MTH Blue Comet

The blue comet would have to be up there with my favorite trains of all time. 

Heres a high quality video of an blue comet Train O Scale I can't get enough of this!

Custom weathered model trains

MonsterRailroad road is a professional in the area of weathering model trains and does some amazing work, check it out!
 

THE WORLDS BEST TRAIN SET

Two German Brothers have put this TRAIN SET together. DON'T FORGET to click on the link at the end and view this in motion. This is the world's biggest train set. Covers 1,150 square meters / 12,380 square feet… Features almost six miles of track and is still not complete… Twin brothers Frederick and Gerrit Braun, 41, began work on the 'Miniatur Wunderland' in 2000 The set covers six regions including America , Switzerland , Scandinavia , Germany , and the Austrian Alps The American section features giant models of the Rocky Mountains, Everglades , Grand-Canyon etc… ...and Mount Rushmore The Swiss section has a mini-Matterhorn  The Scandinavian part has a 4ft long passenger ship floating in a 'fjord'  It is expected to be finished in 2014, when the train set will cover more than 1,800 square meters / (19,376 sq ft) and feature almost 13 miles of track, by which time detailed models of parts of France, Italy and the UK will have been added… It comprises 700 trains with more than 10,000 carriages and wagons  The longest train is 46ft long  The scenery includes 900 signals, 2,800 buildings, 4,000 cars - many with illuminated headlights.. .  ...and 160,000 individually designed figures  Thousands of kilograms of steel and wood was used to construct the scenery...  The 250,000 lights are rigged up to a system that mimics night and day by automatically turning them on and off  The whole system is controlled from a massive high-tech nerve centre  In total the set has taken 500,000 hours and more than 8 million euro to put together,  the vast majority of which has come from ticket sales  Gerrit said: "Our idea was to build a world that men, woman, and children can be equally astonished and amazed in."  Frederik added: "Whether gambling in Las Vegas, hiking in the Alps or paddling in Norwegian fjords - in Wunderland everything is possible."This 4-minute video is worth watching for this amazing stuff     http://www.miniatur -wunderland. com/exhibit/ video/4-minutes- wunderland/

Great tip for photographing your model trains

The angle, or vantage point, from which we view our model trains can have a big impact on how they impact us. Take these two photographs for example:

  

Both images were taken within a few inches of each other, the second just a little higher. Both feature urban scenery and capture the flavor of railroading in the city, one from street level the other from the height of a third-story window. The visual impact of the trains and the city however are completely different. The street-level scene has a much more dynamic, bustling feel that pulls the viewer into the commotion of downtown. The train, as dramatic as it is, is but one more brief event. The second shot is much more calm and stagnant.

Despite their differences, both of these shots have one more thing in common; they present a much more typical look at railroading than the noral "bird's eye" view normally associated with viewing a model railroad. Indeed, if taken from normal viewing height, this scene would feature a lot of roof-tops and sky. Standing beside, or even below model trains can be a very powerful experience and helps to eliminate that "toy" feel. It's something worth considering not just when photographing but building a layout.

This article is taken from 

http://modeltrains.about.com/b/2010/07/16/vantage-point.htm

 

On board camera on HO scale trains Very cool!

Here's something that's a little bit different and very very cool

Making your model train sets look old.

Adding character to your model train sets is something that is so often overlooked, it's all good and well to have an impressive layout buy it really is the small details that make is something special. Weathering is something I've always been interested in, it's actually a lot more complicated to make something look old than it is to make it look brand new.

Here's a great video on the subject

 

Graffiti Trains

One of the best things about trains o scale is that you can take realism to the next level and one thing that certainly does that is graffiti. 

For more great photos like this visit Simon Thomas Photography 

And now to some stuff on actual trains o scale