The Model Train Club Opens Its Doors To New Members
It’s been a long time in the making, but finally we have opened the doors to what will eventually become the biggest Model Train Club ever.
Why will it eventually become the biggest?
The Worlds Largest Model Railroad Or Is It?
Is Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg the largest model railway in the world? They claim it is and that it is one of the most successful permanent exhibitions in Northern Germany. Watch this video and be amazed…
Husband And Wife Can’t Get Enough After 9 Model Railway Layouts
Every day we receive emails from enthusiastic model railroaders but this Husband and Wife model railroading team were perfect to profile this Valentines Day…
Meet Brian and Ann Silby from The Rylstone Wellingborough Northants England.
My Wife and I have 9 scenic model railway layouts that we take to model railway shows all over the UK and sometimes to the continent. These model railway layouts are all under 2 metres long and they travel in the back of our station wagon. I model in N scale, while Ann models in Z scale.
70 Year Old Train Set For Sale
One of our valued readers has a 70 year old train set for sale… Anyone interested?
Jim had this to say about the set… Continue Reading >>
Mallory Needs Advice Setting Up ON30 Bachmann Train Sets
Mallory sent in this request for advice…
I’m coming into model railroading as a builder of miniature Christmas villages (Department 56, Lemax etc). I’ve purchased a couple of ON30 Bachmann train sets and fully anticipate that this will draw my husband into the hobby!
I’d appreciate any advice or cautions you can give me.
To provide you with the particular challenge I have:
I build a display in the local museum, to go with their Festival of Trees. The space I have to work with is a counter top 4 ft x 20 ft, with 3 square columns in the middle. At this point I need to lay out a train that just runs mostly unattended (no switching, reversing etc) with minimal problems. And, the village is the main feature - a Victorian High Street at Christmas.
Continue Reading >>
Easy Landscape Creation With Styrofoam
A great option to create landscape for your model railroad is to use white Styrofoam board. This is a popular material as it is easy to use and is inexpensive. A 4 x 8 foot sheet of 1 ½” thick Styrofoam is a great size to cut and shape. The Styrofoam is best cut with a hot wire foam cutter. Kevin shows you how… Continue Reading >>
A Derailment Causes HO Scale Chaos
I’ve often spoken about the frustrations of having derailments on your model train layout and the 7 ways to solve them.
But derailments happen in real life and are a part of railroading… so to make your model trains come alive maybe you need to fabricate some derailments…?
Alice and 10 Years of Modeling a Christmas Village
Often we get so much mail it is very hard to reply to everyone individually… but this email from Alice caught our attention. Alice has been modeling a Christmas village for the last 10 years and is obviously very passionate about it.
We know that a lot of our readers struggle with the electrical side of model trains and here is a perfect example of modeling that requires no electrical skills at all.
Alice kindly allowed us to share her story… This is what Alice had to say… Continue Reading >>
3 Ways to Choose the Right Model Train Scale To Suit You
Image via Wikipedia
If you are a model train beginner then you might be asking… “Which model train scale is best suited for me?”
A common mistake for model train beginners is to confuse scale and gauge.
Let me explain… scale is the proportion of the replica to the real thing. For example, HO scale locomotives are 1/87 the size of the real life locomotive. Model train gauge is the width between the inside running edge of the track. Continue Reading >>
An Inspiring Model Train Layout - 4 Scenes in 1
