Model railways?

[lb99]

any train nuts on here? am a confirmed slotcar addict, but I am considering building up a model railway......

[Curious_AJ]

I'm surprised Indy hasn't posted here yet!

[Indiana_Jones]

I'm a model railway fan :)

Not enough room at my current place for my set up, so it lives with my folks.

Just a simple 6' x 4' board.

What slot cars do you use? Scalextric?

If you go for model railways, be sure to get Hornby, great brand in the nice '00' gauge :)

-Indy

[Pussy]

Chooky on here has got a lot of cool model railway stuff

[Curious_AJ]

I'm a model railway fan :)

Not enough room at my current place for my set up, so it lives with my folks.

Just a simple 6' x 4' board.

What slot cars do you use? Scalextric?

If you go for model railways, be sure to get Hornby, great brand in the nice '00' gauge :)

-Indy

oh there he is...

[lb99]

I'm a model railway fan :)

Not enough room at my current place for my set up, so it lives with my folks.

Just a simple 6' x 4' board.

What slot cars do you use? Scalextric?

If you go for model railways, be sure to get Hornby, great brand in the nice '00' gauge :)

-Indy

Probably going to go for N scale, cause of space restrictions, It seems pricey though....

I have HO scale slot cars, a massive mixture of Tyco, Lifelike, and AFX sets, over 100m of track all up, heaps of cars, includng som really old ones, I wold be willing to swap a decent AFX setup (20m) for some bits to get set up with trains

[Indiana_Jones]

yea N gauge is quite pricey.

What sort of space do you have? also what sort of track size are you after (i.e. like 6 engines going at once or maybe 2 doing the track and one shunting?)

-Indy

[Disco Dan]

I have a Thomas the Tank set.

[xwhatsit]

N scale is cool, looks more realistic somehow, probably because of tighter detail. I'd love to make a setup, but for now I just stick with OpenTTD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD) because I'm poor.

[R6_kid]

N scale is cool, looks more realistic somehow, probably because of tighter detail. I'd love to make a setup, but for now I just stick with OpenTTD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTTD) because I'm poor.

LOL, i used to love transport tycoon... thought it got a bit boring once you could just buy out your opposition!

[McDuck]

LOL, i used to love transport tycoon... thought it got a bit boring once you could just buy out your opposition!

the trick is you set the oposition to extra smart and hard, start the game and leave it for 30 min, then you have to catch up to them to buy them out ;)

[sunhuntin]

I have a Thomas the Tank set.

ditto. ive got suitcases full of the tomy thomas sets. 3 suitcases of track, and one of engines and misc like people etc, and then ive got sets still in their boxes that are too big for a case. started out with an 80s tomy set [dark blue] when i was 5-ish, and built it up ever since. no room to display it though.

[xwhatsit]

the trick is you set the oposition to extra smart and hard, start the game and leave it for 30 min, then you have to catch up to them to buy them out ;)
Nah -- don't play with AI -- it's rubbish. One of the cool things about OpenTTD w.r.t. original TTD is that they've added internet multiplayer to it. Much smarter opposition :D

What everybody is doing these days is forgetting about the competition aspect of it and just treating the game as a giant model railroad; with the NewGRF addons there's some really detailed graphics and realistic copies of real-life trains etc., you can even go right back to horse-drawn trams and play through to the very latest TGVs if you want.

[Magua]

I used to have a pretty extensive kit, yards, tunnels and bridges with several locomotives. Similar scale to 00, but I think it was American. In my opinion, Hornby's over priced.

[lb99]

yea N gauge is quite pricey.

What sort of space do you have? also what sort of track size are you after (i.e. like 6 engines going at once or maybe 2 doing the track and one shunting?)

-Indy

I'd like to have the works, tunnels though walls the lot.
but realistically a single level circuit, with yards is probably a good start, it would have to be stored under a bed.....

[Indiana_Jones]

I used to have a pretty extensive kit, yards, tunnels and bridges with several locomotives. Similar scale to 00, but I think it was American. In my opinion, Hornby's over priced.

But you get what you pay for, a good model. i.e. Hasegawa, which I think is over priced for what you get.


I'd like to have the works, tunnels though walls the lot.
but realistically a single level circuit, with yards is probably a good start, it would have to be stored under a bed.....

In that case N gauge would be your best bet, unless you could mount a board on the wall which folds down.

