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One thing to look out for with indoor/outdoor operation is train length. Pointwork takes up a lot of space, so your average indoor layout doesn't have loops and sidings big enough for very long trains. Conversely, when you've got a lot of space to play with it seems a shame not to have the occasiona...

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That would also re-open the "table-top or freestanding" question since you'd be into non-standard heights. Personally I like the idea of a standardized rail height above floor level, since that introduces the option of a drop baseboard to accommodate a tall bridge, like the Dolgoch viaduct...

Its no biggy really to have some longer than others? Depends on what you plan to do with them. If you're just going for an end-to-end then only width and track centres matter. If you want to retain the option of a circuit then standardised module lengths are suddenly more important, as both sides/e...

http://www.penmorfa.com/JZ/index.htm perhaps? History and politics of the area pretty much spot-on, though Bosnia was a fragmentary remnant of the Ottoman Empire until Annexed by the Austrian part of Austria-Hungary (Croatia was sort-of ruled by the Hungarian part- internal politics in the dual mona...

 I think most German 75cm lines were built big with the idea of future conversion to standard gauge, or something like that.  Certainly, the prevailence of Calthrop's favourite toy - the rollwagen - suggests some awareness of the need to maximize carry capacity at an early stage of development. Any...

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So many fascinating railways on so many different gauges, so little garden space and other resources. To model all the railways I like would take the resources of a billionaire and a medium-sized island. I suppose if you want consistency and realism there are three choices: 1) Find a scale/gauge com...

Well, with the dragon theme developing nicely you obviously have a taste for creatures from Celtic Mythology, from narrow gauge country connection. So how about "Moddey Dhoo" from Manx legend, or if you prefer maybe his English counterpart Black Shuck (among other aliases). http://en.wikip...

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And narrow gauge railway bridges could get pretty big, even on 2' gauge. This beauty is the biggest of them all, across the Van Stadens gorge on the Avontuur line in South Africa



A 16mm scale model would be about 11' high...

What are you talking about? That site is PERFECT! Obviously you're not going to use every inch of space because that would be far too much track to maintain, but what you have will be wonderful. Don't fight the natural slope, USE IT! If you follow the contours like a real full-size railway engineer ...

Looks pretty good to me. I prefer brackets to stacks but that's just a personal aesthetic view. You could even go full-on L&LSR and have No11 as a right-hand arm, IE on the "wrong" side of the post. My only little bit of pedantry to offer is that I can only see one end of 7 and 8 point...

Don't forget that acoustics come into it too. The bigger the gap, the louder the clicketyclack. So much so that a friend who makes rail from steel strip (which effectively functions like CWR with no welded joints) files small V notches on his rails just for sound effects. It works magnificently, esp...

Ah, and a track diagram that shows the "normal" lie of the points, clearly the work of someone who knows how it's done.

My better half tells me there are about eighteen in Lancaster County, PA- only some of which are still open to vehicles.

Haven't had the chance to do any proper tests yet- work has been mad busy...

I never realised that they had railways in that war, I had thought that the first world war was the start of wartime railways. Not even close. During the Crimean war the poor performance of the support organisations led to public outrage and involvment. You've heard of Florence Nightingale, right? ...

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