Mark your calendars! The Trusty Train Tracks Christmas Open House is always the Sunday before Thanksgiving, and this year was our biggest yet! We had a whopping seven trains running inside, plus the beloved garden train. Apologies, the snow beat
Garden Train – RS-3 Test Lap – G Scale
The garden train is close to completion. Here is the first lap of the RS-3 Pennsylvania Railroad diesel engine.
Garden Train Trestle Test Run
Garden Train 2.0 is progressing well. We are still waiting on the river rock that will be the base layer for the whole layout. But we wanted to test out as much as possible now. Here is the entire temporary
Garden Train 2.0 Test Run
One year ago today we installed a garden train. A month after that, we decided to move to a new house. This will be our second garden train. It has three times as much track as the first and an
New Garden Train
With company coming for Easter weekend, I had to put away the N Scale layout. With the table cleared, it was a good time to get the new garden train out of the box. Actually, it was a bunch of
Dola, Ohio, 1922
Mrs. Trusty’s great grandfather retired from the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1946. He lived in Dola, Ohio, and the train stopped in his backyard to pick him up for work every day. Chances are good that Grandpa Henry would have known
Con-Cor Pennsylvania Railroad set #8505
The only thing I was really looking to purchase at the Ohio N Scale Weekend was a steam engine. I lucked out. Not only did I find a great steam engine, it is from the Pennsylvania Railroad and part of
One Long Single Track
My last few layouts have been different combinations of the v11 and v16 Kato variant sets. Before I started with something fresh, I wanted to try a small adjustment that would turn the combo into a single lane, very long
Fun Figure 8
Download SCARM file. Main table is 4 x 8 feet with a 2 x 4 feet added section at bottom left. Featured trains include:Pennsylvania Railroad – GG1 engine pulling Broadway LimitedMilwaukee Road – Olympian HiawathaBurlington Route – Silver Streak Zephyr
Pennsylvania Railroad Broadway Limited by Kato
Here is a simple Kato Unitrack DC layout with three separate lanes. Two double crossover tracks enable switching between all lanes. Two PRR engines split the passenger cars of the Broadway Limited. At one time the Broadway Limited used electric