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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by LehighValleyman</i> <br /><br />[#welcome][#welcome] welcome to hobby! I bet you will find this a great hobby. <br />ok, i'm still sorta in the stage that you are in with yours but i do have bench work. <br />I highly reccomend DCC for your power system due to the special affects of being able to lash 3 or more units together at one time. Like as posted in other threads, Woodland Senics has got cha coverd with thier wide varitey of on-line & off-line senic acessories. stewart, Athearn (epecially Athearn! { i tell ya i got an athearn GP-38-2 and the thing runs soo smooth!!} ) and Walters i reccomed for locomotives. As well as you i am also modeling the 50's 60's & 70's era Lehigh Valley so a hint would to be sure to keep track of the type and style of acrs you purchase, for example, a car that came out in 2004 wouldn't look right on layout with the theme in the 50's era. A really good suggestion i think is verk easy, is that a friend taught me that if you have extra pieces of track left over, and you need to wire a section of your layout for, lets say house lighting for example, take your stape gun and staple the cut size pieces of track. the wire one end of the track to your power pacl and wire the house light wires to the track, so instead of fiddling with special connectors, use the spare track! <br />normal plywood is also a good way to go, and to make rivers with ease, put about two boards of normal insulating on the table. well, have fun and experiment! that's what modle railroading is all about, experimenting and railroading!!![:D][8D][^][8D][:)][:P][;)][alien][angel][banghead][C=:-)][C):-)] <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Cool thank you for the suggestions. I do have old extra track that I was messing around with laying out on the floor messing with ideas of track laying and how I might like it to be. Old copper track that's all tarnished. i know the best to use now is Nickle silver track cause it's doesn't tarnish so quickly and is more durable. I have been on Woodland Sceneics website and am impressed with what they have. I've also went to the hobby store and picked up a book of there that tells and shows step by step on how do scenery, water techniques, trees, plaster, painting, etc... Very insightful and the things I'm wanting to know, to know what all I'm getting myself into and what to expect. <br /> <br />I've seen that Klambach has books on how to wire, in's and out's of DCC, scenery, etc...All I plan on getting and reading and getting fimilar with before I lay and tack down one piece of track. <br /> <br />Someone above mentions flex track. Now I know there is a lot of flexability in using that, I also know that binding the track makes the rails slide though it make one rail longer than the other which I assume that takes cutting and soddering. That would be something i'd have to pratice on scrap track many times to get it right before I do it on the real thing. I'm willing to do that. I've even seen an article soddering sectional track together along with the joiners for best possible conectivity and for a seemless rail and more authintic look. <br /> <br />I've seen a video of people using foarm board to place their track on. But it didn't show how they fasten it to it. Plywood with cork bed you usually tack it to the plywood....so do they fasten those to foam board just using some adhesive?? <br /> <br />The one thing I'm still dying to know how to do most effectivly that I didn't see anyone reply about is how do you elevate the track off the table. Say on one side of your table you want the track to be a 'ground level' and by the time it gets to the other side it's up in the hills and elevated off the plywood. What is the grade limit one should not exceed, how can you tell what grade your doing, and in general, how do you do get it up in the are and how do you support it from underneath???? I would love to find some progressive pics of someones on how you do this cause i want elevations in mine, not just all flat on the table. <br /> <br />Thanks.
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