Just wanted to say hello and introduce myself. Lifelong railroader (electrician, general foreman, supt motive power, bla bla bla) And lifelong “foamer” and model railroad collector. Most of my life I collected HO and over the years had numerous layouts, none of which were very good. About 10 years ago I started slowly collecting O gauge MTH locos and cars. Until last month none of them ever saw power, they just rotated around the house in various static displays.
Our house has/had a dedicated home theater that was used quite often. Well, the last of the kids is on his way out and the theater has sat stagnant for the past year so it’s coming down and being sold off. This leaves me with roughly 21x21 feet of usable space to do whatever I want with, so Im thinking about finally setting up a nice O gauge layout.
Last week I bought a 50-1003 rev L TIU and the newest controller. Set up a test track and got the locos registered in and working. My 2 favorites are my 4-8-8-4 MTH premier Big Boy and my DD40X. Looking like I’ll be going with minimum O -72 curves which shouldn’t be a problem with the room I have. That’s the point where I hit a wall and absolute mental block. I have some graph paper and am doing some sketches, but am scouring the forums for ideas.
Anyways, just a quick intro and hello. I hope everyone had a great Christmas.
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But I have kept the HO modeling techniques learned over the years and applied them in the 3 rail world when I cared to. You will get a lot of good information and some opinions on this and other forums. Just enjoy the hobby!
