I was surprised when I browsed through this issue and found a couple of my plans .
I went back to 3rdPlanIt and made a couple of not very fancy screenshots which perhaps will show you how the nolix will fit into such a layout. That is if you are able to dechiffer the plan....
Put the staging for the lower level right near the staging for the upper level, and then use the old 0-5-0 to transfer the loco(s) and cars. I had the sense to build in a rerailer on one level; on the other I use a portable rerailer. Whole process takes about sixty seconds. And every time, I can't help thinking that time to design a helix + time to build a helix + time to maintain a helix + time to run the trains through the helix would add up to a lot of time where a person could actually be having fun. (My railroad is a rural shortline with 5 -8 car trains -- so if you are building the NYC tie-for-tie this won't work for you.)
Knut, we find that our readers' ideas and answers are always creative, and well-expressed. And we love good illustrations. So, thanks.
Posting a question on the forums will get someone an answer faster and in more detail than sending a message to MRH and hoping it gets found in the flood of email.
We try to pick questions that will appeal to active modelers, as well as some off-the-wall items that may help steer people in new directions. Same with the tips.
Our polls continue to show that people who read MRH, the magazine, are not always the same people who use MRH, the forums. There's an overlap, but less than you might expect. We can use QAT to guide magazine readers to the depth of information posted on the forums, and can summarize answers for people who don't want to plow through long threads.
Some questions do come "over the transom" straight to QAT Central. We can research and answer those without resorting to the forums, but there's usually some helpful information back in five years and more of postings.
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Nolix
I was surprised when I browsed through this issue and found a couple of my plans
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I went back to 3rdPlanIt and made a couple of not very fancy screenshots which perhaps will show you how the nolix will fit into such a layout. That is if you are able to dechiffer the plan....
gaining height without a helix
Put the staging for the lower level right near the staging for the upper level, and then use the old 0-5-0 to transfer the loco(s) and cars. I had the sense to build in a rerailer on one level; on the other I use a portable rerailer. Whole process takes about sixty seconds. And every time, I can't help thinking that time to design a helix + time to build a helix + time to maintain a helix + time to run the trains through the helix would add up to a lot of time where a person could actually be having fun. (My railroad is a rural shortline with 5 -8 car trains -- so if you are building the NYC tie-for-tie this won't work for you.)
Morgan Desmond
How QAT works
Knut, we find that our readers' ideas and answers are always creative, and well-expressed. And we love good illustrations. So, thanks.
Posting a question on the forums will get someone an answer faster and in more detail than sending a message to MRH and hoping it gets found in the flood of email.
We try to pick questions that will appeal to active modelers, as well as some off-the-wall items that may help steer people in new directions. Same with the tips.
Our polls continue to show that people who read MRH, the magazine, are not always the same people who use MRH, the forums. There's an overlap, but less than you might expect. We can use QAT to guide magazine readers to the depth of information posted on the forums, and can summarize answers for people who don't want to plow through long threads.
Some questions do come "over the transom" straight to QAT Central. We can research and answer those without resorting to the forums, but there's usually some helpful information back in five years and more of postings.
Josef Brugger
joeb@mrhmag.com
QAT wrangler for MRH