Flashback: Train Room Tetris
After a long time, the work on the new layout finally began almost a year ago. The shape of the layout is roughly a W. The sides are going up the entire length of the walls. One side will have …
Track
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 …
Point motor Shoot-out, Pt. II
When I first played around with point motors not too long ago, I came across some differences between the Peco and Hornby motors I used, and at the time I thought that I wouldn’t mind using the Peco motors (and …
Point motor Shoot-out
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 …
Track Mix
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 …