Hallelujah…they’ve finally done it!
A few weeks ago I received a set of Bachmann HO scale Amtrak MidWest passenger coaches. These are HO scale models of the new Siemens Mobility “Venture” passenger coaches which will be replacing the awful, long in the tooth Amtrak “Amcans”. The “Venture” coaches themselves are based on the tried and true Siemens Mobility “Viaggio” […]
New Toys!
During the last few weeks a couple of new items were added to the rolling stock roster of my model railway. As per usual I had totally forgotten having “pre-ordered” them over a year ago. Model train manufacturers tend to announce new future projects with an option for the customer to “pre-order”. This pre-ordering process […]
Make way for the APT…
…that is for the Hornby OO scale “Advanced Passenger Train”! Hornby is a United Kingdom based manufacturer of OO scale model trains. Very recently the company released a model of the British Rail “Advanced Passenger Train”, generally referred to as the APT. I won’t go into much technical detail regarding the prototype. Suffice it to […]