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Blue box and such. Classic rolling stock photo album.
Recent posts make it obvious many of us have a soft spot in our hearts for those old kits. Wooden, cardboard, metal, or early plastic. They have a certain charm that never models can't capture. Post your own old favorites here.
1/64 strip wood
Was watching Don on the TMTV fine scale modeling 6/2015 He uses 1/64 wood strips, anyone know where to find such ? I have searched the internet and find 1/32 seems to be the smallest Also he strips the clear styrene windows to start to make his windows what does he use ? Would like to try his methods if possible Thanks to any answers Zeke
Changing Major Directions from my Current Layout to a New One
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I started a blog in 2017 to document the creation of my Z scale Alpine layout (all Marklin locos and rolling stock with mixed products for just about everything else). You can see my posts at the end of this page.
I went with Z scale because I wanted to make the most of a layout in a limited space and I had bought some Marklin Z rolling stock, locos and track many years ago for "the day" I would start a layout.
HO water tanker
Here's the beginning of my Fire tanker for my layout.
Started as a boley international 4 door water tanker removed the screw behind the front bumper in order to remove the cab.
Then studied the frame and tank to try and visualize what my mind was seeing.
Went on the web looking at Midwest Fire tankers gained a lot of ideas going.
Have since changed layout directions this will become a West Virginia region tanker.
Off to the train stash and there it was right on top of the second tub i opened a wiking Pete tractor with sleeper.
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Building a trestle
I had enough working on electrical and switched gears to my big trestle. A few commercially built bents, some of my own, basswood, balsa wood, glue, imagination a few days and the scene is coming to life.
HOn3 25-Ton Class B Climax - scratch, bash or forgetaboutit?
So as I’m researching possible central Pennsylvania early 1900s prototypes to model, it seems that the narrow gauge railroads that are of the most interest to me all ran Climaxes in the 25- to 35- ton range. The White Deer & Loganton, Eagles Mere Railroad, Lewisburg & Buffalo Valley, Susquehanna & Eagles Mere and the Laurelton Lumber Company all ran Climax locomotives in the 25-ton range.
So... I gotta have one if at all possible.
This blog will be where I keep research, beg for help, document a build or bash, and beg for help. :)
crazy idea TP-56 modern shunter?
For some time now this idea has been floating around in the back of my mind. I'd really like to put a modern small narrow gauge (n scale track) area on my bench work, near my diesel service facility. This will be for my tie & pickling plant. I figure I'll need two or four switches (a left & a right) and several straight sections to pull it off.
question about tunnels
ok so i have an n scale layout that uses the 28 piece bridge pier set. what i want to do is make a tunnel preff out of elmers foam board since i can get it cheap.not sure if i can make a curved tunnel so a straight tunnel would be ok.
my question i guess is where do i start? i wanna do a tunnel to hide some of the track and to give the layout some oomph some wow, im feeling kinda lost never done anything like this before the track is on a 2x4 sheet of MDF
need some guidance
Gapping hand laid turnout frogs
I have recently completed track work on my small (2'× 9') switching layout. All track is hand laid and I used fast tracks jigs for the turnouts. My question is this, do I really need to gap both sides of the frog? On of the things that always drew me in with hand laid turnouts was the point rails flowing all the way to the frogs. I just think it looks better that way. Is there a real world practical reason to gap the point rails before the frog?
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