Some Posts From My Old Blog

Jan 2017

As I mentioned in my first post, I had an earlier blog with a number of entries about building handmade turnouts. Unfortunately the blogs’ Wordpress database got borked so I had to start again, but I did manage to retrieve many of the posts.

So without further ado I’ll put them back up.

Post 1 from my old blog - building hand made turnouts:

Even though I have been interested in building an n scale model railroad layout for quite a while now, what really got me interested again were sites like this or this and especially this guy have been building their own turnouts.

They made it look rather easy and they certainly look much better than store bought turnouts, so I was determined to give it a try. This also fits in with my interest of doing as much as I can rather than buying it.

So over Christmas I gave it a go. Armed with a new file and some old code 80 flextrack I began my first adventure into model railroading…