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A few months ago I had a post on some new Athearn 50' PS-1 boxcars: https://www.steves-trains.com/post/new-athearn-boxcars-and-3x5-n-scal...

I built this tiny winter scene in N scale on a serving tray (flipped upside down). Check out the video below of the tiny layout and a...

The 3.5' by 5.5' N scale layout is finally done! Here is the 4th and final part of the construction of this layout. Ok, so when we left...

I recently posted a video on some nice Athearn 50' N scale boxcars that are now available as well as an update on the 3x5 N scale layout...

This is the long-overdue part three in a four-part series on building this three and a half by five-and-a-half-foot N scale project...

A quick update on the 3x5 N Scale Layout Project. I hope to have the full Part 3 of this 4 Part series out in a couple of weeks. I've...

I recently purchased a Roomettes kit so I could add some interiors to a couple of structures on my N scale project layout. The kits are...

I recently purchased some Z Stuff for Trains track and crossing signals to use on my current project layout. I really like these, and...

I just posted a video review of the N scale Athearn Big Boy which you can see at the bottom of the post. This is a fantastic locomotive...

Athearn recently sent me three of their new 2600 cubic foot Airslide covered hopper cars to take a look at. One was a GATX modeled after...

A lot has been completed on the layout and will be covered in this post (once I have all of it finished in a week or two): All track has...

Ok, so this new 3.5" by 5.5" foot N scale project layout you can see here features a double track, twice around design. The size of this...

Great tools for improving your soldering game. Two of my recent tool acquisitions, both Christmas and birthday presents, were the Hakko...

In this post, we are going to take a look at the Athearn 53' bulkhead flatcars in N scale as well as an easy and basically free way to...

A very simple, easy to build, and fun to operate, N scale Inglnook switching layout that you can put together with about an hour of work....

Here is a look at the Athearn GP38-2 locomotive with DCC and Tsunami 2 sound in HO scale. Ok, first let's do a quick unboxing. The main...

In this post, I'm going to show you from start to finish how I built this 1 by 6.5 foot HO scale switching layout. This layout went...

After taking about 10 months off from working on the switching layout, I finally finished the layout. I'll probably still add a few more...