In the previous post I shared some photos of a sample of dirt ballasted track I’d made up in HO scale, standard gauge, as an extension of my general study in how I approach modelling this. That sample was made… Read More ›
Trackwork and Handlaid Track
track and roadbed thoughts
Single point plan
The two turnouts in this plan are both single point turnouts. While sipping coffee and mulling over the plan I think the easiest way to build these two is to simply edit the existing drawings. These were drawn in Templot… Read More ›
This. Right here.
That air gap between the foot of the rail and the top of the ballast. That is a detail I want from ballasting or laying track. I can not achieve that in a smaller scale (maybe I have and couldn’t… Read More ›
Monday screwin around
One of my favourite stories starts like: if you give a mouse a cookie. If you stick down some ties you’re going to add rail. And if you stick down rail you’ll want to paint it. So I did. I… Read More ›
Screwin around
I couldn’t help it. I quickly glued some code 55 rail onto those ties and grabbed one of the dump cars “just to see”. Code 55 is really light rail in O scale – 25lbs I believe – so maybe… Read More ›
Prince Street 