The links below take you to ‘How To’ posts that I have written over the years. There are always several ways to do things and these are the methods that work for me. I hope they help you to create the model you want to build.
Scenery
Quick & Easy Ways to Ballast Track
Ballasting up to a Trestle or Bridge
Making Talus and Rock Fall for Your Layout
Using Your Rocks to Build River & Railroad Canyons
Making Rocks for Your Model Railroad
How to make your own NBWs for N Scale Trestles
Loco & Rollingstock
Checking Wheelset Back to Backs
N Scale A-B-A set of Alco C-855 locomotives – Complete Build
Adding Real Coal Loads To Hoppers
Lubricating, Oiling and Greasing Locomotives
Replacing Con-Cor U50, Turbine & JTP C-855 Wheelsets
Adding N Scale Wheelset Resistors for Circuit Detection
Fitting Micro-Trains Body Mount Couplers To Older N Scale Freight Cars
3D Printing
Fixing bowing problems in 3D FUD printed models
Removing Acrylic paint From 3D Printed Models
A Way To Paint FUD & FXD 3D Printed Parts
DCC
Updating Your Digitrax Products
Installing LokSound Select Direct Micro DCC Decoders in Kato Locomotives
How to Fix Runaway Locomotives on a DCC Layout
Changing Sounds on Digitrax Sound Decoder (Basic)
Changing Sounds on Digitrax Sound Decoder (Advanced With PR3)
Making a DCC Bus for your Model Railroad
Testing A DCC Auto Reverses and Reversing Section
Cost-effective DCC installs for consisted locomotives
Making your own DCC plugs and connectors
Track Maintenance
Trackwork
Improving Peco Points for DCC Operation
Improving Kato Points for DCC Operation
General Electrics
Joining Wire With Solder & Heat Shrink
Joining Modular Baseboards Together
James' Train Parts 