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 the last blog post that mentioned the Japanese N scale 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 track now laid, electrics done to a level which allows 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 apart from enjoying operating my various micro layouts. But in 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 thought it was time to improve the look of the 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, I felt it was a good way to add a 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 small boxes, around shoe box in size, are quite common 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 railways, which are model railroad layouts that are 4 square 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 a growing desire to do something to improve the scene. 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 hopper that suffered a mishap. I also mentioned that I 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 past my Petra Pizza layout some time ago, and I Read more