Posted Trevor Marshall
byIn Episode 0031 of The Model Railway Show, we speak with Keith Wills, the Collector Consist columnist for Railroad Model Craftsman magazine. We also talk to Christopher Howard from Railflyer Model Prototypes. The Model Railway Show is the fast-paced, thought-provoking podcast. For more information ...
Posted Larry Doub
byThis is how I do it, and if you have done any Athearn work it only takes a little while at the bench to do this, My Last one was finished "start to run" around 30 minutes, and a few drinks of Hot Coffee of course, LOL This is what I do with all of mine, 1- I use a pair of clip end jumpers...
Posted bobby gervais
bywell if you guys and gals have seen my pics and my videos you have seen how my oil tank and the cricit pannel is on the other side of my layout and every time the oil guy come i would have to unsplice the wire under the ''brige'' and unscrew a few screws well i came up with making a lift up brige th...
Posted wes lofton
byWell tonight I will be starting my first model. It is a Walthers Cornerstone. I hope everything goes well will post pictures as I go.
Posted Mark DuVall
byHello all, I have started a quest. Over the years, 35 short ones at that, I have been around railroads. To railfanning them, modeling them, selling them and now even working for one. I originally started in N Scale but moved over to HO after about two years working in...
Posted Ed Sumner
byIt was actually somewhat warm here in East TN last night, so I decided to work out in the garage while I could and finished the ground-goo portion of the layout completely. The brown paint that covered the portions of the layout not already covered in ground goo was starting to look cruddy. It's OK ...
Posted Roger Broederdorf
byI am not looking for sympathy , I think it is more like I need to write this to help myself to try to get back to a normal life. Model railroading was something I did with my wife. She encouraged me to get back into it about 5 years ago. Her and I were building a portable layout we could run session...
Posted Trevor Marshall
byIn Episode 0030 of The Model Railway Show, we speak with Doug Harding, the NMRA's coordinator for Special Interest Groups. We also talk to Ed Loizeaux about the past, present and future of S Scale. The Model Railway Show is the fast-paced, thought-provoking podcast. For more information - including...
Posted Scott Olson
byOK kiddos here we go, sit down, buckle in, and hold on this ones a roller coaster. For those of you who may not have seen my posts this week, I bid on a local switcher this week and started on Sunday. For the most part it has been a feirly uneventful week, switch out Ottumwa yard and de...
Posted wes lofton
byWell it has been a few days. Steve and myself has for two nights got the benchwork is done other than the legs.It is 1/4 inch B/C grade plywood, 1x3 boards,and was glued with PL375 Locktite glue and screws that was counter-sunked. Here is a few pictures of our work.Might look like there wa...