New to Model train hobby!

[shayfan84325]

Good idea. The block would have to be long enough to prevent pushing cars into the abyss while the loco is in the next block.

-Phil

[SilverSpike]

I wanted to do a "Round the room layout but can not figure out what to do when it comes time to go past the door opening, I can’t be crawling under a shelf built across the door way to the room (Bad Back).

I’m selecting HO scale because I’m going to incorporate my Match Box collection into the dioramas.

The options for the doorway area of the layout include all the previous mentioned like track benchwork looping around it, or going with a lift out section, or going with a swing gate, or worse, making the area a duckunder. I built an manually operated swing gate for my layout and have illustrated the initial steps to building and setting it up on my website page: Building a swing gate: an alternative to the duck under - Part I

Cheers,

Ryan

[last_mountain_easter]

“tell us the size that you are working with and are you going with GN. or NP ??. Are you going to use HO or N scale”

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Sorry I forgot to ask…what is GN and NP?, if I knew what this was I could probably answer these questions…Remember…I’m a new bee to all this.

I do know that I want to get into HO scale because that scale seems to have the most of after market kits and so on.

[:-^]

Hi Red Horse, What I was trying to get out of you is whether you intended to model the Great Northern RR. or the Northern Pacific RR.

Nice to see the great welcome for you. You’ll enjoy it here.

Johnboy out…

James:1 Verse:5

No matter what RR. you like, I bet you love the “Wobbly”.