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model train 13 Articles . ... creating the 3D Printed Wall Train. ... and we’d love to see similar techniques applied to a bigger layout. If this whets your appetite for model railroading, ...
In non-model train speak, he explained, think of one scale mile as "if you were a tiny figure on the layout, and you walked 30 miles on the layout." Basically, a lot.
Dave Skinner was not interested in a grand model train layout. Something small — a “circle of track six feet in diameter.” ...
Last year, 350 people visited Moylan’s train layout. The traffic was so heavy on his small, no-outlet street that he asked neighbors to keep their vehicles in driveways to free up street parking.
In non-model train speak, he explained, think of one scale mile as "if you were a tiny figure on the layout, and you walked 30 miles on the layout." Basically, a lot.
Howard Zane has been working on the railroad for thirty years--building a massive model train set complete with 150 locomotives, thousands of feet of track and more than 6,000 figures.