Locomotive Maintenance for The Non-Engineer

August 3, 2007

If you’re crazy about your railway and its smooth operation then you need to get to be an expert in cleaning and maintaining your locomotives. It’s hard to feel proud of your railroad when the locomotive lurches and jerks its way onto your tracks, thus doing it to all the cars behind it; nothing very [...]

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Kitbashing Structures – When Off The Shelf Just Won’t Do

July 30, 2007

Kitbashing is the art of taking a model kit, or even a readymade piece and altering it (bashing!) to make it more like what you had in mind. This is done when we can’t seem to find exactly what we want directly off the hobby shop shelf, and are forced to become a scale size [...]

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Do You Need DCC or Analog Control?

July 27, 2007

When it comes to controlling your model trains on the tracks, you are pretty much left with two choices: Analog control and DCC (Digital Command Control). There are vast differences between these two methods of controlling your trains on the track, and here we’ll look at them and discuss what you may need for your [...]

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Atlas to Distribute New Masterpiece HO Model Cars in August

July 25, 2007

Atlas Model Railroad Co. will distribute four new Masterpiece Ho model vehicles in August , 2007, in three different paint and body schemes each. All of these prototypically correct ready to go models will be priced at between $14.95 and $16.95. Here’s a look at what’s coming down the pike!
Austro Daimler – Three models, the [...]

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How to Model Water on Your Model Railroad Layout

July 20, 2007

There are many ways and materials with which to model water, either still or moving, on your model railroad layout.  Understanding the nature of this water, (be it river, stream, pond, ocean, etc.) is essential to getting a grasp on just how you want to go about  modeling it, and the material you’ll want to [...]

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End of An Era? Or a Business Strategy?

July 17, 2007

While this story certainly tugs at your emotions, it got me to thinking about the changing nature of the business hobby shop owner find themselves in these days. While Wold’s Hobbies during their 30 years of serving their community certainly made an impact, serving even second and third generation modelers, Chet Wold’s statement that ‘the [...]

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Top Tree Tips for Your Model Railroad Layouts

July 16, 2007

These days you can certainly buy all the forest you can carry home for your model railroad layout. You’ll probably end up enhancing those pieces and wishing you’d either done it all from scratch in the first place or at least had given it some more thought. Point is, while you can get some good [...]

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Getting a Good Start in Model Railroading

July 13, 2007

If you’ve decided to take the plunge and get into model railroading, this article will offer a few tips to not only help you get off to a successful and enjoyable start, but to set you up for a lifetime of great fun and satisfaction.
A model railroad is more than a kids train set running [...]

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Z Scale Beckons..

July 12, 2007

It’s funny how you can overlook something for so long and all of a sudden it just clicks into place for you.
I was poking around on www.ztrains.com today – which is an excellent place to learn more about Z scale model trains, by the way – and something jumped out at me.
One of the more [...]

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Keep Those Model Train Tracks Clear – And Clean!

July 10, 2007

For those of us who have power running through our rails to move our locomotives, keeping the track clean can be the difference on whether our railroad is running or not! Dirty tracks can be the culprit that slows your engines to a stop. Our trains rely on electric current going through the tracks to [...]

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