Hi! My name is Jon, and I've been searching for a model railroad forum for quite some time. Glad to be here I'm a 21 year old college student from Lexington, NC. I'm an N scaler, but I dawdle around in other scales occasionally ranging from Nn3 (yes, that's N scale narrow gauge) up to G. Primarily, I model the Chesapeake and Ohio in WV, from the late 40s up to the late 50s. I have also thought about incorporating an Nn3 branch line with this, to haul coal out of and supplies and passengers in and out of a small town up a narrow creek valley. I also have alot of modern day equipment and quite a few heavy Norfolk Southern locos. I've thought about building a display loop near the ceiling for these.
Jon, Welcome to Trainboard its always great so see new members posting for the first time. If you require any help about Trainboard feel free to email me. Once again welcome to trainboard, I hope you make this place your emodelling home
Hi Jon, welcome to our family here on the TrainBoard! My layout is built (Being built) along a canyon with the roundhouse up at the end of the box canyon. I'm not very tall to reach angines at the ceiling, but I have long arms to reach over the mountains and down into the valley! HA! Got any photos of your engines and layout? Visit often, and tell us about your layout.
No photos yet, but not much worth photographing right now. I have only a small N switching layout at the moment, which is not complete. A 4 foot section is together and almost operational, but not sceniced. I plan to add another 4-6 feet to one end, which will be a small yard and engine service facility. I have a Walthers two stall engine house and a Peco turntable for this purpose. I'm not sure if I want to use a current design, which has 3 single ended yard tracks, a siding, and the engine service facilities, or if I want to do a wye with the engine service and other tracks in and around the wye. This part of the layout represents the far end of a branch line. I need a digital camera Ah well... hopefully I'll eventually have some pictures for y'all Current C&O roster: Kato Mikado (yet to be lettered and numbered) Spectrum Consolidation (currently on layaway) old Atlas/Rivarossi 0-8-0 switcher (yet to be painted and decaled) two Life Like GP18s redetailed using a Gold Medal Models kit to represent GP9s - currently in need of paint stripped and repainted Life Like SW9 - needs paint and decals Life Like BL2 - older run, body has what appears to be an inaccurate paint scheme Life Like E8 - hey, gotta have passenger power for the diesel era old Atlas RSD-5 Arnold S2 Current NS modern era roster Custom detailed and painted Kato GP50 (hi-nose) Kato C44-9W two Kato C30-7 two Atlas SD60 two Spectrum 8-40C Life Like GP38-2 (poor quality hi-nose conversion - may retire this loco) ***BRASS*** Hallmark SD40-2 - as of yet unpainted. I'm scared to touch it with paint Even tho I've got all this modern NS equipment, I'm primarily concentrating on the 1950s era on the C&O simply because a string of 40' boxcars looks better on a given curve than a string of 85' TTX flats. Also, I sorta like the "time capsule" way of modeling, trying to represent a specific decade, year, month, day, etc... I've thought about modeling the Winston-Salem Southbound from time to time. It's a local shortline that runs, wouldn't ya know it, from Winston Salem, south thru my hometown of Lexington, then down along the Yadkin River, passing the Alcoa Aluminium plant, and eventually ending at Wadesboro at a Seaboard interchange (used to be a wye there) [ 02 January 2002: Message edited by: RidgeRunner ]
Hello Jon .. I'd like to add my welcome to those above. You have come to the right place to participate in a railroading forum. TrainBoard.Com is #1
Jon, Welcome to our large family of model railroaders! You sure did join the right place for online railroading forums! Welcome aboard the train
Jon, welcome aboard! I feel the pain of repainting an expensive loco. I have taken the plunge to repaint a Kato SD90MAC in BN tigerstripes.... Just for fun!
Hi RidgeRunner, We are practically neighbors! Welcome to TrainBoard. Are you a member of, or are there any N scale clubs out that way? I thought I remembered seeing at least some N scale modules in Winston-Salem at a GATS show. I usually go to the GATS show in W-S every February. Harold
Welcome to Trainboard Jon. My friend models the NS. I would like to add that Atlas has an early GP38 in the old NS scheme. the grey loco w/red and black Norfolk Southern lettering. jai welcome
Chessie. I go to that show almost every year as well. Are ya going this year? I also remember seeing an Ntrack module there, but I don't think they were local. Jaijef - The old NS paint scheme is nice, but alot of people don't realize that it's a totally different railroad. The old line was the Norfolk and Southern. It got absorbed into the Southern at some point, I think it was back in the 1960's. The new line is called Norfolk Southern (notice the absence of the &) and has existed only since 1982. Not sure if you knew that or not, but for those who don't, now ya know.
