I’m making slow and steady progress on the layout. I want to get the basic terrain, track, and ballast down so I can start operating the layout as quickly as possible. After that I can worry about landscaping, buildings, and other details. This will help me stay motivated to completion, because what’s the point of … Continue reading Getting to work on the Lewiston Branch
Continued from The Lewiston Branch in L-Gauge: Introduction My next challenge was turning 7.5 miles of branchline into a realistic, operating, achievable layout plan. As with any era-specific model railroading project, I started with my historical references. In this case, primarily the Robertson and Davis’ book Grand Trunk 713 and the Lewiston Branch, but also … Continue reading Lewiston Branch: Layout Plan
Much like Elroy, a scant 50 miles from me on the other side of the green mountains, I’m a huge fan of incorporating realistic railroad operations in minimal space with my Lego trains. Our influences are the same, Model Railroader and the old Railroad Model Craftsman magazines, the late Carl Arendt’s micro layouts website, and … Continue reading The Lewiston Branch in L-Gauge: Introduction
When I woke this morning I had planned to write an article about a very different subject. But upon opening my Facebook feed I was greeted with a post I made on my wall 5 years ago, concerning the topic of “Are LEGO® Trains considered real model trains?” The post was spurred by a Eurobricks … Continue reading Are we real model railroaders?
