Tag: New Jersey Transit

The devil is in the details…

Posted by Trainphilos on 22 April 2017 in HO Train Layouts, Model Train Layouts, Model Train Manufacturer |One Comment

In my last post I bragged about my new HO scale New Jersey Transit train, which was released by the Atlas Model Railroad Company not long ago. Like a lot of other manufacturers of model trains Atlas thinks they can save a few pennies per train by not affixing fiddly little parts to their models. […]

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Inaugurating the Hildesheim – New Jersey Express

Posted by Trainphilos on 17 March 2017 in HO Train Layouts, Model Train Layouts, Model Train Manufacturer |No Comments

It finally happened: The first train from New Jersey arrived in the city of my birth: Hildesheim, Germany! Well, at least on my HO model train layout. Perhaps an explanation would be in order. As regular readers of my blog know, my train layout has a germanic “flavor” to it. That is to say that […]

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