Another railroad blog

Just by chance, I came across this blog. I've read through some of it and it's really entertaining. I recommend it to anyone interested in (north american) model railroading. :-) Don't forget to book mark mine too though :-)

Rolling road.

One of my fellow modelers Mike Ruby, build a rolling road to use for his HO loco's when setting up sound etc. Footage from his page on Youtube.
He writes" This is my rolling road. I use it for testing locos and programming Loksound decoders. Now after getting the speedo to work I can use it to set up speed curves in a controlled and easy way. Something I have been trying to make work for the six month"  

RS Tower at London Festival of Railway Modeling

This weekend it is time for the "London Festival of Railway Modeling" show, in Alexandra Palace, London.
One of the layouts present will be that of Exeter region (UK) based RS tower RS Tower.
A quick preview of this exhibition layout can be found below. I personally can't stop by, but it promises to be an exellent modelrailroad show this year. 

Taft Yard

Another great layout in the making is that of Trevor Smith in the UK, who has a double layer layout under construction. This Fotopic page shows a nice overview on how he painted his backdrop and is progressing his scenery. The top shelf is california based, while the lower level will be Florida based. He confesses he is influenced by the same modelers as myself, namely Pele Soeeborg from Denmark, and Lance Mindheim from the  USA. Lance models Florida, Pele models California, so this may be more than a coincidence :-)

Parker subdivision

Here is a link to pictures of another US modelrailroad, build by Tom Parker. The layout is largely inspired by Pele Soeeborg's Daneville & Donner River.  You can find it by clicking here.

Bearwood HO group

This footage was shot during a recent railroad exhibition and shows of the modular layout of the Bearwood HO group from Poole in the UK.  One of the builders comments: "It's 30ft x 11 ft but there's no track plan of the whole thing. It is an oval with 20ft long, 10 track yard down one side and one of two available sets of scenicked modules down the other. One set of 180-degree corners is scenicked as shown in the video, the other is totally bare" Enjoy!

ONtrax 2010 once more

Another video was posted this week of Ontrax 2010. You can see it by clicking on this link .
It is nice to see how the layout is enjoyed by young and old. Perhaps a new generation of model railroaders in the making :-) This video is of higher quality than the previous one.