plan to buy all of that and the NCE Powercab sometime down the road. 

I'm very excited to get back into the hobby!  And, I'll have plenty of newbie questions for all of you, so thank you in advance.

Cheers

Noah

Below is my general layout design. Although I've swapped out several of the track pieces (eg not using the Kato Feeder Tracks, after learning that I need feeders to every track piece for DCC).


The layout as is sits today:



And this is how it looked just two Saturdays ago:


Edit: In case you were wondering: no I do not have all of my track yet. I still have 6 switches and two double truss bridges (to span the river canyon) left to purchase. Also, the white strip of spackle is from when I originally bought the foam I cut it into a 79 x 36" layout. I decided that I needed a few more inches all around, so I added the extra when doing my bench work.