BRON HEBOG

We've tried a lot of new things as part of the Minffordd project, such as moving to DCC control and sound, and smaller code track. It...

I've been swithering for many months about the best way of getting a 45XX Small Prairie tank for the Minffordd fleet. First World proble...

Himself has been continuing to search for more sneaky ways to improve the performance of the Bachmann 'Dukedog', searching for every...

  There hasn't been much modelling done here since the end of the Glasgow exhibition two and a half weeks ago. The one small job I have ...

 We're going try something daring in Glasgow next weekend - running a guest loco! This is always fraught with risk, especially on a layo...

More fiddle yard roads on Minffordd means room for more trains, which means we need more locomotives to haul them. Now that's the defin...

It occurred to me that despite having built up a large collection of Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland 009 stock over the last 30 years or so we...

Our BR Sulzer Type 2 - or Class 24 as most of us probably call them -  is one of the staples of our Cambrian fleet on Minffordd . It's a...

I recently added a page explaining more about the background to the decisions we made designing the Minffordd project - 10 Reasons Why - and...

 Our little standard gauge curiosity has been undergoing some test running on Minffordd. It's coming up to two weeks since our sound-fit...

It's well known that nostalgia is in the eye of the beholder.   In whatever subject we are interested in there will be a period which do...

As you will know already if you follow the Bron Hebog social media posts, we have (expensively) succeeded in backdating one of the new Bachm...

You don't have to read much railway modelling social media to find people bemoaning the runaway inflation in the prices of toy trains an...

I wrote last week about the temptation to stretch the era on a layout - and here it is! At the start of the project I'd only envisaged r...

I've quite often found myself in the situation where you end up saying: "If you can't beat them, join them." Within my fam...

And so to the final three months of 2021 as we look back on what Himself and I got up to... October In the first of these review posts I rem...

The arrival of a radical new locomotive in the top left hand corner of Wales always brings the irresistable urge to put it to the test and s...

I'm sure you're probably heartily sick of pictures of proudly purchased Bachmann Double Fairlies by now, but if you've come to t...

The secret is out - and what a secret! Bachmann has pulled off quite a coup with its 009 Double Fairlies revealed today. Bachmann   They hav...

July And so to the second half of 2018 where there was much excitement at the arrival of our first ready-to-run model, the Bachmann 590 ...