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This is a new poll for 2014 so that we can get up-to-date information about what our N gauge community is modelling.

Please vote in this poll (even if you voted in the last poll - which has now been locked)

You can vote for as many layouts as you have but the layouts must be N gauge  ;)

Boo Hoo  :'( I haven't got a layout, so I can't vote.............................

That's OK - just click 'Other region not listed above'..... your layout is in the region of your mind!

Einstein was a theoretical physicist. He never conducted an experiment in reality in his entire career - he did what he himself actually called 'thought experiments.'

So I reckon if he was OK with that, us railway modellers can be, too!!  ;D

Quote from: NTrain on April 12, 2014, 11:14:08 AM
Boo Hoo  :'( I haven't got a layout, so I can't vote.............................

Are you in the planning stage?...  :-X

Current layout North American (Unknown Appalachian area in the Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky neighborhood)

Planned layout will be a UK layout that will be a mix of things I like about England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland.

I do not have the space anymore.  :( When I used to have the space I didn't have the time  :-[

My wife and I live in a one bedroom flat. The closest I get is to run some of my trains on a bit of Kato track.................

I do get to sit down and design all kinds of 3D models, in N Gauge, which will be becoming available for others to run on their layouts.  :D

OK, I have voted to the closest of my modelling interests (Train collection wise)

Any way we can get this more visible to all members, maybe something in the bit Tank sometimes uses for announcements or a mass PM to all members inviting them to take part?  The more votes we get the better picture we will get.

Only 50 votes so far, but already the pattern is more or less as one might expect.  Even my own "fantasy" layout is largely BR (1948 - 1970), by accident rather than design, and it features one desultory DB BR 01 Pacific, because I like it.

I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Not a Daily Mail reader then, EP?

Reminds me of... "Fog in Channel; Continent Cut Off." No idea if this British newspaper headline is actually true or not. But sounds plausible!  :)

Quote from: EtchedPixels on April 13, 2014, 07:15:09 PM
I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Quote from: EtchedPixels on April 13, 2014, 07:15:09 PM
I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Don't be silly EP, there's a large body of water called the English Channel between us and, where's that place? Oh yes, Europe. ;)

Quote from: EtchedPixels on April 13, 2014, 07:15:09 PM
I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Poll edited to please those from Pedants 'R' Us ;)

Now, who is modelling Antarctica then? :D


Paul

Quote from: EtchedPixels on April 13, 2014, 07:15:09 PM
I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Our current island group ceased to be part of "Continental Europe" several thousand years ago, possibly around the time Noah was trying to avoid getting his feet - and his hair - wet.  I don't think the inundation of Doggerland etc. by the North Sea has been negated by our tunnelling under the English Channel.

Quote from: SheldonC on April 17, 2014, 09:31:23 PM

Quote from: EtchedPixels on April 13, 2014, 07:15:09 PM
I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Our current island group ceased to be part of "Continental Europe" several thousand years ago, possibly around the time Noah was trying to avoid getting his feet - and his hair - wet.  I don't think the inundation of Doggerland etc. by the North Sea has been negated by our tunnelling under the English Channel.

Hi Sheldon.  I agree with your comments 100% :beers:
But to get back to topic, my layout is being build to reflect a major port and seaside town (eg Weymouth/Portsmouth etc) but located on the North Somerset or Devonshire Bristol Channel coast around 1970 (no steam  :claphappy:, few pesky diesel  :censored: electrics (although a "Gronk" will be station pilot  :hmmm:) and 95% Diesel  :heart2: Hydraulics.

Quote from: D1042 Western Princess on April 18, 2014, 05:04:59 AM
. . .  (no steam  :claphappy:,

You can go off people.   ;)

 :laughabovepost: :laughabovepost: ;)

Quote from: D1042 Western Princess on April 18, 2014, 05:04:59 AM

Quote from: SheldonC on April 17, 2014, 09:31:23 PM

Quote from: EtchedPixels on April 13, 2014, 07:15:09 PM
I thought the UK as part of Europe   :wave:

Our current island group ceased to be part of "Continental Europe" several thousand years ago, possibly around the time Noah was trying to avoid getting his feet - and his hair - wet.  I don't think the inundation of Doggerland etc. by the North Sea has been negated by our tunnelling under the English Channel.

Hi Sheldon.  I agree with your comments 100% :beers:
But to get back to topic, my layout is being build to reflect a major port and seaside town (eg Weymouth/Portsmouth etc) but located on the North Somerset or Devonshire Bristol Channel coast around 1970 (no steam  :claphappy:, few pesky diesel  :censored: electrics (although a "Gronk" will be station pilot  :hmmm:) and 95% Diesel  :heart2: Hydraulics.

