A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
A few weeks ago I mentioned that one of the items on my “to do list” was painting track. Painting track was for years one of those things that I thought was something that the detail obsessed rivet counter would do – right after they finished hand laying their track. But since I started building…
I’ve mentioned before that I have historically not been a fan of Bachmann’s stuff. Like many who have been around the hobby for a long time, we’ve been burned by poor running Bachmann engines, we’ve seen the poor detail of their rolling stock… And don’t get me started on their EZTrack and EZCommand systems. Oh,…
This isn’t so much a “how I did it post” so much as an answer to a common question post. A regular question on all the various places that N scalers gather to discuss the hobby centers around Kato’s double track curves. Actually, it’s usually less of a question and more of an exclamation –…
Part of Kato’s selection of rolling stock are a collection of bi-level commuter passenger cars that include cab cars. The cab cars have working marker lights for when they’re at the rear of the train and the locomotive at the front of the train is pulling them. And for when the cab car is at…
I’ve mentioned in an earlier post that the first DCC engine I purchased was a Kato GG-1. Back in 2001, if you were going to find a GG-1 in N Scale it was going to be brass and it was going to cost you A LOT of money. In 2008 though, things changed, Kato released…
Six months ago I picked up the run of Atlas Tropicana and Naked Juice modern Trinity Reefers. Tracking down the entire run of road numbers wasn’t easy but as mentioned here, ultimately I managed to get them through a few sources. When it comes to looks – they’re fantastic. Atlas did a great job with…