A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
Added to the layout a few weeks ago is a pair of Broadway Limited SD40-2 with in the Florida East Coast red and gold scheme. On the original layout that I had 20 years ago I had a LifeLike BL2 in the FEC red and gold scheme, it still looks good today, and it still…
A couple of the Metcalfe Models buildings that I got a few weeks ago got finished in the last week. If I was detail oriented enough that I blended the edges of the cards I’m not sure you’d be able to tell that this is a card stock kit. Overall the kit was easy to…
Just arrived – a few cardstock projects… I’ve got one Metcalfe cardstock building on the layout, the station building at the Centreville West Station is Metcalfe’s Settle & Carlisle Station building and since that went reasonably well I’ve decided to add several more of their building to the layout. While many of their buildings have…
I’ve had the TurboTrain for about a year now, it was the second train I purchased when I returned to the hobby and it’s not just the first Rapido train I’ve owned, but also the first with DCC and sound. Since I’ve had the TurboTrain for a while some of the photos and videos are…
The majority of the trains that are on the layout have some personal connection. Either their the trains that ran (or run) somewhere I’ve lived, trains that I’ve ridden on in some form or another. It has made for an eclectic layout – and it’s why the setting for the layout is the home of…
I just removed these from the layout – I wanted to love these cars, but in the end I got too frustrated with them to keep them on the line. While the layout isn’t necessarily intended to model the New York Tri-State area, it’s also very hard to find anything in N Scale other than…
New York Central Alco PA1 4202 sits at Centreville West Station. This is a Kato Alco PA1 that is paired with Alco PB1 4302 which you can see below. I installed Digitrax DN163K0A decoders in both and have consisted them together. The install was my first ever DCC decoder installation and while successful it wasn’t…
The Centreville Railroad is an N Scale model railroad layout placed in the fictional town of Centreville which is the home of the fictional Centreville Railroad Museum. Being based around a railroad museum means that a wide variety of trains can be seen in the various train yards on the layout but also operating on…