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martinf

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Hi my name is martinf. Just joined yesterday. I am in the first stages of building my 1st N Scale layout 6x2. It will be USA Freelance. Hope to have 3 levels. I am open to all advice, maybe I will hear from some of you guys in the near future.
regards,
Martinf
 

Denyons

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Welcome Martin
I am sure you will get some good advice but you will need to give some more info.
6x2 is not large enough to do 3 levels if I am reading you right.
For 3 levels you would need helixes and the grades would be way too steep on a small layout.
Dennis
 

Herc Driver

Active Member
Welcome to from one Nscaler to another! This is the place to get some great information - learn a lot - and generally have a good time talkin' trains.
 

Triplex

Active Member
6x2 is not large enough to do 3 levels if I am reading you right.
For 3 levels you would need helixes and the grades would be way too steep on a small layout.
Many beginning modellers use the term "levels" to refer not to decks, but simply to track at different elevations on one deck. The term isn't accurate when you realize that, especially on a small layout, tracks crossing over each other necessitates most of the track being graded.
 

effarbee

New Member
Good Afternoon, Martin, and all:

I am looking for more than bits and bytes
of marketing information by the product
manufacturers. For instance, I started out
this morning with a curiosity question: Some
cars roll well, with little friction; some cars
don't roll well at all.

What lubricant? How applied? How often?
...etc.

Following leads to this inquiry on Google,
I discovered Zealot. So far, so good.

F. Richard Burt

Brazos Valley Railway
...through the Heart of Texas

This is what I call my first model train
layout since I first became interested in
the hobby about 60 years ago. <grins>

The Brazos Valley is a shelf railway in my
storage shed. Imagination caught the
possibilities when I saw that I had a 38-foot
length of shelving on the 3-foot above the
floor level. Bingo!!! Now, I have trains running
on a loop that is 2-scale miles long. Not bad.
Added a set of tracks for sidings, and will build
a 3-track yard next.

Experimented with some scenery, printed
pictures of the Texas plains and hills to use
as backdrop, and a lot of other things.

Track laid is mostly N-scale Kato UniTrack with
some Atlas Flextrack in the yard.

I like the 1920 to 1949 era for prototye
equipment, and have two steam locomotives
and four diesel locos. Hope to add two more
steam locomotives.

I don't honor fast clocks, but try to run the trains
at scale speeds. Look good, and run well.

More, later. This is my first, introductory, shot at
posting to the whole Zealot group. Will see what
happens next.

F. Richard Burt
3111 Duck Creek Parkway
Garland, TX 75044

972-530-7601 (desk phone-early mornings)

effarbee@verizon.net I answer all E-mail
sent directly to me.

Brazos Valley Railway
...through the Heart of Texas


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