Rob Hopkin
RhB - Rob hopkin Bahn
Thank you for adding me to the group. Hello all, thought I'd introduce myself after messing around with the big trains for a while. I first saw LGB in 1984 and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread, never had the resources or time until recently to get involved. I'd been out of all hobbies for decades and tip toed into N-scale, mostly Kato USA 1950's outline around 2016. I now have a large number of sets and track stashed away in the garage. Then a few years ago I had 9 months working in Germany, evenings spent browsing online and local shops had me hooked on LGB again and ended up shipping all my purchases back home to Spain and have been slowly setting up in the garage for the last two years. Thus far everything very second hand, pre 2006 Marklin, tight R1 curves and turnouts, a few small locos and rolling stock, managed to convert the analog locos to the old MTS digital system. I now find myself spending more and more time with the G-scale and the N-scale is taking back seat it being much easier on my eyes. In fact my two deck garage layout was originally all for N-scale but I somehow shoe horned the G-scale to the lower deck, I'll try to add a few pictures here or the photos section.
This weekend I decided to go large and have bought an older (I tend to buy everything used) LGB RhB GE 4/4 "Klosters" model thats been digitised (No idea what model the decoder is and if it's even compatible with my old style MTS II/III system). Also on the way are a very well used baggage car and restaurant car, should be fun whatever happens and thats the point. My lovely long suffering wife will of course kill me but hey ho. I absolutely love all my N-scale trains but I just struggle to see them properly anymore which is unfortunate but I'm not sitting around waiting for my eyesight to get worse. The plan when I'm next home in March is to box up, catalog and sell the N-scale and set about using the second level for the RhB and squeeze the larger radius curves on the top deck to get some big train experience. Longer term I'd like to build a proper Garden railway, there's rumblings we may be moving from our current place in Spain after 25+ years back to the UK (yes I know it's cold and grey, Spain is wonderful blah blah blah but we're done with the 45+ degrees C heat in the summer amongst other things) so I'm keeping one eye on the Garden railway potential during the house hunt. For now I'll be using the space I have and reading this very mice forum.
This weekend I decided to go large and have bought an older (I tend to buy everything used) LGB RhB GE 4/4 "Klosters" model thats been digitised (No idea what model the decoder is and if it's even compatible with my old style MTS II/III system). Also on the way are a very well used baggage car and restaurant car, should be fun whatever happens and thats the point. My lovely long suffering wife will of course kill me but hey ho. I absolutely love all my N-scale trains but I just struggle to see them properly anymore which is unfortunate but I'm not sitting around waiting for my eyesight to get worse. The plan when I'm next home in March is to box up, catalog and sell the N-scale and set about using the second level for the RhB and squeeze the larger radius curves on the top deck to get some big train experience. Longer term I'd like to build a proper Garden railway, there's rumblings we may be moving from our current place in Spain after 25+ years back to the UK (yes I know it's cold and grey, Spain is wonderful blah blah blah but we're done with the 45+ degrees C heat in the summer amongst other things) so I'm keeping one eye on the Garden railway potential during the house hunt. For now I'll be using the space I have and reading this very mice forum.
