migalyto
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No wonder the trains are running so smoothly now!!
[H0] A layout inspired from an old Atlas H0 layout
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Lynnb
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Sometimes when someone asks me what’s next it actually forces me into an action plan or at least a thought process mode.
Smudge617
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Now if you can get two trains to run on that, I'd be suitably impressed.More action on the fabulous and incredible NCCRR: the Tail Chaser.
Snowman
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I'm nearly certain it was this plan Dad used to build his original 4' X 8' layout 'round about 1962. However, his sported a wye turnout and short spur where the central crossing is here, and there was no other crossing either because he elevated the track on a set of Atlas plastic piers so that both crossings (crossovers, actually) were two-level-upper-and-lower, vs. both tracks crossing at grade. My earliest MRR memory is pushing a UP dummy F unit back and forth while he was building. Of course I was only a beginner at making engine noises, but years of practice since have put me into the top echelon--you should hear me drop gradually down from Run 8 down to idle...and then transition into dynamic braking.... 
As time went on, my level of sophistication rose, too, as far as my throttle work: Dad had a (blue box) Athearn Hustler--black with silver nose stripes. If you aren't familiar with it, it sported a rubber-band drive and would make about 250 scale mph uncoupled, and at 12v. I would ramp that baby up the shallower grade, fly around the first half of the elevated figure eight and then--still flat out--flip it off the outside of the reverse curve on the second half. Great fun, although I'm sure I broke all the corner steps off the body casting.
This led to any number of automotive tragedies later on when I moved over to AFX slotcars, which I still have somewhere I'm sure. Including (of course) some body modifications, turning one Porsche into another, etc.
As time went on, my level of sophistication rose, too, as far as my throttle work: Dad had a (blue box) Athearn Hustler--black with silver nose stripes. If you aren't familiar with it, it sported a rubber-band drive and would make about 250 scale mph uncoupled, and at 12v. I would ramp that baby up the shallower grade, fly around the first half of the elevated figure eight and then--still flat out--flip it off the outside of the reverse curve on the second half. Great fun, although I'm sure I broke all the corner steps off the body casting.
This led to any number of automotive tragedies later on when I moved over to AFX slotcars, which I still have somewhere I'm sure. Including (of course) some body modifications, turning one Porsche into another, etc.
Lachute
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Found this very funny video. Love it !More action on the fabulous and incredible NCCRR: the Tail Chaser.
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