03-15-2012, 03:18 PM
UH-OH someone has been bitten by the model railroad bug 
As others have mentioned there are as many ways to "play" with toy or model trains as there are people in the hobby of trains.
They how ever forgot 2 hard core modeler factions those who are Proto modelers where every thing to the tinest detail is excact scale even the rivits on the train cars, and there are operators who run thier trains on a schedual in "scale" time useing a clock called a fast clock.
I myself am a loop runner with 2 half finished layouts at home and work on a club layout as well. I like toy and model trains, recently I have taken up kitbashing and scratch building On30 and S gauge cars.
Interesting that you now want to model an entire layout with space station as I thought about it once upon a time. I have heard of maybe a couple layouts that have a Lord of the rings theme to it. I will search for my pic of a bachmann/plasticville union station that I have star wars droids on the passenger platforms. The droids were made by micro-machines and are close to O scale.
As others have mentioned there are as many ways to "play" with toy or model trains as there are people in the hobby of trains.
They how ever forgot 2 hard core modeler factions those who are Proto modelers where every thing to the tinest detail is excact scale even the rivits on the train cars, and there are operators who run thier trains on a schedual in "scale" time useing a clock called a fast clock.
I myself am a loop runner with 2 half finished layouts at home and work on a club layout as well. I like toy and model trains, recently I have taken up kitbashing and scratch building On30 and S gauge cars.
Interesting that you now want to model an entire layout with space station as I thought about it once upon a time. I have heard of maybe a couple layouts that have a Lord of the rings theme to it. I will search for my pic of a bachmann/plasticville union station that I have star wars droids on the passenger platforms. The droids were made by micro-machines and are close to O scale.