A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
Every so often I do a search on Thingiverse on “N Scale” to see what comes up. Over the past several months I’ve come across quite a few interesting items to print for the layout. The “N Scale Raised Platforms or Walkways” posted by akjochev in February 2011 caught my eye and I decided to…
The Centreville Railroad is a DCC layout controlled by a Digitrax Zephyr DCS-52 base station that I’ve had for about two and half years. I’ve had an intermittent issue almost from the beginning where a locomotive on the layout – that wasn’t the one I selected and wasn’t part of a consist was responding to…
The latest addition to the layout isn’t something that actually goes on the layout – but it’s been making stuff for the layout. New to the workshop is a Creality Ender 3d Pro printer. I think the ability to create virtually anything you need for your layout has been the dream of most model railroaders…
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…
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…
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…
Even though I let my subscription lapse this year, I keep old copies of Model Railroader magazine around, and if you can get your hands on a stack of old issues I’d recommend grabbing them. One of the timeless things about Model Railroader is that it’s a great source of inspiration for small (or some…