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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…