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Trains For you |Welcome your new community

Trains for You | Your Online Model Train Community

Welcome to Trainsforyou.com website.

 We are an information site as well as a place to buy and share your comments, photos articles about you modeling and love of model trains.

We sell

  • Ho Scale model train items, all around Australia and the world.
  • Athearn Model train locomotives, freight cars, passenger cars and spare parts
  • Kadee couplers, parts and tools
  • Proto 2000 life like locomotives, wheel sets and accessories
  • Model Power Building kit, Rolling stock
  • Life Like IHC Building Kits
  • Atlas Building Kits and Track and vehicles
  • Access to suppliers all over the world with over 200,000 items
For all your locomotive building kit and all your Ho Model train  needs. Ask us a question by going to our contact page or if you need more info on your model train.

If you have fascinating information or stories about your model railroad experience regarding Athearn Model Trains, Kadee products or Proto 2000, please email an article and share our community, or a story or comment about you model train.

Model Railroading is fun. Have Fun with model trains it the hobby to be in !


 

Model Railroading is fun

Welcome to the greatest hobby on Earth! Model Railroading is incredibly rewarding and satisfying, but it is also rather demanding and knowledge intensive hobby. Where to start? What to model? And just what are all those terms - "prototype", "gauge", "digital" and "decoder"?

Be easy, take your load off and Browse the Site!

Just running model trains around a track is not what this wonderful hobby is all about. You will soon discover that model railroading is a very diverse field and that it offers different things to different people. While some find greatest satisfaction in dispatching multiple trains, others will be consumed by managing complex train yards. And yet to others scenery construction will be the real joy. And there is a contingency of people who are happy and content to simply collect model trains. And to many happy parents it just might be that "quality time" they get to spend with their kids while playing with trains. It is hard (if not impossible) to figure out which aspect of model railroading will attract you the most from the start. Best thing, though, is to jump in, get your feet wet and… enjoy!

Anyone will advise you to start by purchasing one of the starter sets; you get a train (or two!), a controller and enough track to keep you busy for a while. Starter sets are a bargain as they are priced to entice!
But first, let's get some terminology straight and out of the way.
Prototype is the real thing, you know, trains in 1:1 scale ;-)
By rolling stock we mean available cars and locos.
Gauge is the distance between rails on the track and it corresponds to the scale.

Digital means that locomotives, some cars, turnouts (switches) and other motor equipped accessories have a decoder in them. Decoder recognizes (decodes) signals sent to it and activate appropriate functions. In digital world, power (usually) is supplied to entire track and decoder equipped trains and accessories listen for signals addressed to them and act accordingly. To illustrate the point, in analog world all locomotives on the track start moving once the power is supplied to the track. In digital world, locomotives will operate only when a digital controller sends a signal to them to move at a given speed in certain direction. Huge advantage of digital is that wiring to layout is greatly simplified; in many cases wires from the controller/transformer to the track is all one needs to get going.
Scale is the proportion of a model to prototype. What now?

The hobby is awaiting!

 

Where to Buy.

Welcome to your hobby shop online,

Our shopping cart is NOW operation with Paymate and Paypal for payments, other payments are  under Construction,  all current Items are also listed on the Oztion Australian Auction Site, as well as items some items Ebay, We are slowly moving more item in to our online shop.

Click on the "Auction item" on the top menu search all my HO items on Oztion auction site

There are a wide range of  ho model train items avalible including

Locomotives, rolling stock,track, scenery ,buildings, and Kadee Ho scale product's

Want to sell your product through Trainsforyou.com .

feel free to contact our Administrator, bu using our contact page for any questions

I hope you find this site a valuable resource to help improve your knowledge and skills.

 

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