We have had requests to revive the chat room here. We dropped it when we moved servers because it was no longer being supported and apparently was beginning to show it. We have a couple of choices, one is to see if we can find a compatible sub-program that we could add to our software, the second is to create one outside of Big Blue, such as Google, and simply link to it here. The third option is to do nothing. We will determine what to do based on the answers we get in this poll.

Guelph home layout tours
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Nov. 16, 2014.

Guelph is at exit 299 of the 401 -- that's 3 hours east of Detroit.
Tour is smallish but free.
(I'm not on it yet.)

MB Klein Intermountain HO ES40DC's NS primer $89
MB Klein has Intermountain HO ES40DC's NS primer grey for $89.99

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Hello all

A new website starts to collect together model train track plans and layouts in all scales and sizes, build with SCARM planning software. Here is it:

Free Railway Layouts & Railroad Track Plans

Most of the content in the site is created by SCARM users and sent to me by e-mail. Some of the layouts are already presented in SCARM blog, but there are new projects and more will come soon. At the moment, I am editing and uploading all stuff, but in the near future I plan to add support for user registrations, so everybody to be able to create an account and to upload projects in the site.

Everybody can browse the projects in the site or search and filter the track plans by several criteria, such as “scale”, “size”, “trackage” and so on. In example, the following link will show all layouts and track plans in HO gauge, listed for now in the site. Every project has its own page, where it is presented with more pictures, described with many parameters (such as minimum radius, maximum grade, suitable traffic, etc.) and sometimes explained by me or by its author. All (or almost all) published layouts will have corresponding SCARM files ready to be downloaded from the links at bottom in the layout’s page. There is also an option for each project to be rated with rating stars from 1 to 5 – this is located below the description. Voting system works without registration, but is limited to one vote per project from a visitor in order to make ratings relevant and correct.

The site is also optimized for smartphones and tables, so you can browse it almost anywhere and anytime. However, some pictures may not look very detailed on small phone screens, but in overall you can get a good impression even from 320×480 sized cell phones.

At the moment, there is no option for commenting below the layouts, but such feature may appear in the future. The site is now in beta state and needs to be used for some period in real environment to see how it performs, is it easy and useful, etc. So please, try it and comment here what do you think about it.

And if you have some cool SCARM layout or track plan that you want to share with others, just send your .scarm project file to me at with a couple of lines, describing it

Hope you will like the site and will get many ideas from it even if you don’t use SCARM

Mixy
Author of SCARM

Hey guys,

I gotta say, I miss that chat room. Anyone else for it?

I'm going to use this thread for my New York & Atlantic layout instead of the other one. (<!-- l --><a class="postlink-local" href="http://bigbluetrains.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=6942">viewtopic.php?f=46&t=6942</a><!-- l -->) thanks again for everyone's input while planning this layout.

I'm redoing some of the track and the buildings that I started so I haven't got much done. I did get some of the scrap yard details done though. Hopefully I'll get more done soon.

Great pics of the demolition of Penn Station in NYC

http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/10/28...tation.php

Paul

My Friend Bill Martinsen build a Plymouth 2 1/2 tons at 1/13.7 scale. He has always the flair to find good model with a strong character. His model inspires me a lot. Bill Martinsen kindly send me datas and photos of the models.

I choose to build it with my friend Jean-Pierre Duval two Plymouths (one for each) because we have complementary competencies and we find fun to build it in common. We decided to build them in 3D and 2d with CNC machine in order to gain time and eventually to share it with other modelers. Jean-Pierre Duval is a talentuous modeler in 3D / 2D, he has already built a lot of locos at various scales.

This is the model from advertising



This is the true model



This is the version made by Jean-Pierre Duval





For those who are interesting to do the plymouth, they can order the various parts on theses links

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