01-29-2012, 02:47 AM
Looking forward to it Justin.
Don't feel pressured by us here to have to bash something together to get pics up. I'd rather see you taking your time laying the track so that you're fully satisfied with it, before you even take the soldering iron to it and solder the rail joiners etc...
Lay the track, eyeball it for 'straightness', see if your lightest car doesn't derail by pushing it along the various joints and switches etc, and then take a step back. Come back to it a few days later, do you still like it, or do you want to tweak something a bit more, re-lay a bit of track, keeping in mind that less is probably more. (Lance Mindheim's latest book about how to operate a switching layout demonstrates that you don't need loads of track to have realistic operations that can easily take up a couple hours) It also leaves more space to build scenery, if you enjoy that sort of thing. It's not a speed contest! I haven't progressed much with my own layout, I'm not in a hurry, and don't want to be either. :-)
good luck !
Koos
Don't feel pressured by us here to have to bash something together to get pics up. I'd rather see you taking your time laying the track so that you're fully satisfied with it, before you even take the soldering iron to it and solder the rail joiners etc...
Lay the track, eyeball it for 'straightness', see if your lightest car doesn't derail by pushing it along the various joints and switches etc, and then take a step back. Come back to it a few days later, do you still like it, or do you want to tweak something a bit more, re-lay a bit of track, keeping in mind that less is probably more. (Lance Mindheim's latest book about how to operate a switching layout demonstrates that you don't need loads of track to have realistic operations that can easily take up a couple hours) It also leaves more space to build scenery, if you enjoy that sort of thing. It's not a speed contest! I haven't progressed much with my own layout, I'm not in a hurry, and don't want to be either. :-)
good luck !
Koos
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