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Layout Improvements

Pier 39 Scenery Enhancements

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…

By Jim, 12 monthsFebruary 16, 2022 ago
Box Street Micro

Minimising Structure Damage

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…

By Jim, 1 yearDecember 23, 2021 ago
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Layout in a Boxfile

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…

By Jim, 1 yearNovember 13, 2021 ago
Box Street Micro

Covered Hoppers for Box Street

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…

By Jim, 1 yearOctober 17, 2021 ago
Brazilian Micro

I’m Published

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…

By Jim, 1 yearSeptember 27, 2021 ago
Layout Improvements

Better Depot For Petra

Passenger depot improvements for the HO scale Petra Pizza micro layout. Since I built the Petra Pizza layout, the Petra Depot area was a fairly basic ground level gravel area with a shed. In the last few weeks I had Read more…

By Jim, 1 yearSeptember 22, 2021 ago
Micro Layout

Hello Shorty

Shortening of the caboose used for passenger trains on the Tropical Pizza HO scale micro layout makes car movements easier. In the previous post I described a 22 scale feet flat car that I converted from a 22 foot ore Read more…

By Jim, 1 yearSeptember 1, 2021 ago
Micro Layout

Tropical Pizza Flat Car

A recent mishap on my Petra Pizza layout presented an opportunity to replace a longer flat car with a much shorter customised one a similar length to the 4 wheel open gondollas on the Tropical Pizza layout. I was walking Read more…

By Jim, 1 yearAugust 11, 2021 ago
Rail Trails

Tumburumba – Rosewood Rail Trail

With a coronavirus induced lockdown in Victoria, Australia, which is where I usually ride my Kickbike on Sundays, I decided to try a new rail trail that had only been complete in 2020 – the Tumburumba to Rosewood rail trail Read more…

By Jim, 2 yearsFebruary 17, 2021 ago
Box Street Micro

Less is More

Scaling back the track arrangement on my 4×1 feet HO scale Box Street micro switching layout to be more similar to the track plan that inspired it and re-arrangement of industries. A few days ago, I was contemplating my Box Read more…

By Jim, 2 yearsJanuary 19, 2021 ago

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