Pizza and 4×1 feet HO scale micro layouts for minimal space model railroading. 4×1 feet micro layout plan finalised, track laying started. Pizza Layout scenery. Over the last couple of weeks I have made good progress on the first 1200mm x 300mm (4×1 feet) micro layout, tentatively called “Box Street” Read more…
Big model railroad layouts equal big headaches to move, small or micro layouts lessen the brain strain! With the possibility of a house move, even a long distance one, always threatening on the horizon, I had only recently finished the scenery changes to an extension to my Dolton / Illinook Read more…
Making my HO scale model railroad Dolton Junction module a junction in more than just name increases operating interest. Ever since the Dolton Junction module was built some years ago it was nearly always a non-operational “junction”. That is, a junction in name only with only one leg of the Read more…
A visit to my layout by a local model railroader motivates me to complete some half finished model railroad layout projects. There’s nothing like a visit by a fellow model railroader to motivate someone to pay some close attention to their model railroad layout. That’s what I found over the Read more…
Moving residence again requires compromises but allows for a better configuration and environment for my HO scale switching layout modules. You would think that we would learn our lesson. About moving, that is. Since we have been married we have more more than 15 times. Sometimes because of a necessity, Read more…
A new HO scale model railroad module has been started. This one is a 4×1 feet module, designed to connect the the we
Following a flurry of scenery building (mostly using scatter and ballast) on my HO scale Illinook industry / switching m
Because the Dolton and Illinook HO scale model railroad layouts can be attached to each other and operated together,
Stuff happens. Not by itself. But it does happen.
Today being a leisurely Monday in Australia, the sceni