A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
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…
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…
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…
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…
Added to the layout a few weeks ago is a pair of Broadway Limited SD40-2 with in the Florida East Coast red and gold scheme. On the original layout that I had 20 years ago I had a LifeLike BL2 in the FEC red and gold scheme, it still looks good today, and it still…