Hot on the heals of the outstanding Old Barn Scene from ZoomCo comes a new “Scene-In-A-Box”. This one features two shacks/shanties, a highly detailed flexible road material, and loads of prefinished details to complete your scene. We’re especially impressed with the scale axe, with pile of split wood, and the hanging sheets preattached to a [...]

New ZoomCo N Scale Shack/Shanty Scene

The 50 and 70 ton versions of the AAR designed flatcar were ubiquitous. And aside from a few small runs of the GHQ/deLuxe Innovations 50 ton flatcar, these cars have been a gaping hole in N scale rosters. Now Intermountain is poised to fill that gap with a 70 ton version. And right off the [...]

Intermountain Announces 70 ton AAR Flatcars in N Scale

BLMA has announced a new selection or roadnames on their N Scale Pullman Standard 4000 cuft covered hoppers including Nickel Plate Road, Great Western Malting, Monon, Milwaukee Road, Wabash, and Chicago & North Western (nee-CGW).

New run of BLMA PS 4000cuft Covered Hoppers

At the National Z Scale Convention this weekend NZT Products announced a new N and Z scale coupler called the Protomate. All the features listed on the announcement flyer sound promising. In fact, they mirror all the features N scalers have been clamoring for: metal spring for durability, more detail on the coupler head, smaller [...]

NZT Announces New N Scale Coupler

Craig at BLMA has posted photos of the first test samples of their forthcoming PTTX N scale pipe loads. Detail (as usual) looks to be stellar and Craig says to expect a few more tweaks on the actual production models. Models are expected 4th quarter of this year. You can find more information on [...]

BLMA N Scale Pipe Load Samples

Micro-Trains has released their May 2012 Micro News. The full document can be viewed HERE.

Micro-Trains May 2012 Releases

We’re specifically interested in seeing the N scale link-and-pin coupler rendition!

Micro-Trains N Scale Civil War Era Rolling Stock Announced

This week’s photo comes from Jamie Vondruska. Milwaukee Road’s 1-spot was filled by a speed demon of an Atlantic back in 1935. Back when steam engines on jointed rail ran in excess of 100 MPH between Chicago and Milwaukee. Here a Fox Valley Model’s Hi cools her wheels at the station in Caledonia, Wisconsin. It’s [...]

Photo of the Week: Jamie Vondruska

Craig at BLMA has just announced N scale ACI plates which are available immediately with an MSRP of $7.95 for a 10-pack. ACI plates were developed in the late 1960′s as a method to track/code rolling stock. More information is available on the BLMA website.

BLMA N Scale ACI Plates

This week’s photo comes from Chris Brimley. Chris is an outstanding architectural modeler and has been hard at work on this Nabisco building for his Hudson Terminal Railroad layout. The addition of a few American Archetype pigeons created a fantastic, and typical, urban scene set against the backdrop of Monster Model Works laser cut brick [...]

Photo of the Week: Chris Brimley