I've started a new layout.

It wouldn't be fare if i answered, because you told me already. LOL!!!

Enjoy and have fun building it !!!!!!

See you at York

Alex

N is great, as is Kato Unitrack and trains.   I have a bunch on a layout that perhaps I will run again.   Great stuff, have fun!

You told me as well. I don't know Eddie, you will miss the O-Gauge. 

 

See you and Bingo next week.

You didn't tell me but I had N scale when I had a small condo. I recognize the equipment. KATO is good stuff. Nice GG-1 by the way!   OK so tell us the story behind it.

Nice! Hope you enjoy it!

Eddie,

Best wishes with the Kato Uni-track.  I also have a small 3x8 Uni-Track layout including the double crossover and love how well their switches operate and track goes and stays together.  I also recommend the very inexpensive but very helpful Kato re-railer for those times when we are either vision or finger challenged to get those small wheel sets in line with the rails.  Enjoy!

Surprising!  But N scale is great.    Have fun.

Keystone, I have 2 re-railers. Without them it would take me forever putting the trains on the tracks.

 Subwayrunner, it's N scale.

Does it work?  its missing the middle rail.  How do you do a reverse loop.  Way too confusing for me.

Hope you have great fun with it!

 

 

Must admit that you can put a lot in a small space with N gauge and it won't break the bank. If you enjoy a nice N gauge layout that's great. Enjoy it, have fun but don't promote it too much. We don't want to see Rich Melvin going out of business!!!

Enjoy your N scale railroad. Contemporary N scale equipment is superbly detailed and, with proper maintenance, operates very reliably.

 

Enjoy,

Bob 

For those desiring to learn more about N scale railroading, below I've included a link to site providing extensive coverage of available equipment including honest and straightforward appraisals of the attributes of models. Mark's approach is informative and entertaining. The site focuses primarily on North American prototypes but he is now working to expand coverage of foreign stock as well. I recommend his site highly.

 

http://www.spookshow.net/trainstuff.html

 

Bob    

I have n scale as well. Used it on my previous layout along with O guage for creating a forced perspective. Now I have about twelve modules that I set up on two tables. Kato really has a great track system as well as trains. Have fun. Country Joe also was an n scale guy.

Eddie:  Do they fit in your mouth?  Sheldon said they do.   

Are you running O and N scale now?

Can you zoom in a little? I can't see them. 

KATO is a great brand. I used KATO products exclusively when I was into N Scale

Nice EDDIE,  Enjoy!!!!  I would need stronger glasses to get them on the tracks.

Good luck with your new endeavor.

Looks great, Eddie.   I love Kato Uni-Trak.   I have a lot of it in N, and even a loop of it in HO.

 

The Kato N stuff is wonderful.  Stays together and is engineered very well.   My N scale trains just glide over it it with no issues.

 

Thanks for sharing, and enjoy!

As further illustration of just how far N scale has come in terms of quality and accuracy, pictured below is the recently released Stanier Coronation Class 8P Pacific by Graham Farish, now part of the Bachmann family. All detail parts are separately applied and the locomotive runs as good as it looks. In a review, one of the British magazines called it the best model of the 8P released in any scale to date.

 

Bob 

 

Very nice Eddie.

 

Yes, N gauge has come a long way. Here are a couple of shots of my crane and work caboose I just finished weathering.

 

 

I know N Scale is great for saving space, but the clearance appears to be awee bit tight under the bridge...

 

Rusty

When I was in HO a short few years ago, I used Kato track and it proved to be a perfect set up with DC and DCC. Kato Diesel locos were fantastic too...Just a well engineered product from the start, not engineered with built in problems and then adding band aid fixes later...

 

I still have tons of Kato HO track I'll be selling soon to further get my self in debit with O scale "stuff"

No problem. Be realistic.  Eddie lifts the bridge up when he sees the train coming. It doesn't have to go too high for N gauge.

Looking good Eddie, knew we had a connection I started one as well a couple of months ago. Needed a change. Here is a 5x9 Kato layout occupying my dining room table. Luckily, I'm not married or I'd be on the curb right now!!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cesar

 

 

I have a N scale also but just to small for me to see the wheels

 

I started collecting n-scale about 25 years ago with the intent to build a layout.  I even got as far as building a capital E shapped layout 28' X 12'.  I wasn't satisfied with my benchwork and tour everything down.  Then i rediscovered O and it was all over.  I put together a 5' X 9' n layout using Kato unitrack.  Now I just have to put my mind to doing the wiring.  One day I will have to sort through all the extra track and put it up for sale.

Eddie--what's the backstory on why you decided to build a N-Gauge layout?

 

--Greg

Does anyone sell N scale at York?

 

Rick

Rick:

 

There isn't a lot of N scale at York but if you stay alert you'll come across some.

 

Bob

Hi, Joe.

 

Is that N scale layout yours? If so, very nice.

 

Bob

N scale is a lot of fun. Unitrack is pretty much flawless. Kato makes quality products. You will have a lot of fun with it. I switched to O gauge at home but still run N at my club and have a T-Trak module.

I made a small N scale portable layout that lays on its side under the O layout when not in use.  The grandsons love running it, but two concentric loops - reminds them too much of a NASCAR track, if you get my drift.  

Hope you have more fun than I did!

 A buddy of mine started in N because he wants a Nippon bullet train eventually. He's not really into real railroads, modeling, electrical, or mechanical. Only interested in the outside of the looks of car bodies, and the speed of the bullets. He needed help, so I went for a quick N ride. 

It didn't take long to figure out Spookshow always had the answers

 

 Quiet, & smooth operation, lots to choose from. The wiring? I could live with it. But uncoupling with sticks, and the dreaded reversing in an S turn weren't for me.  

 The derailments by "earthquakes" were the only "big" issues with the newer N stuff.

  Which is allot when your in an old house, and the majority of your friends are about 6'+ and 250 lbs, or better.

   Do they make a 100% re-rail starter set yet?

 

Yeah Bob, that N scale layout is mine. Started it 20 years ago and never finished it so I've been working on it the past couple of winters. I'm up to weathering the rolling stock.

 

Come on Eddie, get started on that scenery. Here are a few more photos. Click on them to enlarge the photos.

 

 

Enjoy your N scale Eddie. I built my N scale layout in the 1980's and still run it on occasion. I started with Atlas track and switches and finally added that same Kato double crossover you have there. I didn't want to get rid of my Atlas track, so I ended up modifying the track so I could use that Kato double crossover without changing all of my Atlas track. The only problems I have is that I have to clean my N scale track a lot more often than with my O scale. Other than that N scale is a lot of fun.