I was able to do more work on my HO scale train table layout mountain and scenery. As this was the first time I’ve done scenery I was a little apprehensive, but I decided to just dive in. I taped up the rock castings and sprinkled grasses all over the mountain. The lid on the […]

It’s been a long time since I had an update on my HO scale train table layout, and that is mostly due to the fact that I haven’t actually done anything on it. Over the last several months I tried setting aside some time to work on it, mostly creating the mountain and tunnels on […]

Apparently the city of Fullerton does the Fullerton Railroad Days most years, and I wanted to check it out (especially since it’s only a few miles away). There were several different layouts in different scales, but the one I liked the most was a modular HO layout as you first walk into the area which […]

I already knew I was going to have a mountain and a small town on my layout, and I wanted to have some of the track elevated so everything wasn’t just sitting on the same level ground. But I had to figure out what track would be elevated and how I would do it. The […]

As soon as the table was upright and in position, I immediately set up the track on it. It was just a simple loop that took up the whole table. I was content for a few days just running the train around, but I soon wanted more. So I sat down and used AnyRail to […]

Due to the size of the train table (5×8) I had to get rid of my rather large desk. I’m now using a desk about half the size of my old one. But that was the requirement my wife set in order to have the train table upstairs. It’s now taking up pretty much all […]

I don’t remember what exactly it was that made me decide to start model railroading, but one day early February 2013 my wife, our 9 month old baby and I went to the local model train store and ended up getting a locomotive, a 3-bay hopper and a loop of Kato Unitrack (with power pack!). […]