North Yorkshire Moors Railway With Steam

February 6, 2009

Bigcol has sent in this update on his layout plans for publication:

After having just sold my extensive oo layout for a good price Istarted looking at n gauge. Having dabbled in this format before 20 years ago with minitrix I thought it was a good idea to try again.

There have been improvements in quality and detailing, but I did not take into account how your eyesight changes boy do they look small after oo. Putting all that aside I set out a plan of action. I looked on the internet for inspiration and found a couple of good track plans and proceeded to build a baseboard in a horse shoe style.

I went down the Woodland scenics subterrain foam route and so far it is an excellent way of creating scenery that has interesting lifelike features instead of the usual flatbed layouts you usually see. I have been taking photos as I have progressed and so far no problems.

To keep costs down I collect foam packing from all the local stores Comet halfords etc. You will have some stores near you who are glad to get rid of poly foam, the stiffer is better.

I am basing my layout on the North Yorkshire Moors railway with steam, Fairburn tank, A4 Silver fox, jinty tank and Virgin voyager 4 coach dmu.

Thanks for publishing and I will upgrade when I finish part of the scenery and gradients based on Emmerdale farm. Bigcol

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