Model Railway GeneralI just ordered a couple of cheap Tomix N gauge starter sets (90096 + 90097). Would have liked to get 90095 too, but it was out of stock.
>>11687020That looks really nice.I saw that Target's closeout vendor on line had Lionel stuff on clearance more than the stores and app does but it's still too expensive to get back into unless I had a bigger place with extra EXTRA rooms.
Speaking of price. What is the cheapest scale to get into? Is it HO? N? What about HOn30? Or Z, T? I don't know.
>>11687395HO is cheapest, followed by N and, if you live in the states, O. Z is pricier, and T is a ripoff. Narrow gauge is generally niche and the only one where things are relatively cheap for are On30 for Western themed railways.
>>11687395>>11687487And what about adding import and shipping on top of all that?
OP here, I gave in and ordered some more shit, since Amazon has a bunch of this stuff significantly cheaper than everywhere else right now, and all the stuff I ordered also had 11% off when buying 2 or more.So all up I got>a Tomix starter set (large radius oval) with 1 loco and 2 freight rolling stock>a Tomix starter set (straight with points) with 1 loco and 2 freight rolling stock>a Tomix basic track expansion set (couple of points, curves, straights)>a Kato D51 locootive>a Kato set of 4 coachesAll up it cost me AU$380 [about US$265], that's including shipping, taxes, etc.There's a few more things I'd like to get, but I'll hold off on that for now, since they're not really on sale/discounted like this stuff was, and I feel I've spent enough already.>more freight rolling stock>a small radius oval>a shinkansen, probably an older design
>>11687718Still the same for the most part. Why are you importing? Even if your specialty is British or German there is a lot of rolling stock stateside and vice versa.
American Three rail O gauge is a lot of fun if you like running big chonky trains in relatively tight spaces, but if you're a rivet counter, it will drive you mad. Case in point. Both of these engines represent Southern 4501 at different points in its excursion career. Neither is an accurate representative of the prototype.
So... not a lot of interest in model trains anymore?
>>11696520I think there is interest.I don't have the space but I have fond memories of my Lionel train set from my teenage years, and even more fond interest of a tin train thing when I was very little. It's one of my earliest memories.But I don't have the space (or really the income) to devote to it. Which doesn't mean I would be interested in praising people's set up or talking about it on occasion, but I'm not sure 4chan is a the place where this crowd would hang out or has the interest to maintain a regular general.
Ok, are these the only DC powered british isles prototypes widely available in the USA? I don't want to buy anything overseas.>Bachmann thomas & friends range>Bachmann talyllyn range>Kato ffestiniog small england's>Hornby flying scotsman and mallard sets
>>11697563I should get some of these faces for my Thomas. I wonder how tight of a fit they are.
>>11697563Trainz and eBay are your friends. Hornby have a few other sets in the U.S over the past few years, mostly Coke and Beatles stuff.
>>11698485>Trainz and eBay are your friends. Ebay is vintage trains and ive checked trains, theres barely anything.>Hornby have a few other sets in the U.S over the past few years, mostly Coke and Beatles stuff.They're not worth buying.
>>11698497Then it seems that you may be right. Oh well. Seems like we are in the same boat. I personally like streetcars from Austria, Germany and Switzerland and since Halling/Ferro Train do not distribute to the U.S, so I have to import directly from them in Austria, which I am wary of doing after a mixup with an imported shipment from Poland where I was charged for Chinese imported goods.
>>11698562make foreign friends especially those who will be traveling to the usa sometime soon
>>11697563Hornby seems to list a lot of their TT stuff on Amazon, shipped directly from the UK.I mean I'm Australian so I know international listings differs by country website, but might be worth having a look? I don't know if the UK has any current (((tariffs))) or whatever or how that works since the sets are made in China anyway, buy shipped from the UK.
Consider the following
>>11698605I have foreign friends, but they all live in the Balkans or Hungary and only one plans on visiting America>>11698643Country of origin for shipment is how the tariffs are charged. So a Chinese made product shipping from the U.K will be charged under British import tariffs.>>11698785Is this the new TGV?
Even though the faces are ugly I kinda appreciate how bachmann never changed anything about their main thomas and friends models since 2002. It takes me back to 2009 when I watched missoliverandblossom videos on youtube.
