Modern image DCC loft based layout , from start to ............?
This website is going to feature my own attempt at building a large loft based model railway layout in OOgauge . There will be lots of photos showing the layouts phases of construction and other things that i think will be of interest to people . Hope you enjoy !
A big thankyou to everyone who did my survey, its been a real eye opener as to how people visit my site on a regular basis. Some really good ideas have been fired my way and im looking forward to trying a few things out in the future. But the biggest request was for DCC info and computer control, so i have started work on a whole new section to help cover these and it will appear shortly and i am thinking about doing another demo board with as many dcc gagets fitted to it as possible. Anyway, Thanks again, and i will try and reply to a few questions i was sent over the next week or so.
Just a quick thankyou to everyone who has written to me and in my guestbook. I do try to answer all your questions, but i sometimes get muddled and forget who i have answered.
It all started about 4 years ago when i was waiting to move house and i was getting bored just sitting around (everything was packed) , so i decided to go to my local model shop and by some electronic bits and bobs and a bit of track and just do some soldering and make some simple circuits for signals and stuff . I used to have a layout when i was younger but i sold it all (twit), and i always enjoyed the electronic side of it . So it went on from there ...... next i bought some track and a couple of locos and and and....... next thing i knew i was in my new house with a spare room and a railway along two walls of it! But i got bored of just having trains going backwards and forwards so i eventually went all the way around the room on trestles and planks of wood . Then came my first mistake , (up until then i had only bought steam locos) .... i bought a EWS class 60....then all the steam locos were sold or swapped for modern locos , then came my second mistake ! I bought a copy of American Railroader and opened the pages to be confronted by a massive american layout with loads of different levels and helixes and yards and DCC and.... Long trains !! That was about three years ago , and this is what has happened so far............
My Goal.......!
I don't know much about real trains , like where they run and what colour schemes they are , so on my layout i generally run what i like ....... as long as it runs well ! I find that if i dont like the way something runs they normally get chucked in a box at the back of the loft .
So the train plan for this layout is simple , if it runs smooth and it modern then it goes on my layout .... oh and it has to be strong aswell !! There are a few gradients to contend with ! Thats it really not much else to say about that !
Any comments or questions about the layout please feel free to email me at ...... hescott@hotmail.co.uk
