A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
As always seems to happen, summer rolls around and I end up spending more time doing things outside of the layout room than inside of it and this year was no exception. Between travel, side hustles, and a few seasonal interests I haven’t spent a lot of time with the layout this summer. But as…
Ahhh Rapido, makers of highly detailed trains that almost nobody else does… One of their first HO models was the United Aircraft TurboTrain – and a few years after that they released an N Scale version. It was the second time that somebody had ever released the TurboTrain in N Scale – the first being…
The layout’s a bit of a mess right now. A few weeks ago I decided that it was finally time to start moving forward with landscaping out the West Side Yard. Things have been sorted from the edge of the layout on the west side from the Centerville West Station towards the Yard tracks with…
I’ve mentioned before that there isn’t really a whole lot available in N Scale if you’re looking for models from the Northeast Corridor. Bachmann used to offer an E-60, the Acela Express set and the HHP-8 although none of them are still in production and all are hard to find. GG-1s are a relatively new…
I mentioned in the last post the pre-Black Friday purchase of the ScaleTrains ET44C GEVO, but it wasn’t the only pre-Black Friday purchase. I also picked up two Atlas Master GE Dash 8-40BW locomotives from TrainWorld – Amtrak 504 and 509. Since they were released in the last two weeks, TrainWorld lists them as a…
Unlike in previous years, I kept some funds in reserve for the expected Black Friday sales. I didn’t buy much, but the first purchase arrived the other day, my first ScaleTrains locomotive, an ET44C GEVO from their Rivet Counter line. I’ve got to say, overall I’m really impressed. I’ve always heard good things about the…
The Centreville Railroad layout is a bit large, each peninsula is 3ft deep which can be a stretch to get to the furtherest sections at times. The curves that go past the back corners can be especially difficult to reach, and even the track that is part of the Long Bridge can be a struggle…
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…
It’s been a few weeks hasn’t it? Due to a bit of travel – both planned and unplanned I’ve been away from the layout for a bit. One of those planned trips was to the New York Transit Museum in Brooklyn. The museum is located in the former Schermerhorn Subway Station, if nothing else this…
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,…