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Hello, I just got in here to check this bb out or should I say RR BB out! I started modeling N-SCALE in 1990 do to the size space in my apartment. I us to model HO, I never modeled real towns or places. I made my own place & used my hobby skills [CB RADIO/COMPUTER] along with my layouts. As I added more I made more. I now have a village that goes through a tunnel [entertainment stand] that thanks to some person who gave me A LOT of free track & cars + switches & buildings. I now have a freight yard that is 6 tracks wide! I just got a COMMAND 2000 DCC & it works great with the standerd engines! I work part time & since I was a wee kid I had 0 friends so I would operate my layouts (HO up to N-SCALE = NOW) as a REAL VILLAGE! I would operate my CB RADIO to talk & answer myself [me talking to the village & the village people talking back] & now I find out that there are R/R clubs that do the same thing, BUT with real people & radios. I can only do this myself. But I have fun! I use my TRAIN ENGINEER program + thanks to some one on a R/R E-MAIL list I know have 2 spread sheets one is for passenger/freight cars & the other is for engines. I am hoping to find a place someday to move were there are other RAILROAD MODELER'S out there who along with me can set up a big site with radios & just enjoy life. See life for me in society is not good. I was boarn with an unknown handicap & I have problems with people as in not knowing when some one is using me for my money then they are gone! I hope you all understand & allow me to stay for a while. I am looking for some RAIL ROAD SITES that are mainly N-SCALE.
Thanks I just got a sign on my screen saying that it will disconnect so I got to be getting off so to go to sleep.
HAPPY RAILROADING
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Posts: 8 | From: SILVER SPRING, MD USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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yea few here into N scale... Myself, JC is just starting a new layout.. His son picked the scale... That boy will go a long way!
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Virtual Bird is right...a few N-scalers here!! I too modeled in HO until recently, but have since started a new N-gauge layout, based on one I built years ago. Lets have some fun and interesting N discussions!! Welcome and Happy Modeling!! John
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quote:Originally posted by jcater: Virtual Bird is right...a few N-scalers here!! I too modeled in HO until recently, but have since started a new N-gauge layout, based on one I built years ago. Lets have some fun and interesting N discussions!! Welcome and Happy Modeling!! John
YES! I was in to HO for some years then the space in my apartment shrunk :-( so I got rid of the HO (still have my GG1 on my entertainent stand) & I used that space for a BIGGER N-SCALE :-) LAYOUT! I call it "BOB'S VILLAGE" & my E-MAIL is BOBS_VILLAGE@JUNO.COM! I even use my CB RADIO & COMPUTER for it. I use my CB RADIO to talk to the people in the village (answer myself too) & I made 2 spread sheets for my stuff, 1 for engines & for passenger/freight cars. I even have a place on my windows called "BOB'S VILLAGE" whitch after I click on it, it brings up a program some what like these web pages except it links to other programs on my computer. I am someday [please pray for me] to move hopefully to a better apartment building next to a Church, I hope to find other N-SCALE's (I was thinking of going back to HO but with N-SCALE I can put more track & engines + passenger / freight cars on the tracks) in this new building. It will be a job taking my set up down from this apartment & moving it to the new apartment building. I am hoping that this whole move will let me move some things in a little @ a time as in sleeping here were I am now @ night, then letting my family move stuff in during the day. Then when I move in then some things will already be moved it. When I moved in here I had to start from scrach. This will be my 2nd apartment building I will live in on my own. I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE THEM TRAINS RUNNING AGAIN!!!
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Rob, You sound like me!! I had a great HO layout (you can still see it at http//www.jstrainstation.homestead.com)until I bought a home and had to move it. The layout survived the move really well, but once it was in the new house I realized that it was just too darned big and bulky. So out it went (to a good cause, I gave it to a kid who now is really into the hobby), and started the new N-scale SFSW. Hope to have a web site for it in about a year . Good luck and Happy Modeling!! John
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quote:Originally posted by jcater: Rob, You sound like me!! I had a great HO layout (you can still see it at http//www.jstrainstation.homestead.com)until I bought a home and had to move it. The layout survived the move really well, but once it was in the new house I realized that it was just too darned big and bulky. So out it went (to a good cause, I gave it to a kid who now is really into the hobby), and started the new N-scale SFSW. Hope to have a web site for it in about a year . Good luck and Happy Modeling!! John
Thanks, I do not have a web site do to how I oprate my layout & besides my dad who does not live with me says do to my type of handicap making a web page is hard for me to do. I mean dad looks @ all my pages & I do put too much in my web pages.
HAPPY THANKS GIVING TO ALL!
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Hi guys, I'm into N scale too. I model Canadian Pacific and just got my first layout operating. I busy trying to find prototype info and running down to local yards with my camera. this is a blast I should've stuck with it as a kid. Have any of you guys used those micro trains coupler upgrades? By the way Alan nice site dude!
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