Archive for February, 2007
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
The Australian Narrow Gage Web-Exhibition Gallery is an older site featuring over 30 outstanding layouts. Ranging from small to midsize, each of the layouts are expertly detailed and well photographed making for an outstanding modeling resource. Although the navigation is a little cumbersome, the information is arranged well, so visitors can browse through an extensive [...]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
The micro-layout has become a modeling staple as it satisfies one’s need to create a model railroad, while paying heed to space and financial limitations. Sites such as carndt.com (the virtual micro layout repository) hold hundreds of inspirational designs for the would be mirco-modeler. Typically, micro-layouts are built around standard scales, especially narrow [...]
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Friday, February 16th, 2007
Finding international/European websites on model railroading can be somewhat difficult if you don’t know what to search for and you can’t understand what’s written. Hence, it was quite by accident that I stumbled across Masinky 2003. Twenty-five percent of the visitors to this site are from places other then North America, so I went hunting [...]
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
The modeling talents of George Sellios (of the famed FS&M) heavily
influenced the building of the BS&T. When searching for the
FS&M / George Sellios, I was disappointed with the amount of
information available. At one time, Ken Spranza's horailroad.com was
one of the few sites with FS&M photos, as was James A. Powell's
trevinocircle.com, and the aforementioned Gotham Subdivision [...]
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