Re: What is a "small layout"
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Your mountain looks a lot like mine!? The scales are different (mine's O-tinplate), but the scenery is about the same--my main mountain in styrofoam is about 1' x 3' x 2.6' h. that lifts-off and I added a coal load-out facility on a mine spur for interest (photos atch'd).? Nice to see great minds at work on the same idea...? ?John McGarrity, Charleston WV
On Sunday, October 21, 2018, 7:10:56 AM EDT, Barry Loraine <inchrail@...> wrote:
My 'Kitchen Table Railway' is just that. A 16mm scale, 32mm gauge railway on the kitchen table because its the only available space in my small, very small, flat. Its 4ft x 2ft and the background is made in foam board which can be quickly lifted off when I need to store the railway for those odd occasions when the kitchen table has to be used as a kitchen table. Not up to the standard of most modellers but at least it allows me to run something and keep my interest alive. Barry ------ Original Message ------
From: "libinus via Groups.Io" <david.thomas967=[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: 21/10/2018 10:56:43 Subject: Re: [small-layout-design] What is a "small layout" >Hi Joe > >In H0 4x1 is probably a tad small for a 5:3:3? Inglenook with typical >US equipment but it's easy to add a clip on "stick" beyond the modelled >layout to form part of the yard lead. The total minimum length you need >is the length of 8 cars plus the length of the loco plus the length of >the first turnout with a couple of inches for clearance. That or any >other fairly simple switching layout using equipment that you don't >mind other people handlng can be a great way to give people at train >shows , especially youngsters,? hands on experience rather than just >looking at other people's work. > >It's not just youngsters though. Some years ago, I was operating a >friend's small, 5ft 6 ins by 18ins plus cassette based "fiddle yard", >H0 layout at an exhibition near Paris (France) and got talking to a >visitor who was clearly fascinated by our typically British intensity >of operation . Rather regretfully, he told me that living in a small >Paris apartment gave him no room for a working layout but he might >manage a diorama. When I explained Inglenook Sidings to him- it can >just be fitted into four feet with older European four wheel wagons - >his obvious delight was wonderful to see; he really could have a >working layout. I'll never know whether anything came of that >conversation of course but it taught me that we all have the the >possibility of starting the ball rolling. > > > > > |
