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I recently purchased some Z Stuff for Trains track and crossing signals to use on my current project layout. I really like these, and...

I just posted a video review of the N scale Athearn Big Boy which you can see at the bottom of the post. This is a fantastic locomotive...

Athearn recently sent me three of their new 2600 cubic foot Airslide covered hopper cars to take a look at. One was a GATX modeled after...

A lot has been completed on the layout and will be covered in this post (once I have all of it finished in a week or two): All track has...

Ok, so this new 3.5" by 5.5" foot N scale project layout you can see here features a double track, twice around design. The size of this...

Great tools for improving your soldering game. Two of my recent tool acquisitions, both Christmas and birthday presents, were the Hakko...

In this post, we are going to take a look at the Athearn 53' bulkhead flatcars in N scale as well as an easy and basically free way to...

A very simple, easy to build, and fun to operate, N scale Inglnook switching layout that you can put together with about an hour of work....

Here is a look at the Athearn GP38-2 locomotive with DCC and Tsunami 2 sound in HO scale. Ok, first let's do a quick unboxing. The main...

In this post, I'm going to show you from start to finish how I built this 1 by 6.5 foot HO scale switching layout. This layout went...

After taking about 10 months off from working on the switching layout, I finally finished the layout. I'll probably still add a few more...

A 2x3' N Scale Mountain Layout Ok, so this project started back in the spring as part of a simultaneous build of four layout projects....

A preview of a small mountain-themed N scale model railroad layout. I've completed another small N Scale layout project. This layout is...

A small Inglenook Sidings switching layout for an office shelf.

A tiny layout with continuous running and some industrial switching operations.

Inexpensive, easy to make, and super realistic trees. The Scenic Express SuperTree material has been a popular base for realistic scale...

A durable, nice looking fence kit, but the fence posts and rails are too large for N Scale. I recently picked up a Woodland Scenics N...

I put together some resistor lookup tables for different combinations of LEDs and power supplies that I use myself when wiring up some...

An On30 locomotive kit built on a Bachmann engine. This was another Boulder Valley Models kit that I built a couple of years ago after...