Whilst I have a sneaking regard for your Westerns & V200-Style Warships (as long as they aren't too green) I cannot share your apparent hatred of Diesel Electrics.  Few sounds move me like the full-throated roar of a couple of Napier Deltics working hard & fast.  The music of a couple of R-R Merlins or Griffons also does it for me.

I don't exactly know why but I have NEVER liked steam engines and even now would not go to the end of the road to see one. I tend even to walk away from layouts, however well constructed/operated if they are predominantly steam operated!
Diesel electrics are, I suppose, OK and actually tolerated on my layouts but they are only there because they have run through from "other regions" with specials or "a train from the Midlands/Southern etc".
Diesel Hydraulics (capitalised, as befits their standing :angel:) rule my layouts and will always do so.
I suppose it was being born in Swindon (literally within the sound of Swindon Works), steam was "old hat" and on its way out, Diesel Hydraulics were the "latest thing" and to my mind unbeatable while diesel electrics were "those strange things everyone else used" but we had decent locomotives like Westerns, Warships, Hymeks and D63XXs and D95XXs instead :drool: 

Although I agree with you about steam, we are going a tad  :offtopicsign: here ;)

Maybe we might have another poll on what locos members are modelling in the future.

Quote from: Pengi on April 18, 2014, 07:33:45 PM
Although I agree with you about steam, we are going a tad  :offtopicsign: here ;)

Perhaps true, but just answering a question. Sorry.

No surprises where my vote went...  ;)

Whilst I do model the UK in 1:148th, I also model the Irish Republic, again in 1:148th like most modellers I know who model the railways of the emerald isle. (except those who do that bigger scale  :uneasy:) 
So I've put that one under 'other' as its neither continental Europe or 1:160th scale!

Living in new Zealand as I do, logic says I should model what I am familiar with:  trains in New Zealand (although NOT  the state-owned railway system). I voted accordingly.

BTW: Is anyone currently modelling Antarctic railways? THAT would be an interesting project; after all, 50 million Penguin's can't be wrong...

Quote from: Komata on May 20, 2014, 01:35:07 AM


BTW: Is anyone currently modelling Antarctic railways? THAT would be an interesting project; after all, 50 million Penguin's can't be wrong...

:no: Too much 'wrong kind of snow' on the track :-[

gu'no, I think you might be right; it's the sort of thing that one could rail against forever, but for which one would always get the bird (at times literally....)

Thanks for the observation....

Quote from: D1042 Western Princess on April 18, 2014, 04:35:56 PM
I don't exactly know why but I have NEVER liked steam engines and even now would not go to the end of the road to see one. I tend even to walk away from layouts, however well constructed/operated if they are predominantly steam operated!
Diesel electrics are, I suppose, OK and actually tolerated on my layouts but they are only there because they have run through from "other regions" with specials or "a train from the Midlands/Southern etc".
Diesel Hydraulics (capitalised, as befits their standing :angel:) rule my layouts and will always do so.
I suppose it was being born in Swindon (literally within the sound of Swindon Works), steam was "old hat" and on its way out, Diesel Hydraulics were the "latest thing" and to my mind unbeatable while diesel electrics were "those strange things everyone else used" but we had decent locomotives like Westerns, Warships, Hymeks and D63XXs and D95XXs instead :drool:

I am the same as you. For me I think it was because I grew up in the BR Blue diesel era. So they remind me of my childhood. Steam was before my time so it is harder to relate to.

..a fantasy place in UK........Narnia Central :)

I am modelling the UK--Welwyn North in Hertfordshire, 1925-35--but I live in Massachusetts now and consider the Uk to be an exotic overseas location!

Welwyn North as an "exotic location" - that's a new one! :laugh:


Paul

By "exotic" I mean very different from the place in which I live. All of my rolling stock and most other components of my planned layout have to be imported at vast expense and inconvenience and even basic research can be hard to do this far removed from the subject. For me modelling the UK is not an easy option.

I was born and raised a couple of miles from Welwyn North, and even in the years I commuted from it I paid scant attention to it. It was just there. But in finding a subject for my railway I discovered it's many strong points, and in settling on 1925-35 I learned how very different it was back then. The past is indeed a very foreign place! And with Gresley's articulated stock and A4s steaming through, not to mention the wide range of ancient and modern stock, the shunting horses, and a bewildering variety of goods traffic, it was truly exotic.

Japan, because I live here and there's a fascinating variety of trains (and they're pretty cheap too).

If I had the time, place and money I'd love to have some sort of layout which encompassed late BR steam to all-blue era but that will have to wait a decade or two.

I'm modelling the county of Midsomer, for those who don't know it, it is located to the north east of Somerset and south west of Wiltshire.   ;) :)

 :hellosign: I have been asked to produce a exhibition layout for Andrew Evans of AEM, it is going to be Glasgow Queen Street during the 1980s.
Does anyone have track plans or platform plans that they can scan/email to us, Andrew has checked at the National Glasgow Library and they no longer give public access to this sort of material, in case of any terrorist activity being planned.


