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Round the mountain

 

Bill Krippner doesn't even pretend it's all for the kids.

The 46-year-old Hillsborough electrical engineer brashly admits that his 20-year-long tinker with model trains is not for his own children.

Neither is it for the dozen children who are lining up at Centre Park in Mangere for a $2 ride on his blue Thomas the Tank Engine-inspired steam engine.

"It was always for me. It was my thing. If you ask the guys here what we do, we say, 'we come here and play trains'."

 

Read the rest here: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/news/article.cfm?c_id=7&objectid=10682363

Huge video resource!

Wow, just found a huge video resource for all things model trains. I know you can find stuff on youtube but these are full on documentaries on the matter!

 

http://www.kwg.tv/search/?q=model+trains

 

Check this.

 

If anyone has anything they would like to share with the community don't hesitate to contact me on my page.

 

Happy Railroading

 

Alex

Building a lift out bridge! - Trains o scale update

This is a great idea for many situations. Most common of course for layouts that hug the walls of a room and you control from within.

 

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Il be posting part 2 shortly.

Happy Railroading

Alex

 

 

Model Trains and The age of Electronic Technology

Electricity has always been problematic; Even though, it does many functions and serves many purposes.  Not only does its molecular polarity provide energy, it also conducts Radio Frequencies.  Those of you, who run Transformer controlled Locos, pride yourselves as not having “Electronic Melt-downs” – Which is a great thing. There are the occasional voltage spikes that melt wires and burn light bulbs though.

 

Electronic cards are much more sensitive to the power source it receives, due to the fact that they function on much lower voltages (Due to heat and space requirements).  Clean power is much more critical to these cards, but it’s almost impossible to attain – unless we install Sine-wave filters in our home’s power supply.  Prime example is the water that comes out of our faucets.  Radio frequencies abound our homes and we pay little attention to them (Telephones, Microwaves, Televisions, Ect.).  They also have an impact on the train’s operation.      

Realism does come at a price.  Reliability is much more expensive to achieve.  The train manufacturers can not afford to implement these technologies, if we are not willing to share the burden of cost.  Most of you guys are into the “Old Technology”, not because of its simplicity – but because of COST (3 T/C Locos for the price of 1 Legacy Loco).

 

Model Railroading to me, is creating “Realism”.  We use our imagination to “Live” the fantasy.  The Sounds; the autonomy of being able to run several trains at the same time on the same track, is a part of what makes the experience real.  To me, pre-electronics is like being “Deaf-Mute” *.  There is no communication in that experience.  

 

 

Courtesy of Juan @

 

http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/181136/1983004.aspx

A Train Set That's Been 50 Years in the Making

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Sirois served as Old Town's fire chief for many years, and after a hard day's work, he would often spend evenings working on his train set unwinding. But his hobby truly blossomed in full after he retired in 2001: He added to his layout in a basement room at his home, built scale model structures for it, painstakingly repainted and resculpted the landscape, changed the layout to make full use of the space he had. He lowered the ceiling and installed new lighting for the room. There's an elaborate wiring scheme, lights blinking and flashing everywhere, an array of switches and transformers to control movements on the tracks. 

 

Read the full article here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5887520/a_train_set_thats_been_50_years_in.html?cat=7

 

 

Nooooooooooooo!!!! Last stop for model train shop

The Channel Islands' only model train shop will be closing its doors for the last time in December.

 

 

Model World in Guernsey has been selling model railways, die-cast vehicles and Airfix models for the last 18 years.

But now its owner Malcolm Tostevin has announced his retirement.

Malcolm said: "I got my passion when I was about six, seven years old and I was in Peterborough at the end of the War. We used to go collecting names and numbers and I always remember putting a penny on the line and a big train would come along and squash it to a massive size. A man saw me do it once and he said I was going to derail the train. At six years old I was petrified until the train had come and gone."

The model trains and cars have had a good mileage. The shop spent ten years at Camp du Roi, then moved on to Strawberry Farm and spent its last three years at Oatlands.

Whilst there will no longer be a shop, Malcolm says he will continue to collect the models as his hobby.