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Seaboard Southern NMRA show, 16 September 2023
I usually try and get to this show – it’s local, there are often some good layouts, and excellent trade (if you want to buy more American trains.) But on Saturday, I had offered to do a hospital run to … Continue reading
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Tagged exhibition, model railroad, N gauge, NMRA
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Morden Milk
These photos are just crying out to be modelled! The Express Dairy depot as South Morden was perhaps the largest and most modern in the country, but was short lived. Built after WW2, the site is now covered by an … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, model railroad, N gauge, Southern Railway
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Seaboard Southern NMRA show, 17 September 2022
Saturday was the local NMRA group’s annual meet at the Charis Centre in Crawley. Although I am modelling less American railroads than in the past, it’s a local show and well worth a visit. Even better, Simon picked me up … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibitions, Inspiration, Layout design, Out and about
Tagged exhibition, model railroad, N gauge, NMRA
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Stewarts Lane – sort of
Amongst all my other projects ongoing, I have two N-club boards that need some railway on them. So how about squeezing a quart into a pint pot? Stewarts Lane lay just south of the River Thames in Battersea and was … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, model railroad, N gauge, Southern Railway
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East Croydon
No, I’m not about to build another layout – progress continues to be good on the Minories, and all will be reported soon. Last month I came across this picture of the tracks just to the south of East Croydon … Continue reading
The olden days?
As a diversion from my layout design travails, I came across some historic model railway designs on RMWeb, that are worth reposting. The Larpool and Easington (or was it Easington and Larpool) railway appears in the Railway Modeller sometime in … Continue reading
The three-point trick
I’ve always appreciated Ian Futer’s layouts, and their underlying designs. Some of his best designs are his three-point specials. Very simple, but with enough operation built in to be reasonably interesting to operate. This month’s Railway Modeller brought these plans … Continue reading
Repost – Layout design – different voices – micro-layouts
Another repost today. All’s well in the Bartlett household, but modelling has been replaced by gardening for a day or two. After Maxine’s epic pruning work, fortunately the shredder still worked. And the results were spectacular! Back to the post…. … Continue reading
LVRR – Dorothy
This would make an interesting model! No. 1, the private car of the Lehigh Valley Railroad’s superintendant. Must have been a bit hot inside during the summer months! But imagine the comments you’d get as this trundled past on a … Continue reading
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Tagged Layout design, Lehigh Valley, model railroad
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What could go wrong?
A quick post from Facebook Traction Modelling group – it deserves a wider audience. This slightly predated health and safety, I think! 1/2 inch scale (larger than Gauge 1) 110V (yes 110) overhead line power supply The loco is powered … Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration, Jon's layout ramblings, Layout design, Traction
Tagged interurban, Layout design, model railroad, traction
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