The timeless 80/20 rule, model railroad planning is not immune. All too often we have our 80/20 priorities backwards. We spend eighty per cent of our time wringing our hands over what I would consider more tactical issues and only twenty per cent on the much more important strategic questions. What curve radius to employ, […]
The oversize appearance of N scale rail is an issue visually, particularly in photographs. Actually, the oversize nature of many N scale components is a visual issue but for today let’s focus on the rail. With track appearance you are dealing with two components that really stand out if they are oversize, the rail web […]
N scale. N scale steam. Short wheelbase N scale steam. Tight radius street trackage. What could go wrong!? Actually things on the Brooklyn Terminal are going fairly well. However, if I’ve learned one thing in my forty plus years of modeling it’s this. It is really, really important, to get something running as soon as […]
Boulevards. They put a character stamp on a place. Bandini, District, Leonis, all boulevards in LAJ country. The names hint at heavy lifting, industry, and yet not in an ugly, rust belt, smog choked sort of way. Commerce is housed in structures designed almost a hundred years ago by architects with the natural gift […]