Model railroading is a hobby. It’s recreation. Our “success” is measured by how much satisfaction we wring from our efforts. While the occasional “attaboys” are nice, most of the time, we are performing for an audience of one, ourselves. Unlike a performing or commercial artist, we don’t carry the burden of having to please an…
Fine Standards N Scale
When I started on the Brooklyn Terminal layout it wasn’t with the intention of making it a “Fine N Scale” project. “Fine N Scale” is a sub-section of the hobby dedicated to, as the name implies, much more delicate cross sections that are closer to prototype dimensions. It’s a small niche of a scale that…
Cross Pollination
Facing west from 13th Avenue towards the First Coast of Miami produce stand on my Downtown Spur layout. A recently saw the movie White Crow, a biopic on the life and career development of ballet star Rudolph Nureyev. Lots of lessons for us in there. How in the world could a movie on ballet have…
Prototype Modeling’s “Handcuffs”
The success of a layout, ultimately measured by the satisfaction we wring out of it, is usually determined before we even begin construction. I’ll take it a step further, it even starts before we begin drawing a track plan. It’s such a subtly complex topic because it may take years to ultimately know whether we…
Stepping Outside The Sandbox
Model railroading is a hobby that allows it’s participants to dig in and participate as much or as little as they’d like. On one end of the spectrum would be the casual recreationalist. This is someone who wants to have a basic representational layout that he can unwind with now and then, perhaps entertain the…
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