A pair of new Oakway SD60s leading a BN coal train. I picked up this pair of HO scale SD60s brand new in box, which was pretty surprising as its been a few years since their release. I went thru them mechanically and got them running, then installed soundtrax tsunami 2 decoders and speakers from …
Onboard video of the HO scale layout. This is the same track plan as the current N scale layout, just a bigger scale track.
Following a coal train touring the original N scale layout. Be sure to watch the entire video, a surprise double SD70MAC DPU is on the rear of the train.
Growing up on a farm, we had a couple quonsets to store machinery in. These were not small buldings, they held a couple combines as well as tractors and other machinery. I noticed Rix made a model of a quonset but it was way too small. Since I am back in N scale, I decided …
This video comes for the HO layout version 2. A GP7 is loading some grain cars as a freight passes. I will say the sound on the Athearn GP7 sounded so cool. And I am going to miss those custom weathered Scaletrains SD40-2s.
With all of the wonderful weather today (spelled blizzard), it made me think of the snow bus. Here is my really bad photoshop job of my n scale BN snow bus.
A video of a BN intermodal train on the original N scale layout.
Enjoy a tour of my first N scale layout as we follow a BN coal train around the tracks.
Amazing what a friend or two, and a trip to the hobby shop, can do to one’s plans. I started noticing how hard it was to find equipment in my era in HO scale, and how easy it seemed to find it in N scale. And the cost was much higher in HO than I …
Bigger is always better right? As I got deeper into N scale, there were some things that just drove me nuts. Lack of choices for some things, like semi trucks for example. There was a whole list of things…and then something caught my eye. An HO scale locomotive came home with me one day, you …
