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First Model Train Layout Tips: A Practical 2025 Playbook for Beginners

Posted by William Jeffries on 31st Dec 2025

First Model Train Layout Tips: A Practical 2025 Playbook for Beginners
I bought my first Broadway Limited locomotive in 1989, set it on a borrowed loop of track, and immediately realized I had no idea what I was doing. The locomotive ran beautifully. The track? A disaster of wobbly joints and dead spots. Thirty-five years later, I've learned a few things about what sep …

How to Start Model Train Hobby: A Teacher's Complete 2025 Playbook

Posted by Carol Fitzgerald on 31st Dec 2025

How to Start Model Train Hobby: A Teacher's Complete 2025 Playbook
When my husband Bill passed in 2008, he left me with a half-finished HO layout and a freight depot kit sitting on the workbench with exactly twelve pieces glued together. I hadn't touched a model train in my life. Thirty-four years of teaching high school art in Worcester had prepared me to critique …

The Ultimate Guide to 1:87 Scale Accessories and Figures for Your HO Layout

Posted by Derek Olson on 31st Dec 2025

The Ultimate Guide to 1:87 Scale Accessories and Figures for Your HO Layout
I still remember the moment my HO layout went from "collection of trains" to "believable miniature world." It wasn't a new locomotive or a fancy structure kit. It was a $22 pack of Preiser figures placed on my depot platform. Suddenly, my layout had people. It had stories. That single purchase chang …