O Gauge Trains – Top 3 Mistakes to Avoid O Gauge Trains Before you get too overly excited and jump in your car and dash down to the hobby store to get your hands on one of those beautiful O gauge trains in the store window-stop! Take a breath and just arm yourself with these [...]
Greenberg’s price guide to ‘N’ gauge trains Price: More N Gauge Trains Products
Bachmann Trains The Yard Boss Ready-to-Run N Scale Train Set 0-6-0 steam locomotive and tender 2 Freight cars and wide-vision caboose 24″ circle of nickel silver E-Z Track Power pack and speed controller Illustrated instruction manual When there’s freight to be moved, there’s nothing like the raw power of a steam locomotive to get the [...]
How to Take Care of Your Model Trains All the components necessary to build up a successful model train layout are expensive – locomotives, rolling stock, tracks, power controllers, buildings, landscaping, to list just some – these are all expensive. It is no wonder that the hobby of setting up and maintaining a model train [...]
This was shot at the Model Trains Museum at Balboa Park in San Diego. I had not seen many model train layouts and certainly never filmed any, but I had to try and capture some of what they had there. They have several large and detailed layouts and I highly recommend the museum to anyone [...]
History Of N-Scale Trains – How The Smaller Size Of N-Scale Trains Made Them So Popular N-scale trains have existed in some form as far back as 1927, but they are one of the newest of the model train sizes. Due to the prevalence of other scale trains that had been around longer, N’s did [...]
If you are a fan of G scale model trains, the LGB model train display at Living Desert in Palm Springs is a must-see attraction. Veronica Hill of California Travel Tips tours one of the best examples of model train layouts in California. This adorable train set features more than 3000 feet of track and [...]
N Scale Terrain For Trains Smoky Hollow Junction Model Train Layout – Painted N Scale Designed for Two Train Operation Brand New Painted Layout N Scale Terrain For Trains Smoky Hollow Junction Layout * Manufactuer: American Plastics * Painted Layout * Track and Switches Not Included * Condition: New: Comes in the Original Packaging. * [...]
Question by Phil: Is there a difference between Toy Model Trains, Model Trains and Toy Trains? I’m thinking about starting a new hobby. I like trains so I was thinking of buying a train set and laying it out in my garage. I’m new to this hobby and I’ve been searching on the internet to [...]
HO Scale Trains: Model Trains That Use The HO Scale Model trains, as well as any other replica of something that exists in real life, require a scale so as to multiply the dimensions of the train that they represent. Otherwise, they would look out of proportion. A scale is measured by two numbers, separated [...]