Large Scale Central

Poll: What's your build style?

Modeling
#21

I guess I kinda float between 2 & 4… I enjoy the challange of building something new, but hate to keep repeating a process over and over…

I’ve got projects finished, projects started, projects half done, and a heck of a lot of them in my head… I tend to work in spurts, work hard at it for a while, then stop… let it all sit for a while, then start in on something again…

#22

7 followed by 3 which results in 2 and ending as 6

Roger
with more irons in the fire than I have space for.

#23

I have two principal constraints: a small back yard with a large amount of bushes and plants. The advantage I have is knowing how the big railroads built there property.

I started much as MR I.K.Brunel did. I surveyed (actually just looked) at where I intended to lay track; laid a firm base in a shallow trench in the dirt which went right around my garden. Once the track was completed and electrified I ran trains. Like many real and model railroads extensions and revisions have been made over the almost five years it has been operational.

My wife deals with the horticulture and was very helpful during construction work with plants, bushes etc… As a result there are not many places where structures can be sited so apart from a wayside style station, small freight depot, tunnels and a few small lineside buildings no major building developments have taken place.

Generally speaking the 1:1 railroads built, outside the larger towns, piecemeal, providing facilities - and removing them - when required and when not. The United States is a very large Country - my models represent American railroads not European - so I am content knowing that there are long stretches of railroad where little, other than the natural landscape, exists.

I am happy with it and one thing I believe is good about large scale railroading is that there is always something to make or maintain. lol

#24
Alan Lott said:
I have two principal constraints: a small back yard with a large amount of bushes and plants. The advantage I have is knowing how the big railroads built there property.

I started much as MR I.K.Brunel did. I surveyed (actually just looked) at where I intended to lay track; laid a firm base in a shallow trench in the dirt which went right around my garden. Once the track was completed and electrified I ran trains. Like many real and model railroads extensions and revisions have been made over the almost five years it has been operational.

My wife deals with the horticulture and was very helpful during construction work with plants, bushes etc… As a result there are not many places where structures can be sited so apart from a wayside style station, small freight depot, tunnels and a few small lineside buildings no major building developments have taken place.

Generally speaking the 1:1 railroads built, outside the larger towns, piecemeal, providing facilities - and removing them - when required and when not. The United States is a very large Country - my models represent American railroads not European - so I am content knowing that there are long stretches of railroad where little, other than the natural landscape, exists.

I am happy with it and one thing I believe is good about large scale railroading is that there is always something to make or maintain. lol


Alan I like your style and fit in with you. Im not big on large buildings all over the layout. I like the more natural look with small structures in a few places to show that their is life on the line. Even a small RR like mine there is always something to do.

#25

I made a note to self to build 10 switches (turnouts) this winter so I could hit the deckplates running in the spring.

It is not halfway through February (about) and I have two completed, and the ties for 3 more constructed.

So I guess I’m a…

What was the question again???

I’d better get busy. Once the muse strikes, it will be fairly easy. When I was in school, I did the same thing with my studies… waited until the 11th hour, then wrote a 25 page masterpiece.

#26
Andy Clarke said:
I guess I kinda float between 2 & 4....
You float?
Steve Featherkile said:
When I was in school, I did the same thing with my studies... waited until the 11th hour, then wrote a 25 page masterpiece.
Yes but that was like 100yrs ago and times have changed! :)
#27

As I am reletively new to the hobby, I don’t have much of a track record yet. I suppose I am somewhere between 2 & 6. But I am trying to get rid of 6. :wink:

#28
Rooster said:
Yes but that was like 100yrs ago and times have changed!
Maybe so, but I haven't! :P
#29
Randy McDonald said:
As I am reletively new to the hobby, I don't have much of a track record yet. I suppose I am somewhere between 2 & 6. But I am trying to get rid of 6. ;)
The big trouble with #6 is I think you'll find you run outta space pretty fast. I've gotta clear several major projects off my list before the snow melts -- so I can bring in the stuff that Ma Nature and some stray critters wrecked this winter....
#30

I think I am a seven
7) big plans and some pocket change to acquire the materials but rarely even get past collection of materials for a project. Seriously I’ve got so many projects segregated into boxes that I will get to someday. Some still need more parts colelcted some need started some simply need assembled and some just need finished. Someday.

#31
Mik said:
Randy McDonald said:
As I am reletively new to the hobby, I don't have much of a track record yet. I suppose I am somewhere between 2 & 6. But I am trying to get rid of 6. ;)
The big trouble with #6 is I think you'll find you run outta space pretty fast. I've gotta clear several major projects off my list before the snow melts -- so I can bring in the stuff that Ma Nature and some stray critters wrecked this winter....
Face it Mik this snow is never going to melt.
#32
Shawn said:
Face it Mik this snow is never going to melt.
Anybody remember why the "Ice Age" movies were supposed to be funny? "Groundhog's Day"?

Anybody care to see how this one compares to '78 or '52, or '18… or maybe 1888?

#33
Mik said:
Shawn said:
Face it Mik this snow is never going to melt.
Anybody remember why the "Ice Age" movies were supposed to be funny? "Groundhog's Day"?

Anybody care to see how this one compares to '78 or '52, or '18… or maybe 1888?


Mik are you telling us you were there for the winter of 1888? :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

#34
Geoff George said:
Mik are you telling us you were there for the winter of 1888? :) :)
Some days it feels like it.
#35

I’m a 6 & 7. I’ve got a LOT of good ideas, but the time to do them is inversely proportional to the ideas:
T= 1/i
Lou

#36

Wow I can’t even remember what I did in school other than finishing.
I don’t even know what number I would be. Sometimes an 8 and sometimes a -2.
I just try to be me. That falls somewhere between a slop and the Pope.
I don’t know what side it is closer to most of the time I guess it is close to the - side.
With the way I work I don’t get to mingle with other train buffs.
This forum is about as close to other train nuts that I get.
All of the other train clubs that I know of around here meet on week day evenings. and since I work then that leaves me out.
But I still luves the trains.
David