I have several buildings that I will need to scratch build for my HO scale ICRR layout.  I have photographed some of them and have thought about how to draw them so that I might have some plans to work with when I begin to scratch build them.  That search brought me to Google sketchup. 

this is a short slide show on how installed caboose hobbies ground throws. more text in the slide show. thanks for watching. comments, questions & subs are welcome. i forgot to mention an important item...the ground throws...

vinny..aka...bnsf6951

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Scale Model Animation

Model Railroading is a terrific hobby for me because it excites many of my own interests including railroading (of course), scale modeling, history, electronics, photography, geology, and animation – to name a few. But it is animation—bringing the models to life—that brings it all together for me, and brings the most satisfaction.

So now that we have a thread dedicated to German Railroads and we have Michaels' very nice work, it has occurred to me quite suddenly that MRH itself may be in for a question of the minds: Does MRH go International?

Such an issue was never really an issue of contention for the old paper volumes: they picked a demographic and targeted it, as their medium limited them to that market.

Greetings!

After stalking everyone else's work on here, I figured it was time I contributed as well! 

Hello, I am new to model railroading and received a starter set. kato N gauge set M2 with turnouts. I would like to be able to park a train on the turnout while operating a 2nd train on the layout. Do I have to buy DCC for the engines and a DCC transformer. or is there some type of switch I can buy to switch the power off on the turnout track only while keeping power to run the main track layout. Thanks for any help and suggestions you can give me.

One issue that I encountered building the layout is that occasionally the switch motor installation needed a bit of tweaking before it worked correctly. The tortoise motor always worked, but sometimes the motor position, alignment or extended actuator wire shape was, shall we say, suboptimal. I had been hooking things up, then wandering around with the throttle and triggering the motors with switch commands. But I found this was a pain, particularly when the turnout was in an inaccessible part of the layout.

Sometime ago, there was a blog entry admiring a workbench purchased from a box type of store in the ( I think ) Northwest.  I have searched the blogs with the search engine and reading them again and can't seem to find the entry.  If you could help, I would appreciate it. 

Trying to do the Rio Grande in New Mexico

Thanks

Roger Bodwell

As a member of the Dutch modular model railroad club the PH&LF Railroad Association I made several modules. My main two module sets are Meesville and New Eastbrook. Both are a work in progress whereas Meesville is the most complete scene.

With this blog I will give every now and then an update on my building progress. For the buildings on the modules I try to make as much as possible my own scratchbuild buildings.

To start two pictures of both module sets in current state.

Meesville: