Very green newbie

[chad thomas]

And another guy named Chad, Oh no, this may get confusing. Just kidding. Welcome aboard.[8D]

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the warm welcome. Thanks for the great links. I can tell I'll be spending some significant time on those sites.

These forums are a huge resource as well.

[Anonymous]

You'll have a great time modeling and who knows, pretty soon you may be looking to the "big ones" for inspiration!

[JoeKoh]

chad
first welcome to the forums!!! atlas has many books for those starting out on layouts.two simple rules keep it simple and rule #2 the layout will never be done.good luck and have fun.
stay safe
Joe

[icmr]

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[wickman]

Hi rock75
I too am fairly new to RR modeling although I've already done all the research and got my layout on the go. There's alot to learn and if you don't ask questions you'll never get answers. Try these links out to get info for layouts and all that goes with it
http://www.thortrains.net/
http://stanfordnorth.com/~trains/tp.html#
http://www.naisp.net/mfischer/m_train2.htm
http://www.pinecanyonscalemodels.com/layouts.htm
http://www.nmra.org/

don't forget to look for tutorials and other links
We should here back from you in about a month You will need that long to look through all these sites and there links as well trains.com has many educational articles

You will probably want to move this thread over tomodel railroad ->Layouts and layout building once the problem of topics being locked is resolved you'll probably get much more attention there.
Lynn

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Rock75

My apologies. Is their a way to transfer this thread to Model Railroading or do I have to re-type it?

Copy and paste into a new post on the model RR forum (when its back up).

[Anonymous]

How did I end up in here? I was in the Model Railroad thread originally.

My apologies. Is their a way to transfer this thread to Model Railroading or do I have to re-type it?

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the forums. There are many sites that have trackplans. If I were you, I'd just do a google search for HO track plans and see what comes up. When I decided to build my latest N Scale layout, that'w what I did and found a ton of plans. To me, this was the most fun phase of starting a layout. Since you have a good hobby shop, buy some magazines. Lost of good ideas there. Atlas has several good layout books too.
Good luck, and have fun!

mike

[nanaimo73]

Welcome to the forums Chad. This forum is just for full size trains. There is another forum for model trains (which is currently having problems) you can reach though this link. It should be back to normal sometime Monday.
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/default.asp?CAT_ID=8

This link has a lot of intormation
http://www.railroaddata.com/

Enjoy the forums and ask as many full size trains questions here as you like.

[Anonymous]

Hello everyone,

I've been reading through threads here for weeks and now feel I have some questions.

First my background. I'm a thirty year old male, in Ontario.... no model train experience. I mean none. Always been haunted by a train set I had as a kid that never worked. I remember just looking at the trains piled in a box. Thought its a good time to look into this. Now, I've been taking advice from the forums and am reading everything I can, to try and get a little bit of a handle on this vast hobby.

I am fortunate that a great hobby shop is right in my neighbourhood. I've been making weekly visits just to look at all of the inventory. Finally bought my first set the other day. Atlas oval track with two switches, MRC tech 4 220 controller, an Athearn middle of the road loco, two cars and a caboose (Athearn BB kits). So far having a lot of fun running in circles.

My questions.
1. I found the thread in this forum suggesting a newbie section for basic questions. I think this would be great. That thread is locked so I couldn't pipe in there, but I really lack all of the basic knowledge that many of you have developled years ago. Is there a good place to go for basic knowledge such as, different switch types, how to uncouple cars, how to maintain locos, troubleshooting derailments and on and on?

2. I have my oval on a 4x8 sheet of plywood and had planned on quickly expanding this. I read the thread on the limitations of 4x8 layouts and could not pipe into that thread because it is also locked. Many suggested alternate type of layouts along a wall. I already see the advantage to this since I cannot reach the one turnout switch on the other side of my 4x8. Having no experience, where would one find track plans for this alternate type layout?

3. Finally any advice, tips, websites, or literature for a brand new guy is greatly appreciated. I have a lot of learning to do.

Thanks in advance.

Chad