Hello team America/world. I've signed up to trainboard to keep an eye on USA n scale activity, seeing as how we (well, I..) have a couple of American locos and some box cars following our first trip to USA last May. New York Central is the line since that's where we went. I've got a GP20 and a U25 and that's about it, but for the last little while they've managed to barge the UK outline stuff off our track. I'm currently enjoying all of the glorious differences in your knuckle coupler types and the fact that some work great with magnets and some don't... I've a wife and three girls who all now tend to nod and agree with me when I talk modelling, in the hope that I might shut up, but the girls each have a small corner of the layout that they landscaped at some point in time. One day I'll finish it too. Cheers for now, and hello to at least a couple of names I recognise from over on ngaugeforum. Donald Sent from my HTC One mini using Tapatalk
Greetings from a half-MacPherson, we're quite glad to have you joining us. Hope to see some of your work!
Welcome! Where in Scotland are you? I'm doing a reverse of you...have a North American layout and collecting what I need for a British outline layout.
Hey Donald, I'm Scottish, but been living in Manchester for past 17 years. Good to see another US enthusiast in the UK. There are a couple of decent uk based retailers. I just got a kato sd45 for £55 a couple of weeks back. It is my first kato and I can't believe how good it is for the money paid.
Thanks for the welcome guys. I'm in Edinburgh by the sea (Portobello to be exact) and I'm sitting in the swimming pool lobby just now looking out at the sun on the beach while my girls get slowly changed from swimming. I've been looking around at some of the layouts on show in this corner of the interweb and feeling some jealous space thoughts! Our little bit of track is a folded loop with a little terminus/yard and a reversing line, all jammed into about 1.5 x 0.6 m. I think it could be a model of the shortest of short lines.... Sent from my HTC One mini using Tapatalk
Welcome aboard, Donald. You have picked a great, though fallen, railroad to model. You might take a look at the New York Central System Historical Society webpage. They have some models available, but I'm not sure if any are in N scale, as I do not model.
What a fantastic resource fitz, thanks for the heads up! I see a good few hours of life being swallowed up by browsing the magazine back issues.... Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk
