Large Scale Central

Hello Everyone! From a complete amature!

Hello!

I know almost nothing specific about the large scale hobby, other than I would like to operate some myself in the near future. I promise not to ask any more stupid questions than are absolutely required. I was planning to use your forum more to passively pick your brains by reading your posts than demanding information through my own. As to my personal history, almost everything I’ve done has been HO scale. If anybody is located near Brookfield, IL (outside Chicago) and would like to show off their work I would love to have some real-life interaction with an enthusiast!

Thanks for reading,

Mark

Welcome Mark !

There are no stupid questions here

There are certainly no stupid questions. This hobby is too complex and must be savored in small quantities over time – sort of like wine.

I expect you’ll be arm-chairing for a while (at least until the weather gets better), so lurk away and be patient with us.

We’re still learning too!

Welcome aboard Mark. Ask away, but remember there are lots of ways to do things, so sort through the info you get and decide what is best for you.

Welcome aboard Mark, you’ll find a great bunch of guys here that are willing to answer questions and give advice.

If you ever come to North Idaho you’re welcome to stop in.

Chuck

Welcome aboard, Mark.

Stupid questions are also welcome.

Stupid answers are free…:wink:

Welcome to the insanity of large scale!

you will like it here. We are pretty good people.

Welcome, Mark…all we are around here, is a bunch of answers, sitting around waiting for questions…while waiting, some of us frequent the Chatroom, while sucking on a bheer or two…come, join us, and enjoy the humour, if you care to…

Fred

Welcome, Mark…all we are around here, is a bunch of answers, sitting around waiting for questions…while waiting, some of us frequent the Chatroom, while sucking on a bheer or two…come, join us, and enjoy the humour, if you care to…

Fred

Welcome, Mark…all we are around here, is a bunch of answers, sitting around waiting for questions…while waiting, some of us frequent the Chatroom, while sucking on a bheer or two…come, join us, and enjoy the humour, if you care to…

Fred

Welcome Aboard Mark,

Few of us get paid to do this, so you fit right in with the rest of us amatures.

Hi Mark - Welcome. I see Fred has been in the chat room too long and has developed a case of hiccups :]

Jon Radder said:

Hi Mark - Welcome. I see Fred has been in the chat room too long and has developed a case of hiccups :]

I think it was the cheap beer that caused that…:wink:

Dang stuff is not cheap up here…and it is Sleeman’s…it was my mouse acting up…!!

Fr.Fred

Fr. Fred stutters.

Pleased to meet you. There’s quite a mob of us in the Chicago Suburbs. I’m in Lake County, but I don’t have a yard so I do my railroading at the Chicago Botanic.

Welcome to the forum!

The thing you need to learn first is how to post pics!!!

We are great @ giving advice not that it’s right.

Sean

Hi Mark H. You have come to a good site to get questions ans. There is a lot of experence here and yes… most of us came from other Scales like we did. We started in Ho from the early 50ths and still in it to beside the Garden R.R…

Welcome and if have any photo’s… Like to see them to… Noel & Jane in Ca.

Welcome, Mark. This is a good place to get your answers questioned.

(http://freightsheds.largescalecentral.com/users/stevef/_forumfiles/All_crazy.jpg)

You don’t have to be crazy to hang out here, but it doesn’t hurt.

:wink:

Welcome Mark

You will find in a short time this is a great place to hang out. Alot of modelling experience and knowledge is to be found here. Ask all the questions you want. There will always be lots of answers to your query. Some right, some wrong, some totally off the wall. :slight_smile: We have rather an eclectic group here.

Randy McDonald said:

Welcome Mark

You will find in a short time this is a great place to hang out. Alot of modelling experience and knowledge is to be found here. Ask all the questions you want. There will always be lots of answers to your query. Some right, some wrong, some totally off the wall. :slight_smile: We have rather an eclectic group here.

And some of us run steam as well as eclectic.

I think that’s right…?

tac, ig, ken the GFT & The Lake Joseph Boys