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N Scale Insight

Bringing light into a black hole
Mar 20, 2020

Bringing light into a black hole

Jim Kelly wanted to see all the fabulous detail on his new ScaleTrains.com carbon black covered hoppers. A few simple…

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I met the enemy and he was me
Dec 12, 2019

I met the enemy and he was me

Sometimes in model railroading you need to be a sleuth. Everything on the railroad happens for a reason, and sometimes…

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Can you read the numbers?
Sep 20, 2019

Can you read the numbers?

A Santa Fe GP30 shoves loaded hoppers onto the coal track at Monolith Cement. The crew has already pulled the…

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An all-new-under-the-hood locomotive
Sep 21, 2016

An all-new-under-the-hood locomotive

Jim’s N scale Atlas GP30 is all new under the hood thanks to a newer DCC-ready mechanism. A bonus was…

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Things I leave out when modeling N scale
Jan 25, 2016

Things I leave out when modeling N scale

These cattle on Jim Kelly’s N scale Tehachapi layout are content to loaf among the trees, and that’s a good…

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Farewell to an N scale pioneer
Mar 19, 2014

Farewell to an N scale pioneer

Jim FitzGerald, left, converses with the yardmaster at the Santa Fe yard in Bakersfield, Calif., in the early 1980s. Jim’s…

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Reflections on the N scale convention
Sep 17, 2013

Reflections on the N scale convention

Each person who attended the N scale convention banquet received a special souvenir car compliments of Micro-Trains. That’s one mighty…

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