Gareth G :searchingsign: :photospleasesign: :thankyousign:

Quote from: garethGG on August 30, 2014, 09:03:59 PM
:hellosign: I have been asked to produce a exhibition layout for Andrew Evans of AEM, it is going to be Glasgow Queen Street during the 1980s.
Does anyone have track plans or platform plans that they can scan/email to us, Andrew has checked at the National Glasgow Library and they no longer give public access to this sort of material, in case of any terrorist activity being planned.

Damn these time-travelling terrorists... I blame that Dr. Who guy.

Have voted Europe as have French, Spanish and Italian rolling stock and 1 Belgian loco.

The layout(s) never seem to get much work done as don't have much space or time. Been hoping to move for 4 years now so the dogs have a bigger garden and I have a 'man cave'/'train room'. Also, can't decide which country to focus on.

When I win the lottery, plan on building a layout from my 80's trip memories from Surrey, through France and Spain to Morocco, then back up along the cote d'azur and down to Sicily, then back through Switzerland to Ostend in Belgium, and also a few trips to Germany.

Maybe I can then vote UK, EMUs to Pompey and join the 1/148 club and Africa. They've got some interesting stuff there. French locos and what looks like American to me which would be nice to have....

http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?railroad=ONCF%20Morocco (http://www.railpictures.net/showphotos.php?railroad=ONCF%20Morocco)

Would need to find a livery change professional.

When you hear people saying 'how could any lottery winner spend 162,000,000 euros?'

Anyway, back to me 4'x2' not sure if northern french seaport or italian marina layout.

Cheers weave.

Quote from: garethGG on August 30, 2014, 09:03:59 PMI have been asked to produce a exhibition layout for Andrew Evans of AEM, it is going to be Glasgow Queen Street during the 1980s.
Does anyone have track plans or platform plans that they can scan/email to us, Andrew has checked at the National Glasgow Library and they no longer give public access to this sort of material, in case of any terrorist activity being planned

Apologies, I was in the USA when this request was posted

I have already started on a layout of Glasgow Queen Street
I agree, getting the track plan is a nightmare
However, I have had one since early 2013

I don't have a complete layout. It's in the design and building stage.

I have 3 micro layouts planned (mostly fictional)
- British OO scale (industrial + TMD)
- British N scale (high speed line + station)
- Indian HO (based on a real location and all models designed and made by me)

Cheers!
J.

G'day,  :wave:
I do have a few photos on the forum in my file under QLD KID. I'm in the latter stages of a 5 M X 3 M Layout with 2 levels set in The Feather River area of The States. It features a model of The Keddie Wye Bridge built for me by the Late Bruce Wetzig   :angel: who we lost to Cancer last year. A brilliant model I am lucky to have it.  :thumbsup:
It s set in the late 1970's when Union Pacific was buying up all the smaller roads, Western Pacific, Southern Pacific, Burlington, Northern Pacific and Burlington Northern to name a few.
The good thing about the idea is I get to run a colourful assortment of Locos which really looks good.  :laugh:
For more information you can get me on marg_den@bigpond.net.au

In N,
Scarnish, Tiree, Argyle and Bute, Scotland, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe, the World, the Universe.

oh and it's fictional...

Quote from: The Q on July 03, 2017, 12:52:40 PM
In N,
Scarnish, Tiree, Argyle and Bute, Scotland, The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Europe, the World, the Universe.

oh and it's fictional...

But aren't all model railways a type of fan fiction?

http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/railways/are-model-railways-a-form-of-fanfic/ (http://www.kalyr.com/weblog/railways/are-model-railways-a-form-of-fanfic/)

Cheers, NeMo

Quote from: railsquid on August 29, 2014, 04:20:20 PM
Japan, because I live here and there's a fascinating variety of trains (and they're pretty cheap too).

If I had the time, place and money I'd love to have some sort of layout which encompassed late BR steam to all-blue era but that will have to wait a decade or two.

Eeek, 3 years later (almost), have found a way of doing the above in the space available, and have acquired stock, just lacking the time at the moment...

Quote from: Only Me on July 03, 2017, 01:45:40 PM
(http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/gallery/46/main_12863.jpg)

This is what comes of being fairly new to the forum and having the browser set to show ALL unread threads.
There is a lot to read back through it may happen again :)

Don't worry mate, I've done it myself on more than one occasion. I now always look at the date of the post!  :thumbsup:

Quote from: The Q on July 04, 2017, 07:47:50 AM
This is what comes of being fairly new to the forum and having the browser set to show ALL unread threads.
There is a lot to read back through it may happen again :)

The Internet is not a book with limited pages. If you want to resurrect a thread from ten years ago because you have a follow-up question or useful input -- then go ahead.

