Derailed…….
It has been said that all good things must come to an end. Platitudes aside, I have to report that the Chesapeake and Tenleytown Railroad is no more! Both the TT scale pike in the attic and the G scale garden railway have ceased to exist. I have worked on both layouts for many years […]
Size is everything…or is it?
As my readers well know, I have two model train layouts called “Chesapeake and Tenleytown Railroad”. One is the G scale size pike in the garden, the other one is the HO scale railway in the attic. So, let us talk about size for a bit. Actually the term “size” is a misnomer. As far […]
Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the largest of them all?
Human nature likes order. Well, usually. Thus we always tend to rank things: The best, the largest, the weirdest, the fastest, the most expensive. I am happy to report that we now have a ranking of the supposedly most incredible model train layouts in the world. The travel web site “Atlas Obscura” has taken on […]