A house in North Hykeham, Lincolnshire, UK has gone on the market for £105,000 and it includes a 1,000ft miniature railway in the backyard. The railway is extensively detailed with a village, castle, fairground. It even has bridges and waterfalls around a Koi carp pool in the center.

The railway and the house will go under the hammer on September 29.

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Click on the image below for a HO scale faded brick sheet (PDF: 450kb) that you could use in your scratchbuilding projects.
Faded Brick

Previously: More free sheets.

Amazing pop-up advertisement introducing the new fleet of trains for the Spanish National Railway Network(RENFE)

This is another of Denzel Washington’s “train movie”. Perhaps he is a closet railfan?

Unstoppable arrives theaters on November 12th 2010.

[via: Slashfilm]

The Washington Hotel in Akihabara, Tokyo has a L-shaped train “diorama” in one of their rooms which you can stay in. The train room opened in June and costs $265 per night and already there is a month’s waiting list for this room. In addition to the model train, you could also see the Shinkansen line and Akiba station from the window.

A Happy Place for the railfan to be in…

Old color photographs taken between 1939 and 1943 by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information show the life and people from around that time but particularly interesting are the railroad photographs (46 thru 54. cannot link to them so some scrolling is required) showing the thriving industry and the people behind it.

The other photos showing buildings, barns and stores would also be a valuable resource for modelers of that era.

1. The Isle of Wight at $14.99 (org $29.99)
2. The Rascal and Cottonwood at $11.99 (org $23.99)
3. The Colton and Northern at $11.99 (org $23.99)

You must have Railworks installed in order to use these packages.

Railworks on Steam always offer items on sale from time to time. Never get them for full price. Keep monitoring their site and eventually you will find a locomotive or a route pack at greatly reduced price.

Its a joy driving any train in Railworks with it’s good graphics and sound (direct and ambient). Creating a route in it is a pain with a very sharp learning curve. I love driving trains so keep looking for bargains on Steam. Splurging on its entire collection will cost you a pretty sum as Lexdysic on Reddit found out.

English Russia show us how subway cars are made in a two part series. Part 1 shows the welding and framing shop. In Part 2 we see the assembly, electronics and paint shops.