[PRCo] Re: Gas Prices-- trolley modeling

[Bill Robb]

Jerry,
I have an N gauge layout.  It's N gauge because I use Japanese trains which are 1/150 for the ordinary trains which are mostly 3ft6in gauge and 1/160 for Shinkansen trains.

My layout is on two 2 1/2' x 5' tables arranged in an L shape, so the layout is 7 /12' x 5'.  Its basically a double track interurban main line going around the tables with a four track station, a short tunnel and a stub terminal.  It all provides lots of space for parking trains and lots room for running.

I started out with a streetcar layout using Tomix track covers, but this is now more or less completely a train i.e. interurban layout.  My maximum train is five cars.  I have longer trains but if I put the whole train on the layout the cab would be chasing the tail end.

Everything is two rail. The poles are plastic.  The track is Tomix, which is a Japanese roadbed track.  Kato Unitrack is a copy of Tomix Finetrack. I buy directly on the internet from Japan.  (Right now is the New Years break in Japan and all vendors, along with the post office are closed until January 5-7)

Japanese trains are a pretty good bang for the buck.  I have added a 4 car Kato EMU train for as little as $78 US. My streetcars are made by Modemo, which is always releasing new interubans, Setagaya LRVs and streetcars periodically.

There are three photos of the current layout which emphasizes EMUs with a streetcar line in the middle and two older photos of a previous version of the layout with a lenghty elevated viaduct and more streetcar lines. That layout had less operational flexibility than the present layout.  I hope to move my streetcars to a 18" x 24" mini layout sometime next year which will run with a Tomytec battery powered streetcar controller.

Bill


 




Derrick
Religion and Politics - I guess year end thinking, but yes lets talk "Trolleys".    I am wondering how many
in our group have a "Layout"    A Street Car Layout?    A Train layout? or a combination of both as I do,
Those in O gauge/scale, the new Lionel/K-Line superstreets make a great operating layout, using the 
MTH PCCS or Brill trolleys, or converting your Corgi street cars to "live" three rail operation is pretty cool! 
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