Is it just me?

Nev    It sounds as if you did have a great Fathers Day, there's no greater Joy than family, and you live in a great place to. I visited Perth last year and had a great time with my wife, and old friends, it was great to visit Australia's remotest city again, I have some great memories there.                cTr...( Choose the Right )

Scale.

We built one of those at the old DSMR layout.

Cool feature!


       

I'm with you Nev, without the internet and online shopping I would find it much harder to do what I do. Like you I don't live on it and if it disappeared I would adjust the way I do things.

 

What I like about Nev's railway is how it is being built without a large bank balance or rich uncle to pamper it with unlimited funds. It didn't happen overnight and Nev seems to have set himself a goal and obviously having ruled out building the trains  (for that is what you need to do if you want to model the various Australian railways in one of the O scales) picked a prototype that is very well catered for. He concentrates himself on building the rest of the railway and the results speak for themselves.

 

When it comes to the USA, Michael Tylick is one example of fitting in O scale into areas others would scoff at for HO and building on a budget more akin to mine. I have also admired the work of people like Bruce Chubb and Allen McClelland over the years working in HO. Yes, in the end they had layouts that costa lotta but for most of the time what you saw was a lot of hand made scenery which doesn't need a second mortgage to fund but makes for some impressive photo shoots. Their trains were principally inexpensive RTR plastic.

Nev seems to have been following a similar course in O but with a more suburban switching theme than a rural railroad.

 

I don't have the indoor area that Nev has available so I adjusted to what I could afford. I am lucky I have some outdoor area I can use so my O gauge has to survive the elements but it allows me to watch the trains I build when the weather is suitable. Comes a time when the outdoor layout is not suitable I will most likely downsize the O gauge to a switching plank and have a layout to watch trains run in HO scale... whatever fits my available space at the time.

 

I watched a recent convert to O gauge agonize on another forum over the cost and size of the models and complain that he didn't have what was available in the smaller scale he had previously been working in. He blamed all and sundry for what in the end was his own lack of finances. Finally he went back to a scale he could support but his vitriol might well have left a bitter taste in the mouths of those who tried to help him. I wonder just how many come to the larger scales for their visual advantages only to leave because they didn't adjust their sights to what they could achieve?

 

regards

 Bob Comerford

 

 

I travel through Mount Compass quite often on my way to visit my friends at End of the Line Hobbies at Victor Harbor.

 

Small world.

 

Cheers

Hi Bob

 

I agree.  I'm building an O scale layout 5.1 metres long next to my 5.1 metre long HO plank.  I don't need a circle of track any more since I discovered Railroad & Co.  If I want to watch, I just click the mouse.

 

If I want to drive, I can - even at the same time that the computer is driving.

 

Thanks to helpful people like those on here, I haven't found it horrendously more expensive to get going.

 

It might cost me a bit to go visit Roo, though. 

 

Cheers

Gary it's my version of a freight car contents weigh bridge.

Some freight cars have to have their freight loads weighed so the appropriate charges can be made to the shipper.

The tracks are offset so that a loco like in the photo doesn't run over the scales and damage them because of the loco's excessive weight.

It's just a scenery item non working as I explained in another post here.

To finish it off it needs two levers to work the "turnout like rails" if anyone has something like that let me know and I will finish the model but keep in mind I will be away soon)

Here is another photo taken a while back closer to the ground.

I admit it's not good practice to have the scale track on a engine house lead track (see photo) but it's the best I could do in the space I had, the main thing is I like it and that's all that matters. (I'm laughing, nothing will upset me today because I'm off to the bush tomorrow for a nice long walk can't wait)

Hope that helps Gary.

Roo.

Hi Max. I suspect some sort of auto shuttle will be provided on the indoor plank when it is time here too. I long considered such an option along one wall of the garage before going outdoors again, the desire to finally have that double track main won out.  The shuttle is certainly a nice option for those of us who like to watch trains but do not have room for the necessary loop. A loco with caboose or a railcar set don't look out of place running in either direction up and down a yard.

 

regards

 Bob

Hi Bob

 

I took my iPhone and made a movie of it.  You don't have to watch it all, but you get the idea.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DByzsZ8-xQs

 

I should have waited until I'd finished the scenery. 

 

Cheers

thanks and sorry i missed your first response though i did try to scan through them.

 

your ballasting and yard details are fantastic.

i'd like to have even a few feet of that for a photo diorama.

 

cheers...gary

I watched it all Max. The computer runs trains better than me! :>

 

Bob

Thanks, Bob.

 

What about the nifty uncouplers?

 

I still can't believe them sometimes. 

 

Cheers

Max      your welcome to stop in any time on your way to End Of The Line Hobbies if you like, just drop me an email      cTr...(Choose the Right)

Thanks, Stephen.

 

I will. 

 

Cheers