howard@garfield.UUCP (Howard . Campbell) (11/29/84)
I LOVE trains, and can't get enough of them.
One solution to this is becoming a microferroequineologist. (sp?)
Great fun, makes you feel like the friendly giant.
Uh, are there any others out there who are MRs to?
If so, what magazines do you subscribe to,
what scale(s) do you model in,
in what time period is your wonderworld based,
are you a it-must-be-just-like-the-real-thing modeller,
or are you liberal? ( One question mark seems to few here, hmmm )
How big a layout have you built (planning to build)....
?
(And the questions go on and on...)
If there is someone out there, we can probably even snail each other
our passes! (I've still to make one up though!)
Howard
Campbell
at:
{akgua, allegra, dalcs!dreacad, ihnp4, utcsrgv}!garfield!howard
Memorial University of Newfoundlandkcm@cybvax0.UUCP (Keith C. MacKinnon) (12/04/84)
> I LOVE trains, and can't get enough of them. > One solution to this is becoming a microferroequineologist. (sp?) > Great fun, makes you feel like the friendly giant. > Uh, are there any others out there who are MRs to? > If so, what magazines do you subscribe to, > what scale(s) do you model in, > in what time period is your wonderworld based, > are you a it-must-be-just-like-the-real-thing modeller, > or are you liberal? ( One question mark seems to few here, hmmm ) > How big a layout have you built (planning to build).... > ? > (And the questions go on and on...) > If there is someone out there, we can probably even snail each other > our passes! (I've still to make one up though!) > > Howard > Campbell > at: > > {akgua, allegra, dalcs!dreacad, ihnp4, utcsrgv}!garfield!howard > Memorial University of Newfoundland I am a model railroader and I am one of those it-must-be-just-like-the-real- thing modeller. I have just really started into the wonderful world of modeling and really injoy the hobby. I really don,t have a vast knowledge of the hobby but I am willing to learn. I have read a few books and I subscribe to railroad modeller and pick up a few other magazines here and there. I am in the process in modeling HO scale, and have almost finished my N scale set. My N set is santa fe system which takes place in a small town somewhere in cental CA. and the period is present. I run passenger service on the outside track and feight service on the inside but both are able to connect. The present size of the layout is about 6' by 3' and is still going with the addtion of the new yard, round house and minor industral areas that will pop up in any small areas that are left on the layout. My HO still hasn't left the drawing board but the system will be my favorite Boston & Maine RR. This takes place in a rural small town on the central line that is pretty much now abandon at this time. The time period on the HO will be from the 1920's to the present. This will be done by have buildings built to conform then and now with a few changes. The engines and rolling stock will be the only thing that really change including of course automoblies and trucks. The season is the begining of fall on a warm indian summer day and night. Homes and other misc. lights will hopefully if placed right give me a very nice night time scene. The layout itself will be 5' by 13 or 14' and will cut through a wall. The intersting thing will be because I have no room on top for a yard I will try to atempt to add a yard under the set and have the tracks come up into a mountain so you never now where they came from or going to. I will run both passenger and freight lines. I would also like to run someday the old MBTA pcc's on the line. I am a real detail freak trying to make everything realistic leaving no rock unturned. Now what about other people out there with there railroads, how about telling us your layouts and maybe we can learn from each other god knows that I really need the help and knowledge to get me through this. HAPPY MODELLING MERRY XMAS to all. ..!kcm Keith C MacKinnon CYBERMATION inc. Cambridge MA. I
Rich Zellich <ZELLICH@SRI-NIC.ARPA> (12/05/84)
I've seen enough side comments in prototype-related messages to be pretty sure there are quite a few of us modelers out there. As for me, I model in N scale, mid 50's era (with some interest in turn-of- the-century), and subscribe to the mail modeling magazines (used to take Short Line & Narrow Gauge Gazette, too, but it was too NG and not enough SL oriented so I canceled after a few years). I like free-lancing, but also insist on a reasonable degree of realism to prototype (maybe I'm just too lazy to go the 100%-prototype route?). In my condo, I have yet to rebuild the model layout I had 2 houses and an apartment back, but I have rough plans for the new one; basically my own free-lanced short line, plus a connection to mainline AT&SF if I can fit in the trackage for it. Cheers, Rich -------