New York City

Today, October 18, 2010, marks the 100 year anniversary of New York City’s Pennsylvaion Station.  Amtrak, along with New Jersey Transit and the Long Island Railroad, is celebrating... [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]

Photo by wfyurasko. New York City’s Penn Station — one of the most famous rail destinations in the Northeast, served by the equally famous North East Corridor (NEC). That’s... [Read more]

Yesterday, I flew out to stay with N Scale Limited co-creator Frank Giacobbe, in his home state of New Jersey. While I’m staying with him, he and I will be touring many different... [Read more]

Continuing from part 3 of this article series, we’ll complete the IRT subway kiosk, scratch built in N scale. I would consider this portion of the build optional. We’ll... [Read more]

We’ll continue this project where we left off in Part 2 of this series. Materials Needed (For Part 3) Polyscale Olive Drab Polyscale Coach Green Bragdon Enterprises Green Grunge... [Read more]

In Part 1 of this article series on scratch building an N scale IRT subway kiosk, I built the kiosk base, main three walls and all of the connecting beams including the pitched roof... [Read more]

For those of you that visited my old site, you probably recall that I spent quite some time drawing out plans and researching the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit) kiosks used as entry... [Read more]

Experience a ride on the New York City Third Avenue elevated line in the early 1950s including footage of the city.  [Read more]