A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
I mentioned a few posts ago that while I hadn’t made any new posts that things were still happening on the layout – even if it was a bit slow due to real world stuff. So here’s the update on the various projects that I’ve been working on – Snellgroves Department Store This is a…
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…
Once again I find myself opening a post with “Wow, it’s been a while since the last update!” and it has. A lot of stuff has happened over the past few months that has slid working on the layout down the priority list, and updating the site even further down the priority list. Things have…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Finally getting back into the swing of things with the layout, which is good because I came back from Trainfest with a few things to start work on. Done I’ve been staring at the area around the West Yard/Museum Yard for ages now trying to decide how to finish it out. The first thing I…