I thought I would share some of the work I have done on my layout. It consists of N Scale, HO, O-Scale (3-Rail) and ON30. It is interesting that I use all these scales and just for starters, N Scale was my wife’s late husband, HO my son RIP, and O Scale got hooked on it when I wired the SD 3R in Sand Diego and when I was a young boy, started about 5 I am now much older.
These are pictures of my start to detail what I have done and some of the kit bashing too. I have a small room about 10 feet x 24 feet that house my trains and my ham radio station WA1OOH.
I started by putting down track and here is a list, HO, N Scale & ON30 are Bachmann EZ track, O Scale is MTH ScaleTrax. Control system is DCC, DCS, DC, and TMCC Yes I got all of them. I had a train shop at one time Emerald Station Studio’s and I was also a MTH service station.
The detail work has just started and it is coming along fast. I have been confined to the house because of medical reasons so I need to find something to keep me occupied along with all the Honey Do’s.
All the lighting is LED for the most part and changing what I can to LED it makes a difference. I have extended the control wiring to the front panels with switch control for switches and some track power. I run a Version L MTH TIU and it powers the whole layout and works very well. I also run DCC on HO N and yes 3-rail it is a blast and just needs to keep an eye on the light draw while running DCC on 3-rail and use led’s for car lighting usually run 2 or 3 passenger cars. All the O scale curves are 80 degrees and main line switches are #6 so I can run my big engines on this small layout. I have also had good luck as running Lionel Pull Motors on DC by adding a bridge circuit, my experience as a field engineer has really helped out.
Enjoy Hope to hear from you.
Dan
