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15ft x 6ft Layout Built In Two Sections
Phillip’s layout
The control panel
Phillip sent in these photos of his layout to share:
I have four photos of my 4.5 x 1.7 meter (15ft x 6ft) HO DC dual track model railway layout.
I built it in two sections, 2.44m (8ft) section and 2.6m (8.5ft) section on castors so I can move out from the wall. It can be separated if needed to be moved out of the garage.
I would say it is a double 8, it goes back under the goods yard and back around as you can see in the pictures.
I model Bachmann trains, and the diesels and steam locos are very powerful. I have a goods shed on the far left corner and a smaller goods shed on the upper level on the right.
Because the Bachmann couplers are plastic, I cannot be used with magnetic coupling devices. I have to manually uncouple the carriages with a length of flat tin to push up the coupler. You can see the piece of tin sitting above the Vector dual control unit. That is one drawback with Bachmann couplers.
I made the track control panels myself and did all the wiring up to the electric point motors and track. I have tried to keep the weight down as much as possible for portability.
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Very well done.
I used to belong to the Blissfield Model Railroad club and the standard there was always kadee couplers. The Bachmann couplers you talk about are probally Mchenry style. Plastic and cheap. After bumping too many times they get worn and bend back and wont stay coupled. The only problem I found with kadee is you may lose a spring so have a few extra on hand. We also used intermountain wheels. Im not sure they make them for your cars but worth looking into. Next would be to get some tiny buckshot pellets from your local gun store. The smaller the better and then a scale to measure each car out. Get a kadee coupler height gauge as well.
Nice work Phillip. I have a similar collection of British rolling stock & locos but in N gauge. I was looking at your configuration and base board size and what could be done with 1:148, lots of options!!
Yes, you could use this design for N scale, you could add more sidings etc with a smaller scale and still keep it large, depending what size you are going to work on. You could put in more hills in N scale which I am limited in HO scale. I got this idea from a much larger size layout which was three time my size and I had to make some modifications due to the size for my garage. It gives more running distance instead of just going once around the layout.