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 fire off a quick post about it.

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 in that scale and from the available suppliers.

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.