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I posted a video of another great N scale layout up here in Winnipeg--the Mitchell Modellers. Like WinNTrak, it is portable; I shot the video at our Oct. 17-18 Winnipeg Model Railroad Club fall show.
You can find it at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFABFoSBep8
John Longhurst, Winnipeg
Joh, thanks for posting the video. I had no trouble viewing that one. The editing and music are outstanding. Do you do video work for a living? Pretty amazing stuff for portable layouts. Some of those train lengths were realy impressive. I remember the days of N scale when getting a 10 car train to stay on the tracks was an accomplishment.
Every time I see N scale videos like that, I muse over whether or not I should have gone to N instead of HO when I built my current layout almost three years ago now.
Nope--just a rank amateur when it comes to making videos. I actually posted a note about my videos and how I make them on my CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Subdivision blog today. I wrote it on the occasion of passing 100,000 views on YouTube for my various videos. You can read it at
http://cprailmmsub.blogspot.com/
As for N scale, there are times when I think I might like to give it another shot. I was an N scale modeller back in the early 1970s, when I was in high school. Back then, N scale locomotives had two speeds: Stop and fast. There's no comparison to the tremendous models available today.
That said, I do wish that TT gauge hadn't disappeared. It was a nice compromise between HO and N.
John
John, you do a heck of a good job for a rank amateur.
I've seen supposedly professional videos that aren't as good as your. I'll check out your blog for some hints, since I'm
really a rank amateur.
Indeed, I just couldn't shake that old time image of N scale when I was deciding to come back to model railraoding in N or HO scale. Even three years ago, things in N scale were not as good as they are today. It's improving by leaps and bounds. I'm quite certain I would choose N scale today, given my limited space.
TT scale just never reached critical mass so it could attract large manufacturers like Atlas, Kato, and Athearn. It's still a fairly popular scale in the UK and Europe but just never made it here. The ironic thing is that it was invented by an American.
N scale has come a long way!
And with small size a weaker eyes certin details are very easy to over look simplifying things some plus the fact of having the ability to run long trains is cool!
Very nice John, I really didn't get time to have a good look around at the show, whenever I got up someone would be at my table. Money is a good thing.
On the topic of N scale... Ken Epp, famous for his now defunct Ho empire bought some N scale track and stuff from me at the show... wonder what have I started?
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