A model railway site designed for beginners to railway modelling. Supplying practical model railway advice, information, hits and tips to railway modellers building their first model railway layout. Full-page ads for the product line were first found in 1971 issues of Model Railroader and Railroad Model Craftsman magazines. The initial group of trains are blue and later yellow boxed items that were produced for Cox by Athearn Trains of California. Athearn was a well-known and respected player in the HO-scale model train market. PDF Resources As the World’s Greatest Hobby, model railroading can require skills and knowledge across a wide variety of topics. Within the group of products here, you’ll find helpful resources, historical perspective, terminology, and other good-to-know information as you expand your model railroading experience and enhance your own layout. K–2 students in Communities Then and Now: Making a 3-D Model explore model train layouts of the past and present to learn about science topics like friction, the shape and stability of structures, and properties of matter, along with social studies and history. “They build an actual 3-D model of their community,” she notes. Useful Links Local Model Railway Societies Alsager Railway Association Barrowmore Model Railway Group Blackburn and East Lancashire Model.
The links that you will find here are ones that don’t quite fit anywhere else.
Many of the links will point to prototype information that modellers may find helpful as they strive to produce scale models of prototype locos, wagons, stations and other buildings.
Other links will point to things like layout plans, tutorials and just about anything else that you, as a modeller, will find helpful.
Categorizing some of these links will be difficult so you may have to dig a little to find exactly what you are looking for.
Layout Resources – information for everyone
Model Track Plans
A catalogue of layout plans for a variety of scales and gauges
Australian prototype information
Modelling Victorian Railways
Information on VR rolling stock and operating practises along with articles on how to scratchbuild, kitbash and/or detail VR rolling stock – don’t be put off by the dates shown on the front page for updates.
If you want to explore the wonderful world of scratchbuilding then this site is definitely worth a close look.
The Site
It appears to have no other name but it is a great place to go for black and white photos of VR and NSW rolling stock from the last 30 years.
Navigation is fairly rudimentary but it appears to start with VR photos and around “Film 524” you begin to see the NSWGR rolling stock.
When There Were Stations
Photos and information about stations in NSW, Queensland, South Australia and Victoria in the period from dieselisation to rationalisation.
Chris’s Commonwealth Railways Information (Comrails)
Plenty of information and photos of the CR, ANR and SAR
How To Free Model Railway Resources Online
The Model Workhorse
Some interesting tutorials on back-dating VR narrow gauge rolling stock
(Facebook link only)
How To Free Model Railway Resources List
UK prototype information
How To Free Model Railway Resources Llc
How To Free Model Railway Resources Pdf
OnTrack Plant
Images and details of over 10,000 on-track machines, road-rail vehicles etc. in the UK