r/modeltrains

Weekday Running.

this was a small 2 day long project I did for fun, even though I had planned to turn this trolley into a European tram from the day I bought it from a friend, I think it turned out good, definitely more visually interesting than before

what is my plan: this is my first model railway build. I usually only build static models.

I Want to build a mountain scene with 2 levels. see my image. the outer 2 rails are the visible ones and the inner one is the not visible one. I was thinking to leave the middle hollow for access. my question is: will this work?(the middle numbers are not completely correct because scarm didnt let me reconnect the rails) I will use a N scale kato track. the layout is 1 meter by 1 meter. and if this works what kind of loco's would you recommand. I like german and british steam engines.

This is a railway. Not finished yet but a w.i.p, i am debating buying talyllyn for the railway but after watching some reviews it is literally just skarloey but with better details. Anyway I have 2 engines. Blanche (hunslet) and prince (small england)

I’m working against the clock because I’m entering this into a competition on Tuesday

Received this set from my uncle. It’s his from the late 50’s/early 60’s. Has been used in the last five years so pretty sure it works (he had set it up under his holiday tree a few years ago). He said I should try to sell it to a collector or hobbyist. I truly don’t know where to start. Any advice or info is greatly appreciated.

Posted help needed the other on this beautiful brand new 844 and unfortunately after all those wonderful people suggested different fixes i was running a test running the front truck on a stretched spring when she derailed near the edge of my layout and went for a tumble this is the resulting crash and im not sure how saveable this is I know the tender is unclipped and I think a few of the smaller pieces are also just unclipped but the leading truck is destroyed and im not sure about any of the connecting rods all seems straight but im not sure its still safe to run. Weather I take the chance to replace the front truck or not

These ended up being more of a project than I anticipated. N scale. Micro trains. A bunch of passes of gray and brown. Patched. Accidentally a pass of white. Brushed rust. Graffiti. Powder.

I need to learn to hand graffiti. I ran out of small white tags and couldn’t do exactly what I’d envisioned. That and the little tags have a lot of visible backing showing (particularly on the opposite side of the SCL). I tried to micro sol them but ended up taking off a lot of paint too so I stopped.

I don’t really love how the SCL came out (just now noticed 2 of the patch numbers escaped at some point too), so it may eventually get some experiments with denting the top and sides.

They‘ll get loads eventually. I wasn’t real happy with the set I ordered.

As always, critiques appreciated.

Thought I'd have a go at some graffiti. It's not really my thing but I'm trying to improve my weathering skills. It's an old HO scale life-like hopper I'm using as a test. Still needs a coat of matte over the decals. What do you guys think. Too much?

First purchase of what I’m sure will be many

Kato UP844 & water tenders in the picture with UP1982 providing dynamic braking at the rear.

Getting ready for operations to begin.

If it wasn't powerful enough to pull them, then explain this!

I ordered it off of Ebay for half off what i would’ve paid in the store! I absolutely LOVE it!

Sooo, I bought this MTH Dreyfuss Hudson used. It was listed as a totally dead decoder. Once I got it, I powered up the tender, got the lights and sounds to work. When connected to the engine I would get a short error. I did find that the output wires from the tender were backwards. I swapped them over, short error went away but no movement. I was getting power to the boiler board so I got a replacement from MTH. Still same symptoms, I reset it with Loco 55 cv55=55 and no change. I do know about the F3 start up thing. Anyone have an idea what I should be looking into? I’m working with a NCE power cab so I guess I’m limited.