When, as a kid, I was mucking around with my TT-scale setup, there were precisely two kinds of points (or turnouts) you could buy: manual, and motorised. The motorised points were strictly surface-mounted, there was nothing else, at least not …
At the moment, we are living with some space constraints. The rooms in our house have fairly small footprints. So there isn’t much space to build a sprawling model railway table at this time. When we bought the first batch …
If there’s one thing I’ve learned in a rather short time when it comes to model railways, it’s that it is probably not the best idea to buy mixed track. In our first haul, we bought a starter train set …
So, what did we get from the first haul? We spent a good hour in the store, evaluating options and asking questions. Not a lot of details had been determined upfront. We knew it would be H0 scale or equivalent, …
When I was in my early teens, I used some saved money to buy myself a model railroad. The scale was TT (1:120), a scale that was popular in East Germany and still is in Eastern Europe, but has niche …
