An Old Newbie Seeks Adventure

Scrapiron, First you need to lay track.  Just kidding. There are a lot of NG books with a lot of information.  If you have access to narrow gauge books, you should get some ideas

on what you want to do.  Take your time.  If you have 101 Track plans, which has HO plans galore.  Just double the size of the drawings.  There is a good plan for the RGS that has been tempting me for years.

Al

I can totally relate. I am the worst rubber gauger there is, but I have never gone past the one Bachmann On30 starter set. I have always really felt the tug though. There is something about narrow gauge that makes it very appealing.

Al,

Thanks for the suggestions. My On3 equipment is very well detailed and I would like to build a layout that is commensurate with the equipment. I am already thinking past the Munoz Lines. Perhaps a dual level layout with dual gauge track or parallel tracks or, best event, to separate lines that have some type f connection.

Scrappy

Eliot, I was bitten by the narrow gauge bug while on a trip on the Cumbres and Toltec a couple of years ago when our timing was perfect, the Aspens were in full color.  I had admired narrow gauge layouts for years, but not on my layout!  Now I decided I had to do a On30 loop.  What I am doing is a simple loop in a 8 by 16 foot area with a siding for a resort hotel on one end and a small town on the other.  It is taking some time to do the scenery, but watching that little steamer, with its Tsunami sound system is great.

I've been doing the addition a section at a time, here is a try at the scene on the C&T that inspired me - minus the pink foam!

The hotel is done, now all I need to get is some passenger equipment to bring the guests here.  They are riding on the flat car now, not happy.

Just standard Bachman equipment so far, but so neat!

Peter,

Many thanks for posting about your On3 progress. Your idea is wonderful and that is precisely the path I am going to follow. I will post much more about thus later.

Eliot

Beautiful work Peter. I am sure Eliot will do you proud.