Fleet Additions
We are not modelling anything specific. We haven’t picked a single era, epoch, country, region or other archetype to go by. What we are building is a fantasy layout, on which it is entirely possible that locos and rolling stock …
General
Point Motor Shoot-Out, Final
It’s been a long time coming, but the saga of my point motors had to come to a conclusion eventually. You may recall that I played around with surface-mounted solenoid motors, found them to be inadequate, and decided to look …
Out with the Old, In with the New
Ever since I bought my first ‘real’ digital command system – the NCE PowerCab – I’ve been thinking and researching about the possibilities of DCC that go beyond running trains and switching points. Subjects like detection, feedback and automation rear …
Unboxing the Southern Rail Models QR 2300 Class
When we decided to go H0 scale, one of the drivers had been the fact that local model manufacturer Southern Rail Models had announced a model of the Queensland Rail 2300 Class diesel locomotive. Since I see these regularly close …
Laying the track
This post should have appeared before the last one, chronologically. However, when I got the new loco and tested my work, I was so stoked that things were working and I was making visible progress, that I just had to …
The Tale of the Track Tester, Pt. II
With the track plan decided upon, and the layout making progress, there was somewhat of a need to test the work being done. I had previously bought a cheap(ish) loco to do exactly that, but it turned out to be …
The Track Plan
It took us a while to come up with this one. We looked at other layouts and track plans, and tried to come up with something that would maximise the usage of our available space, while offering some room for …
Some Progress is being made
Things have been a bit quiet around the Train Room. Life got in the way, we used the cooler weather to get things done around the house, and there generall was limited time to dedicate to this. But that’s not …
The Tale of the Track Tester
A few weeks back, after understanding the difference between H0 and 00 gauge, I decided to switch to H0, simply because it offers a much larger variety and is not just limited to primarily British models. I sold my 00 …
Table Extension
We are still fairly tight on space – but you wouldn’t believe how much a simple rearrangement of a room can change. To recap, currently we have a room set aside for the model train building. It’s a fairly small …