A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
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…
A couple of the Metcalfe Models buildings that I got a few weeks ago got finished in the last week. If I was detail oriented enough that I blended the edges of the cards I’m not sure you’d be able to tell that this is a card stock kit. Overall the kit was easy to…
Just arrived – a few cardstock projects… I’ve got one Metcalfe cardstock building on the layout, the station building at the Centreville West Station is Metcalfe’s Settle & Carlisle Station building and since that went reasonably well I’ve decided to add several more of their building to the layout. While many of their buildings have…
The majority of the trains that are on the layout have some personal connection. Either their the trains that ran (or run) somewhere I’ve lived, trains that I’ve ridden on in some form or another. It has made for an eclectic layout – and it’s why the setting for the layout is the home of…
I just removed these from the layout – I wanted to love these cars, but in the end I got too frustrated with them to keep them on the line. While the layout isn’t necessarily intended to model the New York Tri-State area, it’s also very hard to find anything in N Scale other than…