N Scale Scenery Techniques for Beginners: A Practical Guide to Getting It Right
Posted by Tony Marchetti on 31st Dec 2025
I spent 28 years fixing trains for the CTA, and if there's one thing that experience taught me, it's this: you don't need fancy equipment to do good work. You need the right materials, the right technique, and enough sense not to skip the boring steps that actually matter. N scale scenery works the
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How to Build Realistic Model Train Mountain Scenery: A Forty-Year Modeler's Guide 2024 Edition
Posted by Harold Whitmore on 30th Nov 2025
Christmas morning, 1978. That's when I caught the bug. A Tyco freight set looping around a plywood oval in my father's basement, and suddenly I wasn't just a kid playing with trains. I was building worlds.Forty-six years later, I still get that same electric feeling when I stand back
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