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Hello, it's been a while since I've posted here. My previous layout project was put on hold after moving to a place without space for anything, but now I was able to convince her who must be obeyed into allowing me to use one wall of the bedroom for building a layout. Given that space is still...

...tight as just under one foot in diameter. As far as I know most stuff that runs on rails will just laugh at you as soon as you think of having them run close to something like that. I tried to run a four axle, two bogie locomotive (my hideous old Piko) through such a curve in a test layout...

Anyone care for a nice slice of pizza? Toppings include a most delicious hill, a highly entertaining tram loop (free tunnel included!) and a most extraordinary funicular climbing up the hill. Add a road snaking through the lower part of the layout, a couple of beautiful trees, maybe even in...

Have been gone from the Gauge for some months and suddenly the layout and the name changed. The shock! Well, I guess it's all acceptable and all, especially after finding out that the core has stayed the same. Figured I had to post something, as the forum pushed a feeling of guild upon me with...

I was toying around a bit, wiring up some LEDs and connecting them with the resistor that came with them to the transformer. Well, the LED works and I found out that LEDs are a nifty little way of determining the polarity, but I happened to burn my fingers when I touched the resistor - It was...

I need about 1 to 2 feet of escalator for my layout (4 or 6 of them) and was wondering whether there are any convincing kits available to build them, as I think scratchbuilding would be quite fiddly. Doesn't have to be anything fancy, just something for the railings and the steps. Thanks!

A few pictures from the line Szeged-Subotica taken a few weeks ago. First, third and fourth picture belong together and are the most interesting ones. This is a railbus (Schienenbus) of a type built in Germany in the 1950s and while most of them are on scrapheaps and few are in service as...

Don't have any pictures to share about my layout (yet), so I'll share this little snapshot I made last weekend: 24th of June, Hollandse Rading, Netherlands. Train pictured is a Mat.64, plan V. The regular short distance material used by the NS (Dutch Railroads). But what's so special are the...

Being pretty much ready to start thinking about laying some track, I started pondering about the best way of doing it. A few notes/questions: - Glueing the track directly to the wooden benchwork is probably a bad idea given the noise it'll produce. - A thin sheet of styrofoam, the blue/pink...

Maybe it's a bit silly, but came across this, and wanted to share with you. http://legnangel.livejournal.com/564026.html

Already many, many years I've been wondering about this, but have never dared to ask, but just to show my ignorance: Is is possible to have two trains moving independently on the same track if one is fed through the track and one gets it's juice through a catenary? And this, of course, without...

I hope this is the right place for this question. Allright, cheapskate that I am, I bought a number of second hand turnouts, simple, handoperated ones. (Minitrix, with a fairly large box next to it with the mechanism in it) When I tried whether they worked as they should, I found out, that the...

Toured around the baltics a bit so I thought I'd share a few pictures I managed to take. And I apologise for being a lousy photographer. First two: Riga. Third and fourth: Tallinn Fifth - Tallinn trolleybus depot.

While planning my layout, and coming to the point of thinking about the electrical part - I came to wonder about the issue of transformers/power packs. The trains on the layout will be light, N gauge trains, and there is a small chance that two will be running on one cirquit. The first...

Allright - I decided to start building a little layout. One which will fit onto a bookshelf, as I haven't got too much space, but I have some spare bookshelves, and it would be a shame to waste that space. As a theme for the layout I decided to build a subway, the Moscow metro to be precise...