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Hi all,
I'm about to be "evicted" from my computer/railway room to make way for my son moving out of his small room so that the daughter can move out of *our* room and get her own room (confused yet?) - upshot is that while the OO gauge railway will still be there and I will still be able to work on it, it won't be near my PC after I move which is going to make developing railway interface software more time consuming as I'll need to upload each build on to my sons computer (which will be in the railway room) for testing instead of just running it as I do currently.
I'm being moved downstairs on to what used to be the dining room table, it hasn't served that purpose for a couple of years already as my wife used it as a crafting table. She's going elsewhere so i've got a reasonably sized table - I won't have a huge amount of room on that table beyond the PC and other bits, but it does occur to me that a smallish N gauge layout ought to be quite plausible. If placed on its own board it could be easily moved for when family or friends visit and expect to eat in a civilised manner but for other times, it would be readily available for testing. I can use the Li-101f and Compact for the downstairs interface (doubt son will let me have his Elite somehow
) so really what it boils down to is - does anyone have any pointers to sites, suggestions etc for something interesting and small in n-gauge.
Period etc I don't really mind or care about, it won't be much of a model railway more of a train set but I do want to capture some interesting elements on it to help me when I'm doing the software. It'll obviously be DCC, so largely will be getting whatever kind of stock comes in DCC ready format, I expect it'll be things like 37's and 66's plus maybe an occasionally borrowed Q1 or 9F.
Another option is something creative in OO gauge (which may be preferable given that's what all my stock is) though this would probably best be an end-to-end style layout.
Space-wise probably looking about half a normal sized dining room table, I don't have dimensions to hand.
Suggestions greatfully received!
Matt.
I'm about to be "evicted" from my computer/railway room to make way for my son moving out of his small room so that the daughter can move out of *our* room and get her own room (confused yet?) - upshot is that while the OO gauge railway will still be there and I will still be able to work on it, it won't be near my PC after I move which is going to make developing railway interface software more time consuming as I'll need to upload each build on to my sons computer (which will be in the railway room) for testing instead of just running it as I do currently.
I'm being moved downstairs on to what used to be the dining room table, it hasn't served that purpose for a couple of years already as my wife used it as a crafting table. She's going elsewhere so i've got a reasonably sized table - I won't have a huge amount of room on that table beyond the PC and other bits, but it does occur to me that a smallish N gauge layout ought to be quite plausible. If placed on its own board it could be easily moved for when family or friends visit and expect to eat in a civilised manner but for other times, it would be readily available for testing. I can use the Li-101f and Compact for the downstairs interface (doubt son will let me have his Elite somehow

Period etc I don't really mind or care about, it won't be much of a model railway more of a train set but I do want to capture some interesting elements on it to help me when I'm doing the software. It'll obviously be DCC, so largely will be getting whatever kind of stock comes in DCC ready format, I expect it'll be things like 37's and 66's plus maybe an occasionally borrowed Q1 or 9F.
Another option is something creative in OO gauge (which may be preferable given that's what all my stock is) though this would probably best be an end-to-end style layout.
Space-wise probably looking about half a normal sized dining room table, I don't have dimensions to hand.
Suggestions greatfully received!
Matt.