A layout in N Scale and other railroad stuff
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.
About twice a week I head into Chicago and almost always take the train into Ogilve Transportation Center. Metra is the passenger train service I have the most exposure to on a regular basis…
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…
The Centreville Railroad Museum is a big supporter of high-speed rail both in the US and around the globe. So this week the Japan National Railways 100 Series Grand Hikari shinkansen train is visiting the layout. The rivet counters may complain that a Japanese shinkansen can’t run on a North American railroad – especially one…
A few photos from around the layout today – specifically from the Centreville West Station. Keep an eye out for a few views of the newly installed passenger foot bridge. The footbridge is another card stock model from Metcalfe. While this one was still fairly easy to assemble there were a few points that were…
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…
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…
I’ve had the TurboTrain for about a year now, it was the second train I purchased when I returned to the hobby and it’s not just the first Rapido train I’ve owned, but also the first with DCC and sound. Since I’ve had the TurboTrain for a while some of the photos and videos are…