Hello All,
Phase 1 saw me establish a loop (with r1 and 1:35) round my veg patch and shed. Phase 2 involved knocking into the garage and hence opening up a disused piece of driveway and creating stabling for the stock. This has all been on my turf-- now I want to make a grab for that owned by SWMBO and the rug rats.
This Youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3gk0YRj8g will give you and idea, as will the track plan in the track plans thread.
Phase 3 Is in the planing stages. I want to basically go around the whole garden with sweeping bends and a perfect level to allow me to run some big locos and trains- whilst intergrating it into the current line which will become a branch loop. The small picket fence is just to keep the kids out of "my" bit of the garden- so the line would pass through it on each side. It would also be part of the plan that the track on the rug rat turf would be robust enough fo unsupervised play with their Playmobil stuff.
Questions:
Any thoughts and suggestions generally?
I need to go through the lawn- is there a way of laying track inconspicously into a lawn?
What is the largest radius in LGB or shall I just use flexi?
What is the minimum radius to succussfully run USA trains style big stuff?
What is the minimum radius for an NG16 live steamer (one needs to plan for the future!)
Anyone got pictures of a railway sympathetically intergrated into a garden? - i need evidence in my planning app to SWMBO!
It is currently in analogue- is there anything specific I should do to allow future adoption of DCC?
This is less of a "chat" post and more of a "please help" one - so be very grateful for your time.
The opening will be marked by my first open day on the Cogges Railway!
Ian
Phase 1 saw me establish a loop (with r1 and 1:35) round my veg patch and shed. Phase 2 involved knocking into the garage and hence opening up a disused piece of driveway and creating stabling for the stock. This has all been on my turf-- now I want to make a grab for that owned by SWMBO and the rug rats.
This Youtube link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TR3gk0YRj8g will give you and idea, as will the track plan in the track plans thread.
Phase 3 Is in the planing stages. I want to basically go around the whole garden with sweeping bends and a perfect level to allow me to run some big locos and trains- whilst intergrating it into the current line which will become a branch loop. The small picket fence is just to keep the kids out of "my" bit of the garden- so the line would pass through it on each side. It would also be part of the plan that the track on the rug rat turf would be robust enough fo unsupervised play with their Playmobil stuff.
Questions:
Any thoughts and suggestions generally?
I need to go through the lawn- is there a way of laying track inconspicously into a lawn?
What is the largest radius in LGB or shall I just use flexi?
What is the minimum radius to succussfully run USA trains style big stuff?
What is the minimum radius for an NG16 live steamer (one needs to plan for the future!)
Anyone got pictures of a railway sympathetically intergrated into a garden? - i need evidence in my planning app to SWMBO!
It is currently in analogue- is there anything specific I should do to allow future adoption of DCC?
This is less of a "chat" post and more of a "please help" one - so be very grateful for your time.
The opening will be marked by my first open day on the Cogges Railway!
Ian