Recent content by Mrplow123

So I have been in the planning stage for over a year and a half. I have finally said to heck with the planning and started building. I have a good solid basic plan, and I plan to just go with it and make changes as I go. You can only pan for so long before you loose interest or go nuts. I was...

Is there any way to change the back ground color???? It is killing my eyes.... That is really the only complaint I have about the new forum.

Just remember, you can buy a new couch when you get there. Show me a store where you can buy an assembled 4x8 layout that you put time and effort into. Good luck with the new job, and the move.

That is a very nice track plan. I already had my heart set on building my new layout ike yours, with the 3 peninsulas, but without conecting the furthest 2 peninsulas together. So I would end up with a W shaped layout. But now that I have seen your layout, I think I want to connect the 2...

And even that is a big stretch of the truth.

This spam stuff is getting out of hand. It is pretty bad that the last 10 responses I have gotten to this post have been SPAM posts. It is so bad I have to unsubscribe to my own thread. You know there is a way to stop this. Only give new members post privilages to the general section untill...

Great, thank you. That is the kind of discount I am talking about. I will be placing an order through them. That is a great price. Thanks again.

Does anyone have any recomendations for an online supplier that sells code 80 flex at a discount when you buy alot of it? I was looking, and most everyone just sels it at a per section price, regardless of quantity. I just figured if I was buying a whole box, and they don't have to open it and...

OK, it is late, so I will make this quick. I incorporated the new ideas provided by everyone. Let me know what you think. I am really happy with it. The lower staging is alot more usable. I might have to build the staging level last, due to budget constraints. That is alot of extra track and...

Thank you everyone for your input, and thoughts. As far as Pitchwife, and Engineshop's ideas, they are BRILIANT. Thank you guys for spending time on my layout design. These are the kind of ideas I needed. I sometimes find my self thinking in straight paralel lines. The diagonal intermodal...

I have discovered 2 things in the past few weeks. I like XtrkCad better then Atlas RTS 7, and I know what I want, but can't seem to design a layout to save my life. I designed this with Xtrkcad, and I am fairly happy with it. I know it is not very prototypical, and there are some operational...

Looks great. What is the overall size of your layout? And how wide is each section?

I designed my entire new layout using RTS7, and it came out ok. I just wasn't happy with the compromises I had to make to get everything to fit. The entire time I was building it, I just kept feeling like a hell of alot more track should fit into the area I was working in. I tried Xtrkcad a...

That is a very nice looking portal. You did a great job on it. I am going to have to pick a few of those up and try to duplicate your results.

That is a very nice loco. And it is a very impresive performer. This past Sunday I went to the Great Train Expo, and the local N-track club was there. They were running one of these and it was pulling everything they could throw at it. When I saw it running, it was pulling 40+ cars, mostly...