DB rural railway in the 70s .... first tentative steps in G scale

Welcome to the forum. If it's 'shelf' railways you want, then there are many in here to take a peek at. Try this one as a half and half (shelf-ground), it has developed a bit futher than is shown, to four tracks wide in the terminus.

http://www.gscalecentral.net/m66719
 
While the V200's driver had a rest and dieseled the loco,a 218 class took over the duty!!;)

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edit.... helps if i attach the pix!!
 
Thanks for the helpful advice and links.

I made the mistake a long time ago of rushing into a model railway project .... NEVER AGAIN!! The softly softly approach here, methinks ....

LOVE that 218. I WANT one!!
 
Well, a weekend in the garden with a tape measure and level and my original plans have bitten the dust already .......... >:

There will be just too much civil engineering required to make the WAIST-HEIGHT layout viable, and all the bridges etc will render the garden difficult to negotiate.

However I have a cunning plan .... drop the trackbed to the height of the flower bed on the right ... the brick wall is actually rotten so when I rebuild it I can incorporate a trackbed in the front of the flowerbed running along and just inside the wall.

I will post up a track plan later.
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No problem, although I did have some of this dealers cement silos on watch recently and they suddenly disappeared so I assume he is open to ending early for the right price. Any loco that looks like a Warship is good in my ex-Somerset books, got to hand it to the Germans there.
 
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