Figures add realism to every layout. Railroads, industries, and businesses exist to serve people. Many modelers take great pains to add fine detailing and proper finishes to structures, scenes, and equipment. But why put them in a deserted scene? Figures bring layout scenes to life and remind us that people, pets in neighborhoods. And wild …
What could be more fun to work on during the Thanksgiving Holiday than a Christmas layout scene, complete with railroad station, church, Christmas tree salesman, and a little town, complete with gazebo and town Christmas tree? The steps below provide a guide to building your own Christmas layout; Step 1: Village Base: your village base …
Choosing Switch Machines from lots of different types of electrical switches can be used in wiring your model railroad. Lots of different types of electrical switches can be used in wiring your model railroad. It can often be quite confusing trying to decide what kind of switch to use when. For example, what is the …
Choosing Roadbed & Rail is the start to make your perfect layout on a good start. Then you need the best ballast from ARMballast. Choosing Your Roadbed Once you are satisfied with your model railroad track arrangement, you can start gluing down roadbed, working on one section at a time. The roadbed is commercially available …
Model Railroad Cars includes freight cars, passenger cars, maintenance of way cars, cabooses, and cable cars. INTRODUCTION A “Car” is just about anything that runs on rails. This includes freight cars passenger cars maintenance of way cars (including equipment such as cranes) cabooses cable cars unpowered (dummy) locomotives, etc. Everyone knows that a railroad takes …
Model Railroad Passenger Sleepers Coach Articulated Dining and Lounge Cars are rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers. A passenger car is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers. Up until about the end of the 19th century, most passenger cars were constructed of wood. The first passenger trains …
Design Model Railroad Layout starts by choosing a scale track for operating trains. Your layout size is what every you can get away with. A layout in model railroading is a diorama containing scale track for operating trains. The scale of a layout varies from the size of shelves to design that occupy entire rooms. …
Resurrection of a Mantua Mikado This was purchased brand new as a kit about thirty years ago. It was an operational disappointment because the tender brass wheels got dirty with one trip around the layout. Lucky for it, I came across nickel silver wheels for the tender and now it works like a charm. The …
The near siding track is called the “Oil Track” where the petroleum tanks and warehouses are serviced by rail and then trucks on this side. There is only about 8″ of depth to work with and there must be a narrow service road included in the foreground. The storage tanks are by Campbell Scale Models …
A creative thinking station agent can now become a real trickster and raise havoc with the engineers. This was how train crews and agents communicated before the railroads had radios. Such is the case with 1939 El Capitan powered with a “shovel nosed ” E unit and new streamlined cars. The high level all chair …
