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…
Small areas of scenery completed on the periphery of the layout, and some extra details, enhance the over all look and feel of the layout. At the time of writing this post, I have 6 micro layouts in total: 1 which is only a baseboard and nothing else, 3 which Read more…
Adding realistic scenery to a micro model railway layout gives the miniature trains some scenery to run through, and increases operating pleasure. On micro layout, scenery seems to be more important than it might seem to be on a much larger layout. This might be partially because of the sense Read more…
How small can a micro layout be in HO/OO scale, using ready to run locos and cars, and standard track, and still be interesting to operate? A lot of Micro layouts I’ve seen on the internet that cram a lot of operating interest into them seem to require either narrow Read more…