Hello from the US Midwest!

[fairflixt]

Hi Everyone,
I've been lurking for a few weeks reading threads. I have come back into the hobby after the recent visit of my nephew for whom I pulled out my LGB starter set plus track and electric switches that I painstakingly acquired with allowance money in my middle school years. A permanent garden installation is not in the cards for a while and really, I'm more of a tinkerer, so I expect mostly to lay temporary track around the basement and occasionally outside. I'm very interested in automating/controls of various layouts like using signal blocks to run multiple trains, etc. I'll probably be asking a lot of questions once I have even the foggiest idea of all the things that have changed since the 90s!
Cheers,
Vince

 

[Gavin Sowry]

Welcome aboard.

Where in the Mid West?, I got kin in NE.

 

[fairflixt]

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[fairflixt]

Welcome aboard.

Where in the Mid West?, I got kin in NE.

Thanks! I'm in Illinois, so not particularly close to NE

 

[JimmyB]

Vince welcome to the forum, lots of experience here, and lots of advice to be had, beware of the bad jokes, but keep us sweet we photos, we love photos

 

[PhilP]

Welcome to the Forum, Vince!
Young people, in the Family, are a great incentive to 'play trains'!

Enjoy it! They grow up, way too fast.

PhilP.

 

[phils2um]

Welcome Vince.

 

[Madman]

Welcome aboard. For automation the EPL system can't be beat. That's my opinion. I like old school electricity, so am not involved in DCC or whatever else it's known as. If you have a copy of "THE WORLD OF LGB" it's like the bible for LGB trains.

 

[Paul M]

Welcome, you will find that, yes, things have changed since the 90's! Theres plenty of automatic systems out there now, and a lot of folk on here are using them

 

[fairflixt]

Welcome aboard. For automation the EPL system can't be beat. That's my opinion. I like old school electricity, so am not involved in DCC or whatever else it's known as. If you have a copy of "THE WORLD OF LGB" it's like the bible for LGB trains.

Where would one procure a copy of said bible?

 

[idlemarvel]

Difficult to find hardcopy and may be expensive. The PDF is free and can be found here.

https://champex-linden.de/cl_downloads/download_fremddokumente/lgb_00559_explore_the_world_of_lgb.pdf

 

[ARIA31]

So I see you are 121 years old. Let us know where you live, Might be interesting.

 

[fairflixt]

Difficult to find hardcopy and may be expensive. The PDF is free and can be found here.

https://champex-linden.de/cl_downloads/download_fremddokumente/lgb_00559_explore_the_world_of_lgb.pdf

THanks for the link this looks amazingly helpful!

 

[Dan]

The free copy is almost identical to the hard copy, the only difference is the old MTS chapter is missing!!