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General => Trains! => Topic started by: flatcat on December 08, 2011, 21:31:22
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Gordon, I guess this is too big? :-[ :-[ :-[
My plan was to continue and cover the entire area with the roofing from one side to the other making a semi enclosed terminus.
Whether you would get three tracks into one or what I don't know what you have planned so far.
I welcome anyone's comments/suggestions :)
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Damo :)
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
What? :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh:
Damo :)
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What? :uhoh: :uhoh: :uhoh:
Damo :)
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?
As in, interesting. :)
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I haven't a clue as to whether it would fit, but I think it looks great. :love:
Elaine (http://www.anchoredbygrace.com/smileys/mgqueen.gif)
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Yes, size is the possible problem. What is the width of the layout, Damo?
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Yes, size is the possible problem. What is the width of the layout, Damo?
I don't know, I shall measure it for you when I get home :)
As it is a terminus, we could extend the platform round at the end, putting in buffers.
It would probably work best without a complete roof, as you will probably want to gain access to the stationary trains, Gordon. (Unless you are making a continual loop round, and will make the three tracks go back into one again)
Please don't feel you have to use this station if you already have plans, Gordon. It was just an idea that I have wanted to build for a while, and was a good excuse to get it all out! :lol:
Damo :)
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The size could be a problem, but, it looks great!
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Hi Gordon & Damon
This looks impressive.
I just wanted to add that the area at the larger end of the display is 8ft by 8ft (as large as the area dedicated to Gordon’s railway last year) and I am happy for you to fill it as you see fit. The railway will be the dominant element and I think it would be interesting to embrace the railway theme and “go with it” rather than worry about fitting in lots of other themes.
Gordon mentioned that the railway could run end to end (without turning loops) as this takes up less space as each end. I am fine with this option.
I’ll leave you to work up some options.
Mark
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Perhaps we could have a have the turn at the countryside end, so that the train goes through the fields etc, and then the track ends at the train station (or perhaps oh, hang on, if there isn't a turn the other end the train will be facing the wrong way )
Damo <*)
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Hi Gordon & Damon
The railway will be the dominant element and I think it would be interesting to embrace the railway theme and “go with it” rather than worry about fitting in lots of other themes.
Gordon mentioned that the railway could run end to end (without turning loops) as this takes up less space as each end. I am fine with this option.
I’ll leave you to work up some options.
Mark
I'd got the idea that the railway was a sort of backdrop or setting to the rest of the city life area, that's why I suggested the end-to-end approach whcih would have had a timetable for the train(s) to run to and a bit of shunting to allow different types of trains and arrangements of rolling stock to be used.
In looking at a continuous running layout, I've been designing things with space left outside the railway track for other aspects of Playmobil, e.g. shops, police etc.
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These displays look very interesting, Once the exhibition is over, :picsplz:
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The size could be a problem, but, it looks great!
The 4052-loco could be another problem... it does not run on plastic tracks. (http://www.schweinchenforum.de/images/ferkelmodern1024/smilies/wink3.gif)
(but it looks nice)
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The 4052-loco could be another problem... it does not run on plastic tracks. (http://www.schweinchenforum.de/images/ferkelmodern1024/smilies/wink3.gif)
(but it looks nice)
We're going to use the RC trains only.
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I'd got the idea that the railway was a sort of backdrop or setting to the rest of the city life area, that's why I suggested the end-to-end approach whcih would have had a timetable for the train(s) to run to and a bit of shunting to allow different types of trains and arrangements of rolling stock to be used.
In looking at a continuous running layout, I've been designing things with space left outside the railway track for other aspects of Playmobil, e.g. shops, police etc.
Gordon
This is all up for discussion but your approach is sound. My feeling is that the train railway can run along the back of the whole display - there will be 16ft of lower level in front of a narrow raised railway - where it will be a backdrop.
The allocation of space at each end depends on the railway layout. What I would like to do is give you the freedom to come up with a layout that you are excited about. We can then work City Life theme sets into this.
Mark
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The 4052-loco could be another problem... it does not run on plastic tracks. (http://www.schweinchenforum.de/images/ferkelmodern1024/smilies/wink3.gif)
(but it looks nice)
I wondered who was going to be the first person to say that! :lol: :lol: :lol:
I only used that and the carriages for Gordon's reference, as I don't have a 4019
Damo
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Gordon
This is all up for discussion but your approach is sound. My feeling is that the train railway can run along the back of the whole display - there will be 16ft of lower level in front of a narrow raised railway - where it will be a backdrop.
The allocation of space at each end depends on the railway layout. What I would like to do is give you the freedom to come up with a layout that you are excited about. We can then work City Life theme sets into this.
Mark
I'm looking at a loop at each end with sidings inside it and, maybe, at one end a siding outside it being repaired. The internal sidings I'm planning to base on the layout I have in mind for my "permanent" layout which will be an end-to-end one. However, they will have to be reduced in size as the planned Beachtown terminus is 13 feet long and Seaport is 15 feet! But even scaled down, there should be room for Damo's station.
Damo, can you give me approx measurements, please?
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Damo, can you give me approx measurements, please?
Sorry I can't as it's all away now
Damo <*)
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Sorry I can't as it's all away now
Damo <*)
No problem, I can probably reproduce it from the photos.
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No problem, I can probably reproduce it from the photos.
If you have all the pieces the you might as well do your own
Damo <*)
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If you have all the pieces the you might as well do your own
Damo <*)
I was thinking of the platform "footprints" so that I could get spacing and track connecting properly in advance.
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I was thinking of the platform "footprints" so that I could get spacing and track connecting properly in advance.
Sorry if I sounded a little gruff in my last post - I was in a bit of a bad mood :-[ :-[ :-[
Have you not got these sets to re-create what I have built? I used exactly one big station, and two smaller ones
Damo <*)
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Sorry if I sounded a little gruff in my last post - I was in a bit of a bad mood :-[ :-[ :-[
Happens to us all!
Have you not got these sets to re-create what I have built? I used exactly one big station, and two smaller ones
I've got two big stations and one small!
Damo <*)
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I've been doing some track planning for the 8 foot by 8 foot ends of the display. So far, I've got five versions, plus there were quite a few I abandoned. Attached is a possible left hand end which would allow Damo's platform idea to be included. As you can see, there are some gaps in the track, but (hopefully) these can be dealt with using the little track extenders. if they can't, then it's back to the drawing board! (I hope to set the track up after Christmas.
The blue line marks out the edge of the 8' x 8' board and the 16' x 2' board; the grid lines are 12 inches apart.
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It looks good. I take it that this is the "town end" rather than the village end.
Could you check my last plan - I took two foot off the left side (looking from the front) to allow space through to the fire exit, and space at the other end between the dispay and the wall to allow some access to the display. www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=9844.45 (http://www.playmofriends.com/forum/index.php?topic=9844.45)
If I keep this reduction of 2ft I can take it from either end or the middle.
Mark
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I hadn't picked upon that, Mark, but 8 feet at one end and 6 feet at the other would be OK, as would 2 feet less in the middle. Again, I probably need to actually set the track up and check it out (and that means doing it outdoors so needs better weather).
Looking again at the layout, I notice that the town element will be beyond the stationand so paetly obscured. I've done a quick rejigging of the track and attached an alternative layout which gives a bit more prominence to the town.
I intend to bring the centre section down at some point to a single track as this allows a two span bridge which will be a bit more dramatic.