Hello, I'm Fred and I'm new here.
Living in the UK and knowing very little about US railways, I thought it would be only sensible to build a US themed layout. Now over there in the USA, I see lots of what I'd call a system layout, huge basement filling layouts, with hundreds of feet of track.
Now in England thats not possible, our houses arent as big as yours (at least mine isn't), so all the space I have to play with is 9' by 18". As I said before I don't know anything about US prototypes, but browsing the web at looking at the beautiful HO models (you guys don't know how lucky you are, American stuff in some cases is 10 years at least ahead of British stuff), I'm quite keen on the looks of the Conrail locos and the CSX locos, judging only by the livery.
I found a couple of plans on the internet and wondered what your thoughts were.
http://andrews-trains.fotopic.net/p10123358.html
http://andrews-trains.fotopic.net/p34771646.html
Many Thanks
Fred
Living in the UK and knowing very little about US railways, I thought it would be only sensible to build a US themed layout. Now over there in the USA, I see lots of what I'd call a system layout, huge basement filling layouts, with hundreds of feet of track.
Now in England thats not possible, our houses arent as big as yours (at least mine isn't), so all the space I have to play with is 9' by 18". As I said before I don't know anything about US prototypes, but browsing the web at looking at the beautiful HO models (you guys don't know how lucky you are, American stuff in some cases is 10 years at least ahead of British stuff), I'm quite keen on the looks of the Conrail locos and the CSX locos, judging only by the livery.
I found a couple of plans on the internet and wondered what your thoughts were.
http://andrews-trains.fotopic.net/p10123358.html
http://andrews-trains.fotopic.net/p34771646.html
Many Thanks
Fred