-Indy

[Big Dave]

I have a Thomas the Tank set.

You ARE a Thomas the Tank set.

[Donor]

My father handed me his HO collection.

I have about 20-30 meters of track, a good amount of rolling stock and a small collection of diesel and steam locomotives.

Just need the inspiration (read as: other train nuts) to inspire me!

[Indiana_Jones]

My father handed me his HO collection.

I have about 20-30 meters of track, a good amount of rolling stock and a small collection of diesel and steam locomotives.

Just need the inspiration (read as: other train nuts) to inspire me!

What sort of engines/era?

I.e. British stuff? American stuff?

1900's? 1950's?


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<img src="http://www.pawstrains.com/images/Blma%20HO-4010.gif">

-Indy

[Donor]

What sort of engines/era?

I.e. British stuff? American stuff?

1900's? 1950's?

Amtrak diesel from vague (as in I haven't looked at it in bloody ages) memory, and a couple of small english ~40's-'50s steam shunters...

[Indiana_Jones]

Amtrak diesel from vague (as in I haven't looked at it in bloody ages) memory, and a couple of small english ~40's-'50s steam shunters...

Wicked.

How much space you got?

Could do a dock side shunting yard, or a nice little branch line that runs along the wall :)

-Indy

[SARGE]

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff140/Javelin09/Nerds.jpg

[Indiana_Jones]

:( Ouch

-Indy

[Horse]

If you don't have the space for the real thing, I'd heartily recommend Trainz (http://auran.com/auran/info.php?gameid=179). It's not perfect, but it's not too bad either. Large active community and lots of stuff available to suit nearly any prototype interest.

[Chooky]

Have a collection of Union Pacific Locos in HO scale......
Probably about a hundred...

This one is the biggest steam loco ever made......
16 driving wheels.. weighed in at 550 tons..:cool:

[Indiana_Jones]

this is what I want to get sometime, most likely when I get a board set up permanently.


<img src="http://www.freewebs.com/evergreenjunction/R2339_1.jpg">

World's fastest steam loco :clap:

-Indy

[Chooky]

This is one toy train I want but nobody has made a model of it yet.
Union Pacific turbine...It had a huge jet engine in it driving an alternator and was rated at 8500hp.....
Only in America....:cool:

[Pussy]

This is one toy train I want but nobody has made a model of it yet.
Union Pacific turbine...It had a huge jet engine in it driving an alternator and was rated at 8500hp.....
Only in America....:cool:

And make sure you pronounce "Turbine" as "turban"

[lb99]

nice, still trying to sort out openttd, seems cool so far

[Big Dave]

I stowed away on a freight ship once that had a turbine engine in the funnel and 2 giant electric motors to turn the screws.

[McDuck]

I stowed away on a freight ship once that had a turbine engine in the funnel and 2 giant electric motors to turn the screws.

cool..........

[Maha]

Have a collection of Union Pacific Locos in HO scale......
Probably about a hundred...

This one is the biggest steam loco ever made......
16 driving wheels.. weighed in at 550 tons..:cool:

How did ya get that inside your house Graeme?....:gob:

[Chooky]

How did ya get that inside your house Graeme?....:gob:

Ha..I shrunk it to 1/87th....:)

[lb99]

got me some, it took a while but I came up with a set for $5 :niceone:

HO life like brand, a chessie system loco (gp38 I think), plus freight cars and a caboose, power pack, station, freight depo, and an oval of power loc track, all working ok too.
I'm away. :)

I scored another circle of the same track (type with built in roadbed), plus some more straight bits, now I have a line from the living room to the bedroom. :cool:

anyone wanna unload some ho bits?

[Sidewinder]

my uncle had one there fooken cool

[Chooky]

got me some, it took a while but I came up with a set for $5 :niceone:

HO life like brand, a chessie system loco (gp38 I think), plus freight cars and a caboose, power pack, station, freight depo, and an oval of power loc track, all working ok too.
I'm away. :)

I scored another circle of the same track (type with built in roadbed), plus some more straight bits, now I have a line from the living room to the bedroom. :cool:

anyone wanna unload some ho bits?

Your onto it...now just knock some holes in the wall and run the train right through the whole house....
What HO bits you want...? I want to keep all the UP loco's but... I promised them to my grandsons. :cool:

[Big Dave]

This is one toy train I want but nobody has made a model of it yet.
Union Pacific turbine...It had a huge jet engine in it driving an alternator and was rated at 8500hp.....
Only in America....:cool:

They go up to five engines on the Hunter Valley coal trains - will see if I can find the HP. This shows some with four.

