Well this coming Wednesday when my paycheck is deposited in my account I will be going to John's Hobby Shop to buy some seated passengers to put inside of my coaches. I will also be getting some fencing but that is for my Noch Z Scale Briefcase Layout and that will complete my Z scale system. My next project is to finish my 2 piece 3' X 7' N scale train layout a little later when Atlas begins shipping track again. Then I will be left with my LGB G scale train to work on. The next upgrades will be installing LGB Ball Bearing Wheel Sets with power pickups and some yellow LEDs in my coaches. Then I will be ordering some Pola G Beer Keg and 12 Pack Beer container kits to put inside the doors of my beer cars.
Kenneth Finch
Well I live in North York Ontario. Will get pictures next time I have the set in the park
Welcome
I noticed that you didn't include your location in your bio!
Were are you from?
If you told us ,some might visit park.
Would also love to see pics of the set up in the park!
Also check out this forum :http://www.largescalecentral.com/forums
Yes the truck is $299.00 plus taxes. But it is sort of a collectors model, it is the red one with the collapsible rear fences on the cargo bed. I feel it is worth it. I will look into longer track that is a good idea thank you for the helpful comments. Yes I find myself tightening rail joiners on a regular bases.
You might be better off getting longer sections of track like 2' 3' 4' or even 5' The reason being is with all the connecting disconnecting of the track you are doing you will be stretching the rail joiners. Loose rail joiners equal bad electric dead spots. The longer pieces of track will give you less rail joints to potentially fail.
That LGB rail truck is nice but expensive.
Keep up the FUN
Yes lots of children and their parents. This coming payday looking to buy another box of 10000 straight tracks and maybe the LGB Inspectors pickup truck if my budget allows or it. So far the stock LGB 1 Amp transformer that came with the starter kit is working fine, but had to upgrade from the stock 1 Amp throttle to the 5 Amp throttle.
That all sounds good to me. Pretty neat idea setting up in the park. I bet you gets lots of folks coem by to check it out. What a great way to promote the hobby.
Happy RRing.
I have been working with HO, N and Z scale model railroading. But I decided to get into G scale as well. My current setup consists of:
- LGB 72441 Santa Fe Steam starter set
- upgraded the tender to a sound enabled tender with the LGB 65000 sound system
- added the LGB 65011 Sound Unit Power Storage to the LGB 65000 for standing sounds
- added the LGB sound whistle trigger and LGB track magnets for the LGB 65000
- upgraded the LGB starter set throttle to the LGB 52120 5 Amp indoor/outdoor throttle and added storm windows to the window frames and added a white LED internal roof LED to light up the dial
- added a set of LGB ball bearing metal wheel sets with power pickups to the Santa Fe caboose with yellow LEDs installed and added lights to the cabooses marker lanterns.
- have 3 boxes of 11000 R1 curves, 3 boxes of 10000, 2 10320 bent rail bumpers, a 19902 station track add on kit
- added a LGB 20010 Inspectors Handrail car for my kids to run
- added a Brekina Draisine Klv 20 VW van converted to rail use model for the kids to use
- added a LGB 37075 passenger car to the consist
- added a LGB 3907 limited edition passenger car to the consist
- added a LGB 4131 beer car to the consist also added the LGB car mounted track cleaning accessory to this car to keep the track clean
- added a LGB 4228 beer car to the consist
- will be adding LGB ball bearing wheel sets with power pickups and yellow LEDS to both the passenger cars as well as passengers and a engineer waving a lantern on the back of the caboose
I use this setup in my house, I set it up in a large oval that covers my entire living room and then I have two sidelines that end with the bumpers. One sideline goes to the hallway and stops in front of the bathroom with a track magnet to activate the train whistle and the other goes into the kitchen with a bumper and magnet. I have a sideline into the kitchen so I can deliver food and drinks to the kids in the living room on the flatbed car. Looking to get another flatbed car to increase the food/drink delivering capacity.
This is not a permanent layout just a put up and takedown arrangement. On Sundays I go to the park with my kids and setup this layout in the middle of the park and power it with a 175w 12 volt inverter connected to my LiFePO4 Eagle E-Bike and run the train while listening to the Kenwood Audio System installed on my E-Bike. I can run for several hours on this setup and still have plenty of power to get home with.
Any suggestions on further upgrades or improvements and comments good or bad are always welcome by me.
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