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While surfing the other day I came across this article in the Daily Times-Call newspaper and started thinking about it’s significance. Is this where the world of model railroad manufacturing is headed?
This company, Intermountain Railway co. of Longmont Colorado has whittled and pared their business down to what they consider a manageable business model, [...]
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Photography is an art, and never is this more obvious than when you set about lighting your model train layout for some killer pictures. It’s not simply a matter of flooding the area with light and see what happens, and it’s not depending solely on your flash, whatever camera you have. What happens won’t be [...]
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Atlas and it’s sister company Atlas O will unveil several new models this fall in several different scales.
First in N scale, the C-420, coming out in October, will sport the colors of the Arkansas & Missouri, Delaware and Hudson, Lehigh & Hudson River, Conrail, Lehigh Valley, Nickel Plate Road and Louisville & Nashville. There will [...]
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I’ve been working with HO scale for most of my model railroading life, mainly because there’s just so much available for it and it’s a reasonable trade off between detail and space required.
But once in a while, I wish I had the space to move to a larger scale. The detail of the equipment can [...]
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A German company called Handygames has just recently released a game called My Model Train that runs on some of the latest smartphones – cellular phones that can do much more than just make phone calls.
In My Model Train, players have to operate switches, signals and reverse tracks to solve logic problems as fast as [...]
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With most hobbies it’s easy to keep your prized possessions clean and safe – you simply place them into hermetically sealed containers and leave them there. But with model trains this can be a bit more difficult.
Ideally, preventing the settling of dust and dirt onto the surfaces of your scale models and trains is the [...]
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The Southern Oregon Mail Tribune had a story this morning about a model train store in Culver City that has recently been sold and downsized.
Allied Model Trains was one of the largest model train stores in the United States, housed in a half-block long replica of Union Station in Los Angeles.
The owner recently sold it [...]
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The Pacific Rails show was held this past weekend in Victoria, BC (Canada). It’s one of the bigger model railroading shows in the area, with a good number of layouts to see.
I love these kinds of shows where you can see some incredibly detailed layouts. On one hand, it makes me wish I had the [...]
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Whew, what a few months it’s been. We’ve had a birth, a death and a wedding in our family over the last few months which is why the updates to the site have been few and far between.
Things are finally getting back to normal around here so I’ll be able to focus more time and [...]
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