Hello,
I'm working again on my first N scale railroad, a 6' by 2' switching layout. I just glued down all the track, drilled holes for the turnout switches and soldered the first pieces of wire to the track.
The layout will be of a modern dutch railway, for passengers and cargo which I hope...
sorry xaniel,
I just pushed a car around the track :-)
There is no power on the track yet. And as I devided the track in about 15 blocks, and the turnouts are powered sepperatly. It is quite difficult to power everything just now.
After I've layed all the track I will begin soldering the wires...
Here are some new pictures,
I tried to sand down a piece of cork to make a "fast" curve. However it looks like it doesn't want to stay down, I guess I will have to do better.
The sideline however is going very good, I tested it a bit and it is rather smooth.
Hi TR,
I can understand that, it is so easy in EEG (european comunity) to travel between the countries that you won't notice it.
And as people in both the netherlands and belgium speak the same language you won't notice it really from the people either.
belgium is really interesting because...
This is a weird follow up.
I was just talking about the buffer will not stop a train in den haag.
Now, it seems today a train crashed through the buffers in den haag into a chocolade shop.
It happend earlier this day, but I didn't see the news yet.
Luckely noone got hurt.
Hello TR-Flyer,
Ofcource you have been in two countries in europe then :-) Amsterdam is in the Netherlands, Antwerp is in Belgium.
I've been to Antwerp station myself a few days last month, also for business. Most of the station floors are pretty nice, except the entrance, which is just a bear...
Hi,
So I have glued down now the first station including a turn-out to the left and a complete scissor after it.
I also did the first tight corner to the side-line.
Fotos will follow when the glue has dried.
Hello Xaniel,
Yes I believe they are made in france, we have lots of models based on this design. And I have seen in the fleischmann catalogue several in other countries.
I actually think it is kinda pretty looking, much better then the standard modern german loc with the rounded head and...
Hello Urban,
You're right ofcource.
I'm also probably adding a tiny Nn3 track, for the industry.
I just hope I will be able to make the trains look good.
These are the passenger service trains that
run in the netherlands.
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/ns/ns-reizigers.html
I was thinking of running one or more of the following:
1800
DM'90 Buffel
ICM4 Koploper
DD-AR
For the cargo:
http://mercurio.iet.unipi.it/ns/railion.html
I was thinking...
Hi,
As I live in the Netherlands you would think this would be a normal subject.
However most rail products in europe have the german theme, as most companies are based in germany.
What is even worse is that almost no-one in the netherlands is using N-scale (most if not all use H0). So there...
Hi all,
I have started construction of a small layout modern dutch railway in N-scale.
These are my visual observations of the railway line.
The passenger service is run by the NS (dutch railways), their colors are yellow and blue, the colors have been choosen carfully so when they become...
Hello,
Switching layouts are indeed interesting, I first had thought of making a loop, but it takes so much room. There aren't many loops in the real world either.
Take