Large Scale Central

Hi from a new member

General Discussion
#1

My first post to the list. I am a retired enginer from the Norwegian State Railway (NSB). I live i Norway, just outside the capital Oslo. I’m 64 years old and now I have time to have fun with my own trains. I have a medium sized HO railroad in my basement. Running DCC and C/MRI CTC dispatcing.

I’m new to large scale. Have just got me an USA Train SD70MAC, two tankcars, and a caboose. No plan for a garden railway yet, (my wife think I have what I need in our basement ) but I want to learn from you that have one. May be it can be some track in the garden sometime.

#2

Welcome Ivar join us on Friday nites at the link below 7-9pm MST for some G-scale fun, trains and whatever “live” on my channel and welcome aboard. The REGAL

http://www.mogulus.com/crazytrainguyschannel

#3

Welcome. It’s a lot of fun and what people here don’t know isn’t worth knowing!

#4

Wow! Another new guy. Welcome Aboard, Ivar. Bob’s advertising campaign is really paying off. Oh, there is no advertising campaign?

#5
mike omalley said:
Welcome. It's a lot of fun and what people here don't know isn't worth knowing!
What he means is that what I know isn't worth knowing, but hey, I'm cool with that, me.

Oh yeah, welcome!

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#6
Ivar Aas said:
My first post to the list. I am a retired enginer from the Norwegian State Railway (NSB). I live i Norway, just outside the capital Oslo. I'm 64 years old and now I have time to have fun with my own trains. I have a medium sized HO railroad in my basement. Running DCC and C/MRI CTC dispatcing.

I’m new to large scale. Have just got me an USA Train SD70MAC, two tankcars, and a caboose. No plan for a garden railway yet, (my wife think I have what I need in our basement ) but I want to learn from you that have one. May be it can be some track in the garden sometime.


Welcome indeed! You must know my old pals Knut Alsos and Geir holmen - they live in Norway. Oh, and Rune Hagen up near Trondheim.

Only kidding.

I’m a lot nearer you than most others as I spend most of my time in rural East Anglia just south of where a lot of your old pals settled in the good old days of Viking.

Waes Hael!

tac
www.ovgrs.org

#7
Ric Golding said:
Wow! Another new guy. Welcome Aboard, Ivar. Bob's advertising campaign is really paying off. Oh, there is no advertising campaign?
I think we are inheriting some orphans from that G Scale Mad site :D

Welcome Ivar. Indoor large scale can be a lot of fun if you have some room (or not in Vic’s case). I started there and several of us have only indoor layouts.

#8

Hello Ivar.
I hope you enjoy hanging out here.
Ralph

#9

Welcome, Ivar. Except, perhaps for that fellow in the northern wilds of Alaska, I think you are probably our most northern new friend.

Wives are like that, always saying that we have enough trains. Balderdash and poppycock, I say! One can never have enough trains.

#10

Hello Ivar

#11

Hello Ivar from another new member. I haven’t been to Canada but my wife and I did get to southern Norway 9 years ago. We visited Oslo, Stavanger, Bergen, Balestrand (stayed at Kvikne’s Hotel), and Flåm (of course we rode the Flåm Railway up to Myrdal, then the NSB back to Oslo). Beautiful country - kept very neat and clean as well, and the railways seem to be run well. You are fortunate to live there.
Cheers
Al

#12

Dude!
:wink:

#13

Welcome aboard!

#14

Pleased to meet you, Ivar.

#15

Hey,
We got a bunch of Ivar’s Fish & Chip shops around here! (Well, at least in a 300 mile radius. :slight_smile: :slight_smile: )
Welcome!

#16

Ivar, I am also new to the forums but what caught my eye was your last name. My grandmothers maiden name was Aas, and she came from Vestnes, emigrating to Canada in 1910. If you are interested I could email you some more info. Maybe we are related way back.