Description - I have always had the passion for the trains in miniature, since the fifteen year-old age, and mine gave me the first train. But everything had beginning in 1995, when I bought a book that treated of the models of railroad. The passion calmed for so many years, waked up again him and I started the construction of the "My Railroad". It didn't import whether to reproduce, provided that the railroad model pits of environment typically in Epoch III, from the years 1945 to 1970. Established in mansard the useful space, I planned a layout inserted in a landscape of imagination, but to represent typical aspects mountain. The represented landscape, the railroad is very simple with the station, the characteristic railway bridges ( Puffs of smoke ) the passage to level (tollgate) the road, the river with the various mills to water, the mine, everything surrounded from mountains, lawns, rocks and woods. The construction has followed a common procedure, a lot of scenes are been drawn by publications of railway modelling of various kind. The railroad model one has a form to U of meters 4,5 of length and meters 5,5 of width. To the left of the great station, there is the revolving base with the deposit of the locomotives, while to the right and around everything develops him the layout and the landscape.    

Realization - After having drawn the layout, the platforms of the firm Roco-Line in staircase HO, they have directly been set on it ballasts her in cork of the firm Faller, and covered of fine gravel. The bridges also them Faller, has been climbed on and positioned, as the passage to level.  

It ballasts - In commerce I am available various brands and type of nuisance. I have chosen the dark brown color for the lines in station, while the brown clearer for the lines in full line and the clear grey color for the lines of recent construction or in maintenance, so that to also give to it ballasts her a certain vitality. After having effected the tests of verification of the march of the trains, he proceeds with to deposit the fine gravel to dry to the center of the platform, and it is distributed among cross her helping him of it with a brush. In the lines in which there is an exchange, it needs to watch out a lot of for not to stop its operation. Prepared the adhesive with vinyl glue and water, it is sprinkled with a vaporizer a mixture of water and few drops of cleanser for flat, therefore proceeding few lines to the time, the diluted adhesive it pours him beginning from the center and continuing on the edges of the platform. To be able to dose him a container can be used provided of a thin lip. Once dried, the grains are perfectly removed not glued.

The aerial line - In the construction of the railroad model one she has been necessary to handle the realization of the areal line. The aerial line (line) it is of the firm M.A. The Train, and also here, some notable job has been done for suiting it for the length of the platforms. The poles of the aerial line, have been painted of grey clear, and dirtied of color rust. 

The landscape - For the landscape they climb on, I have chosen the technique of the expanded polystirol, at first shaped, then soaked of diluted vinyl glue and paper up to create the wrinkledness of the rock. Once dried, you/he/she has been painted with acrylic colors, giving first a hand of grey dark color, and then falling through with of the grey clear (Coast). The final result remembers the granite. Then, always with some diluted glue, I have applied on some surfaces of the dust of grass of the firms Faller, Busch e Woodland Scenics, in various tonalities of green. For the roads, being the landscape environment a years 50, I have chosen the flooring constituted by pavement, that I have drawn from sheets of the Faller. The roads of country, have a fund of thin sand, with to the center of the dust of grass of various type. The lamp-posts, (llamp-post) they are all built ones, to suit them for the epoch, with endless patience I have shaped and settled of the copper tubes inserting then you the threads for the feeding of the small lamp. Also their line is aerial, and perfectly functional.

The electronics - To give a more realistic aspect to the all, has built a plant electronics so that to give the effect dawn, day, sunset and night. There is also a plant that simulates the temporal effect with lightnings and noises of thunder.

Digital electronics - For the electronic feeding of the different railway lines, the square of manoeuvre, the circuit of mountain there is by now in commerce Digital Plants of various Houses builders.

  The digital Plant, on the crystals liquid display, points out the state of the locomotives, she can point out the position of the exchanges and the state of the semaphores to the red or to the green.  

  The decoders for place, receive the information from the Plant, they interpret them as you command, and therefore the various trains totally stir on the circuit in independent way, despite is connected to the same electric circuit.  

  The decoders for the circuit, are employed for the control of the exchanges and the signals, and they separately command four devices. The command is sent by the Plant in by digital.

  To commute an exchange, or to vary the light of a semaphore, the same threads of feeding of the decoder and this they is used that ago they are reduced of very the connections to be effected, in how much more necessary to connect every exchange or semaphore to the picture of principal command is not, but it is the Plant that manages the everything.

To realize - Since it rather deals with a model of great railroad, you/he/she has not been possible anchor his/her completion. They are in preparation the courses of water, that I have intention to realize with natural water to recycle. They still miss some parts of layout and the road vehicles of epoch, also because not he succeeds always in retrieving them on the market.

Difficulty  - From the moment that different difficulties are met in the realization of such a binding model of railroad, of the electric and electronic circuits to be applied, I ask your help of impassioned, to help me in the construction, exchanging the suggestions, so that to complete the layout, and to be able to finish what is the most fascinating hobby of the world:  model of railroad.