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[FJ and G]

That's me.

I've been into O scale for so long that the other scales seem foreign to me. Not that I don't have my hands full already with time and money invested.

But it's fun to check in now and then and see what others are up to.

The most foreign has to be the garden girls and boys. They not only talk about clearing wilderness stuff like branches and leaves off their tracks, or flooded trestles, they also talk about tiny garden plants and ponds and streams that have real water. Very foreign and I have no knowledge about the coupler issues they face and the different styles of track and stuff like that.

The second most foreign stuff is the N and Z scale. I have no idea how N scalers have the time and patience to lay their own track, super detail their trains and build accessories.

The 'n3 and n2 or n30 crowd is another special group that models very interesting but different equipment like the galloping geese and spindly trestles; definitely different than standard.

If we could live to be as old as Methusala, then, i would spend 100 years on each scale and gauge; assuming I had a good paying job.

But for now, life and money is short, so I will be content to just peek in from time to time to see how my fellow modelers are doing.

Dave Vergun

[philnrunt]

Dave- did you see the Z DD40 being scratchbuilt? Now THAT takes patience and eyeballs that have been upgraded to the MkIV level! My fingers would form a union, go on strike and walk off my hand if I tried to do something like that.
Back when I had a better paying job, I picked up some Aristo G equipment, and would still like to set it up outside, but you are right about the world it lives in, you have to be dedicated to a serious maintainance program, and now I have 10 little catzillas that would attack my train everytime it moved. I still need to figure out how to keep them from doing that to my HO, too.

[Anonymous]

G-scale in the garden looks amazing. I knew a guy who ran a hobby store dedicated to G-scale equipment - he had a massive demonstration layout in his garden. My first experience of real operating (the loop of track was so long that simply running the loco round the whole loop to run round a train was not an option - you had to find a passing loop!). Sadly, he moved house a few years ago, and I think the new owners demolished the layout.

I have a small collection of LGB equipment - basically a starter set, 2 extra cars, and the two track packs they offer - but my garden isn't really suitable for railroad use. The front garden isn't secluded enough to be secure (my major worry with garden trains would be theft, hence my wanting to keep the layout hidden from outside view). The back garden slopes steeply, and I can't afford the LGB rack-rail loco and track (pity though, it's an interesting little thing - like a box motor). At the moment, therefore, it's restricted to being set up on a paved area in decent weather. Still fun though!

[vsmith]

We're always looking for more victims, ah. I mean participants, over on the GardenRR forum if there are any others courious about G scale...Once you go Large, you'll never go small.