The trains are up to 1.5km long too. (from memory)

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[Bass]

Have a collection of Union Pacific Locos in HO scale......
Probably about a hundred...

This one is the biggest steam loco ever made......
16 driving wheels.. weighed in at 550 tons..:cool:

How did the Garretts that NZR had on the Raurimu spiral compare with that?
I believe that they were 4884 configuration as well.

Am a fan of the live steam models personally but I guess that taking a decade to build a good one and ending up with something that weighs well over half a tonne sorta keeps them out of the lounge.

[sunhuntin]

anyone see country calendar the other night? guy in eketehuna [i think] has a model railway in his garage or basement. it is open to the public too, which is neat.
went into a model shop in palmy yesterday to get replacement motors for my tomy engines and ended up dribbling all over the hornby stuff... makes me wish i was rich!! though, i do have a hornby thomas engine somewhere. are they meant to have keys? mines still got the plastic tray, and theres an empty spot shaped like a key. i got it from an op shop years ago.

[boman]

Unless you like pommie railroads, keep away from them. Go Athern, Atlas or KAto. American railroads are way more interesting. 6 locos pulling a long train of wagons up the Tehachapi Loop, in Southern California, Fantastic. The train actually can cross over itself. Check out www.railpictures.net/ for some real photos.

[Indiana_Jones]

1920/1930s British steam is where it's at!

-Indy

[NDORFN]

I used to have a modular single track (all code 88) layout that ran around the perimeter of our lounge (I think it was 32 meters). Had a Broadway Limited BNSF SD40-2 with sound pulling 38 mixed wagons. You'd think it'd get boring, and I suppose it did a little, but then I discovered that adding a Johnny Cash compilation and a bowl of weed massively enhanced the experience. Later I switched to On30 and Tool... same weed though. Had to sell the whole lot get a bike coz trains weren't cool enough for my lady.

[NDORFN]

1920/1930s British steam is where it's at!

-Indy

Horn-hook couplers fuck me off.

[Pussy]

1920/1930s British steam is where it's at!

-Indy

Na! NZR in the '60s. Ah, the sound of two DAs coupled together at full chat on a cold winter night.... music!

[boman]

Na! NZR in the '60s. Ah, the sound of two DAs coupled together at full chat on a cold winter night.... music!

Yup. I quite often have to wait at an intersection for the Glenbrook Vintage railways Ka locomotives to chug on by. The smell of coal burning. Mmmmmm

[gijoe1313]

Heheh, I still has me little HO Marklin train set from when I was little tyke, me bro has the N scaled set ... I was talking to Donor about how we should do a drop down pulley lay out from the man-cave for his stuff! :devil2:

I love modellings I does! :yes: :drool:

Ooh, so many shinies and stuffs! http://www.marklin.com/

[Pixie]

I have a Thomas the Tank set.

Would you like to buy a Harry the Howitzer to go with it?

[lb99]

cool to see I'm not the only sad case

not much to show off at the moment but heres a vid of the fi'dolla express

sorry about the crap sound, I didnt realise it was turned on

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[Qkchk]

Why play with toys when you can play with the real thing?

I try and thumb a ride with any LE who will let me into their cab. Thats why I love it when I have to spend a week in Wellington at a time for work Can't think of a better thing to do (becide visit the bike shops) in my downtime.


For those in the know, its a DC pulling a Wairarapa set hence the view of the Hutt Line.

In the second pic, Im back in a DC SA/SD unit heading back to Britomat from Swanson on the NAL.

Have got some pics from the ADK / ADL units but gotta try and find them first...

Yes, I'm a foamer!:drool:

[lb99]

welly has a fantastic train set, I play in it as much as I can when I am there :)

wife gets a bit bored though:whocares:

I had a drive of the old railcar at ferrymead when I was about 12, it seemed like such a grunter

[peasea]

any train nuts on here? am a confirmed slotcar addict, but I am considering building up a model railway......

A model railway; my ultimate dream. A wet dream, in fact.

It would be a major hassle to get fifty models to stand in a line though. I'd love to try though. Toot, toot.

[peasea]

Why play with toys when you can play with the real thing? :drool:

How did I know that comment came from a female?:innocent:

[Big Dave]

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