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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 pjb, The microace company website. http://www.microace-arii.co.jp/ Ofcource it is in japanese. Ave, Take

Ok, here are the first pictures of the glued down rails, sorry they're out of focus.

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

Hello Matthyro, Thanks. Indeed I like the big factory and a mine, but I am also worried about not having anough room for a real town on the left side. I think I have anough room on the lower right for a big town. I will try and make a real dutch like railroad, towns and industry. There isn't...

Hi, This is my second atemt for a layout, as the first one took just to much room, I am currently destroying it. I am now building a bookcase (I get the wood tommorow) and on one of the shelfs will be the new layout. And I will use the turnouts I already bought. All the numbers on the picture...

Hello SD90, A stepper motor is used in high persision applications, such as robots, foto scanners, floppy drives. The axis can be rotated in a certain position, called a step. The motors I was talking about, to put inside a N scale train, has 20 steps, a single step turns the axis 18 degrees...

sorry here is the schema

Hi, I have made an electronic schema. I don't have all the values yet. Any comments would be welcome. Greetings from Amterdam, Take Vos