If one is considering additional operations the locomotive servicing terminal is certainly an option to consider, I always find fascinating all the scenes around this area, namely the locomotive sheds combined with the turntable. In my opinion this is an “investment” to be considered since it adds a feature that no other infrastructure can do, [...]

Why railroad modelling? Since young age I’ve been fascinated by trains, who hasn’t? Now with a little extra space I’ve decided to start building a layout and create my own miniature world around trains.   But it didn’t come all at once, the decision I mean. I was very much influenced by a colleague at [...]

I’ve created three imaginary cities with the purpose of having the origin and destination of cargo and passengers. The main city is Mittelstadt, a name I got from a station kit from  Faller, the same happened with Guglingen, again the name from a station from Faller, the third city will be named Terras do Douro. Besides the [...]

Scenery is perhaps one of my favorite parts of model railroading. That´s when you start to see things taking shape and to get a glimpse how things will be at the end. My scenery was build in layers, first the main structural support frames, made of styrofoam, fibre panel or even cardboard. On top of this [...]

The track plan. The original trackplan was taken from the handbook that came with the starter set. Obviously when I started to put it down on the screen, using Raily 4.0, which by the way is a very good SW (value for money that is…), I didn’t have all the nice and very well detailled [...]

I’m glad by the time I decided to start building the benchwork I’ve already read a book or two on the subject. One of them specific on it. I decided for the L-Girder type of structure and for the begginers as me, although it seems complicated, in fact by following the instructions and excelent pictures [...]