A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
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…
I’ve been meaning to write this post for a few weeks but haven’t had the patience to sit down and do it until today… While riding the train home from work on Sep 25 I looked out the window and managed to catch sight of Chicagoland Toys and Hobbies, and noticed as the train flew…
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…
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…
In my last post I announced that I’d purchased a 3D printer and had been printing scenery detail items for the layout. From the start, when I got the printer I wanted to print out a water tower, my preference was an older tower – a tank that stood on legs. I found a few…
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,…