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  • MiMrail is live on Bexhill West

    MiMrail is live on Bexhill West

    October 29, 2026
    MiMrail, Site news

    MiMrail, a track and layout planner that knows how real railways built their pointwork country by country, is now on Bexhill West as a free preview in your web browser.

  • Rack Railways: driving Snowdon, Pilatus and Tanvald on their real lines

    Rack Railways: driving Snowdon, Pilatus and Tanvald on their real lines

    October 20, 2026
    Rack Railways

    Rack Railways now runs its three rack engines on their real lines, built from OpenStreetMap and survey terrain: the Snowdon Mountain Railway from Llanberis to the summit, Pilatus at 48 %, and Tanvald, all drivable in your browser.

  • Riding the Eighth Avenue el, 116th to 155th Street

    Riding the Eighth Avenue el, 116th to 155th Street

    October 12, 2026
    ElevateIT!

    The whole Eighth Avenue el from 116th to 155th Street, built from eleven ElevateIT! layouts, to ride from the motorman’s seat in your browser.

  • Eighth Avenue in 1940: the whole street in 3D

    Eighth Avenue in 1940: the whole street in 3D

    October 6, 2026
    BrickIT!, ElevateIT!

    All 36 buildings on the east side of Eighth Avenue, W 142nd to W 148th St, as laser-cut kits in one 3D model, with the el and its trains down the middle of the avenue.

  • 2692 Eighth Avenue: a laser-cut facade kit, in 3D

    2692 Eighth Avenue: a laser-cut facade kit, in 3D

    October 1, 2026
    BrickIT!, ElevateIT!

    The first building from my 145th Street layout study assembled as a laser-cut kit: 2692 Eighth Avenue, Harlem, as it stood in 1940, built in 3D from its real cut files, with engraved brick panels and 608 glued-on stone parts. Turn it, explode it, and see it in raw MDF.

  • 145th Street in OO: a layout study, seen from the west

    145th Street in OO: a layout study, seen from the west

    October 1, 2026
    ElevateIT!

    The 145th Street hump station on the Eighth Avenue el, worked up in ElevateIT! as an OO layout viewed from the west: real building heights, a cambered 1902-practice street, views from the front of the board, and an aligned plan and elevation for planning the baseboard joints of a 6.8 metre model.

  • BaseIT!: design your own laser-cut baseboards

    BaseIT!: design your own laser-cut baseboards

    September 27, 2026
    BaseIT!

    BaseIT!, a free designer for laser-cut baseboard kits, is now on the site to try in your browser.

  • A fresh look for Bexhill West

    A fresh look for Bexhill West

    September 27, 2026
    BrickIT!, ElevateIT!, FrameForge, PlanIT!, Round the Pole Designer, Servo Controller, Site news, TrackIT!, TramIT!

    Every tool page has been rewritten and re-illustrated, several now have something to try in your browser, and there’s a new video catalogue, About page and contact form.

  • ElevateIT!: rebuilding Manhattan’s elevated railways, one 39 ft module at a time

    ElevateIT!: rebuilding Manhattan’s elevated railways, one 39 ft module at a time

    September 27, 2026
    ElevateIT!

    A question on the Templot Club forum led to a new Make It Miniature app for modelling New York’s lost elevated railways. This post gives a short history of the els, then covers what ElevateIT! can do today and where it could go next.

  • Website Live!

    July 28, 2026
    Site news

    Welcome to the Bexhill West website: a home for the things that fall outside my regular YouTube content.

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