AZL Budd RDC-1 Cars
I always get excited when a new piece of motive power is released in Z scale, it’s a great indicator of where 1:220 is headed. Today AZL released their new Budd RDC-1 Car in 4 roadnames: Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe (ATSF), Western Pacific (WP), Canadian Pacific (CP) and Southern Pacific (SP). Highlights of this […]
Waterfront Project | New Series
Beginning in April 2011 and running for 4 consecutive months (April, May, June and July), we’ll be presenting a project layout series based on the Micro-Trains Line Waterfront laser kits. In this series we’ll go from basic conceptual sketches and track plan ideas through the building of our layout base, adding land and water features […]
First Impressions Count
In the past couple of months I’ve been involved in the reworking of two popular Z scale websites: my own Ztrains.com as well as Ztrack Resale for Rob Kluz over at Ztrack Magazine. While these are both commercial Z scale ventures, there’s more than just business behind these website redesigns. Both Rob and I are […]
Ztrains Store New Location
Since we made the move to this new website, our online store has been temporarily displaced. As this is a new software package, and we’re learning on the fly, we wanted to avoid any internal software conflicts so we’ve taken the store down for now. We’re working hard at getting the main site, Ztrains.com up […]
The New Ztrains.com
Welcome to the all new new Ztrains.com. Where are all the articles, the how-to’s and the other spiffy stuff that you’ve come to expect from Ztrains.com? In short… they’re on the way. Once we committed to making the change to this new website of ours, we also realized that we needed to reshoot our photos, […]