IMO, people who moan about thread resurrection are missing the point of an online forum. Google catalogues pages by content, not just (or maybe even) the age of the page, so if you search about topic X and it happens to be discussed at length in a thread from 2007, it'll come to the top of the Google search results.

Cheers, NeMo

Sorta like looking up data sheets for obsolete electronic devices. You sometimes unearth some gems!  :thumbsup:

Quote from: Bealman on July 04, 2017, 09:18:32 AM
Sorta like looking up data sheets for obsolete electronic devices. You sometimes unearth some gems!  :thumbsup:

Them I know about, I'm Currently measuring 1mA to an accuracy of 0.1 part in a million and an uncertainty of 1.5PPM....

Resurrection is good for the soul, though some say there is an uncertainty in that, but just how many ppm that is is anybody's guess. :hmmm:


And as I wasn't on the Forum in 2014, when I was modelling my house interior (an ongoing process), let me add that I am now modelling Switzerland. Research stage still accounting for a lot of my efforts, and unfortunately  ;) I will have to go there next month to check a few details. :)

No-one appeas to be modelling S American railways, I shall start a Peruvian
layout with Lima rolling stock.

Why not! The high altitude  atmosphere  would definitely  be a model railway  first!  :thumbsup:

Now where to get N gauge  llamas..... :confused2:

Quote from: The Q on July 04, 2017, 09:36:49 AM

Quote from: Bealman on July 04, 2017, 09:18:32 AM
Sorta like looking up data sheets for obsolete electronic devices. You sometimes unearth some gems!  :thumbsup:

Them I know about, I'm Currently measuring 1mA to an accuracy of 0.1 part in a million and an uncertainty of 1.5PPM....

Blimey, are you designing Mass Spectrometers?

Quote from: cutting42 on July 04, 2017, 04:24:36 PM

Quote from: The Q on July 04, 2017, 09:36:49 AM

Quote from: Bealman on July 04, 2017, 09:18:32 AM
Sorta like looking up data sheets for obsolete electronic devices. You sometimes unearth some gems!  :thumbsup:

Them I know about, I'm Currently measuring 1mA to an accuracy of 0.1 part in a million and an uncertainty of 1.5PPM....

Blimey, are you designing Mass Spectrometers?

No, the company I work for makes test equipment, Including calibrators, which may be used to calibrate mass Spectorometers or anything else electronic

So I calibrate the Calibrators which are used to calibrate the new or returned for calibration, Calibration equipment.

At each stage you roughly go down one decimal place of accuracy,(it's a lot more complicated than that But I leave the maths to my boss...)
So My 0.1 PPM, Becomes 1ppm in the outer lab, the customer will be at 10ppm, and they may use that to calibrate something at 100ppm. The uncertainty of measurement also increases at each stage.

We send our Referance standards to the National Physical Laboratories, In Teddington. Where they produce, the top level accuracy.

We use Resistors and DC Voltage sources calibrated by NPL, Plus frequencies  derived from the GPS system, to Produce ACV and ACI.

If you go to a hospital, all the electronics will be calibrated,
If you fly,  all the electronics will be calibrated,
If you get nicked for speeding all the electronics will be calibrated,

Either by us or our opposition at our level, down the tree to the local / on site  calibration houses

Quote from: The Q on July 05, 2017, 09:33:48 AM

No, the company I work for makes test equipment, Including calibrators, which may be used to calibrate mass Spectorometers or anything else electronic

So I calibrate the Calibrators which are used to calibrate the new or returned for calibration, Calibration equipment.

At each stage you roughly go down one decimal place of accuracy,(it's a lot more complicated than that But I leave the maths to my boss...)
So My 0.1 PPM, Becomes 1ppm in the outer lab, the customer will be at 10ppm, and they may use that to calibrate something at 100ppm. The uncertainty of measurement also increases at each stage.

We send our Referance standards to the National Physical Laboratories, In Teddington. Where they produce, the top level accuracy.

We use Resistors and DC Voltage sources calibrated by NPL, Plus frequencies  derived from the GPS system, to Produce ACV and ACI.

If you go to a hospital, all the electronics will be calibrated,
If you fly,  all the electronics will be calibrated,
If you get nicked for speeding all the electronics will be calibrated,

Either by us or our opposition at our level, down the tree to the local / on site  calibration houses

Very cool thanks for the reply. I work for a company that makes Mass Specs and know how fine the detail was that you were talking about. We also have to perform validation and calibration checks for compliance in the pharma industry

Quote from: broadsword on July 04, 2017, 10:31:52 AM
No-one appeas to be modelling S American railways, I shall start a Peruvian
layout with Lima rolling stock.

I thought someone was doing Paddington.

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