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.
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…
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.
This is what Alice had to say…
3 Ways to Choose the Right Model Train Scale To Suit You
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….