The other day, I posted a ficticious Pennsylvania paint scheme on a Dash 9 in response to a post by forum member, One of One-Sixty. This morning on the drive to work, I started thinking…... [Read more]

I’ve been wanting to do a Mobil gas station for a long time. I even bought Al’s Victory Service kit by Walthers and the City Classics gas station with the intent to one... [Read more]

As much as Chris and I love N Scale Limited, sometimes it’s difficult to find enough time to sit down and write full length articles and still keep modeling. Plus, there’s... [Read more]

Let’s take a look at New York City’s Pennsylvania Station — one of the most architecturally-significant pieces of railroad history — as seen through the Hollywood’s... [Read more]

It’s time to continue the Pennylvania Railroad Hunt Tower built from part 1, and start building some windows and assembling walls.  Photo by Flickr member, McIvory. Used with... [Read more]

And so begins my adventure in scratch-building a structure. Sure, I’ve scratch built things for my model railroad before — newsstands, kiosks, a pigeon coop and other small... [Read more]

How many times have you worked on a project with strip styrene, only to find a pile of random pieces left when you’re done? Is that .015″ or .020″? You’re not... [Read more]

William Wrigley Jr., founder of the Wrigley Chewing Gum empire, started a Chicago-based business in 1891 selling soap. To help sell his soap, he began giving away baking powder with... [Read more]

No matter what era you model, how can you not have a billboard for Erector — the hugely popular toy construction sets that were a staple in American households from the 1930s... [Read more]

How many times have you wanted to add three-dimensional lettering to your structures for signage, only to find that your choices for good N-scale-sized letters are extremely limited  I’ve... [Read more]