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I've spent three decades modeling Great Northern and Northern Pacific in HO scale, so when my buddy Hans from the Lake Superior Railroad Museum started raving about TT scale trains, I figured he'd lost his marbles. Why would anyone abandon the massive selection of HO for some oddball scale I barely …

After forty years of building houses, I thought I understood construction. Then I bought my first HO locomotive with a 21-pin socket and realized the model railroad industry has its own building code. The good news? Once you crack the code, HO scale DCC ready locomotives offer the best path to digit …

I spend most of my modeling time in N scale, which means I watch the HO world with a mix of envy and bewilderment. You folks get everything. Every road number. Every phase variation. Sound decoders that could pass for recordings from the cab. And yet, with all those choices, the question I hear most …