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Adapting a module

Thomas Knapp All Messages By This Member #27670 开云体育 When we moved to Kauai, Hawaii in 2019, I took one module from the NorCal Nn3 modular layout with me. I subsequently discovered a small informal group on the island with a common interest in model trains. With “no fixed abode” this group sets up their portable tracks several times a year to exhibit trains ranging in scale from Z to G to the public. Sometimes this may be at a crafts fair or other event at a school or similar venue with available mains power, and other times it may be outdoors at Grove Farm Museum which has a collection of 1:1 sugar cane plantation locomotives and cane cars. . Initially I would bring my portable test track which has two concentric loops of track – one 9mm gauge and one 6.5mm gauge allowing me to run Z, Nn3, N, TTn3 and HOn30 trains. More recently, I dug out that 1-foot-by-four-foot module, added a removable run-around track and started taking this to the gatherings along with the portable test track. Attached is a drawing and photo of this “layout” at one of the outdoor get-togethers, where I operated for the entire meet on battery power. Tom K. ? ? ? Figure01(s).jpg
William Uffelman All Messages By This Member #27671 Where there is a will there is a way! Best part is you are having fun. Bill Uffelman? toggle quoted message Show quoted text On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 12:33 PM, Thomas Knapp <thomasknapp@...> wrote: When we moved to Kauai, Hawaii in 2019, I took one module from the NorCal Nn3 modular layout with me. I subsequently discovered a small informal group on the island with a common interest in model trains. With “no fixed abode” this group sets up their portable tracks several times a year to exhibit trains ranging in scale from Z to G to the public. Sometimes this may be at a crafts fair or other event at a school or similar venue with available mains power, and other times it may be outdoors at Grove Farm Museum which has a collection of 1:1 sugar cane plantation locomotives and cane cars. . Initially I would bring my portable test track which has two concentric loops of track – one 9mm gauge and one 6.5mm gauge allowing me to run Z, Nn3, N, TTn3 and HOn30 trains. More recently, I dug out that 1-foot-by-four-foot module, added a removable run-around track and started taking this to the gatherings along with the portable test track. Attached is a drawing and photo of this “layout” at one of the outdoor get-togethers, where I operated for the entire meet on battery power. Tom K. ? ? ?

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