Hi guys have invested £7.000 in kato locos and fleischmann piccolo track my problem is have 10ft sq train room but most of my high speed european loco gome at 125cm long have bonn station built to allow for 6 lines int and out plus karsberge station already built to allow for 6 lines into and out of station also would like industries turntable bridges tunnells ect any help would be a real help please.mike PS ALL OPERATIN SYSTEN LENZ 100 DCC
Do you ask us to design your dream layout? Could you be more specific in what you have, what you need and so on? How is your layout room laid out? (doors and windows). How much of the stations have you built? How much can you change? Maybe post some pictures?
Hi heres a baseboard size complyete with helix in alcove so as to give me a double decker layout to allow me to run all 6 of my european hight speed loco that mesure in at 1m 30cm so thats why i need 54 in platforms to allow to stop at .ike[
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Allright, I'll try to guess.
a. You have a layout room with room for a pretty big layout.
b. You have a number of European high speed trains of about 1,30m in length and need stations for those. I assume you want some German-style cities with a few large stations, maybe one on each level with a town. Do you have any other trains you want to run? Goods? Local passenger trains? Do the 6 high speed trains need to fit into one station at one time (thus requiring at least six track wide stations)?
c. what is the 54 number you need in platforms to stop?
tv_man Wrote:Allright, I'll try to guess.
a. You have a layout room with room for a pretty big layout.
b. You have a number of European high speed trains of about 1,30m in length and need stations for those. I assume you want some German-style cities with a few large stations, maybe one on each level with a town. Do you have any other trains you want to run? Goods? Local passenger trains? Do the 6 high speed trains need to fit into one station at one time (thus requiring at least six track wide stations)?
c. what is the 54 number you need in platforms to stop?
"54 in" is the original poster's way of writing "54 inches". One inch equals 2.54 centimeter. A 130 cm train is 51.1 inches long. Or about 4 feet, 3 inches long. The 54 inches the original poster is talking about is about 3" (about 7.5) centimeters longer than this - 137-138 centimeters or so.
I notice that all measures (except that "54 in") are given in millimeters. Which is not necessarily the best idea when the original poster is asking a group consisting
mostly of Americans for help - they tend to think in inches and feet rather than in centimeters and millimeters.
Good luck in helping the original poster.
Stein
Ah, inches it is. One learns to think in metric, feet and inches simultaneously, sometimes the notation confuses a bit. Oh, and back to topic, could you post any sketches you have made on the trackplan and the various givens and druthers.
'like industries, turntables, tunnels, bridges' sounds a bit general. It might work better to have an idea of a theme before embarking on constructing a mixed layout which allows none of the wanted features to be featured at any satisfactory level.
Hi i domt have a set theme or era just like all european high speed train as i have the bonn kibri station already built plus the karlsberge station and have a kibri castle built and have been given a set of braea cable cars nice guy lol so looking for mountin scenes passenger loco old steam deisel ect i know i am asking for the moon but i try and do as much as i can to help like lots of switching and shuting ect to this is a very big favor i am asking but hope i just find a little help to stat off with i truly belive the end result will be somthing out of this world i hope my friends on here might think i hrlp old fatso out they are real bgood to me here always mickey you onboard tickey paid for lol.mike
The track plan is my old one had to 6feet x4 feet baseboards built by a pro turned to be a real nightmare nothing fiiited right $1500 wasted