Plans for next year

[bluedepot]

i think the older bachmann n gauge trams look awful, especially the windows with people in them... so avoid the brill and pcc trams they make even if they are cheap...

i would go for this newer tram... a Bachmann Spectrum N 84654 Peter Witt Street Car with Lights, Baltimore Transit Company (Decoder Equipped)

http://www.modeltrainstuff.com/Bachmann-N-Trolley-p/bac-84654.htm


tim

[Alex]

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the link  . I've been looking at the various trams/trolleys on offer. I'm only needing one, two at the most so may go for a cheaper one and tart it up a bit, don't need DCC. It's mainly just to have something running in the background all the time.

Alex

[bluedepot]

maybe try and get a peter witt car that isn't dcc fitted? they must do them as well. i think they are £60.

i really think the older bachmann american trams ('street cars') look awful...

does it have to be an american tram? can't you get arnold or kato german trams instead!!!! lol


tim

[Alex]

Hi Tim,

I could get other trams but it's for my US layout so would look out of place. I'll have a hunt around when I decide to buy my tram and see what I can get.

Alex

[MikeDunn]

My plan for this holiday (up to the 9th) is to finally make a start on the layout I marked up both on paper and on the board earlier this year - and never did anything else to 

And next year to finish it enough to assemble a coffee table around it !

Mike

[longbridge]

Another thing regarding the cheaper Bachmann Brill Trams and PCC cars is the motors are only built to last about 100 hours running, I myself don't mind them and running through a city scene look pretty OK, depends how fanatical you are 100 hours can be an awful lot of running.

[Alex]

Hi Dave,

Thanks for the info. I'd probably get a years worth of running from the 100hrs. That would then give me time to save up for a decent one.

Alex

[jonclox]

2012.well if I  can get the track cheap etc then an idea is foerming inside my brain cell >>>>>>>>>
A circle of the dreaded Peco ST5 points wit 2 ST3 lenghts of track 1 each side of a point. The rest of the circle would be built of the ST5 points with the turnouts forning the circle and the mainline(?) being the start of a spur leading into a series of 'sidings'
The point between the 2 curves wuuld form a lead  into a couple of sidings where trains could be made up from siding stock .
this whole 'thing could connect to a layout and allow stock to be built before joining the tracks or used as a stand alone  marshalling line game for building trains and practicing shunting.... the train makeup being written on a pile of cards and drawn from the pile with a completed train stock listed on it. At the end of the 'game' the train could break stoke down into sidings again. Not nesesarily the same as they came out of.
Has this made sense?
Edit....
Think a very bassic/simple..... http://www.bronx-terminal.com/?p=5

I think the wiring will be a nighmare to work out.it will be 'non DCC' 

[Tank]

I'm going to get the new baseboards on the battening, and getting a loop (how I've missed having a loop!) of track on it.  I have most of the wood, and I'm waiting for some adjustable legs to arrive.

[Newportnobby]

Think a very bassic/simple..... http://www.bronx-terminal.com/?p=5

I think the wiring will be a nighmare to work out.it will be 'non DCC' 

Fascinating - but rather you than me with the track formation

[longbridge]

I'm going to get the new baseboards on the battening, and getting a loop (how I've missed having a loop!) of track on it.  I have most of the wood, and I'm waiting for some adjustable legs to arrive.

I agree 100% sometimes it nice to just watch your trains running around.

[jonclox]

Think a very bassic/simple..... http://www.bronx-terminal.com/?p=5

I think the wiring will be a nighmare to work out.it will be 'non DCC' 

Fascinating - but rather you than me with the track formation

No way am I thinking that complicated.... a bassic circle of points with the spurs layed aback along it on the 'outside'.....think spinning catherine wheel firework with the sparks 'flying off' the ends of the outside sidings

[Alex]

Hi,

Sounds like a lot of you are going to be very busy over the next few months. Keep up the progress reports and post loads of piccies.

Alex

[jonclox]

Hi,

Sounds like a lot of you are going to be very busy over the next few months. Keep up the progress reports and post loads of piccies.

Alex

It might be a few months before I even get beyond'brain cell thrashing' let alone getting started so dont hold your breath in expectation 

[MinZaPint]

2012.well if I  can get the track cheap etc then an idea is foerming inside my brain cell >>>>>>>>>
A circle of the dreaded Peco ST5 points wit 2 ST3 lenghts of track 1 each side of a point. The rest of the circle would be built of the ST5 points with the turnouts forning the circle and the mainline(?) being the start of a spur leading into a series of 'sidings'
The point between the 2 curves wuuld form a lead  into a couple of sidings where trains could be made up from siding stock .
this whole 'thing could connect to a layout and allow stock to be built before joining the tracks or used as a stand alone  marshalling line game for building trains and practicing shunting.... the train makeup being written on a pile of cards and drawn from the pile with a completed train stock listed on it. At the end of the 'game' the train could break stoke down into sidings again. Not nesesarily the same as they came out of.
Has this made sense?
Edit....
Think a very bassic/simple..... http://www.bronx-terminal.com/?p=5

I think the wiring will be a nighmare to work out.it will be 'non DCC' 

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