Model Railroading — Blog Post #7
For details on this blog, please click here! European Railway Notes January 2017 Tunnels Part 1 Tunnels for railways seem like a pretty straight forward concept. To connect two places with a railway, when those places have mountains in between them, you think about a tunnel. Ideally, you’d build this tunnel in a straight line […]
Model Railroading — Blog Post #6
For details on this blog, please click here! European Railway Notes December 2016 While I was looking at various pages of rescue train photos I saw some comments from other readers. Using Google to translate the page I was able to get the general idea of one reader’s comments. This person was saying that the […]
Model Railroading — Blog Post #5
For details on this blog, please click here! European Railway Notes October 2016 Following on from last month, I wanted to learn more about the trains used to deal with emergencies that can happen out on the railway. From a photo of one of these trains I had found the phrase Netz Notfalltechnik (German for […]
Model Railroading — Blog Post #4
For details on this blog, please click here! European Railway Notes August 2016 The mainstream media is quick to report accidents but rarely goes back to inform us about what actually caused the disaster. Back in February 2016, there was an accident in Germany, near Bad Aibling. Two passenger trains crashed head on at speed. […]
My Transition From Marklin 3-rail to 2-rail DCC
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Model Railroading — Blog Post #3
For details on this blog, please click here! My first layout, the 4’x8′ setup with a simple oval of track, had been taken apart. I was using the plywood table for the base of my Marklin layout which was in my bedroom. I now had three nested ovals of track with turnouts connecting them. Marklin […]