Now Running N-Guage with G-Guage, Hiding the Bus Line and A Drop-In Bridge

[@N-Scale]

Thet really is cool !!! I simply love it and the Facia track is very cool !!!

[@rhopkin2512]

Thank you Mike, appreciate your comments. Necessity is the mother of adaptation as I always say. Just need to come up with fascia idea for the main deck next. Thanks for watching!

[@dr_bnc]

That fascia and conduit idea is brilliant!

[@rhopkin2512]

@@dr_bnc thanks! I really wasn’t sure how it would turn out to be honest.

[@N_scale]

It looks fucking awesome

[@rhopkin2512]

@@N_scale thanks! One of those ideas I messed around with in my head for ages and just kind of went for it and it kind of evolved.

[@N_scale]

How many tracks is the N mainline? Is there room for a second or multiple station stops for all the passenger trains? Windows 98 is when I switched to Mac. Really glad that it’s working Was concerned because I haven’t had luck with older pc software working ok. This software allows you to customize the loco like jmri or what does it do?

[@rhopkin2512]

It's a double mainline and only one station. Originally, I had planned to have another double mainline and second station on the next level up but that is now occupied by the OO gauge track. The old LGB MTZ (Multi Train System) software is essentially like JMRI but it's the early LGB DCC (pre 2006 Marklin) and the communication protocols are ever so slightly different. I could read/write the decoders with my Digitrax/JMRI setup but not quite all of it and I couldn't change the speed step from 28 down to 14. All the old LGB stuff tends to be 14 step which is fine for my very small G-Guage layout and 4 locomotives.

[@N_scale]

@@rhopkin2512 well then better have a nice big terminal on there for all those sleek streamliners. Maybe the overhead style? Have you been to LAUPT? My wife and I have couples photos from there. Amazing place we took Amtrak in couple of the times. Long platforms. Lgb that’s not so weird about the software differences here’s my examples I run digitrax. And any Kato has digitrax. You run a atlas Lenz on there most of time doesn’t respond to change direction or headlight. I have a Kato 4-8-4 greyhound esu sound it came with and one day it derailed and would not program or reset. Had a hunch, Took it to my club friend uncle Wayne’s set it on his 2000$ esu system programming track, oh all of sudden it responds like iPhone plugged into a Mac for setup. Same thing with MTH on MTH z4000 Vs a Lionel feature response time. All these things have a industry standard but it’s exciting like old nascar or formula 1 where the engines were made by each brand and shared no parts Ferrari jaguar etc each had their own strengths and weaknesses My point is stuff that was designed together no matter what they say works better. Like your lgb windows 98 serial port thingy.

[@N_scale]

@@rhopkin2512 have you accidentally acquired a n scale version of any of the lgb cars yet? This has happened in n and o over here.

[@rhopkin2512]

@@N_scale​​⁠highly unlikely given the N-scale is 1950’s American and the G-scale is pre-war/post war (mostly) East Germany and Austria. An 85 foot Budd Stainless observation car would look kind of weird behind a turn of the century Austrian narrow gauge 0-2-0 steam engine 😂

[@N_scale]

@@rhopkin2512 ok no problem I don’t know that prototype from lgb much. What are the next plans?