Well, I got the three switches installed, good lengths of mainline track put down, and decided it was time to run some trains. I quickly soldered some feeder wires, hooked up the throttle, grabbed my favorite test engine (Atlas GP35 in CB&Q colors), and let her rip. Immediately, I pop a short. Check everything, try [...]
Continue Reading...I spent a few hours (Sara insists more like 5) on installing some turnouts and a siding and part of the main line. Here are some pictures of the progress, shot while I was working. I continue to be extremely happy with the amount of effort required and the results produced from the FastTracks products. [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve long lusted over picture after picture of model railroads. I’ve been a subscriber off and on to Model Railroader for something like 8 years. Three of those years was with the ridiculous international subscription rates, but at the time I was sufficiently impressed that the magazine made it to my door on time that [...]
Continue Reading...I’ve always loved trains, and growing up overseas in China where we frequently rode the train only fueled the obsession. I’ve had two false starts at building model railroads before, and now I’m onto my third effort. Hopefully I’ve solved the problems the first two suffered from.
Model railroad #1 was started between the summer of [...]
Check out the different batches of N Scale Kato Unitrack I’ve got up for sale on ebay. Click here for the full listing.
This is used Kato Unitrack I had on my old model railroad, but it’s in great condition, and represents quite a bit of money invested, so it should be a really good deal [...]