Weathering your toy trains is a creative way to depict realistic landscapes. Begin your project by looking up images of old trains on the Internet or in books. Take note…
It’s great to see your model trains running around the track, but if they suddenly stop, tip over or can’t get started, you will have to troubleshoot the problem. Electrical…
You still see them in stores during the Christmas holiday, wending their way on tabletops through snow-laden model towns. But electric trains, and especially the locomotives that power them, require…
Lionel toy trains run on O gauge and O27 gauge three-rail track, and today’s hobbyists can chose between traditional O gauge and standard O gauge track when designing and building…
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With RailMaster connected, the power of the Elite can be harnessed like never before. RailMaster is a totally new way to control a model railway. Just connect the Elite via…
XPressNet is a Command Bus used by Atlas, Lenz, Hornby, OpenDCC (DIY), Paco Canada (DIY), ZTC Controls, Viessmann, and Roco. It was developed by Lenz. The XPressNet specification (available from…
Digital Command Control (DCC) is a standard for a system to operate model railways digitally. When equipped with Digital Command Control, locomotives on the same electrical section of track can…
Hornby Railways is a British model railway brand. Its roots date back to 1901, when founder Frank Hornby received a patent for his Meccano construction toy. The first clockwork train…
An N scale train is a model train that is 160 times smaller than the real train it is replicating. Hobbyists uses them extensively in limited-size model train sets and…