Here’s a blast from the past….Splitting off of Miami’s “East Rail” siding, just south of the main industrial park, is a one track spur that dives into the weeds, and weaves through concrete canyons between closely packed structures. At the end of the spur there is a blind crossing of 37th Avenue to reach an […]
Entering into the Brooklyn Terminal project I had a lot of questions I needed to work through in my mind to see if I had a fighting chance of building something that at least approached what I’d done with my HO layouts. It wasn’t enough to be able to address the questions and challenges […]
A little photographic experimentation with mock ups as I start to gain momentum with the Brooklyn Terminal layout…… Boxcars are Micro Trains, the switcher is by Model Power, and the structures are DPM.
We’d all like to have our cake and eat it too but, unfortunately, life rarely pans out that way. An N scaler has the enormous advantage of being able to have a rather significant railroad virtually in their hip pocket. The small size also opens up the ability to have much more realistic scene composition […]
ProRail, the national operations convention, is now in the bag. I was a little surprised how drawn the attendees were to running the BT layout. For the most part it ran well although some minor track tuning issues cropped up. Approaches to this entire “operations” thing varies from person to person and layout host to […]