A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
It’s been quite a while since the last update. Work in August was focused on ground cover and landscaping, particularly around the edge of the layout along the West Side station. I also did some additional work with the ground cover on the East Side Yard as well, mainly cleaning up and sealing what was…
It’s been about a month since the last update and there’s been quite of bit of work that’s happened since then. First up was my final Metcalfe card stock kit, the Corner Shop and Pub kit is actually two buildings, as you can see it was actually two buildings in one kit, and i assembled…
New on the layout are the modern Atlas Tropicana Trinity Reefers. I first saw these in an ad in Model Railroader last year and went on the hunt for them only to discover that they were nearly impossible to find. They had been out of stock for so long that they just weren’t listed in…
Things are starting to pickup again on the layout, with some re-construction going on (more in a later post) and some new additions. If you spent time in US and some Canadian cities in the 70s and into the 80s then GM’s buses were a sight you were very familiar with. I knew the buses…
It’s been a while since the 4859 made a run on the layout. While there are several GG-1s in museums around the US, unfortunately none of them will run again. But, on a layout that is based on a railroad museum, anything is possible including a GG-1 pulling a special “heritage train.” Like the HHP-8,…
Today I headed over to Reynauld’s Euro Imports in Elburn IL. This was the third time I tried to visit the store, and I’ll admit I’ve been getting a little frustrated with them. The last two times I went to the store during their posted business hours and they were closed. I’ve been watching their…
Until recently there wasn’t a whole lot of options for N scale engines if you were interested in running electric locomotives that could be seen around the North East Corridor. Arguably not much has changed in that respect, although Kato’s ACS-64 Sprinter and Atlas’ ALP-45 are available today. Bachmann made an E-60 from around 1984…
Nope, not a an April Fools joke but an actual post. This weekend I finished another one of the Metcalfe cardstock models that’s been sitting in the to-do pile. I think the new fire station is one of the best looking Metcalfe Models I’ve put together so far.
These RDC-2s were some of the last trains I bought 20 years ago before I packed up the first layout. Kato released several versions of the Budd RDCs for several different rail lines, and because Alaska Railroad tends to be a bit rare in N Scale (at least compared to UP or some of the…
When I built my first layout about 20 years ago I purchased a lot of Kato’s Japanese high speed trains with a few European ones thrown into the mix. At the time the Acela Express had only been in service with Amtrak for a few years but that was the limit of US high speed…