Archive for May, 2012
More And More Z Scale
Maybe it’s all the new Z scale products coming down the line, maybe it’s just the season for it, but I’ve been a Z scale website-building demon lately! A couple of weeks back the finishing touches went on the new AZL website (www.americanzline.com) and for the past week I’ve been working on our newest sales […]
Mea Maxima Z Scale Culpa
Too much stuff, never enough time… sort of. Over the past couple of months it’s been been like going back to school for me, lots of new websites being built which means lots of cracking books, or PDFs, and learning how to make them all work. Several different open source software packages and their related […]
The Coffee Break Blog
One of the features we had on the previous incarnation of Ztrains.com was a weekly Coffee Break section. We’d feature new products, ideas, techniques… really anything even remotely related to Z scale model trains. Since we now have our shiny new site (Ok, it’s been live now for over a year!), I thought I’d bring […]
Locos We Need In Z Scale
The 2012 National Z Scale Convention wrapped up last weekend in Denver, Colorado, and I think lots of folks are now wondering… when do we get some of the Z scale goodies that were announced? Without going over every new product that the major manufacturers showed off or spoke about, I have to admit there […]
Pelle K. Soeeborg
When you’re involved in model railroading for awhile there are a handful of notable names you’ll come across time and time again, people whose modeling work stands out from the rest. Pelle K. Soeeborg is definitely one of these names. When I began looking at model railroad scenery set in the US Southwest, I’d come […]
