For my 50th birthday, my daughters gave me a Fleischmann mini starter set. For 20 years, it stayed in its box, but when I retired, and for differetnt reasons found myself in Arnhem, the Netherlands, I came across an excellent shop (“Wentink”) specialising in model railway stuff and similar.
So then I got my first DCC starter set, still Fleischmann.
The videos illustrate my long and arduous trip towards the layout as it stands now.
Specifications:
DCC, n-scale
Rolling stock: Fleischmann, PIKO, Minitrix
Buildings: Faller and scratch built
Landscape: NOCH and home made stuff
Calculation of “prototypical” speed.
| Time (seconds) to travel 1m (100 cm) on board | Corresponds to real life speed (km/h) |
| n-Scale | 00 Scale | 0 Scale | equal to real life speed (km/h) |
| 57.60 | 27.38 | 16.20 | 10 |
| 28.80 | 13.69 | 8,10 | 20 |
| 19.20 | 9.13 | 5.40 | 30 |
| 14.40 | 6.84 | 4.05 | 40 |
| 11.52 | 5.48 | 3.24 | 50 |
| 9.60 | 4.56 | 2.70 | 60 |
| 8.23 | 3.91 | 2.31 | 70 |
| 7.20 | 3.42 | 2.03 | 80 |
| 6.40 | 3.04 | 1.80 | 90 |
| 5.76 | 2.74 | 1.62 | 100 |
| 5.24 | 2.49 | 1.47 | 110 |
| 4.80 | 2.28 | 1.35 | 120 |
| 4.43 | 2.11 | 1.25 | 130 |
| 4.11 | 1.96 | 1.16 | 140 |
| 3.84 | 1.83 | 1.08 | 150 |
| 3.60 | 1.71 | 1.01 | 160 |
| 3.39 | 1.61 | 0.95 | 170 |
| 3.20 | 1.52 | 0.90 | 180 |
| 3.03 | 1.44 | 0.85 | 190 |
| 2.88 | 1.37 | 0.81 | 200 |
Michael Elmquist homepage 