French Model Railway

This blog is basically a succession of gripes and grumbles about the installation of the technological hardware necessary to get a model rai...

Yet another frustration: It turns out, if you'll forgive the pun, that the wire supplied with the much vaunted Tortoise turnout motor ...

Too tired/stupid to make any sense of the instructions for the tortoise points motor. Will try again tomorrow. Compared with a solenoid mo...

Current position re turnouts/points You may recall that railway points are sometimes called turnouts. After much humming and hawing, to-in...

The ceramics lecturer at my evening class is a forceful figure - and that's exactly what I need. Here are some  of the smaller items I...

12 or so years ago, Missy Elliott was frequently quoted by hip-hop artists and more mainstream artists as being a huge influence. I had ne...

Have decided to abandon solenoid-based points motors - they are too fragile and temperamental. And as you saw from yesterday's blog, all...