2022 In Retrospect
Another year has gone by, and while this blog was offline for part of it, sufficient things have happened in the train room this year. The layout has made progress to the point where we can at least run trains, …
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A late 2021 Retrospective
2021 is behind us by over a month already It’s hard to believe how fast such a busy and eventful year can end. The bad news is that not a whole lot has happened in the train room this past …
The New Train Room: Frameworks
After a week of straight work, with a few disruptions and two trips to the hardware store, the frame for the new train room is finished. Where the first day saw fast progress, things slowed down a bit over the …
The New Train Room: Beginnings
It was always sort of planned that at some point, our model trains would move elsewhere. The room we used until now is quite small, and while we managed to maximise space usage in it, actually working in there was …
Lighting up the Buildings
I didn’t think I would have to deal with this topic at this stage. While I have started putting together some kits for model buildings, they were all perfectly suited to leaving the interior lighting aspect for a later time. …
Layout Progress
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 …
The First Table(top)
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 …