Here's some Atlas 3 rail plans.http://www.atlaso.com/O%203Rail%20NS%20web/index.htm
jbrigden wrote: Thanks to everybody for the response. As to why I posted here, I guess for some reason when I was browsing the forums I did not scroll all the way back to the top...in fact I just did that again. I will post there next time (and probably browse through there more today), but will probably be back in here in the near future as I will also be doing some work with starting an HO layout. The O is something I would like to do as I received the stuff recently from my dad and I have always enjoyed running it and the older accessories, but still have plans for a larger HO layout in the future.Thanks again.Jim
Thanks to everybody for the response.
As to why I posted here, I guess for some reason when I was browsing the forums I did not scroll all the way back to the top...in fact I just did that again. I will post there next time (and probably browse through there more today), but will probably be back in here in the near future as I will also be doing some work with starting an HO layout. The O is something I would like to do as I received the stuff recently from my dad and I have always enjoyed running it and the older accessories, but still have plans for a larger HO layout in the future.
Thanks again.
Jim
OOHH, of the best laid plans of Mice and Men. Hey Jim be Verry Verry CAREFUL about enjoying those Lionel trains from your Father. You might just find yourself putting that larger HO scale layout "On HOLD for a WHILE". I am 42, and had been modeling in HO for as long as I can remember. Before November of 2005, if someone had told be how hooked I would be on 3-Rail O-Gauge, I would have LAUGHED AT THEM and told them that they were NUTS. Little did I know just how contagious the O-Gauge Virus really is, I got bit by a particularly strong strain of it, Full Blown case, almost had to notify the CDC in Atlanta about it.
Here is a picture of part of my collection, taken last June.
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Since this pic was taken, I have also added Both the Black and the Grey Lionel versions of the Union Pacific FEF-3s, a Lionel Weyerhaeuser 3 truck Shay and a Lionel Southern Pacific AC-9. Be careful, while it is RARELY FATAL ( I don't have a wife to catch me buying trains) There is no known cure. I do still model and enjoy HO down at the club, but at Home, I tend to concentrate on O-Gauge.
Doug
May your flanges always stay BETWEEN the rails
This site has some track plans http://www.thortrains.net/
Classic Toy Trains forum is where the Lionel and American Flyer crowd hangs out, but some of us drop in all the forums. This one is more for scale side of model railroading - biggest differences are that O gauge and S gauge (also known as toy trains or Hirail) use oversized flanges, truck mounted couplers, and larger track, O gauge also has 3 rails. O scale and S scale use scale size flanges, couplers and larger radius curves which is required with body mounted couplers. Most of the rolling stock these days come in both hirail and scale versions which are the same except for wheels and couplers and are highly detailed (exceptions being Lionel and Flyer which come only in hirail).
Enjoy
Paul
That's the one, I HIGHLY Recommend it to anyone thinking about a small 3 Rail Layout, it has some very good information and some interesting layout ideas.
Amazon has 14 new and used from $15.00
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0897784081?ie=UTF8&tag=lioneltrainsh-20&link_code=as3&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0897784081
ratled
Modeling the Klamath River area in HO on a proto-lanced sub of the SP “The State of Jefferson Line”
Hi,
I have an EXCELLENT reference for You if you can find a copy. It is Titled "Easy Lionel Layouts You can Build" 29 new designs, By Peter Riddle, published by Kalmbach Books. It appears that 10-8030 is Kalmbach's item#, it also shows ISBN O-89778-408-1 above the UPC Bar-code and 780897 784085, below the bar-code.
It has a large variety of track plans, from "Coffee Table" Layouts to Larger modular layouts, using 36" hollow core doors as the basis for the modules. It has plans that are designed to use 2 or 3 modules to expand or reduce the layout size as needed, it also includes at least one 4 module plan, as well as some traditionally built non modular layout plans. It sounds like this book is just what You are looking for. I would recommend that You try calling Kalmbach, they show a phone # in the book to order books from them at 1-800-533-6644. The book has a 1998 copyright date, so I can't promise that they will have it, or even that the phone# is active, but Kalmbach is still printing (And is the Sponsor of this Forum, BTW ) so it would be worth it to try making a FREE phone call to ask if the book is still available.
Also I might suggest that You try the "Classic Toy Trains " forum, it specialises in O-Gauge, S Scale and Standard Gauge trains, where as this forum leans more towards HO and N Scales.
Good Luck and Have Fun,
I'm looking for some help on sources for relatively simple but fun to operate O gauge layouts. I currently have a Lionel 671 turbine with the whistiling caboos, operating milk car, dumping gondola, operating log car, and a couple of other items and desire to build a layout that uses the original track style at least for starters.
For now I would like to stay within the confines of a 4 x 8 or a modular type design that I can build in sections, possible starting with the 4x8 with two ovals and some spurs. I would like to gather accessories over time to add the action that made the old Lionel layouts so popular
Would somebody please point me towards some good sources? Not interested in anything real fancy for start but able to grow.
Thanks.