The holiday season is always a good opportunity to add to the model train venture. Be it new rolling stock, technical equipment or other useful things – something always gets added. This year’s haul was unexpectedly big, due to some …
Sound in model trains is one of those things. Opinions are split as to whether it’s any good at all. In forum discussions I have read, some people defend sound in models as an addition to the perceived realism of …
It’s been a while since the last post on this blog, and a few things have happened in the meantime. Life sometimes gets in the way of posting, so this post will go into a bit of detail on several …
A while ago I posted the track plan, which itself had taken some time to finalise. At the time, building the layout was a work in progress. The bottom layer was completed without too many difficulties, but the top section …
I’ve talked about the Track Tester, a GE 44-Ton Switcher, a few times. This unit – now having been given the nickname ‘Zebra’ due to its livery – was bought primarily to test the freshly wired layout and tell me …
Disclaimer: This article does not aim to explain how Back Electro-Motive Force (Back EMF or BEMF) works. There are numerous resources on the web about it, some examples here or here, which can help understand the matter in a model …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
