Snow in summer or mouse ear
Common name: Snow-in-summer, Mouse ear, Silver carpet, Chickweed Latin name: Cerastium tomentosum Plant type: Groundcover Plant size: 6-8″ high by…
Read moreCommon name: Snow-in-summer, Mouse ear, Silver carpet, Chickweed Latin name: Cerastium tomentosum Plant type: Groundcover Plant size: 6-8″ high by…
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Keep scenery looking its best: There are two main issues with aging scenery – dust build-up and fading. Battling dust…
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Get in and out of your garden railway: Isn’t it usually when guests are watching that things get stuck in…
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By Will Everitt An N scale locomotive resource celebrates an anniversary N scalers have questions. How does Athearn’s Big Boy…
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I’m going to share 21 must-have gardening tools. Railroad gardening is a niche of general gardening with many overlaps. What…
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Easier access to sneak track: Like model railroaders in other scales, most of us N-scalers are natural-born cheaters when it…
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Classic Trains’ series “Diesels that didn’t” explores diesel locomotives that didn’t make it to large-scale production due to a variety…
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The 2400-series Lionel passenger cars have always been popular with operators and collectors. In the postwar era the plastic streamliners…
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Designing structure interiors with artificial intelligence: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a burgeoning tool with many possible uses. My last article…
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Create mountains in your garden railway: If you want to model a mountain in order to add some cool accoutrements,…
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Resurrecting N scale engines: Several years ago I bought a couple Athearn N scale Electro-Motive Division (EMD) F45 locomotives that…
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The Lionel No. 2055 Hudson was prominent in the parade of 4-6-4 steam engines in O-27 outfits from 1950-56. Others…
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