nScaleRail.com

An N scale model railroading blog by Tim Watson.

Lunde studios potential kitbash (Chadwick tower)

I was just playing around with my very sticky model from Lunde studios called Chadwick towers in Photoshop just to see what could be built. I will come back to this when I am not ...

Feb, 05 · in Structures

Layout progress: trackplanning full size.

So recently I have been jazzed to work on a trackplan for the EP&GL. For those of you who don’t know my fictional railroad, it stands for the Eaville, Prosphur and Goode, Labormore Railway Company. ...

Feb, 01 · in EP&GL

Do you TTRAK? You should.

So turns out one of the best things about model railroading in n scale is it’s small. Yup here I am again cap’n obvious. I mean n scale is portable and lightweight and has a ...

Feb, 01

EP&GL logo

The EP&GL is my “freelanced gotham” model railroad. It’s all theoretical now but the inspiration for it comes from both New York City and Chicago. Here is the logo for it. More to come later.

Jan, 22

How-to: spiking Atlas code 55 flextrack (no glue needed)

On the Atlas forums many years ago I described a method for attaching Atlas code 55 flex track to any kind of rigid base/sub roadbed. These are the photos from that experiment. Essentially you cut ...

Jan, 22

Demel Movement Company

I started this project as part of a challenge on the Railroad Line forums. I like those guys (they are very encouraging). Anyway, I started it over there because I wanted to see if I ...

Mar, 21

J. Marksberry Manufacturing

If you’ve been in N Scale any length of time and have been participating in the internet you have heard of Colonel Jim Marksberry. He was always willing to help me and loved to banter. ...

May, 15

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