The Harrington & Ellesmere Railroad
Development of my model railroad
Before electrical work begins on the model railroad, electrical standards for how the cabling is going to be constructed need to be defined. Having a standard will help later so that faults can be tracked and it will be easy to know what wires are which. Track Power Feeds These will be 12-gauge cables, red […]
Read moreAdding scenery detail, like a road bridge add interest and also heigh to a model railroad. They are also good for providing scene dividers. A nice example is the image below: The above image shows the very good modeling of a busy and well-used road. If you look at just the road nearest the camera […]
Read moreThe design and building of a model railroad depend entirely upon the track plan. As the layout is a model, only a part of the world can be replicated, so the designer has to decide what is important and what can be left out. This page describes the first ideas for my track plan, i.e., […]
Read moreAnother key component of the design is which time period the model is intended to represent. Generally, these are either steam-era, transition-era (where steam and diesel locomotives are both running), and Diesel-era. The transition period is usually considered to be the 1950s and 1960s. For me, I think steam locomotives are more interesting than Diesel […]
Read moreI’ve found a couple of packages that are used, there undoubtedly are more, to plan model railroads, AnyRail, and 3rd PlanIt. AnyRail AnyRail is an entry-level tool designed to provide the ability to design layouts. It has several libraries of track to choose from and has some building footprints. I have found it easy to […]
Read moreThis is the first in a series of scenery details I’d like to consider. They add realism to the layout and also provide simple but effective small projects to make building the layout fun. The first one is a drainage pipe outlet into a ditch. This can be installed on a flat-board layout as the […]
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