For years I have wanted to travel on some of Australia’s named passenger trains. Some of these trains carry or carried evocative names the “The Vinelander”, “Spirit of the Outback”, “The Ghan”, “Indian-Pacific”, and “The Overland”. Most of those trains Read more…
Japanese themed N scale ultra micro and US themed 2-micros-in-1 layout scenery progress and operations. Japanese N scale Ultra Micro Layout It’s about time I posted an update on the ultra micro Japanese N scale layout. So here goes… Since Read more…
Scenery progresses nicely on my HO scale 2-in-1 “Petra” and “The Nook” double inglenook switching layout. Following a month of fairly consistent albeit slow progress on the scenery of this layout, the layout was ready to be put in place Read more…
Progress on my HO scale ‘two micro layouts in one’ small model railway layout so it is operational with basic scenery. Since my last blog post, I’ve made some major progress with the HO scale 2-micros-in-1 layout, with all the Read more…
Moving to a tiny home sized space means a re-organisation of my micro layouts. It’s been a while since I posted a blog entry on this site, and mostly that is because there wasn’t much happening with my model railroading Read more…
It’s been a while since the last blog post, but that does not mean there have been no layout improvements. After spending quite a bit of time on improvements to my various other micro layouts over the previous year, I Read more…
Since I built the HO scale Box Street micro industrial switching layout, I have had a number of structures at the front of the layout, between the track and the front edge of the layout. When I placed them there, Read more…
Anyone who has explored the late Carl Arendt’s micro layouts themed website will probably have happened upon a page or small layout scrapbook featuring layouts in boxes of various sizes, as small as a pencil case box. Model railways in Read more…
Shortening some longer covered hoppers to enhance operation on my HO scale Box Street micro layout. After my recent successful shortening of a bay window caboose (see Hello Shorty blog entry on 1st September 2021), I was pondering some 56 Read more…
A few weeks ago, I read a post on RM Web about a new Model Railway magazine / ezine called “The Micro Model Railway Dispatch“. Unlike most model railroad magazines / ezines, this new publication is dedicated to micro model Read more…