Meine kleine Link-Sammlung. Diese besteht hauptsächlich, damit ich die vielen schönen Webprojekte anderer Modellbahner nicht aus den Augen verliere, aber vielleicht ist auch für den geneigten Leser etwas dabei. Die Liste wird nach und nach erweitert.
BC Northern Rail – Historische Ressourcen
- Old Maps of British Columbia
- Google-Image Suche: Map of British Columbia 1920
- ExploreNorth-Blog Artikel: Explore Stewart BC and Hyder AK
- Lesser known and obscure Railroads of Alaska Artikel über die Portland Canal Short Line RR
- Maps of the Portland Canal Mining Division (Feb 1928, May 1929) and Area Guide (1937)
- The Pacific Narrow Gauge Railroads Website (PacificNG.org).
- Modellbau-Artikel zur Dolly Varden Mine Rwy. und ein Foto der Lok Nr.7 auf GearedSteam.com
- Map of Northern BC (1917)
- Map of the Hazelton Area (1937), where the Canada Stewart Port Rwy. could interchange with the Canadian National Rwy.
- Canadian Rail Atlas (online), mit der Gegend in der die BCNorthern verläuft.
Modellbahn-Links (Model Railroading), incl. Shops in Germany
- All American Trains (Ladengeschäft in Kaarst, dort habe ich früher fast alles mit US/CAN-Bezug gekauft, netter Kontakt).
- RD-Modellbahnen (Geschäft in Gross-Rohrheim, oft sind hier Sachen verfügbar, die ich anderswo vermisse).
- N-Scale AmericaN Modules (I recently stumbled over this blog, cool modular projects)
- Trainiax (Zeichnungen / Drawings) (Michael Eby’s web-resource of scale locomotive and rail car drawings is a de-facto institution)
- RailServe (a railroad information hub)
- TrainBoard (the (Model-) Train related Forum)
- CP Rail Manitoba & Minnesota Sub (Blog)
- BC Rail North Line (a blog covering a canadian model railroad layout)
- Northeast Railfan (lots of photo reference material)
- Tomytec N-Scale Chassis Reference, to order search e-Bay for „Tomytec Chassis“ or „N-Scale Chassis“ (Example), ships from Japan at reasonable cost.
- Scale Conversion Table; Scale Plans Conversion Chart;
- Modellzeit-Uhren (Fast-Clocks)
- Model Railroad Calculator (e.g. NMRA-Weight)
- The Northern Pacific (N-Scale; Selbstbaugleis-Tutorial)
Modellbahn-Organisationen
- FREMO – Freundeskreis Europäischer Modelleisenbahner
- NEM – Normen Europäischer Modellbahnen (bei MIBA gehostet)
- NMRA – National Model Railroad Association (Dachverband Nordamerikanischer Modelleisenbahner)
- NTRAK – Modular Railroading Society mit N-Scale Modulstandard
- GermaNTRAK – Modellbahnverein für Freunde nordamerikanischer Modellbahnen in Spur N
- AmericanST – American Shelf & Table Website
- FREE-MO – HO Modular Layout „movement“ (based on matching End-Plates but freely designed layout sections/modules)
- Modellbahnnormen – Übersichtsseite über verschiedene internationale Modellbahn-Normen
- The 2mm Scale Association (Modellbahn-Verband der den 2mm pro Fuß Maßstab proagiert)
Modellbau Links
- Boulder Creek RR – Luke Towans YouTube Tutorials (das Beste vom Besten!)
- Druckeronkel.de – (Decaldruck in Einzeldruckaufträgen oder Kleinserien, A4-Bogen ca. 25,-€ inkl. Versand)
- Gleisselbstbaumaterial: The 2mm Scale Association (UK shop), Mago-Finescale (DE-Shop)
- US-Modellbahnmaterial: MARSILIUS-Trains
- N-Scale Models (UK) – Industrial Models & Material Handling Equipment
Inspiration
- Troels Kirk’s On3 Coast Line RR on YouTube
- Troels Kirks Coast Line RR on Railroad Line Forum – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6 and Part 7
- Wagonmodelle und Lokmodelle in 3D-Warehouse
- Baubericht Shay Stadium Layout (aka Kootenay Lake Navigation Co.). Auf diesem Trackplan basiert mein N-Scale Projekt.
3D-Druck Links (3D-Printing)
- Thingiverse.com (3D-Printing Object Library and community)
- Shapeways.com (Commercial 3D-Printing Service)
- TinkerCAD.com (especially Sirswitchalot’s designs)
3D-Printed Railway Ressourcen & Inspiration
- South River Model Works Kits
- M.Caine & O.Bama – Fish Oil & Fertilizer Inc.
- Coastal Textiles Mill Complex
- Red Hook Wharf Build Report (43 pages, 200+ photos)
- Tidewater Wharf & Waterfront
- Red Herring Packing Company
- Sherwin Williams & Yaletowne Fab
- Emporium Seafood
- I.M.Dunn Co. (page 28 shows a total)
- Martin Machine Co.
- Fos Scale Models (HO-Kits Homepage)
- Apache Model Works Blog
- Industrial Objects on 3D Warehouse
- American Rail Cars on 3D Warehouse
- 3DMI 3D-Vehicle Repository (personal use only)
Software-Links
- XTrkCAD (Classic and very good open source Track-Plan Editor, recently updated to version 5.1.2)
- JMRI – Java Model Railroad Interface (Digital Command Control (DCC) Software Suite)
- Manifest Creator – Provides Spreadsheet based Creators for Switchlists, CarCards and Manifests out of JMRI.
- MOPS – Model Operations Processing System (Computerized Car Routing and Operations Management)
- LocoNet over TCP (TCP-Client that comunicates ith Loconet via LocoBuffer Hardware)
- Easy Model Railroad Inventory (EMRI) (untested by me, but I’m planning to)
- TRAX is now TRAX2 (Online/WebBased Track-Plan Editor), which is now TRAX3D.
- Blender 3D (Modeling & 3D-Druck-Vorstufe, extrem Übermächtig ;-))
- GIMP (Fotobearbeitungssoftware, sehr mächtig)
- Inkscape (Vektorgrafik-Software, sehr mächtig)
- CURA 3D-Printing Software (erfordert keine Angaben bei „I do not want to share any information“)
DCC++ & Arduino Links
- DCCPlusPlus (DCC++) – Low Cost, Full Featured DCC Base Station with Arduino
- DCCPlusPlus (DCC++) – YouTube Tutorial Channel
- Which has become DCC-EX eventually, with much better support, more features and even automation.
- AISLER.NET – Bestellung von Platinen (-Prototypen) auf Basis von Fritzing
- Arduino-Projekte von Bodo Noethlich
RailSim-Links
- OpenRails Train Simulator (ORTS)
- ElvasTower-Forum