![]() Track construction Track construction DIY materials For small track plans up to 50 tracks, a free track planner, RailModeller Express, is also provided, which of course also includes all Tillig track systems! (status: 30th March 2018) Under the page also an area was set up on which high-resolution graphics and application icons for use in articles about our apps are available. And to make this even easier on the sofa or on the way in the S-Bahn, the Gleisplan Community will appear in a few weeks as an iPad App. Among them are also gladly shared plans with Tillig track material. Note: A few weeks ago, RailModeller Pro 6 introduced the new "Track Map Community", allowing users to easily share track plans in the cloud. Library updates can always be downloaded from: H0-ELITE-track system inclusive H0m/H0e-three rail track H0-ELITE Gleisplan (USB-Stick) (2 bis 6m) The larger blue block is a railway station and the smaller one is a bridge that I’m planning on putting over a small river that’s coming off the mountain to the left.Track planning You can use the following aids for the track planning in the H0 scale. Luckily I figured it all out and came up with the layout I’m going to put together. Four to six weeks shipping, of course, because they need to order some of it from Japan.īut then I heard in some YouTube video that larger radius curves are more visually appealing, so I had a bad vision of having to redo the layout to put the tunnel over the left side, which means rearranging the spurs, which potentially means I’d ordered the wrong switches! This gave me an inventory list, and after a failed attempt to order from my local model train shop, I found the only other Canadian train shop that sells Rokuhan track and put in the order. I came up with a little layout that has a loop, a tunnel, and a couple of spurs, with a nice little spot for a train station. The only company that makes curved track with tighter radii is Rokuhan, a Japanese company. And the shelf isn’t a rectangle, its depth shrinks down to about 25 centimetres so one end of the loop would have to be tighter. My small shelf is about 30 centimetres deep, so my maximum turn radius would be less than 15 centimetres, ideally more like 12. Track layout software (at least, RailModeller Express) comes with track databases, so you can just pick a manufacturer and drop track into a layout. ![]() The options are RailModeller Express and RailModeller Pro, which is the paid version of RailModeller Express. But how to figure out what tracks I need?Īctually first, the layout software! I’m doing this on a MacBook, so I needed something that ran on Mac OS. Inspired by this European mountain scene, I figured I could get a nice little loop, a tunnel, and maybe a couple of spurs out of the small area. So I’m going to put together a shelf-sized Z scale railroad!įirst, the layout. And I discovered Z scale, which is about 2.5 times smaller than the very popular HO scale. We don’t have space to set up a large set like that.īut what we do have is a shelf. 30 years later, those boxes of tracks, locomotives, rolling stock, and the odd bit of scenery now live in my attic. We inherited it from my Uncle Harry, who had a room-sized HO scale setup, and it lived in our basement for a few years before being disassembled and put into boxes.
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