Running my first ever LGB RhB Consist

@Amfleet25124 posted:

After spending the better part of the past 3 years concentrating on HO – outside of my Christmas O layout -  I’m returning “home” to O Gauge and along with it venturing more into G Scale.

Purchased an LGB Swiss RhB consist piece by piece over the past month and here are two videos that I did on Friday and today at the two of the three clubs I’m a member of that have G Scale layouts.

Didn’t have much luck trying to register on a G Scale specific forum (I won’t mention the name) but my application was denied and the administrators were non communicative. I don’t have time for gatekeepers, so I will stick my OGR family to get any advice that I need on G Scale moving forward.  

The next thing that I’m going to do is start populating the cars with people along with painting the kitchen of the Restaurant Car.

Wow , Kevin, that is so cool'.  G scale is fun.  Those are great layouts to run our stuff on.. Very nice.  Enjoy your G scale'...'😄

@Amfleet25124 posted:

In your first video, that’s an interesting way of ballasting the track.  I’m assuming that was done to allow the track to be removed and/or replaced without having to remove it from a mess of glue and ballast?

@cta4391 posted:

In your first video, that’s an interesting way of ballasting the track.  I’m assuming that was done to allow the track to be removed and/or replaced without having to remove it from a mess of glue and ballast?

The club (Florida Citrus Model Train Society) has modular HO, O, and G layouts as we travel around Broward County at difference locations for stints of 3 months or more.  For the base level of the G layout, the tracks are laid directly on the wood.  They built up the ballast channels and placed the tracks inside.

@Quarter Gauger 48 posted:

Wow , Kevin, that is so cool'.  G scale is fun.  Those are great layouts to run our stuff on.. Very nice.  Enjoy your G scale'...'😄

Thank you Ted.  Glad to see you and Mark Boyce were among the first to welcome me back to fold.

Technically, I never really left though, just always lurking but never posting.

If you notice in the second video, the inside 2 tracks of the 5 tracks on that elevated layout are O gauge, so I will run my O trains outside in the elements there too, but sparingly.