This was an amazing store. I visited a couple of times when I visited my brother in Denver. Sorry to see it close, but Duane and Joanna certainly...
Fastracks has jigs for Nn3 and N/Nn3 dual gauge turnouts. Some Nn3 modelers are also using the Rokuhan Z gauge track, which is very reliable and...
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said, "Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"? You all should be happy to hear that Thomas Knapp is very...
Hello, John! Yes, indeed! Patrick belongs to the local Bay Area Freemo-N group and has a Japanese-themed module. Brad Myers is a fellow NTRAK...
Ryan Kunkle, who wrote the referenced article, mistakenly must have thought that N scale was 1:120. That is, of course, TT scale where a mile...
Nice to see some Michigan Upper Peninsula modeling, albeit freelanced, but it does remind me of the Quincy and Torch Lake. I grew up in Munising...
International modeling Most of my trains are international, since I model three branch lines from very different locales. That also means I model...
P.S. to message 14: That should be Model Railroad Hobbyist magazine, January 2009 issue.
To simplify this discussion, I learned a couple of "Rules of Thumb" many decades ago that have served me extremely well in planning for reliable...
Russian N scale Yes, there is at least one. The Minitrix DR (East German Railway) Class 120 can be made into a Russian version pretty easily....
I'm with fellow Peninsula NTRAK / AsiaNRail modeler, Brad Myers, (reply #10 to this thread). I get scrap acrylic sheet cutoffs from my local TAP...
As I mentioned in reply to another thread on this forum, I'm 'in' at the "choose reward" level on this project. You can pledge as little as AUD 1...
I did my bit and made a "rewards level" pledge. As of today, the project is close to 25% funded. The "specs' on this look really good and Phil is...
