Re: modular board layout suggestions

Plug that into your browser for ideas on HO modules. Typical size is 2x4. All sorts of variations on that theme exist.

On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:21:37 -0800, "Bob May" shared this with the world:

We have a few (poorly scanned) photos of the construction of a couple of modules at our club website.

Most modules are 2x4 feet, the corners are 4x4 with a couple of triangle-shapes bits knocked off.

Kent

Check out

. And also the sites in my sig. If your looking for a modular layout, a free-mo version is the way to go. This way you can build it how you want.

John=A0McManaman wrote: Check out

. And also the sites in my sig. If your looking for a modular layout, a free-mo version is the way to go. This way you can build it how you want.

---------------------------------------------------- Wow! What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

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search for "The Sipping & Switching Society of N.C." on google or yahoo. Best I've seen.

---------------------------------------------------- Wow! What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

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G=A0Frix wrote: search for "The Sipping & Switching Society of N.C." on google or yahoo. Best I've seen.

---------------------------------------------------- Yep! Thanks for sharing.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

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The GATS show will be in Akron in a few weeks. Come by the Dalmatian Switching District and tal with us. We can show you what and how to make a light weight and durable module (over 8000 miles and a lot of moving).

Dave Decker

ga wrote:

click on the right column specs.

-- Steve Lynch

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Steve, your group obviously excels at model building, your layout shots are great.

However, you need to get a new computer expert. Your scans of the "Spec Diagrams" are so poor that some are totally useless. You cannot read what they are about. Would it be possible to scan them again and post ones we can see and read?

Steven=A0Lynch wrote:

=A0 click on the right column specs.

----------------------------------------------------- Nice! Thanks for sharing, Steve.

Bill Bill's Railroad Empire N Scale Model Railroad:

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Click on the thumbnail and it "loads" the larger "poor" diagram, than mouse over the diagram and click the box to enlarge. Pretty standard IE6 Windoz stuff.... Hope this helps. Steve

Yep - but the result is still pretty much like a bad photo- copy, with faint and jaggy lines, incomplete letters, etc.

Too much compression? If folks are willing to click on the thumbnail, they probably are willing to put up with a little larger download. The large image was only 4KB - try 40 or even 80 and see what it looks like. Unless, of course, your web host has limits that might be broken by the decent sized graphic files.

Question? How large of a file do you think most folks would care to download? Our club has been kicking the idea around of putting our specs on our web page, but its a 5.5 mb file. Lots of drawings and some photos, with text. It's about 75 pages when printed out. Would most folks interested in this type of info sit still for a file that large????? Chooch

I know about the "Pretty Standard Stuff", but the problem is when I get the full screen gif, it is unreadable. I am attempting to look at fig4.gif right now...

Fig 6, 7 and 8 can be made out, but the text on fig1-5 and 9-10 cannot.

Hope this helps. Will

Chooch, do the site as a 75 page site, one page for each printed page. It would not take long to load. You could put the graphics/photos in as thumbnail size and set them up to be clicked on for "full size".

You could also put a link to the "Full 75 page book", it could be saved as a PDF for offline reading.

If they had broadband access, yes; but the suggestions about making individual pages and graphics available for separate download make the most sense to me. Ideally, the text of the specs woud be available, thumbnails of the drawings with clickable larger and higher resolution images available, and lastly the entire document available as a .PDF

I will pass this along to our web guru. Sounds like a plan to me! Hopefully, this should be up by February. We are planning a large update to the website after our January shows are over.

They were photocopies, but the detailed text would let anyone build these. Post your info. Everyone's a critic, I was just trying to help the original poster with info and here we go off on another adventure.... :-)

Steve