https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/10/adding-details-to-your-model-train.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=adding-details-to-your-model-train Model railroads and model trains Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:28:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/10/adding-details-to-your-model-train.html#comment-2504 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 05:28:49 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=2311#comment-2504 Track nails or RR Track nails or RR spikes, you have to get them at a hobby shop. Any small nail or brad will do but they pralbboy won’t be black so you will have to paint them. It is best not to put track on plywood. The trains run noisy and it’s hard to put the nails in. I put a fiber board over the plywood. The best is called HOMOSOTE but is hard to find. I just used ceiling tiles. It is not as dense and the nails will work loose in time.

]]> https://blog.model-train-help.com/2012/10/adding-details-to-your-model-train.html#comment-2027 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 01:33:19 +0000 http://blog.model-train-help.com/?p=2311#comment-2027 #1 says to decorate a locomotive with “graffiti” That may be ok at certain times, but I model the 40’s thru the early 50’s and it was a time when the spray can was little used. If you model a later era, and you want to, do it. Myself and many “early era” modelers want clean engines.

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