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…
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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…
I will show you how to clean the wheels on your model train locomotives
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…
A short film introducing my OO gauge model railway layout, London Road. The layout is set in the North of England during the 1950s.
The history of electric model trains goes back to the 1920s and many of the first and best manufacturers were British. During WWII, most British industries, including toy train manufacturers,…