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Hi! There has been a little progress here today! After a failed attempt at making a tunnel liner using floor leveling compound I bought a bag of plaster and did it again, this time with good results. The plaster was poured over a master made by covering a pre-shaped "skeleton" of cardboard...

Hi! Thank you for all your nice comments! Track cleaning is a well worn subject that keeps coming up from time to time. All track needs cleaning and mine is no different. I thought I'd show you a photo of my track cleaning wagon. It was made by Roco and originally equipped with an abrasive track rub...

Hi Rhys!

Thanks for the photo. I like your sense of humor!

Best Wishes,
Tom

Hi! It's summer here in Norway with temperatures around 28º C and that means it's nice to sit under the parasol on the porch building and painting models! My Peco girder bridge with Wills abutments is just finished using Railmatch and Humbrol oil paints. It was installed in my rather unconventional...

Hi! At the moment I'm working on a Peco girder bridge on abutments from Wills. After that I will be doing an awful lot of boring rail-painting and ballasting. My condition dictates that these jobs will take some time but at least I have a photo of my programming track mounted on the railway's facia ...

Hi! The summer season is the time to do those necessary chores outdoors here in Norway like painting the house and all those other things that are downright awful to do during the cold winter months. It's raining today so I thought I'd do some modelling and decided to show you my worbench. Here's a ...

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Thank you for all the nice comments! Yes the loco is no.1419 by Hornby. It's a really sweet-running engine I bought at Porthmadoc on the Ffestiniog Railway in 2005.

Best Wishes,
Tom

Hi! On any model railway there is always the danger of derailed rolling stock plunging to the floor when it is not protected by the surrounding scenery. As this railway has a good deal of concealed track I made some protective walls of 20mm thick polystyrene sheet I had purchased for scenery constru...

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Great photos! Thanks for sharing with us!

Best Wishes,
Tom

Hi! The table was built using the "L-girder" principle first used by Linn Westcott of Model Railroader magazine in the early 60's by screwing together two 1"X4" boards forming an "L" to which the legs are attached. The L's are then joined together with horizontal joists...

Hi! Thank you all for your comments! They really encourage me to get on with things and do some more work! Couplers have always been a big issue to me. All my european stock is equipped with standard NEM 360 couplers and all my American stock is equipped with Kadee couplers or the clones, again pret...

Layout looks like a good challenge with the reverse-loops!!! :D Good luck with it and excellent work with the castors :wink: Paul Hi Paul The reverse loop challenge was solved very easily by using an automatic reverse unit - it's DCC. I guess I should have mentioned that earlier. I use a Digitrax Z...

Hi! Thank you all for your nice comments! I work in HO/OO scale in that very sense of the word! I enjoy British, American and Continental railways so I intend to try to make the railway capable of running all of them as convincingly as possible, obviously not at the same time. All curves are 24"...

Hi! This is the first time I post any of my work on a forum but here goes! The layout was started in November 2005 and is an adaption of trackplan number 48 "Virginia & Truckee" from the book "101 Track Plans for Model Railroaders" by Kalmbach Publications. Here it is: http:/...

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It saddens me to see how the people in charge of the Norwegian railways just love to ruin our trains and railways. Thank goodness we can model the British (BR-era) scene!

Best Wishes,
Tom