A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
I just returned from Trainfest 2022 in Milwaukee WI. This was my first Trainfest, and it probably won’t be my last. Around 1999/2000 I went to the York PA train show, and with its combination of hobby shops and manufacturers, Trainfest reminded me a lot of that York show I went to. What’s great about…
I haven’t made an update post in a few weeks… Not because I’ve neglected the site, but because there really hasn’t been any updates. The closest thing I have to an update is that the P42s seem to be multiplying on the layout… When I built the first layout, finding anything Amtrak in N Scale…
There were three projects I checked off this weekend – two were DCC conversions. As with the last post these were old Kato Shinkansen sets, a 500 Series and a 700 Series. Both went well, but unfortunately the 500 series had to be kicked off the layout. Turns out that it can’t handle the curves…
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…
My original intention for the layout as I was plotting it out was to place my Kato Overhead Viaduct station on the west straight along the wall. The viaduct was a centerpiece of the first layout I build all the way back 20 years or so ago… The station was the centerpiece of the old…
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 I last posted any updates, but there’s been work happening although at a bit slower pace than previously. The general setup that I had planned was that I’d have the layout wired for DCC with a DCC programming track back in the workshop. I could take engines back there and…
It hasn’t all be new trains at the Centreville RR Museum, there’s been other work going on too. There’s a new gas station in town! This is another Metcalfe card stock kit – while the station is a bit British other than the MOT signage I think it works well. There’s still a bit of…
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.