newbie questions about N guage

Dave Smith · 2007-12-29T02:52:31+00:00

I have a small oval shaped N guage layout. It is mounted on plywood with the nice green material they sell at the hobby store. I picked up an engine and some cars at a train show several years ago.Now for the challenges. The cars have different kinds of connectors. Some are the big plastic hooks and others are a thin metal wire hook. Is one better than the others? Should I standardize on one? Or should I get a car with each kind of hook on opposite ends?Also, my daughter was running the train around the track and it just stopped. How do I troubleshoot this?My goal is to keep the layout small and simple, have solid good quality cars and engine, and to start adding buildings that are interesting or that can light up. Maybe add some light poles. If anyone can point me towards a good source that would be wonderful.Thanks, I appreciate any advice that can be offered.Dave

Dec 29, 2007 22 Replies

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Ray Haddad 18 years ago

My father-in-law and I bought two gross of N-Scale Kadee coupler pairs and two gross of box car trucks with couplers back in the

1970s. I'm still using them to this day.

-- Ray

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Val 18 years ago

"Peter W." wrote

But as a recent Japanse proverb goes: One who only runs models of Shinkansen has no need for additional couplers.

I knew there had to be a reason I liked my model Bullet Train besides the fact they just look so cool!

I'm attaching that proverb to the box.

Val

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Peter W. 18 years ago

Actually .... I just coined that proverb. And I'm not even Japanese. It really is a Polish proverb (if you consider my birthplace.) :-) I'm glad that you liked it!

Peteski

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